Your legendary stonecrafters should have ridiculous stats by now. Try recruiting them and form an army. Simply buy armour off the dwarven caravan.
Excellent idea, i have them training with platinum warhammers now.
I realy don't need an army though, just had an Orc invasion, the entire left side of the map is now plastered in webs, flailing Orcs, Slugmen, Snailmen and random wildlife while my tame GCS's scamper all over the place biting things and spraying more webs everywhere.
If i wasn't already drowning in high quality rock crafts i'd see this as an excellent time to make money for the fort, since my fortresses' worth just topped 800k by the end of the third year, i don't think i really need to make more money for the fort quite yet.
Draining the underground river into the bottomless pit revealed that i was incorrect, there is not a GCS in the pit on the Antmen level.
There are three. And a fourth one three z levels below them.
And they've covered the entire pit about four layers deep in webbing, webbing that is now full of frogmen, snakemen, lizardmen and alligators.
The Human caravan also just left with ear to ear grins and just over 400k worth of stone crafts in exchange for a bunch of cages and good quality steel chainmail (yay, something worth buying!) equalling nearly 300k profit for them. No doubt their home civilisation will crap itself when
that caravan comes back.
The Elves came back as well, brought me another tame Tentacle Demon (seriously, what are those Elves doing?) a tame Spirit of Fire, a breeding pair of tame Jaguars, three more tame Giant Scorpions and 11 tame Antmen.
I'm seriously considering modding Antmen to be war trainable and making myself an Antman army.
Oh, some Goblins just showed up and have joined the Orcs wiggling around like fools in the GCS webs. Twenty Orcs, two dozen Goblins and about ten Slugmen and Snailmen along with butt tons of random wildlife like Elephants and, oh hey, a Unicorn, are now wiggling around in those webs. Half of them are paralysed by venom, the other half have had major limbs bitten off, the GCS's are running around like loons biting things at random. Best investment i ever made.