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[NRN_R_Sumo1]

In my current fort, I've set up a gearassembly to the top my gate, hooked up to a pressure plate.
Attached to this gear assembly is a waterwheel, unpowered of course.
When I pull that lever, it falls upon the goblin invaders, knocking them into my checkerboard of channels and causing serious injuries.
I then use a bucket brigade to pour water into a pipe next to the gear assembly, and it pours ontop of the goblins.
By the time the goblins are drown, usually one or two of them has become adept enough at swimming to get out of the hole and attack.

Too bad for them, I keep my chickens and rabbits at the entrance. 

[Grax]

1. The vertical column of retracting bridges with a height of 10 zlevels serves me right for some hundred years (summing all the fortresses' ages).

2. Water chamber.

3. Magma shower - especially for elves in trade depot.

[dogstile]

I've always found that tossing them into a pit filled with spike traps that are activated by the pitted monkey family's in the back of my fort by them running over pressure plates is always fun.

[random51]

A closed wooden door.

[Grendus]

An entire floor of my last megaproject (obsidian tower) was devoted to a gigantic path of wooden spikes. I actually had an orc hammerlord make it 2/3 of the way through before he passed out from blood loss and was skewered. It was brilliant, I even had set up floodgates so my dwarves could go clean up after the battle quickly. Was VERY effective, very fun, and expensive as all get out.

[NW_Kohaku]

I'm going completely overboard in my defenses... I already have a dwarven atom smasher in a hallway that has about 20 straight traps in a row down a 5-tile wide entryway, plus I'm working on an extended set of drawbridges that you have to enter sideways, because the far one flings people into a pit filled with water and aquatic pets.  (Now I just need to start breeding cave crocs...)

However, even this is not enough for me.  (Note: no seige has survived my first three layers of traps so far.  I really should have upgraded to orcs.)  I am now designing a plan to make anyone trying to enter my fort run across a long, exposed walkway, but to also require they go UP a long, corkscrew-like platform that twists around one of two towers, then crosses over to the other tower, and corkscrews back downwards before finally reaching my enterance.  Inside these corkscrew towers, there will be fortifications so that my marksdwarves can fire at them the whole time, while the entire length of this bridge will be one GIANT string of spike traps.

It will keep me occupied for years to come, and hopefully, it will take about a month for caravans to even traverse the terrain.  (Note: I'm currently working on a "screw the sun" project, where I will never have to go back up topside again, and entirely subsist on the forests of tower caps and greenhouse trees.  That way, a massive, wasteful obstacle course won't really hurt my overall efficiency.)

[Jetsquirrel]

My CAT-ista , it just fires of cats at incoming enemies hoping to hit em. It works sometimes, if not the cats explode in gore.

[Hyndis]

1. The vertical column of retracting bridges with a height of 10 zlevels serves me right for some hundred years (summing all the fortresses' ages).

I used a similar design for a while.

As an added bonus, it dumped right down into my refuse stockpile so no hauling required to clean up after a siege.





Another fun design was flushing goblins and elves off of a narrow walkway with a torrent of water. They would then fall into a drowning/splatter pit, which would turn red with blood. Completely safe and automated. It would even work against pesky nobles!

Arrange to have an "unfortunate accident" for the current nobles. Leave the water trap on. All new nobles would be flushed away automatically, without any intervention.

[AnotherDwarvernDeath]

A closed wooden door.

Win.

[Bandages]

These are hardly silly at all.

I just make all my spare pack animals [trAINABLE] and when the enemy's banner is on the horizon, I let loose the war donkies.

[holic]

My defense system? Making every single peasant that enters the fort a wrestler. They usually become a champion before the year is over.

[Strog211]

A long, two space wide hallway, with a retractable draw bridge over the top, and a bridge at either end that seals it off. Pull a level, and any and all goblins are shredded as large quantities of BEARS fall from above. I'm trying to get enough bears for this, but they don't seem to like cage traps....

[NW_Kohaku]

A long, two space wide hallway, with a retractable draw bridge over the top, and a bridge at either end that seals it off. Pull a level, and any and all goblins are shredded as large quantities of BEARS fall from above. I'm trying to get enough bears for this, but they don't seem to like cage traps....

... I now must find bears...  (Or are cave gator moats cooler than bears from heaven?)

[Phil_Z]

If you build a gator moat, make it in a floodroom. when enemies come, dump them in the room with a bridge, then flood the room.  then open other floodgates that let in gators and possibly carp.  can you catch carp in a cage trap....hmmmmm

[Flaede]

a series of alternate entrances to my fort.
only one is open at a time.
starting to enter one closes it, and opens the next.
The trick to this is, that the methods of closing each entrance usually kill 1 or two of the invaders. Eventually they are all dead and I can reopen the main entrance.