Wow, this mod is alot of fun
Like many people on here, i got a lizard man siege first.. in my 2nd or so year. Not since i was a playing my first fortress on vanilla and i got my first goblin siege have i been so unprepared!
My dwarves didn't have proper bedrooms yet, my booze production had just started, and my first planted plump helmets where just getting ready to be picked. I had an anvil, but i hadn't found magma yet (i have a horrible feeling it may not be there at all
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My fort consisted of 15 dwarves, and of those only 2 where military. (marksdwarves) Thankfully, I had just finished my rudimentary defenses when the lizards came, two squads, one squad all with bows, the others wrestlers.
my defenses literally consisted of 2 marksdwarves with bone bolts, fortifications, and 4 retracting spikes, linked up to pressure plates, right outside my doors. (actually it seems my mechanic only had time to link up 3)
I left my doors open till the last moment.. to entice the lizard men into the line of fire of my dwarfs, and onto the traps. They bought it. My marksdwarfs performed well, considering they where only novice, slaying 3 lizards as they approached the gates. The spike traps where the real killers, i hate to admit.
As the lizards surged forward, they triggered the spikes, running onto them, while their comrades behind them triggered the plates as well. 5 impaled lizards later, and they had fled and the siege was won.
I'll upload a picture of the aftermath later.Here you can see the messy , 'staging area' of my fort. 1 Z level below is the 'industry area', and the one below that hosts the (incomplete) bedrooms, the dining hall, the barracks and food storage. Not all the lizard dead are here, as all bodies where in the process of being dumped.
You can't see it, but i have all my annoying livestock in a pit, underneath two big drawbridges. I label them for slaughter, pull the lever, and they handily drop down a z level, right in front of my butchers shop.
(it seems to be a bit small. clicking on the thumbnail then clicking the image again restores it to full size!)