Crisis averted, mostly.
Due to the idiocy of the civilians, a road worker dumped his bag of bricks in the door and it resulted in a small swarm of civvies charging out with the militia, who acquitted themselves well despite being monstrously outnumbered. The militia that is.
Only two casualties were suffered - Ral, out great axe dwarf who lost a finger and got smacked around by a speargoblin (whose silver spear magically managed to cause meaningful harm against iron,) and the marksdwarf who, to be fair, had no weapon.
And speaking of, the marksdwarves inflicted a number of fatal injuries and in general, along with the tiny number of traps meant for were beasts and some minor application of my atomsmasher, left the enemy sufficiently disorganized.
Unfortunately, the injured axedwarf's career is looking pretty grim, as is her dream of being a legendary warrior - with her right arm permanently disabled and little more than a pain receptor filled blood tube, i'm considering ending her service, since she needs two hands to use her bardiche and with only one useable limb, she can't use a shield.
However, the civilians didn't do do well.
One was torn to shreds by beak dogs, one maimed for life, and three were killed, in addition to an engraver drinking himself to death and one of my founders vanishing - I have no idea how in the world she could have died, as her body wasn't mixed in with the ones in the slaughterhouse the woodworking building turned into and her corpse wasn't in the tavern (and obviously, she was much too young to die of old age, and had she been murdered in her bed, I'd have found her body there.)
Curious on that one.