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[AlBravo]

9 Cave Dragons, 37 mounted Goblins, 10 Cave Crocodiles, 7 Giant Toads, a couple Cave Crawlers and Elk Birds show up at my front gates.  All of a sudden one of the Goblin Elite Crossbowmen doesn't like the way a certain Dragon was looking at him.  So he lets loose an iron bolt in to his gut and his spine.  The Dragon took offense after the first bolt and belched fire in about a 20 tile diameter circle around the goblin.  The goblin and the Elk Bird are now on fire.  The second bolt's precise placement in the dragon's spine has taken him to his knees.  While the rest of the force was caught in the fireball they don't seem any worse for wear.  This could get interesting.

[11sparky11]

Always nice when the enemy starts fighting itself.

[Cuddles]

Attempted to reclaim zombie-infested fortress.
That was a failure.
I'd feel kinda bad about modifying embark so that I could take full steel, but it seems kinda necessary.

[Splint]

By some miracle a few feral cave crabs didn't kill anyone, nor did the giant rat roaming around the settlement. My Militia Commander had the first mood, and is now a legendary mason. A caravan and migrants came, and provided much relief in the form of sweet delicious alcohol, including the most coveted of underground brews, moonglow.

I consider the mood's product an ill omen however. It was a coffin.

[ImagoDeo]

What's the best use for a trained dragon? :3

[Splint]

Depends. Do you want loot from dead goblins or is puddles of melted kit and ashes fine?

[jcochran]

What's the best use for a trained dragon? :3

Lunch.

Yes, really. Just butcher the poor thing and call it even. I've tamed a few dragons and then spent the effort to war train 'em and they've universally been more trouble than anything else. Breathing fire when you don't want it. Not breathing fire with you do want it. And so forth and so on. For example:

Dragon vs Forgotten beast... draw. Half the time, the dragon won, other half FB won. Every time, dragon comes out severely injured.
Place dragon behind fortification to encourage breath use and protect against melee... Dragon just sits there looking stupid.
Pasture dragon near "welcome center" in order to at least give kobolds a warm welcome.  Managed to toast one kobold. Goblin siege appears. Dragon charges into welcome center, gets slaughtered by goblin squad.
Pasture dragon on single tile surrounded by a channeled vertical sided moat (so silly thing won't go charging and simply use it's breath weapon). This sorta worked. Yes, the dragon breathed fire quite often when enemies were near. Had to replace a few hatch covers in welcome center, then build "shield wall" to protect newly installed hatch covers from dragon fire.

Save yourself grief and frustration. Dragon burgers is the way to go.

[ImagoDeo]

But it seems like such a waste. My egg industry is flourishing - until recently (when I decided to dump a bunch of them to get rid of my FPS death issues), I had over eight thousand four-ingredient prepared egg meals, 75% masterful. I don't need food.

For now, I guess I'll just leave him chained up in that dungeon room. *sigh*

[Tarqiup Inua]

Make dragon bones out of it... dragonbone totem... leave some dragon bones aside for moody dwarves - dragonbone... anything! Anything made of dragonbone sounds great! And it is dragonfire safe, so if your adventurer wears the dragonbone armour in into dragon lair... well, the armour will survive it for sure!

[☼!!Troll Fur Sock!!☼]

Yeah, about that. I've been testing dragon scale armor. Giving a dwarf full suit of dragons scale (even socks... Literally everything that I could fit on him) covering his entire body did little to nothing to help survive breath attacks. Even those of fire imps. You seriously need a shield for that.
However, I got hit by 9001 fire balls and didn't even get slightly scratched/burned...

[kamikazi1231]

But it seems like such a waste. My egg industry is flourishing - until recently (when I decided to dump a bunch of them to get rid of my FPS death issues), I had over eight thousand four-ingredient prepared egg meals, 75% masterful. I don't need food.

For now, I guess I'll just leave him chained up in that dungeon room. *sigh*

Make a dungeon for the dragon.  Carve out a small maze below your fort then seal it away.  Pit any disarmed enemies down a shoot to wander the maze and get burned and eaten by the dragon.  Just make sure the dragon can't fly back out again.

[Grey Goo]

Doing other fortress, got vampire some day ago. I named him "Dener Visible" or something. Yes, he was easy to find. Now he is bookkeeper/manager and sealed. Funny guy, likes brass and I have plenty of material for brass statues, brass tables, brass chairs... He is very happy vampire just now...

[Tarqiup Inua]

Yeah, about that. I've been testing dragon scale armor. Giving a dwarf full suit of dragons scale (even socks... Literally everything that I could fit on him) covering his entire body did little to nothing to help survive breath attacks. Even those of fire imps. You seriously need a shield for that.
However, I got hit by 9001 fire balls and didn't even get slightly scratched/burned...

Well? And... ? Did the armour survive?

[da_nang]

Got back to DF after a long hiatus. I set up a fort next to a tower, necromantic incursions were intentionally inevitable. All was going well until the first undead siege. Our wood stockpiles had run out and more and more dwarves got moody and demanded products, which required charcoal, for their artifacts. We hit the first cavern in the hopes of finding an underground forest but all we found was a giant lake and a small labyrinthian patch of dirt mocking us. The plan then changed to digging out a massive underground treefarm to secure a future treesupply and prevent tantrum spirals from marauding, maniacal dwarves.

We also found the cave had occasional cave crocodiles, females included. I wanted to catch one female at least, so I set up a trap and lured the crocodile to it. Unfortunately, my idiot hunters decided to return to work and horribly murder it.

There was also an incident with a vampire. We quickly found out who it was since practically everyone but nobles sleep in dormitories. He's currently serving prison-time and will be shortly drafted in our first ever vampire squad.

But the siege raged on. A minotaur came and disposed a large number of them but it too fell. So we decided enough's enough. Built atom smashers at the entrance and smashed them away since our tiny armed forces weren't large enough nor properly equipped to deal with them. More than a year after the siege started, it was finally over and everyone had the first bit of nauseating sunshine in a long time.

[KingBacon]

But it seems like such a waste. My egg industry is flourishing - until recently (when I decided to dump a bunch of them to get rid of my FPS death issues), I had over eight thousand four-ingredient prepared egg meals, 75% masterful. I don't need food.

For now, I guess I'll just leave him chained up in that dungeon room. *sigh*

Make a dungeon for the dragon.  Carve out a small maze below your fort then seal it away.  Pit any disarmed enemies down a shoot to wander the maze and get burned and eaten by the dragon.  Just make sure the dragon can't fly back out again.

Or you could just feed dorfs to it.