I hate those silly chuck norris goblins with crossbows....
9 dwarves versus 4 goblin's ambushes. Out of the whole group of enemy, 3 are crossbowmen.
Out of my group, 6 elite wrestlers and 3 champions... All wearing FULL equipment made by my best metalsmith or whatever.
My 3 champions charge first, as usual and one get "one shot/one kill"ed by one of the crossbowmen. My 2 other champions go into martial trance and 3 elite wrestlers join the fight. As usual, my only jeweler decides to go outside and get thrown into a nearby pond, but that doesn't surprise me as it happens in every fight I got since my third fortress... XD
So fight continue, A few kill for my champions when both get wounded badly BY THOSE STUPID CROSSBOWMEN while my remaining 3 arrive for the fight. While my champions are getting thorn to pieces because they can barely fight back, my elite wrestlers attempt to save them, but get picked one by one by the crossbowmen. I let my dwarf out and ask for the drawbridge to be closed because my emergency military sucks and my fortress would be able to hold the ambushes without ever needing to go outside, but a crossbowmen decides it would be fun to sit there and pick anyone who dares approach my lever(Yeah, made the mistake to build it outside, I am dumb.)
Now, my questions:
1.Was it me, or I didn't stand a chance?
2.Bad luck or it is normal that my first champion got hit and killed with the first bolt thrown at him?
3.Why does in almost every game, I lose my only jeweler(Cause he seems to want to go outside when there are ambushes)?
4.What should I have done?