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[highmax28]

I tend to train the entire adult population for three months out of a year, on rotation.  This allows me to have 150 slightly competent meatshields when the time comes for a fight.  Armor tends to be rare though in those cases.

There's a reason why my metal industry is always absurd in my forts. About 1/3rd at minimum is enlisted into the army, with about 10 or more (depends on how lucky I am with getting the smiths) metal workers on armor and weapon making duty on 8 forges while 12-15 chumps of any skill puke up bars on about one furnace per chump. Anything not masterwork gets melted down, and I always forge in rotation of armor, so I tend to build full suits at a time. Its always regular iron at best, but working in tandem with the pig tail industry I tend to start on VERY early (I end up planting them first, alongside plump helmets), I end up having a solid set of armor for everyone in my army within the year, possibly two years if I have less than adequate forge workers.

This ends up being my end game focus though, so until then, I tend to make enough leather armor to last until my metal production rivals the industrial revolution. In the odd chance I run out of metal or I struggle to find anything better, I'll piss off the humans and abuse cage traps

[Carefulrogue]

I have found over three dozen forts, only three forts with iron.  It simply doesn't happen with me. 

[highmax28]

What world settings are you using?

[Carefulrogue]

What world settings are you using?

Generally I don't touch them, besides setting the world to small/medium.  Sometimes I crank up the materials, but not all that much.

[TD1]

Don't set mineral frequency to the max. Iirc it makes it hard to find iron.

[Carefulrogue]

Don't set mineral frequency to the max. Iirc it makes it hard to find iron.

Actually it was the complete opposite.  I found iron.  Lots of it.  There just wasn't a grain of flux anywhere. 

[TD1]

You realise you can search the map for sites with flux using the search feature?

[highmax28]

Marble counts as flux but doesn't show up on the search thing. Marble tends to be everywhere too...

[TD1]

I love getting marble. Pretty colour, good flux, good value.

[highmax28]

I love getting marble. Pretty colour, good flux, good value.

I tend to have stockpiles dedicated to just marble if I get enough of the stuff. I see why Greece and Rome loved it so much

[Carefulrogue]

You realise you can search the map for sites with flux using the search feature?

I wouldn't make the claim in certain terms without checking.  Not a single trade caravan had any of the flux materials as they show up  in the wiki.  It was a good spot too, ignoring the lag problems of falling water. 

[apiks]

We're a day over the current turn limit, including your story post bonus. How fares the fortress, Flame of Necrothreat?

[TheFlame52]

SAVE: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13508

So, let's see, what have I accomplished in these eight months?
 - Cleaned up the entire fortress
 - Melted a shitload of enemy equipment
 - Doubled the number of bedrooms in the fort
 - Only lost like 3 forumites, none named
 - Population increased
 - Entire military armored in steel and cured of cave adaption
 - Booze produced

Well folks, that's as close to a win as they come in Necrothreat. Red Hammer happily hands off the overseership to the next forumite.

[Carefulrogue]

Flame, did you  have any closing pieces?  It's just a little too open on my end for crafting a transition story.

[TheFlame52]

Basically, Red Hammer did what she set out to do, which was improve the fort. She doesn't have a reason to be in power any more.