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[Adrian]

I'm being besieged by several squads of gobloons, along with 2 packs of their pet cave dragons.

Then, suddenly:

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A dragon appears that started torching them.

Also wooden walls. So we'll see how this turns out.

[NRDL]

My newest fortress is an attempt to have no standing army, just a militia where as many dorfs as possible are armed with crossbows.  The biome is heavy forest, so I don't think my bolt industry will crash to a halt anytime soon.

And on the subject of the all crossbow-fort, it's just plain awesome.  I had like 3 of my starting seven as unactive in the military and with crossbows ( my miners and woodcutters would have received a uniform error ) and I, on a whim, sent my 3 guys after a giant badger boar.  I got the messages of "Urist mcsomethingsomthing" has become a recruit, etc, and the bolts flew.

It was beautiful, akin to watching an immune system randomly activating and attacking a pathogen. 

[Adrian]

2 Seconds later and all of the goblons have either bailed or fried. Also i notice Zangu the dragon isn't in it's best condition.
I could throw a squad of axedorfs at it and see what happens. Decisions, decisions...

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[WanderingKid]

My newest fortress is an attempt to have no standing army, just a militia where as many dorfs as possible are armed with crossbows.  The biome is heavy forest, so I don't think my bolt industry will crash to a halt anytime soon.

And on the subject of the all crossbow-fort, it's just plain awesome.  I had like 3 of my starting seven as unactive in the military and with crossbows ( my miners and woodcutters would have received a uniform error ) and I, on a whim, sent my 3 guys after a giant badger boar.  I got the messages of "Urist mcsomethingsomthing" has become a recruit, etc, and the bolts flew.

It was beautiful, akin to watching an immune system randomly activating and attacking a pathogen.

I recently tried this.  It ended very poorly against a bronze colossus in year 3.  Hilarious, but ineffective. 

[wuphonsreach]

The crossbow/quiver/buckler militia works very well against thieves / snatchers, and for cleaning up after a siege/ambush (once all the goblins have been softened up by weapon traps and are mostly unconscious).

They're definitely not trained troops, although they do become good shots over the years if you give them access to a single archery range per squad (which limits the number of simultaneous dwarves spending time training instead of hauling/crafting).

[TallAsAHouseDwarf]

Right now, I'm digging a cave-in trap that covers the entire outdoor area just to see if it can be done. I calculated that there will be 348 supports (12*29), so it will a gruesome task to connect them all to levers. Even more so as the game suggests them chronological order while dwarves build them in any order they please, so it will be absolutely murder to connect them all and avoid missing a single one.

Too bad there's no river on my map, it would have made a nice lake.

Luckily I embarked on a calm so perhaps my fortress doesn't collapse before it's done.

When it's done, I'll just kill all the caravans until somebody shows some aggression. And then I pull all the levers and see which one dies sooner, the enemies or the fps rate.

[malimbar04]

I thought "hey, I know what I need to do, I need to re-organize my minecart setups to be more efficient." it didn't take long for my 2000+ stockpile of prepared foods to turn into 300, as the rest rotted away and turned into miasma. I'm still afraid to trash compact it, because I have no idea if there is going to be a dwarf lying there from point to point. I'll have to wait for the miasma to clear out of the dining room.

On the plus side, I just learned last night that you get more efficient stone usage by making blocks, so I added that to my job list. Yay! Soon (tm) my fort will be largely stone block covered.

In other news, I finally have the last of my injured dwarves out of the hospital, and all my cats and dogs are stored in cages, to later be slaughtered regularly. I'm also going to add more stockpiles to manage my smithing industry, organzing metals into weapons-grade metal, practice-grade metal, decoration-grade metal, coal, and reprocessing (melted items). Fun times to be had!

Update!:
Damn! stupid damn elves. Yes, I blame the death of 4 legendary dwarves and a child on the elves. Here I ordered my butcher to kill a few exotic animals, and apparently they were from an elven caravan - one that was slaughtered by goblins a while ago. So here my butcher runs off to gather a black-crested gibbon to slaughter, and AMBUSH! She was injured, but the baby in her arms was fine. The child that followed her was slaughtered.

Then of course my own dwarves said, in their "that's my friend!" attitude, they said "we gotta go grab that corpse and take care of it properly!" Our Legendary Trader, Legendary Brewer, and Legendary Leatherworker were all slaughtered trying to recover corpses.

Then, to complicate things, we have dwarves throwing tantrums. First a child, who attacked our nurse. Then the Nurse, who punched the expedition leader (our legendary weaponsmith), tearing the brain and "knocking him unconscious" - permanently. Then our miner throws a tantrum and hits our miner. Damn. I lost some of my best dwarves, started tantrums, injured more, and thus forced certain jobs to not be done until a child happens to grow up.

