Finally got back to playing dwarf fortress (didn't have much time to the past few weeks), and started "Workedshots"
a nice area, brook down the center, the southern end was mountainous and the north was heavily forested, in early winter the mountain half froze, by mid winter it all froze, and by late winter it was all thawed again.
everything ran smoothly for a while, steady influx of migrants until 85, got a military of 10 Dwarfs, all legendary shield users and some of them got up to legendary with their weapon of choice, goblin attacks became bi-seasonal, then stopped in a few years (got scared I guess?) and my military lost one dwarf (a speardwarf) to a goblin's bolt with no other serious wounds or injuries.
by year 5 or 6, a Giantess showed up and took up residence in the tombs (which are dug in opposite the main fortress's entrance over the brook)
she hung around the coffin if my one dead military dwarf, and the military (now 15 dwarfs strong) was dispatched to get rid of her, after an unreasonably long struggle, the giantess was dead, her body laying in the tomb opposite the one she had inhabited (right where the coffin would have been, which I found very appropriate).
the injured healed within a season and the new recruits (military up to 20 dwarfs, the largest it ever got) became competent, when my second encounter worth mentioning occurred, a bronze colossus.
it took up residence in the room where the bones of the giantess still lay, and stayed there, ignoring the fortress entirely for a while, my military took the time to upgrade their weapons to metal and were sent back to cleanse the tombs of evil..
they mobbed the colossus and started hacking away, doing significant damage that the colossus didn't seem to notice, 2 dead dwarves and 6 wounded later, the colossus was finally dead, and it's remains were used to decorate the fortress entrance.
now, one year after the colossus died, my fortress has come to an untimely end by something no dwarf can overcome - a bug or corruption that causes the save to crash at the end of winter, every single time.
too bad too, It was going better than any fort I've made since 40d