It's boring waiting for sieges.
My 78-strong fort had exactly two "sieges", well it was a dark strangler 10-man attack and an equally pathetic beak dog siege. That was two years ago, or maybe a little less, IIRC. There was also a minotaur not too lately, it killed 2 of my dwarves due to me being careless but a minotaur is not a challenge.
I am playing with Fortress Defense, have an equally huge number of starting civilizations (50, I think), I have lowered most of the siege thresholds for all them civilizations (not goblins though), and have access to at least ten hostile civilizations. Playing on 0.40.24 as well.
And I have no idea why goblins haven't sieged me yet, or anything else that was not a pathetic poke at my fortress, and it is year 3.
And it's not wealth as well. Smoothing has been going well and i am sitting in an ocean of drinks and a sea of prepared food. Not to mention the ironworks and the large amount of gold goblets ?
Meanwhile, I had all the time in the world to build fortifications (even a quick-cycle magma trap but I ended up building stuff above it, making it somewhat useless), and I have more than a dozen legendary melee militia.
Is it possible than more hostile civilizations mean less attacks ? Are they even hostile to each other ? Maybe I should just give them all BABYSNATCHER so they gang up on me.
Not a single forgotten beast as well. It is strange, and yet it is a newly genned world, 70 years. (No werebeasts but that can happen.)
*yawn* Come on, DF, I don't care if I get sieges by beakwolves, stranglers, goblins, tigermen and frogmen at the same time. Hell even with ferric elves and naga on top of that I could hold ! Give me your best shot !
Other than that, noticeable are that apparently non-speaker sieging races do give a different message, and more importantly dwarves don't get horrified by corpses of non-speakers, even if they have CAN_LEARN.
Also the elves have been very good training partners. They brought me two king cobras (I have about 15 of them now), various snakes and giant snakes, a giant leopard, a giant jaguar aand a female elephant. Which has been promptly adopted by a kid.
I hope they bring me more of these. Should have embarked on a tropical biome instead of a mountain and a temperate savage grassland.
Hell, apart from the first year (where they brought me shitty animals so I enclosed them until they became insane. Only a berserk mule died), they have brought me very, VERY good animals. So much that not only are they ecstatic, I ordered my military to escort the elven caravan until they left the map this year. It feels weird :O
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