[Sutremaine]

Have decided to abandon the corpse coaster in favour of shotgunning corpses into the magma pipe, since I figured out how to get the more complex setup working (on the same level as the gaps and fortifications, put down highest-friction track stops until the cart is halted, remove last track stop. Repeat with high-friction track stops. Repeat with medium friction. From there you can alter the number of low-friction track stops until you have just the right amount of speed left in the mine cart). Also this solves the problem of dwarves dropping their clothing at the bottom of the ramp.

I'm not sure why I thought this would be a good idea. Enemy corpses are the one thing you can safely throw to their final destination.

I thought "hey, I know what I need to do, I need to re-organize my minecart setups to be more efficient." it didn't take long for my 2000+ stockpile of prepared foods to turn into 300, as the rest rotted away and turned into miasma.

With food I often use 'take from' stockpile orders to ensure that any food not being moved to its destination stockpile is still on a food stockpile and not counting down to going rotten.

[Wolf Tengu]

I'm nowhere near as advanced as anything like this.

Thanks to all the updates  I decicded to give Fort mode another go. So I loaded up a few pages of the newb guide.

...

Turns out, I could've avoided starvation really easily, but hadn't done. So now, I strike the earth, hoping for a future where  I can survive!

Or at least long enough so i'll die  in a far more interesting way.

I'll post again if Ii survive the first year.

[Eldes]

Well, I was in the final stages of creating my 5 Z-level magma reservoir and I may have accidentally my whole entry level, trade depot, miners, and the dwarven merchants this year. Also, all my trade goods and armor. See, I was using controlled cave-ins, and forgot that my reservoir was only one level above my entry hall, so the cave-in from the top collapsed every single level below it, right into my entry area. My military was on the same level, but they're thankfully fine.

Ninja-edit: Also, my entire stone block industry was completely obliterated. As well as over 5000 boulders that I autodumped near the masons shops.

[Eldestish]

So far my first volcano fort is doing well....
Only copper,lead,Flux and silver...
Currently working on building a bridge to the rim of the volcano so I can start making my magma-megafort...
No elves to test the ballista on 
Only forgotten beast so far was a duck with external ribs and a trunk...
We ate well that night >:]

[Numeroid]

Mainly just training my military (already got five Legendary +5 Axedwarfs) because I haven't had a goblin siege on this fort yet, and considering I started it some time ago I feel like it's going to happen any minute now. I've had a few ambushes, though.

I also killed a titan. Well, caravan guards killed a titan, hehe. I sent out my best dwarfs only to have them fall to the titan and then I decided to pull up my drawbridge and wait for the caravan. They did tons of damage from across the pit and then killed it close range, I was relieved to have the thing gone.

A caravan a day keeps the titans away!

[MetalGear]

Deathfloors had just had its second goblin siege (the first one was just a squad of crossbow gobs). A squad of lashers lead by a spearmaster and a squad of axes lead by a hammerlord along with some trolls. On my side was 3 full squads -swords, war hammers and spears - poorly equipped and with very little training. I also had a squad of crossbows. The dwarfs managed to somehow win, loosing 15 soldiers and permanently crippling 3 others with nerve damage (all of them from the lashers). Highlight of the battle was probably when the axegoblins managed to sneak into my fort through the barracks door (while the soldiers were busy playing with trolls elsewhere). When I saw them going in, I expected a civilian massacre, but what happened next actually made me proud of my useless marksdwarfs for the first time. Two marksdwarfs that were late to party outside stopped by the barracks entrance and proceeded to use the one tile corridor as a choke point, peppering it with bolts and holding off any goblins attempting to enter the fort. They didn't actually  kill any of them, but they injured them enough to prevent them from entering the fort until they finally routed.
The fort has seemingly already recovered from the losses. The dead have been buried, the tantrums stopped and the squads have been replenished. Not to mention the newly acquired goblinite. Now, let's hope there's not gonna be lashers next time...

[malimbar04]

The Tantrum spiral ended, with the future of the fort guaranteed to be slow. If only I could speed this game up more, but that's unlikely to happen with how many goblin corpses are on the ground. Too many hauling labors to destroy quickly.

Hmm... with a forward push and a bit of minecarts... no no still a stupid idea. But... possibly worth it? If nothing else, I have a goal now, and limited people with which to accomplish it. Fun to be had!

[CookieRaider]

The elven traders went stark raving mad, so my dwarves decided to go grab all of the crazy elves' stuff.