I was gettin' pretty board with how easy vanilla DF (all my forts die to boredom
) was so I decided to upgrade to Dig deeper. I had heard of how tough orcs were and wanted to try my luck against them. But I wanted to maximize the Fun potential and make sure it would be tough so I modded orcs to come in with full adamantine gear. I embark on a great site and spring goes by everything's going great, magma forge is filling, farm is up, trade depot is built and goods are mostly ready, butchery is up, prison is under construction, rooms are finished, dorfs are ecstatic. Then comes summer. I figure I'll start working on making some armour for my troops so that once I have a high enough popolation I can defend myself from these adamantine orcs, "A vile force of darkness has arrived!" Orcs come now, I haven't even had my first caravan yet. I scramble my defenses, get a makeshift ballistae battery at the end of my entry hall, pull in my anti-theft dogs, station 2 lightly armoured wrestlers (I refuse to use marksdorfs, standard traps, and atom smashers). My ballistae take out most of them and my wrestlers/dogs manage to flatten the last one (thoroughly impressing me). I have one injured dorf and thast's it, halelujah!. Then autum, waiting for my caravan so I can get an anvil and, "a vile force of darkness has arrived", now two squads. I use crazy tactics involving mining behind enemy lines and rapid channel digging and manage to avert disaster. 2 dorfs dead. 2 injured, 1 champion. 2 dorfs left to hold the fort. I decide I need some balance to this facepalm so I save that fort and create another ine. But this time I make my suedo adamantine cheap and embark with one full set. Summer comes same as last, one squad siege and I survive unscathed. I remember that I have an HFS on this map and, having never hit one before, decide that breaking it could be Fun.
I find it and out come the horrors. 30+ of them! All spirits of burning. The SoBs rampage everything and kill off most of my fort, but, thanks to crazy tactics, I survive.
Tantrum spiral ensues. I tryto build a legendary dining hall as fast as I can to avert disaster but it is autumn now and with autumn comes, :a vile force of darkness has arrived". Armok damn it! I don't know what was killing my fort faster, my dorfs or the orcs. ANywho, in comes the reclamation force of 14 dorfs. I come to kill off the orc infestation and suffer just one death. And all is well, fort is saved, I still have my suedo adamantine armour so I should be fine. Odd thing is, since I broke the HFS
the refugees inside came into my fort and the orcish ones were left alive and now listed as friendly.
So, with friendly orcs in my fort Autumn comes and with it "a vile force of blah blah blah". Only not blah blah blah because within seconds I have dozens of war dog died and urist mcsuprise died. My "friendly orcs decided to join their bretherin and kill me from within, only , for some reason, I can't kill them. Maybe vanilla DF wasn't so bad...Nah