Uh oh, a tantrum spiral is imminent,
Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures during the battle, I know, I know, I'm sorry, but I was too busy desperately trying to keep my fortress from imploding, this is the first successful one I had for months.
Fortunately for me, I had a bunch of cage traps at the entrance to my base, to catch those fucking gnomes to shove into my gnome pit. UNfortunately, those were the only traps I had.
I had a bit of preparation time before the goblins found my entrance, so I had EVERYONE start building serrated iron disks, and tried to carpet the tunnel to the entrance with them. My 3 axedwarves in full steel, one with an artifact silver axe, ran out, and got dogpiled by wrestlers, who promptly disassembled my axedwarves. I then sent a kamikaze wrestler squad out to buy some time.
It worked until the marksgoblin group showed up. Everyone stormed the entrance, and wrecked up my mechanics who were laying traps. a few fell, but most of the group got through, and stormed my trade depot.
Which I promptly dropped into a 20 z-level pit.
Now THIS was working pretty well. a bit ineffecient, but it worked. I rebuilt and dropped the depot a couple more times until the marksgoblins pincushioned the dwarf who was about to pull the lever to drop it again.
At this point, the goblins were getting across my depot area, and were just moments away from my tender civilians, when I sent another kamikaze wrestler squad to buy some time while my mechanics continued work on my last resort.
The last of the kamikaze dwarves died out, and the goblins finally stormed my last effort standing between my fortress and their sharp objects.
Suddenly, a lead floodgate slams shut in front of them. Another lead flood gate drops behind them.
And thats when the water began to flow.
I always knew the day would come when I needed to mass execute several goblins at once. I was planning on creating a large bridged area over dozens of weapon traps with 10 iron serrated disks in them, but just in case of emergency, I have a way to pump the room full of water, just in case.
Perhaps you guys remember 'Xihaou', the one eye'd badass from that thread asking about screw pump leveling? he's become "Extremely Tough" now, and for once, he was pumping for a real purpose.
After the subsequent drowning of their comrades, the goblin's morale broke, and the rest of them bailed, running through the jerry-rigged trap hallway, and losing a few more limbs.
another funny thing: a goblin spawned with no leg, fell unconscious the second he came onto the map, his whole troop didn't attack, they all waited for him to wake up. him and his men left the map when the siege broke though.
So there you go. nowhere near epic, and a pretty crappy story considering how awesome it COULD have been, with that many goblins, but if it'll keep the forum from tantrum spiralling, I'll tell it.
but if it makes the situation any better:
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