Trying a game on an untamed wilds forest with flint (to test the swords) and Rysiths' Orcs loaded, because I'm a complete idiot.
Putting the dwarves to [Progress_trigger_trade] and nothing else makes them turn up on schedule. So, really, that's it. That's this mod done. The problem before was that I was exceeding the [progress_trigger_trade] too early with platinum goblets and such.
Fat chance here. I've found no platinum. Just Lignite, Magnetite (ok, there might be platinum in that. I've been busy) endless bauxite (useless stuff) and cassiterite. The latter, with my changes to bronze, would be a really good thing if we could find copper.
No Butiniumous coal (the black magma) so far. That sucks.
We got off to a slow start, thanks to my unwillingness to start metalworking before we had coal and to my insistance on channeling around a quite broad area before we started real work. I've haven't had such shameful trdae values for a while. Then again, I've been thinking : ORCS!!!!.
We had our first siege on autumn of the second year (oh yeah, I changed the Orc campaigning season to summer+autumn, to get the Faerie caravan). Seven Maulers and eight wrestlers. It was all over quite quickly. I'm pretty sure sure the dwarven caravan guards did most of the work, but my surviving military got four kills. Not counting kills from my weapon traps (flint greatswords and green glass serrated disks) and the girl who died.
Cana whatshername, Elite Wrestler with a flint longsword, was struck down. Her sacrifice will be remembered.
My armourer has a broken arm and a kill. I mobilised my miners and woodcutters as a reserve. Of course they charged...I'm still waiting for her to be picked up.
OK, corridor of death will work but I need to stop (EDIT: START!) laying traps near the FAR end. Even set to "hold position" they run out and engage beyond the trap lines.
3 kills from 3 bow-armed Faerie with fairly small practice indicate that maybe Orcs aren't as arrow-proof as advertised. MORE BOWS! MORE TRAPS! MORE FLINT LONGSWORDS! MORE IRON CHAIN MAIL!
Morgoth shall get the bill, if we survive.