Finally got around to creating a fort in 1.4b. I like it, much more challenging. The dark elves are awful, getting ambushed constantly by enemies decked out in crucible steel, while I can't even get basic forging going because I embarked on a map with no magma and no trees. I have to have half my fort as soldiers to repel invasions, since I don't have enough armor to let them train with weapons. I'm trying to clear out all the stone from my huge farm so I can get the trees growing, but it's tough with only 16 dwarves to do all the labor in a huge fort like that. On the bright side, all the crucible steel armor can be melted down for a good source of elfinite crucible steel. I wonder if you could set it up so that humans/goblins use iron, orcs use steel, and dark elves use crucible steel. Would be interesting flavor, the only difference between orcs and dark elves is that orcs announce their arrival and let me hide while dark elves hunt my haulers.
