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[De]

Commentary for people reading both fortresses:

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It's interesting. It looks like we did end up doing opposite things. Elagn on his turn sealed off the caverns and focused on steel production while DDDragoni went for the adamantine. Fortress 2 went for the moat option while Fortress 1 is struggling towards a wall. EoyaBosan faced off that initial siege and won whereas I turtled and had to face a larger incursion later in the year. I kind of wonder if this is in some way responsible for the fortress that fell on my turn. Also, no titan attack for Fortress 2. I do wonder if the Fath who died in Fortress 2 is Dragoni's wife.  It sounds like EoyaBosan chose a child and maybe that's why he's not in Fortress 1? I really wanted to check the save file but it's a RAR file and I have to admit that I've no idea what to do with that.

That master metal smith who showed up on Elagn's turn... You're sure he's not a vampire right?

[Elagn]

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The differences that have developed between the forts are very interesting. On my turn, steel, expansion, and industry were the goals, and I worked to get magma forges up, magma kilns too, at the same time as making a decent defensible surface structure. I made some steel, but intentionally did NOT go for the adamantine. In the parallel fort, they skipped much of the work on keeping the dwarves safer and went for the adamantine, only trying for steel very near the end. That being said, I am somewhat jealous about that adamantine breastplate, even if they lack the decent soldier to use it.

It was somewhat discouraging to see that in the following turn for fort 2, they went for the adamantine, only to build something so useless as a monument for sacrifice. I only approve of mega-projects after 4/5 years or so, not in the 3rd year, especially not when many/most of the industries are still being developed. That to work on it they weakened the defenses and such, well, that I just take as an insult, but, ah well.

Oh, and for above, that master smith is NOT a vampire, I have watched him sleep and eat (only because at the time he was somewhat delaying my projects)

[DDDragoni]

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The reason I never went for steel production is that I've never been able to get multi-step processes like steel or soap to work proberly...
That smith actually showed up in Fort 1 too, and I suspected vampirism as well. If you had downloaded the save right after I put it up, De, his name would have been Vampire?, but I fixed it as soon asI remembered that he was still nicknamed.
And I do believe the unfortunate Magma-bather from fort 2 was my dorf's wife.

[De]

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The reason I never went for steel production is that I've never been able to get multi-step processes like steel or soap to work proberly...
That smith actually showed up in Fort 1 too, and I suspected vampirism as well. If you had downloaded the save right after I put it up, De, his name would have been Vampire?, but I fixed it as soon asI remembered that he was still nicknamed.
And I do believe the unfortunate Magma-bather from fort 2 was my dorf's wife.

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What I'm curious to find out is if EoyaBosan might be someone's child. He has to be a migrant from after 125 to not be in both forts. The best all around metalworker in Fortress 1, as I recall, was Elagn. At least he was the one who had skills in all of them. The only other metal workers I remember were the weaponsmith Rovod who became the mayor after Cilob's unfortunate demises, and Rith Zefoncuggan, the armorsmith who became a legendary after creating the breastplate. If the mysterious metalworker had any soldiering skills at all he likely ended up in military. Rovod did. Though I seem to remember he also has fishing turned on for some reason... Someone should probably turn that off if I'm remembering right.

[Gwolfski]

turn pls.

[origamiscienceguy]

turn pls.

Fortress 2

[ThatZommy]

This sounds like a great idea. I'd ask for a turn, but I'm not exactly good at DF (Iven't even bothered with forges aside from one metal throne), and I'd probably do stupid things. Still hope it goes well!

[origamiscienceguy]

This sounds like a great idea. I'd ask for a turn, but I'm not exactly good at DF (Iven't even bothered with forges aside from one metal throne), and I'd probably do stupid things. Still hope it goes well!

Fortress 1

[ThatZommy]

This sounds like a great idea. I'd ask for a turn, but I'm not exactly good at DF (Iven't even bothered with forges aside from one metal throne), and I'd probably do stupid things. Still hope it goes well!

Fortress 1

O-Okay.
Uhm.
Right. Well, I'll TRY not to kill half the population on my turn.

[origamiscienceguy]

This sounds like a great idea. I'd ask for a turn, but I'm not exactly good at DF (Iven't even bothered with forges aside from one metal throne), and I'd probably do stupid things. Still hope it goes well!

Fortress 1

O-Okay.
Uhm.
Right. Well, I'll TRY not to kill half the population on my turn.

lol. I'm sure you'd do fine.

[De]

This sounds like a great idea. I'd ask for a turn, but I'm not exactly good at DF (Iven't even bothered with forges aside from one metal throne), and I'd probably do stupid things. Still hope it goes well!

Fortress 1

O-Okay.
Uhm.
Right. Well, I'll TRY not to kill half the population on my turn.

Welcome aboard! This was my first succession fortress too. I couldn't have asked for a better introduction to the game.

[Urlance Woolsbane]

Here's the save, at long last!

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For my successor, two quotes from a certain Doctor...
"I'm so sorry."
"Water is patient, Adelaide. Water just waits. It wears down the clifftops, the mountains, the whole of the world. Water always wins."

I'll explain later!

Report coming soon! *shudder*

[origamiscienceguy]

Good Job Urlance, you may now look at any Fortress 1 reports, past or present.

Zuglarken, please post here once you can confirm that your save is working.

[Urlance Woolsbane]

Good Job Urlance,

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Not quite the phrase I'd use...
=P

[Deus Asmoth]

Spoiler: Fortress 1, Spring. (click to show/hide)

To start my year as overseer off, I decided to do a nearly complete overhaul of our militia.

Each squad now specialises in a single weapon category, which should let us avoid sending spears or axes against zombies or whatever. The captain of the guard got to keep her sword because she seems to like it. To help our militia remain as diverse as possible, I've also moved their barracks outside so that they don't start vomiting the second they're called to active duty. It may be worth sending one or two squads to a barracks closer to the caves in case something threatens us from down there, though.

The new squads are currently using whatever they were able to lay their hands on. More steel is being forged so that we can produce some better quality arms, and I've decided to take a risk and see how far down all that candy goes.