It's not so much the armor, it's more the absurdity that water is a greater enemy than 100 goblins. I have plenty of armor anyway. There's not much room for change now, as pretty much the entire 130 dwarf ( 40 kids... Yeah,I know ) fort is tantruming due to the fact they were already on their last thread ( literally ) from rotting clothes. About 70% of the fortress were at very unhappy/miserable BEFORE this happened, and both dwarves + the one civilian who for some reason decided it'd be a great idea to stand in the middle of the courtyard when I called all dwarves inside, had many friends in the fort. The fact the bodies are also unrecoverable is another bad thought in a few months.
It's a shame, too. Not really how I envisioned my grand fort going out. Over 5 thousand kaolinite/bauxite went into the construction of outside fortifications and buildings alone.
I'd consider reclaiming once the last few remaining berserking/tantruming dwarves clear eachother out, but with 10k+ food and 2 huge 200+ bin stockpiles of finished goods, I would spend another 10 years getting everything back in its place before I could even begin playing again.
Also, the idea isn't that I actually needed them to defend, my fortress is quite capable of taking care of itself with little to no interaction from me.. but where is the fun in that? I would just think they would be smarter than to hop into deep water in a bloody suit of PLATEMAIL
And while we're on the subject, Why exactly does a peice of rotting clothing, that they are either too dumb or unwilling to remove, cause most dwarves to go on a berserker killing rampage? I understand they're not exactly stable, worshipping the god of blood and all that, but I had the captain of the guard's son ( who had grown into a peasent ) go berserk over a rotted pair of pants and bite the arm off his father, who was then forced to beat him to death. It just doesn't seem right =P
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