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[Qloos]

I've never done any trading with the elfs, I've only cut down 40 trees tops.  I'm in the spring of my 3rd year, suddenly the game pauses, the camera focuses to the edge of the map as if it were notifying me of incoming traders. . . I look around.  Nothing is there, I check the unit list: no merchants, no immigrants.

All of a sudden "An ambush!  Curse them!"  and 15 elfs are at my front door about to storm the fortress.

I'm assuming they're blaming me for the incident with the fire imp in which the forest over the entire map was burned to the ground.  As if losing 6 starting dwarfs didn't cripple me enough, now I need to fend off an attacking force of 15 armed elfs with only 8 unarmed dwarfs.

[Brian]

Sounds like your screwed.

Seal off the fortress and see if you can wait it out?

[Qloos]

Thats what I'm attempting, got my 1 original dwarf with an axe and steel boots and helm at the far side of a bridge over magma with 5 recruits, the others are being real slow about pulling the lever.

Oh and my chef has the copper crossbow with 5 turtle bone bolts aaand, he's missed, missed again oh god their zerg rushing him!

The 8 horses I have at the gate better bust some teeth at this rate.

Yes!!!  I've raised the drawbridge, 6 dwarfs are secured from the elf menace, the chef is on the otherside and has heavily wounded 2 elfs so far, one recruit got crushed by the bridge being raised and an elf has fallen into the magma.  The bridge was even kind enough to fling a horse and a mule onto my side of the moat, we gonna eat well tonight.

Nuts, they've manhandled my chef into the magma.  Kill count is 2 elfs 2 dwarfs, (one elf was beaten to death by a horse)  and 2 other elfs have broken bones.

Arg.  I've just rememberd: all my booze and food is on the otherside of the bridge.  I only have a small farmplot with a couple plants on this side.

[Charlemagne]

You can get elf seiges just by cutting down enough trees? I thought they just stopped trading with you. I'm going to have to try this, I've been looking for a way to piss them off.

[Qloos]

lol, ok I dont have enough food to wait this out so here's the plan.



I've closed the outer portcullis and raised the bridge, (purple arrows) so the elfs are trapped in the magma hall entrance, (blue arrow.)  With their force trapped inside I'm going to dig outside, beat up the lone elf whos outside with 5 dwarfs, (orange arrows) cut down some trees, make some crossbows and bolts and shoot em up.

[catpaw]

There is nothing what a small entrace tunnel with 2 serial traps with 5 wooden spikes each cannot do.


Except a dragon, this once walked through my traps like a peace of cake. Every other ambush I hardly even notice, or even siege. It usually says "Siege" then a few frames later the siege sign vanishes and my traps are full of goblin iron...

[Qloos]

Aw man that didn't go so well.  One of my dwarfs has been beaten unconceous with a mangled body.  All my dwarfs are thristy, taking a drink from the brook.  Migrants have arrived, how am I supposed to feed them?!

[Neoskel]

You sure you weren't at war with the elves to start with? That happens you know.

[Stephen Ginson]

I've had this situation.  Looks like you're at war with the Elves right from the get go.  Don't panic as they tend to use wooden swords so....once you defeat them you get excellent training weapons.  Also...they use wooden swords.  So beating them up should be fairly easy.  My two expert miners and woodcutter killed double their own numbers fairly easily.

[Neoskel]

There is nothing what a small entrace tunnel with 2 serial traps with 5 wooden spikes each cannot do.


Except a dragon, this once walked through my traps like a peace of cake. Every other ambush I hardly even notice, or even siege. It usually says "Siege" then a few frames later the siege sign vanishes and my traps are full of goblin iron...

Bah, cage traps are much better for this.

[Stephen Ginson]

Migrants have arrived, how am I supposed to feed them?!

They can eat once they've killed the elves.  Draft them all and make them work for it.

[Qloos]

First I need to kill a horse thats wandered into my side of the fortress, he's trampled a kid to death and  has a name now. . .

I have 4* recruits dog piling the horse to death as we speak.  Damn horse won't die.

. . . ok horse is dead, I've got 8 recruits on my side of the bridge, I'm lowering it and then attempting to raise it right away to kill the elfs.  Time to decide this.

Brace yourself for epic, epic win or epic fail.


http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-862-magmabridgebattle
lolol

Uhoh, that kid the horse trampled was one of the recruits sons, and the other recruit that was thrown into the magma. . . that was his wife.  He's lost his marbles.

[Alabaster]

situations like is one of the reasons I love DF.

I love the smell of cooking elf in the morning.

I wonder if your engravers will carve scenes of elves raining from the sky.

[Qloos]

I wonder if your engravers will carve scenes of elves raining from the sky.

Good call!  Lets find out.

What the hell!  That guy who lost his marbles just beat up another dwarf, calmed down, then dismantled a bridge underneath himself: dropping himself into the magma.  Now I need to rebuild the damn thing, that was my main piece of defense dammit! 

Great. . . now his only daughter has had her brother trampled to death and both her parents burned to death in the magma pool.  I'm giving her her own name and drafting her into the military when she gets older.

I've just detailed a wall aaand. . . he's engraved a picture of. . . thread.  Sweet. 

Now this is weirld, my expedition leader is "conducting a meeting" and the daughter of the late nut head is "attending the meeting" never had this happen before.  Must be consoling the child on the loss of her entire family. 

[Haven]

Maybe it was the thread their lives were hanging by...

Anyhow, detail more. Dedicate a wing of the fort to the glorious defense.