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[Melissia]

Also lol...

It's not only a lead mail shirt, it's a lead mail shirt with the image of a lesbian night hag (more accurately, the bride of a night hag) on it.

What. 

Just...

What.

[Crazy Cow]

Any artifact is worth using. They are quite literally ten times better than zero quality items, compared tot he 2x bonus from being a masterpiece.

[Yoink]

It is lead though, which will slow your dwarves, and I've heard it's not too good for armour, being soft.
Oh well, it'll look fancy!

[Teronsuke]

I would appear to have genned a world that is incredibly shallow, as I've hit two cavern layers on both embarks in less than 20 z's of digging. Generally it takes me about that much to hit the FIRST cavern layer, so I'm curious about that one. There's also seemingly no sedimentary layers anywhere, so metal production is reliant on charcoal until I finally get magma, and stop breaching caverns.

[Melissia]

My militia just killed off five Draltha with not a single injury.  There is no kill like overkill-- I outnumbered them three to one with five fully equipped hammerdwarves and five fully equipped marksdwarves.

Full iron armor (chain shit, breastplate, gauntlets, greaves, boots) plus cloak for all the hammerdwarves, full leather for the marksdwarves.

And I leveled up four marksdwarves and a hammerdwarf in the fight  

[DrKillPatient]

How are the marksdwarves anyway? I've never tried them because I figure they're as useless as the bow/Xbow in adventure mode.

[Vehudur]

Substantially more useful because of the (military)power multiplication effect of numbers and their ability to shoot through fortifications.  With that said, you don't send them out on the battlefield unless you have no other option because they're squishy.

[DrKillPatient]

And I suspect one also must lock them in a room to prevent them from clubbing things instead of shooting them.

[Yoink]

Actually, a trick to get around that problem is to enable the hunting labour for each of them. Then, de-activate their squad when they're charged, and they should run away, whilst still pumping bolts at their pursuers!

[Melissia]

They did pretty good actually, because the hammerdwarves kept them out of combat.  Dunno how they'd fare against actual military enemies though, but I'll be sure to develop a nice fort at my entrance with fortifications (and a drawbridge) so I can find out when that happens!

[Melissia]

Mind you, I have a legendary bowyer who produced all five of my crossbows (including the artifact one) and a high quality craftsdwarf producing bone and wood bolts for them, so that might have helped a bit as well.  It's all wood and bone though.  My marksdwarves actually leveled up and all reached Marksdwarf status FAR faster than my hammerdwarves did-- only one of my hammerdwarves actually reached hammerdwarf status by now, though this may merely be because two of them are wrestlers.

[MrShovelFace]

designated my entire fort to be dug out at once - waiting for my dwarves to starve before it's completion

also laughing at the ghosts of dead migrants who i didnt build a bridge for

[Vehudur]

Breaking up the middle of my my list of Clowns for this fortress is a group of 8 badgers.  Interestingly, I didn't feel any better when I read those names.

[melomel]

A troglodyte found its way into the fortress and attacked a weaver who'd just gone secretive...  the weaver survived and healed, but so far the moron's reacted by grabbing every.  Single.  Scrap.  of plant fiber cloth on the map.  Up to eleven pages of rope reed/pigtail in the workshop, and showing no sign of stopping.

I'm really looking more for a low maintenance thing.  As in, put the jail down and forget about it unless it needs to be expanded.

That should work perfectly, then, as long as someone remembers to feed the prisoners.

[Melissia]

That's why I put it literally right next to the food stockpiles