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[Rex_Nex]

Ugh, I have been forced to savescum several times now. Something always goes wrong. Most recently, I had five expert wrestler/fighter dwarves take out three crocs. The crocs won without a scratch. /exit.

[Vercingetorix]

A gorgeous 3.01.03 site with flux, black sand, and obsidian with plenty of tress and an Untamed Wilds on both biomes.  I'm looking forward to cranking out a ton of metal goods on this map as well as finally perfecting my fortress design to my tastes.   The dolomite layer in the mountain range biome also has some nice exposed hematite, limonite, and magnetite veins for future use...I'll wait until my miners are more experienced before carving those out, but we've got some nice resources in the pipeline.

I just wish the military was fixed so I can turn invaders back on...the things that wander on to my map on all levels are easy enough but the goblins maul us more often than not.

[buckets]

Ugh, I have been forced to savescum several times now. Something always goes wrong. Most recently, I had five expert wrestler/fighter dwarves take out three crocs. The crocs won without a scratch. /exit.

Fighting and wretling are both usless skills, you want to aim for armoured dwarves with weapon skills.

[Djohaal]

Is it me or that "blood for the blood god" meme is getting awfully old and boring? Come on, it is not even funny... 

[silverskull39]

Is it me or that "blood for the blood god" meme is getting awfully old and boring? Come on, it is not even funny... 

Maybe it is old and boring. But it's tradition. And dwarven tradition is not to be trifled with.

[Vengo]

I started a fort on an elven encampment and punched through an aquifer(into which I had planned to collapse the damn hippies) with the cave-in method to get at some glorious stone, leaving the hole uncovered all the while.
Turns out, I forgot that I had turned on the Orc mod. The elves saved me from the orcs the first year, mostly died in the second(but I had walled up by then, so I was safe). Now, it's the third year, and my dwarves are shitting their pants because there are four pages of orcs standing around the hole I collapsed to make the main stairwell.

Oops.

[Rex_Nex]

Ugh, I have been forced to savescum several times now. Something always goes wrong. Most recently, I had five expert wrestler/fighter dwarves take out three crocs. The crocs won without a scratch. /exit.

Fighting and wretling are both usless skills, you want to aim for armoured dwarves with weapon skills.

Last time I tried to get an answer as to how to get dwarves to train with weapons...

[The Architect]

W

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It's not perfect, but the info is there and someone without mental disability should be able to find it on their own.

[Deon]

Or place a training dummy. Or train them on animals. They cannot bite through metal armor.

[Mr. Accident]

Yow. The fate of my most recent fortress, Trumpetfatal, was (in pretty much every sense of the word) a tragedy. It began badly and ended badly but had a very touching and hopeful part in the middle.

It all began when the dwarves decided to embark on top of a volcano.



Apparently they weren't watching where they were going while pushing the wagon up those cliffs. Three of the team immediately plunged into the magma and died. A fourth apparently fell backwards off the cliff and broke most of his bones. So right off the bat I was down to three dwarves. Still, things weren't hopeless, right? I still had a couple of miners, and enough of the food and booze to (maybe) last until the first caravan. And the map I'd stumbled onto was really cool; there was a tall spur of land across a deep gorge just north of the volcano, and I decided I would build a bridge across to it and establish the first halls of Trumpetfatal there.

But the stress of the initial embarkstrophe proved too much for one of the remaining dwarves. He snapped, and went off into the valley to die alone. Okay, two dwarves left. More food for them. But wait! What's this?



Against overwhelming odds, in the bitterest of circumstances, love finds a way! Driven together by adversity, these two have a real chance to struggle through, to survive, to build a new chapter of dwarven history together. So beautiful! *sniffle*

Well, we all know young love doesn't last forever. I'd just managed to carve out the food storage room and a couple of workshops when the stress became too much and Tholtig went berserk.

The young lovers died with their pickaxes embedded in each other's faces, and that was the end of Trumpetfatal.

[Deon]

That's freaky.

[buckets]

That's awesome.

[Sinistar]

...
And please tell me the image of the bed was in faint yellow diamond...

Alas, no. 'Twas a black pyropes.

By the way, Mr. Accident, quite an entertaining story.

[tastypaste]

Helmedkin became a Barony and then my Baron died of thirst within the first year. I'm still not sure exactly what happened. He wasn't working, he wasn't injured as far as I know and he was only one floor above the booze stockpile. He just sort of died in the hallway.

Also found out that walling off the caves can't stop Forgotten Beasts. They just appear on the map edge and any wall segment there vanishes. Oh well. Thankfully the only one that's come so far was a fire breathing one-eyed pelican who was kind enough to stand perfectly still and not breath any fire or attempt any counter attacks while my axelords hacked off its wings, legs and head. Must've been a retarded pelican. Walls do stop ordinary creatures from appearing though which saves me a lot of GCS related trouble.

I've expanded my walls further out and lined the openings with weapon traps filled with all the weapons invaders have left behind. Managed to kill both prongs of an ambush with weapons traps before I even knew they were there. Only found out about them when I saw their belongings lying on the ground. Their weapons were added to even more weapon traps.

And now I'm making a mega construction from ice blocks just for the hell of it.

[Sinistar]

Noooooo, DF just crashed! D:

Oh well I had some garbage relocation problems anyway so this crash just gives me an opportunity to re-think my 1000+ silk socks disposal strategy.

edit:
Aaaand instead of an ambush I got before crash, after re-load I got siege. Last one was on 15th Timber, this is on 15th Obsidian.

Current count:
15 speargoblins
15 crossbowgoblins
15 axegoblins
15 bowgoblins
2 goblin macelords
2 goblin hammerlords
trolls:
- furnace operator
- weaponsmith
- 2 stonecrafters
- pump operator
- 2 normal

Not bad, them greenskins. There is much fun to be had, he he he.

edit:
Oh and there is the 5th child of the Fort roughly just 8 urists away from the first goblin, crossbowgoblin. They are on a different z-levels so they do not see eachother...yet.