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[Wannazzaki]

an Addendum: I just finished training my 15th war bear! Heh, I was lucky and was able to embark with grizzly bears, so screw war dogs!

Wait until angry nobles start punching them and fun happens.

[Jacob/Lee]

an Addendum: I just finished training my 15th war bear! Heh, I was lucky and was able to embark with grizzly bears, so screw war dogs!

Wait until angry nobles start punching them and fun happens.

What happens next will be a bonus.

[malimbar04]

I've started to realize that walls are overrated inside a fort. full-featured beds can be packed more closely with fewer walls, while also reducing the stress placed on pathing and the width of hallways. I still have SOME walls of course - but they're more to help me restrict eating areas and noble rooms.

Stone is less of a problem than it would be for most people. I don't destroy it, but I do cover ALL of my floors in rock salt blocks. I also have an extra large reservoir of water, should a sudden unexpected drought dry up the river for a few years.

How is this possible? Turn off invaders for a while, and get to 200 or so dwarves. I will turn invaders back on of course, but it helps get through the "why are they attacking me again?" stage.

[Jacob/Lee]

Currently building the burial area for the military captains + commander. I'm building statues with each leader's preferred metal in their room, the Commanders like bismuth.

Prospector says there's only 47 units of bismuthinite on the whole map.

[geoduck]

The idiot humans appointed a demon as their ambassador, and it tracked deadly "emissions" into the fort when it visited. Didn't realize it until people started bleeding to death months later. I suppose the whole population is infected. Well, try and dig out some baths and start washing everybody down..

[Jacob/Lee]

The idiot humans appointed a demon as their ambassador, and it tracked deadly "emissions" into the fort when it visited. Didn't realize it until people started bleeding to death months later. I suppose the whole population is infected. Well, try and dig out some baths and start washing everybody down..

I wouldn't use any stagnant water baths. IIRC, the contaminant will just splash onto any dwarf who steps through the pool if any gets in there. Try to single out some people who aren't infected then use magma to purge the fort.

[Sidhien]

I think... I'm gonna need to expand the crypts again. Damn caverns.

In other news, elves just did a hit and run on my fortress. Military was laughably useless. Only one of the marksdwarves remembered to bring bolts. No casualties except for a pastured llama, some yaks and one sorry dwarf who got completely riddled with arrows for over a minute in real time yet somehow lived. Our waxworker-turned-doctor is patching him up now, and at this rate will probably end up using every scrap of cloth and thread in the fortress.

[person012345]

A large goblin siege. I'll admit I'm not very good at the military aspect of DF yet, and my military got wiped out as expected. My ~190 other dwarves were trapped in the dining room. Seeing that everyone was getting thirsty and would not live much longer, a brave band of men drew up a plan of attack, taking a note out of the Soviet Union's book. We drew up an extra 5 or so squads of untrained, mostly unarmed men and rushed out to show the invaders our dwarven guts (in more ways than one). Astonishingly (for me, usually when I try this it ends up with everyone dying, but this is by far my biggest fort so far with 230 men at it's peak), the tactic was successful and we managed to drive the goblins from the fort, tails tucked firmly between their legs. There is still a troublesome troll, and I fully expect the tantrum spiral that is starting to rapidly deteriorate, but we shall never forget the sacrifice made by those brave, ordinary men and women to protect their fellow dwarves.

Plus, if anyone survives the spiral, this might help to increase my framerate a little. No doubt we'll get some detestable foreigners to replace the dwarves we lost anyhow.

[Jacob/Lee]

Due to a bit of a mixup, one of my best hammerdwarves took a training spear to the shoulder in the danger room and shattered his bone because he was wearing no armor. It needs setting, and our best bone doctor is just competent. Oh yes, this is going to be dreadful.

[ClkWrkJester]

Had my dwarves open fire on the elf merchants for no reason beyond I hink its time Wallblazed had some serious !!FUN!!

