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[Zebra2]

ARMOR is key. Metal armor specifically.
As is equipping weapons. Don't send unequipped dwarves to battle. My decently-trained militaries would be slaughtered with leather armor. But recently my military equipped with steel plate and copper axes slayed a goblin ambush without a single scratch.

[Hyndis]

ARMOR is key. Metal armor specifically.
As is equipping weapons. Don't send unequipped dwarves to battle. My decently-trained militaries would be slaughtered with leather armor. But recently my military equipped with steel plate and copper axes slayed a goblin ambush without a single scratch.

This.

In 40D, a completed naked legendary wrestler was a kung-fu master and could defeat entire sieges by himself. A recruit in masterwork adamantine would die instantly.

In this version, a completely naked legendary wrestler has a lifespan measured in seconds. A recruit in masterwork adamantine is now invincible.

[Hyperturtle]

Yes, I decided on Lots of Cages (as well as stone traps, just because I like to see the local elephants suffer when hitting a bunch).

The river on this new map is much more accessible now, and I hope to introduce a moat.  I like the idea of an air lock, but I've had problems with puking dwarfs when they go outside. 

I was never much one for underground water maintenance planning, so I have to channel and floodgate to make the underground farm.  It seems straightforward enough, although my first few attempts ended up with my large farm being 4/7 with water by the time the lever was pulled again to close the floodgates.  And I don't think that'll evaporate any time soon.

Sadly I have galena galore and no iron yet.  Maybe a little bit of copper and also loads of zinc...

[Hyndis]

Keep digging. Almost every map will have loads of iron. You can also request iron from the caravan.

[beorn080]

Aye, you should find at least one vein of iron ore and a vein of coal. Flux might be a problem, but you can order it in, just order max of each type.

[Hyndis]

Aye, you should find at least one vein of iron ore and a vein of coal. Flux might be a problem, but you can order it in, just order max of each type.

Most maps these days should have entire layers of flux.

Also if you're not afraid to mod the game, you can add the flux token to all types of non-ore rock, meaning your steel industry will never be lacking. Combine that with the automatic vermin remains to coke reaction for your smelter, and now flux and coke will take care of itself. All you need to do is to supply the iron and dwarves to get the stuff processed. To help automatic things I also made the steel reaction automatic. I just manually make the iron bars, then the pig iron, and once I have pig iron and iron bars the smelter will automatically queue itself up to make the pig iron into steel. You can't use pig iron for anything else, so there's no point in having it sit around.

[beorn080]

Auto vermin to coke?

[Shoku]

Custom reaction somebody made to make some issues in this version less annoying. You can find it on the mod forum.