At the risk of sounding like a terrible noob, I have a problem with ambushes.
I've played a lot of fortresses, some far larger and populated then this one, but the amount of ambushes I'm getting in this one is just absurd.
If I had to make an estimate I would say I'm getting 4-5 ambushes each season lately. My population of 50, 45 not in the military, cannot cope with all the hauling to clean up the mess being made by all the slaughter.
Now I'm not saying I'm having trouble defeating these ambushes, but it's severely disrupting the workflow of the fortress to the point where all able workers are hauling goblinite and removing the corpses and bodyparts nonstop, and as I mentioned they can't even keep up with the corpses being produced.
I've never ever seen so many goblins. I get less of the buggers in a siege, the siege being a lot more practical since they don't freaking appear out of nowhere killing the civs hauling the previous batch of corpses into the incinerator.
And don't even ask about the thieves, a goblin thief every other minute, how I still have infants in the fortress is beyond me.
Is there anything that might cause a massive amount of goblins to ambush your fortress? Should I increase my population so I get sieges, in the hopes that the amount of ambushes might decrease then?
I'd really like to get back to doing something else then disposing goblin corpses.