[Jacob/Lee]

17th of Opal, 255

Log of Sakzul Likotgemsit, Soldier Commander

I swear, it's like every day we lose more soldiers and the next more come in. Today, a Deep Crow by the name "Seviro Seviroforamen Crassusvoratus" attacked the fortress. Our valiant militia of 20 charged out to meet the beast, myself included. The son of a beard flew around the fortress for a pretty long time, until we finally caught up and grounded it. The first two soldiers to meet it, Ast Asrerral and As Adilzon, never made it back to the fortress. Ast had his stomach clawed open by the beast... Or something, I couldn't bring myself to keep looking as I charged up the hill... And As had his arm pecked off, both of them bled to death. Memorial service will be held on the 20th. Both me and my wife, another militia captain by the name of Thikut Bisekzuntir, are getting worried. That is the tenth soldier we've lost in the last two years. One of them was even a steel dwarf! How can so many soldiers die when we have full sets of steel armor of masterwork quality and rigorous danger room training?! Of course, they've made it far longer than you could ever ask of any dwarf. Most of us have been through two massive centaur sieges, several beastman sieges, various goblin and lizardfolk ambushes and even several titans and forgotten beasts. Something is starting to scare me, though. I am a tough dwarf, but even the toughest get bad feelings... There is the smell of danger in the air, most of those sieges have occurred in the last three years. I question how much longer our soldiers can hold together under the stress of watching their brothers and sisters get ripped limb from limb by wolves, melting down to a pile of goo from corrupted armor acid, taking a spear to the throat from a goblin, or getting pecked to death by a gigantic bird...

[AWellTrainedFerret]

Today was a glorious day for the fort of SteelCrypts. The Mountian Titan Ogkosum Okeopsum, a huge featherd mite with a huge horn, finally decided to attack after spending the last 4 years sitting in my sewers (witch caused or illustrious overseer to promptly forget he was even there). He caught us with our defenses down. There was no warning until the tortured screams of a puppy chained at our front gate echoed through the fortress halls.

But this Titan had no clue what he was in for. The fortress of SteelCrypts is known world wide for it's tenacity. It was only after a week of fighting did he finally realize...that puppy has a thirst for blood worthy of Armok himself. After a grueling battle in witch the puppy had three of it's ribs crushed under the colossal weight of the Titan...and the Titan had 2 of it's limbs torn off by the ferocious puppy...did my militia decide to intervene and put this poor Mountain Titan out of it's misery. A speardwarf calmly walked up to the Titan, and while the puppy heroically held it down, he delivered a single blow to it's head. The fight was over instantly.

[Escapism]

A vile force of darkness has arrived!
Foolish goblins, I thought. I will just raise the bridge, they will never get into the Obsidian Tower! Except the bridge is not linked to the damned lever.
Well, I thought, I have 5 or so legendary marksdwarves and 25 other of >adequate marksdwarves. I will turn this goblin siege into a pincushion. Except I just melted down all our steel bolts, because it seemed like a Good Idea At The Time™.
My only hope right now lies to The Healing Roads, my squad of futuristic speardwarves. Futuristic in the sense that they were intended to become speardwarves. Heck, one of them even got a spear.

[Oaktree]

Year 1060 is looking to be the Year of No Caravans for Windmirrors.

No spring elven caravan. Instead a goblin siege (4 squads of infantry and one of trolls).  Pretty much wiped it out.

Human diplomat arrives in summer.  Right afterwards... No caravan, but a goblin siege (4 squads of infantry and one of trolls).  Inflicted 75% casualties on it before it broke.  And that's due to one squad not even attempting to fight - it got to one of the access tunnels and then opted to retreat off the map.

Haulers have been quite busy disposing of bodies, useless gear, and bringing metal items down to the smelters.

It's fall and I expect the liaison and hopefully the caravan from the Mountainhomes.

The two latest Forgotten Beasts in the caverns were trapped and spiked.  And a blind cave ogre captured by a cage trap.  It will get an arena position and be pitted against captured goblins.

[Stil]

Abandoned my fortress. Things were a little too easy, my soldiers were getting fat and my engineers bored, time for a coastal embark! Not faced the engineering challenge of aquifers, desalination or experienced ocean waves before.