Alllooooowwwwwww it!
Epic battles today.
Goblin siege. An impressive opening that didn't go my way but set the tone and theatrics for the rest of the encore.
Three squads, two from the south, one from the west, directly opposite my gates. Scramble two squads, put the in position.
Furst out of the gate, alone in my High Gore, Bepa (can't remember her title, but she had sixteen kills so she wasn't a newbie).
The pikemaster, Smustu, ranging ahead of her troop sees Bepa, at the same time as Bepa sees her. The two women lock eyes and charge. There is a very brief fight. The Pikemaster executes my High gore. Bepa didn't even get a shot in. Hand, arm, foot, head - twist-dead.
Theni Meadowrushed, The Hoary Dust, with her iron bardiche, charges out after the High Gore, engages the gobliness. A little back and forth, no ground given, then Theni chops her right hand off, shrtly after her left leg at the hip. The Gobliness, felled and rapidly bleeding to death, still has time to stab Theni in the left foot before bleeding out.
Theni, limps after the goblin squad. The squad, seeing their great leder felled, flee. Theni kills two brave goblins while the rest disappear.
The other two squads, led by a spearmaster and a hammerlord, are on one of the hills and about to discend on the fortress entrance. Behind them an illithid ambush appears.
Both forces converge on the fortress with my squads still rallying outside. The inexperienced High beast, brandishing her iron battle axe and eager to prove herself, charges blindly into the mass of goblins. She makes a good show of herself but dies when she allow herself to be surrounded without help.
More Borioth spill from the fortress and engage the Goblins. A brief battle and the Goblins are driven away. The Hammerlord, Tode, proud warrior that he is, stands and fights. Outnumbered, with poor equipment, he is killed.
A second illithid ambush from the west. Theni charges them single handedly. She soon realises, after having to parry and avoid a multitude of blows, that this is a bad idea and retreats. During the the retreat she continues to block all incoming attacks but scores a deathblow on one illithid. The squad, realising they're outclassed runs.
Third Illithid ambush.
Fairly uneventful, but there are a couple of holes in my fortress roof that I still need to patch up. This proved to me the reason why:
Void master floated down into one of them, set fire to my first industry hall, the ground is still mossy cavern floor and is awaiting paving.
Confronted by a Soldier, the Illithid wastes no time. A brief fight - the Illithid poisons the soldier and then blasts him across the hall with it's zero cannon. The Soldier suffocates.
Then the game crashes.
I don't really know if I should be a little relieved or not, because this will give me back a couple of interesting people. But it was still a fairly interesting attack.
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