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[Uninvited Guest]

in b4 personal army. i don't feel like trying out every shitty mod out there to find the good ones. can you alls recommend me some pls?

[inaluct]

The orc mod is fun, if you like getting killed.

[kefkakrazy]

I find it fun to tweak my own raws, to start with. I've modded in the ability to use more types of stone to make weapons, and added stone weapons that didn't act like steel weapons.

Orcs are really fun. You know how goblins like to dick around, send a few ambushes and snatchers, then once you have 80 dwarves, mince up to your gate like prissy little elves and pretty please ask to be let in? Orcs don't do that. Most games, you will have a horde of naked, frothing orcs hooting and bellowing and running for your meaty, fleshy dwarves around the same time you get the first immigration wave.

[Dakk]

Vanilla DF is pretty damn fine, i'd say, never used any mods.

[Shad0wyone]

Remove carp from the world, and you'll have no problems. Unless you actually want to die...

[Tormy]

Vanilla DF is pretty damn fine, i'd say, never used any mods.

Vanilla DF is way too easy for an experienced player. This is why I am using Cpt. Mayday's LL mod. [..at least until I start to work on my Total Conversion mod, but I am waiting for the gfx/text separation for a long time now...] 

[BirdoPrey]

I tried using the Legendary Lands mod for a while, but it wouldn't stop crashing on me. Finally I just said screw it and got Civilization Forge instead. It's pretty sweet

[Shades]

I currently use a version of civilisation forge but with the new metals removed (along with their associations in the creatures) and with all clothing removed because I get tired of dealing with it.

I've also altered some of the civilisation tags to make them more aggressive and less likely to make peace, and during world gen the mega and semimega beasts all had x10 size just so more of them survived but that was just for world gen.

[Squirrelloid]

Remove carp from the world, and you'll have no problems. Unless you actually want to die...

What an undwarfy sentiment.  Losing is fun, after all.  And carp lead to massive river draining projects so you can harvest the bodies and outfit your army in *carp leather armor*.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I always add in the cat pickup glitches fix. also I secound the orc mod suggestion and if you really want it hard use the deathquest version with trap avoid and other such goodies. also take the regular orcs and make a duplicate civ so you will have double the number in world gen and change the dupes active seasons to be the ones not covered by the regular ones.

[praguepride]

I like to add the [trainable] tag to a variety of creatures and hope that I either capture or get them from hippies. I don't do it for every creature, just ones that historically were trained for war. Elephants, gorillas & the other monkeys, and bears are my favorite ones.

War Elephants are insane. Having an army of war gorillas makes me feel like I'm the mighty diamond mine from Congo, and if I were a dwarf, I wouldn't ride horses or mules or donkeys, I'd ride a grizzly bear. Bears are the dwarves of the animal kingdom.

[Rysith]

I always add in the cat pickup glitches fix. also I secound the orc mod suggestion and if you really want it hard use the deathquest version with trap avoid and other such goodies. also take the regular orcs and make a duplicate civ so you will have double the number in world gen and change the dupes active seasons to be the ones not covered by the regular ones.

Just FYI, Orcs v0.3 (should be released sometime this weekend) will have trapavoid and a few other tweaks added to them.

To answer the question, I use orcs (obviously), and some stuff based off the mineral mod to provide ores that yield more bars per stone. I've got glass temper-able into a "metal" (though not a terribly impressive meta, steel is still better). I added Mithril, lighter and better for armor than steel (made with steel and silver, or sometimes found as ore within silver veins). I've added in some other creatures (notably Dire Wolves and Giant Wolf Spiders) to make life in savage biomes a bit more interesting, and I agree with praguepride that having more than dogs be trainable is good.

[Tcei]

I use the orcs mod, as well as bits and pieces from Civ forge, and Teldins, (tried to use LL but even just copying some of the files causes my game to crash )  I've also modded several animals to  be trainable, nothing beats war elephants or war gaint eagles. I also modded dogs and a few other critters to gain stats.

[Mephansteras]

I use Civilization Forge, of course. It started with me adding in some new plants and animals, then minerals/metals, and finally a whole slew of races. Once I got it all working pretty well I decided to share it, and it's been getting lots of revisions and tweaks for a while now.

While part of me would like everyone to use my mod, I really think that it's best to take ideas from lots of places and customize the game to suit you. Civ Forge suits me perfectly, but it may have aspects that you're not as fond of or areas that you think it needs more.

I'm currently finishing up my Frost Giant Citadel spin-off. Should be done soon, once I finish up some of the longer-term tests.

[Paulus Fahlstrom]

I've tried out several and enjoy lots of them. If you just want a few different or tougher enemies try the:

Orcs mod
A better goblins mod (Several varieties for your choosing)

For more complete mods I'd say the best that I've seen are

Legendary Lands (I've not had any crashing but you have to follow install instructions very very carefully and mix and match with this is right out, Much much more challenging than vanilla.)

Civ. Forge (Maybe not quite as 'Holy xxxx! How'd that thing (Vampire, gargoyle, Ardenasaur, etc.) kill all my guys?' but still challenging with very good diversity.)

There are a few others that are decent, and many many that are great 'cut-and-paste' mods if you just want to change a few things.

And of course if you like not so dwarfy stuff there's always the Fallout mod, though I haven't tried it personally yet.