A pretty damn awful goblin siege showed up. One hammerlord with a regiment of speargoblins and one masterlasher with a regiment of pikegobs. Every single one of them was mounted on a war elk bird.
And I had dwarves outside due to my own shitty defence strategy. They were either busy re-pasturing animals (fuck them) or reloading stonefall traps (removed those, their useless and a liability). The goblins easily slaughtered 10-odd civilians and murdered some of my actual troops. One of them was a high level fighter/axedwarf with bismuth bronze halberd (brought by a carpenter(!)) who was absolutely unbreakable, tough, strong and quick to heal. Son of a bitch.
I eventually decided to just leave the civilian dwarfs still outside to die and locked down, with the remainders of my militia standing ready behind the door. A few goblins got close to the door while the rest of their group were off chasing some hapless peasant so I made a quick sally to murder them. It worked hilariously well. One of their feet ended up on top of the tower 3 levels above.
The pikegobs mostly buggered off, the militia killed several of the speargobs. I needed to make a new animal stockpile for all the new prisoners and also had to finish the previous bunch still waiting in the killing room and expanded said killing room with a shooting-room adjacent. I have 1 hammerlord prisoner, 10 speargobs and 18 war elk birds. I carved fortifications in one wall of the killing room because that amount is a bit too much for my now 4-strong melee militia (and my gorlak) to defeat in melee. I've also drafted 4 new marksdwarves and they can really use the training.
Thanks to the repeated goblin attacks (2-3 ambushes and two sieges now) I have 48 copper chainmail in stock. My main melee-killer is a legendary fighter with a twohanded sword, he's already got 13 notable (goblin) kills and one other (elk bird). The bronze twohander is hilariously effective in skilled dwarven hands against poorly armoured goblin ones.
Apparently my hammerdwarf has also scored a solid 9 kill total. I didn't even the chap had a new name yet. Indefagitable, quite quick to heal, tough and rarely sick. Excellent.
Later:
My first FB in this fort.
I immediately cancelled all "collect webs orders, cancelled all dump orders in the caverns, checked if there was anything else, had my troops gather, attacked and... won. No problem whatsoever. Hardly any blood. The 9-kill hammerdwarf was there first, he got a few hits in, got bowled over and then the beast was dead. A new recruit (hardly been a month in the fortress!) whipped it in the back of the head, bruising the brain. That's a jolly nice first kill!
No blood anywhere. Excellent. Forbade the corpse, to avoid dwarfs trying to butcher it. I'm too afraid that that is going to create a heckuvalot of potentially poisonous blood.
AUGH another siege! One General, one Axelord, one Swordsmaster. 9 goblin swordsmen, 7 bowmen, 8 elk bird-mounted crossbowmen, 9 foot crossbowmen and 3 unridden war elk birds. They seem to be in the way of my falling-floor traps, so those can come in handy. Probably won't cause a whole lot of kills though.
In news that isn't quite as awful, I caught, tamed and trained a cave croc. Rawr. He and my war giant toad can help guard my cavern entrance.
Correction: there's even more.
Later: Victory. The floor-fall traps were awesome. Their foot crossbowmen and bowmen including their axelord and swordsmaster were very near one of them. Quite a few of the lesser goblins were
directly underneath. One of the traps turned out to be useless (I pulled the lever when I saw the last goblin fleeing in roughly its direction but he avoided it. Three others crippled and confused the mounted crossbowmen and the one that got goblins right underneath instantly killed 7 goblins, disarmed a few more and wounded yet more. I know for a fact that their swordsmaster had got both his arms broken from this trap.
The bastards however did kill a freshly recruited crossbowdarf who had left the safety of my fortress and they also managed to kill my legendary clothier who thought it was a good idea to go on break outside the fortress during a siege. Sod him then.
Extra: Giant bats are assholes and giant toads are useless.
Sorry for the shitty post lay-out, I copied it from two posts in a different forum.
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