A vile force of darkness has arrived!
Huh?
Oh, you mean besides the elven caravan. Okay, let's see - squad of bowgoblins led by a goblin law-giver, couple of squads of spear/pikegoblins, an axegoblin squad led by a lasher, and there's a troll around somewhere too.
Inventory of dwarven militia; 2 Legendary Axedwarves, clad in mostly-iron armour with steel mail shirt and breastplate, plus 40 Hammerdwarves of varying ineptitude who have been on two-month training cycles for the past two-three years and are just barely beginning to get their stats up - armed with iron war hammers and armoured with an iron shield, mail shirt, and dwarven foolishness stubbornness. Oh, and four marksdwarves who have just been switched out of the hammer squads since their stats have improved enough for them to be trusted to know which end to point at the enemy.
The militia are called to arms, and the squads duly troop into the entrance behind the veteran Axelords, except for two who misinterpret 'station here' as 'station 50 tiles over there in the middle of the goblin army'. Their sacrifice will not be in vain, as I've been needing to get a burial site built anyway.
The two Axelords are ordered to move to intercept the goblin leader and his archer squad; with their skills at such a high level, they can simply block, dodge or parry incoming arrows without much trouble. One gets to the archer squad and starts chopping bits off, the other gets distracted by the Axegoblin squad and starts laying into them.
Bits of goblin fly everywhere, and after these squads have been dealt with the Axelords are ordered back to the entrance to hold off the Speargoblins and Trolls who are almost at the fort's barracks (which is right at the entrance).
The goblin siege is fairly promptly routed; the majority of the militia did very little (although I think the marksdwarves got to shoot a few bone bolts, which is nice as I've yet to set up an archery range for them), the axelords now have nearly one-tenth the kills of my deadly brewer (who, by the way, got elected as mayor at some point - 'vote for me, I killed over 1000 goblins with this -dwarven ale barrel-' must make an inspirational election message), but there are a couple of odd things that I don't fully notice until later.
It looks like at some point during the scuffle, my militia commander took a blow to her right arm, fracturing the bone and causing her to lose her grip on her axe. Before I'd noticed this, she went off and randomly attacked a giraffe with her teeth and fists on her way back to the fortress. When it became clear that her named bronze battleaxe was lying abandoned on the battlefield, I ordered it reclaimed, so she duly charged out to grab it - just before reaching it, she spotted a kobold thief.
This time, she stopped long enough to grab the axe before dismembering the offending creature.
Now that I've got my refuse disposal system up and running, the haulers are going to be very busy cleaning up all the corpses (and part-corpses) of thieves, ambushers and besieging forces from the last five years.
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