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[Crossroads Inc.]

SO after digging through 3 layers of Underground Caverns, at LAST finding Magma to set up vast fields of Magam smelters to melt down the mountains of Ore I had saved up, I cast my eye toward the "Adamite Pillars" that now dot the sea of magma.

Ih sure, I know the stories about digging too deep... But hey! I've dealt with "Horrors from the Deep!" before! have a good strong military and oyu can deal with the odd spirit of flame or so, right?

Yeah....

So I dig down, oh about 5 levels, recieve a "You have dug down into a Whirling maelstrom of HORROR"  take a look at the 'emptiness' think "Cool" and go to wall it up.

20seconds later there are THIRTY DEMONS on the screen, within a minuet I have a Dozen Dwarfs dead, Within 5min, most of the fort of 70 Dwarfs is DEAD

Yeah...

Don't mock the new clowns

[612DwarfAvenue]

Wise words. "Do not mock the new Clowns".

[Max White]

Shit got real
You think that's bad? Those were just the demon peasants, untrained in combat! The warriors use dragon bones for tooth picks.

[Retro]

Thirty demons isn't too bad. I've had a hundred show up before, and I've heard of far more than that spawning as well.

[Rastaan]

...and I thought the cave crocodile sitting in my farm was bad.

*/quakes*

[Hydra]

I dug down just to check out the HFS. When I breached HFS I also got craploads of demons (well over 30 it seemed) pouring out of the hole. Not only did they kill everything on the map; they also set the entire map ablaze.

I'm so NOT going to open that up on any serious map

[Crossroads Inc.]

Now that the fort is dead, should i even BOTHE reclaiming it? Will the demosn go back underground? or should I start fresh?

[Hyndis]

You'll probably need at least 100 legendary dwarves in masterwork steel/adamantine plate to even have a chance of holding the line.

But its a goal!

Dedicate your entire fortress to creating a gigantic military, and then send your military to take on the forces of hell itself.

Once you breach, your fortress would basically be doing 3 things:

1) Fighting
2) Farming/brewing
3) Tending the wounded

[LordSlowpoke]

You'll probably need at least 100 legendary dwarves in masterwork steel/adamantine plate to even have a chance of holding the line.

But its a goal!

Dedicate your entire fortress to creating a gigantic military, and then send your military to take on the forces of hell itself.

Once you breach, your fortress would basically be doing 3 things:

1) Fighting
2) Farming/brewing
3) Tending the wounded

I remember a story of 70 cats breeding so fast that they almost liberated Hell. We need to do that with 300 cats.
Obvious reference is obvious, isn't it?

[Erk]

I dunno. After the initial rush the demons kinda linger around doing less attacking. I returned to my first HFS fort with seven leather-armoured axedwarves and actually managed to retake most of the surface. I was only defeated by the blobs of salt that couldn't be struck down. Very first thing I did was floor over the entrance to the caverns so that I could clear the main fort, though. That was vital.