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[Canalan]

This is what's going on in my fort...

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I'll let you connect the dots

You had a fell mooder kill a ghost.
SO HARDCORE.
EDIT: Damn ninja

[Mickey Blue]

Got sieged by Frogmen and White Tigermen (using Fort Defense II) at the same time, my military was outnumbered and mostly outgunned (hadn't finished equipping them all, about half had weapons and armor, the other half.. Not so much.. Most weren't trained terribly well yet, I don't use the danger room exploit), decided we had to play it right, lured the tigermen into our courtyard and slammed the floodgates shut so we could at least try to divide and conquer, while we eventually won the fight with only a handful of casualties the vast majority of my military is badly wounded as are many civilians (several Tigermen got into my fort during the fray).

All the Frogmen (and a war Jaguar the leader is riding) remain but are thankfully held outside of the gates.  We are safe, but trapped, until we get my military patched up. 

My plan is to try to get as many of my soldiers on their feet as possible by the time the next caravan comes, hopefully between their soldiers and mine we can take care of the Frogmen before another siege comes.

For now, we are trapped in a blood drenched fortress with many wounded.

-MB

[rephikul]

If froggies arent ranged, you can take time sniping them using tigermen's bones.

[Mickey Blue]

Well, the Frogmen retreated and a caravan arrived.  They didn't have anything we needed terribly badly (aside from some thread, I wish you could convert cloth to thread..) but it was nice to stock up on food..

It was very busy but we are getting my military patched up again (lost one to infection, but the rest seem to be healing).. However then came what I suspect will end up being a death blow.  Three White Tigermen squads arrived all lead by weapon lords (bah..), between thirty and forty of them overall.  I sealed the door with the traders inside (don't know how they'll take it, but its that or let the enemy in too early and die).  Now I'm terribly outnumbered by fairly strong enemies (for the stage of the game I'm at at least) still with about half my military in shambles.

The good news is I have supplies galore, tons of food and booze, water for the injured (or if the booze runs dry), a fair amount of wood (I am not using magma for production, wanted more of a challenge) and plenty of gear.

I think I'll take the advice of the above and set up some of my soldiers as crossbowmen and prop them up on the walls to try to take down and/or drive off the Tigermen (I was gonna try to not rely on crossbowmen but it seems necessary at this point).  I have a decent amount of bones already as well as several animals to slaughter if I need to get more (you cannot slaughter Tigermen since they are sentient).

I'm gonna fight to the bitter end, I can hold out for a while with the supplies I have but all that is keeping evil at bay is a set of floodgates (another rule I always use is I am not allowed to completely wall/drawbridge myself off), if something shows up that can bash through them I'll be in real trouble.

-MB

[rephikul]

You sure about that? IIRC all FD creatures are not sentient. The traders will leave your fort through the cavern if you have access to it.

[TolyK]

I'm testing my flooder.
...
...
there go all the useless migrants. it worked...

[Mickey Blue]

You sure about that? IIRC all FD creatures are not sentient. The traders will leave your fort through the cavern if you have access to it.

Well.. They didn't butcher the corpses (and there were free people to do so and they butchered the stranglers earlier without issue so I know all my options are set right) so I figure not.. But maybe there was some variable I missed.

Two more dwarves died from infection but the rest appear to be doing a little better, got a small squad of crossbow dwarves gearing up to see if I can tilt the odds back to my favor.

-MB

[BodyGripper]

My fortress is in that stage where everybody has three or four jobs to cover for their dead comrades. 

[Flaede]

Note to self - lead cages are not useful trap materials in a world prone to forest fires.

Also - I have like 100 frogs stuffed in a cage I am afraid to open for fear of frogsplosion. At least I got rid of the cats (and ferrets) early.

[Musashi]

"Ma'am! Only goblin bowmen are left and some trolls! They got smarter since last time and won't advance through the Labyrinth of Carnages! And they still have an alarming amount of ammo..."
"You know what that means. LAUNCH THE THERMONUCLEAR WARDOG BOMB!"

10 seconds later:

"Yeah, so we seem to have attached most of the war dogs at strategic places and have forgotten to fill the cage with a number of dogs fit for a thermonuclear bomb. We were too busy with the Forgotten Beasts, pondering whether to throw the hydra their way or not, to bother about the canines."
"Oh, for Armok's sake."
"We still have one professional meatshield. Do you remember? That random guy you didn't like, the only one who got enrolled in the Montainous Rims..."
"Well, what are you waiting for? Tell him there's a sock adorned with menacing spikes of whatever he likes in the middle of the labyrinth."

[Ragingpantsless]

Started a new fort, and about four frames in I somehow struck candy. Yes there was a small pond with no wall inside of the volcano. As the tasty cotton candy only lies 63 z levels down, it should be pretty easy to get to.

[TolyK]

save please?

[Ragingpantsless]

I'll try (pm me with instructions how). Forgot how cave-ins work and now I'm out one miner. Should be glad the dust didn't launch him into the lava. Thanks be to Armok that the hospital works, he's being taken care of and should easily recover. Lots of obsidian, enough to construct a real fortress out of it.

[Internet Kraken]

Part 55 of my LP is up.

Enough with the damn forgotten beasts. I'm getting swarmed by the things. Even if they aren't doing as much damage as one might expect, they're still a pain to deal with. Plus it's only a matter of time until one comes carrying an instant death syndrome.

[Musashi]

Did you actually build Reveredtour on a FB nest, and these are the moms trying to rescue their unholy spawn?