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[Slinkyfest]

Well, I just had the first slaughter of 2 of my regiments, and I'm feeling pretty good. Trained these guys for a few years, they had piecemeal copper, and iron equipment, no one but the sheriff had full anything, most were elite wrestlers with at least proficient weapons skills.

I send them against a group of fellow wrestler goblins, smack bam, death. I let them sit there for a while, and then we were ambushed again a few days later. (The soldiers are pretty bad ass, they just stood in the rain and waited for orders) anyway, turned out to be a full regiment of crossbow gobbos, who proceeded to kill 3/4 of my trained troops, and cripple the remainder. So, lacking further options and to avoid the slaughter of my loyal dwarves, I drafted the entire population, all 75 dwarves, and had them swarm the goblins.

I think I lost 20 in total, and wounded a little less than that. All in all it was fun! Watching the horde of angry, ANGRY peasents boot-stomp the goblins into the ground and moat is always really entertaining. My only regret? I lost my legendary weaponsmith in the scrap. But its okay, during the battle one of the recruits wandered away and crafted an aluminum artifact mace. ()

of course, now im desperately trying to keep my mayor sane, because the captain of the guard was his girlfriend and she bought it, along with 2-3 of the original 7. So senor mayor has watched all his good friends die, and was gut-shot in the battle, so hes trying to bash heads from bed (I hope he comes out of the funk soon,  hes the strongest dwarf in the fortress by far, all epic stats from his desk job, trading, and crafting mechanisms and if he goes nuts no one is going to be able to put him down with his girlfriend out of the running)

Anywho, if luck is with me, I'll be able to start smithing some steel magma smithies soon, so woohoo for me, alright! I cant wait to start production on that sweet, sweet... copper. I havent found a source of iron yet :S but Im sure I will, or I can just smelt the large number of gobbo weapons, good times had by all! (except the mayor)


EDIT: Basically im just getting back into dwarf fortress and thought I would announce the most interesting thing to happen to my fortress so far. (ignoring the usual engineering disasters. How was I to know well pressure acted thus!)

[Tormy]

Ranged weapons are teh horror! 
Yeah, nowadays I tend to rely on my military in sieges, it's lot of fun. I am not using any traps or defense mechanisms at all. Having casualties is quite normal in this case, even uber geared champions can die, especially if you make the other races and megabeasts/semi-megas more powerful, since the vanilla creatures are very weak...but hey, it's a real challenge at least! 

[Orkel]

I changed the arrow/bolt properties from pierce to bludgeon and almost halved the damage rating, in the modfiles, so they shouldn't be as powerful in my new world and fortress.. right? I'm tired of getting all intestines pierced on a legendary full exceptional/masterful steel plated dwarf by one bolt.

[Axe27]

Ranged weapons are teh horror! 
Yeah, nowadays I tend to rely on my military in sieges, it's lot of fun. I am not using any traps or defense mechanisms at all. Having casualties is quite normal in this case, even uber geared champions can die, especially if you make the other races and megabeasts/semi-megas more powerful, since the vanilla creatures are very weak...but hey, it's a real challenge at least! 

Yeah. I remember back in my early experience with sieges, I'd have at least 2 squads of wrestlers destroyed in combat.

After that, I started smelting axes, and it was all good.