Cogs Journal, 16th of Obsidian, 308A vile force of darkness has arrived! This army is lead by Ngerxung Namedtorment, a human raised by goblins. Somehow he rose from the position of woodcutter to general of the armies of Luredhate, a goblin tower. I haven’t heard any word of him actually presiding over any military operations, so I expect Derm and our army will take great pleasure in ensuring this is his first and last. He’s leading an army of between 40 and 50 goblins along with about a dozen or more trolls.
Also, Kezan has already arrived with some excellent designs and ideas for securing the fortress and caverns against cave beasts, particularly flying monsters. Considering the early disaster with the giant bat, I’ll be preparing to implement these as soon as possible. The only change I think I’ll make will be to the width of the corridors since I expect there may be a lot of traffic to the caves in the future.
I think it may be a good bet to place the control center for these sorts of defenses in a room next to the future dining hall. I believe we can make a massive quantity of trap weapons out of glass for these traps. Our legendary glassworkers can work things up to a severe razor edge now!
Events of the 18th of Obsidian, 308For once the battle was actually going according to plan. This time nobody charged out of the gate after a loose swarm of trolls. Instead, they waited patiently as the first trolls and goblins cautiously came through the gates. Then the army charged in. Derm was a bit late, getting the straps figured out for a brand new gauntlet fresh off the forge. But there were still plenty of goblins left to kill.
Derm only managed to get in one kill from the first group, but that was enough. With a bellowing roar, he charged out the gate, straight into the waiting mass of goblins. The rest of the army was caught completely off guard by his mad charge. After a few moments hesitation because they were told to stay by the glass roof, they finally charged in after Derm.
Derm was well into the thick of things in a martial trance. His axe swung almost like a blur, cutting and parrying. No blade even touched his armor for the first minutes despite the efforts of the goblin pikemaster in front of him. Suddenly, the approaching crossbow wielding goblins began to fire. The first silver bolt was right on target, but Derm simply batted this bolt right out of the air with his axe.
He drew his axe back and swung at the Pikemaster, chopping straight through the armor into the heart. As the pikemaster dropped, another arrow flew at him. He quickly jumped away, letting the bolt fly wide. He wound up in the middle of a group of spear goblins along with a troll and quickly dismantled them with his axe. He sank his axe into the Trolls chest, and the troll started choking as its lungs filled with blood. Another arrow came flying at Derm, he batted it out of the air again. Then he turned back and finished off the troll.
The rest of the battle was a blur of blood and weapons for Derm. By the end of the fight Derm had killed 9 goblins and a troll without even receiving a dent in his armor. He ended the fight by shattering the skull of the Elite goblin crossbowman who had been firing bolts at him for most of the fight.
The battle was over but not the war. The general was approaching with his squad from one direction, and a large group of speargoblins was coming from the other direction.
The best strategy would be to wait at the gate for the enemy to arrive. But he wanted that general dead. “Watch the gate and prepare for the speargoblins. I’m going to take down the general!”
But before he could reach the general and his squad, they spotted him coming and immediately retreated from the area! Derm yelled in frustration and turned to see what was left. And a kobold thief popped up right in front of him. He idly chopped the thief apart while surveying the battlefield looking to see what remained.
Ahh, there were still some trolls foolish enough to remain in the area, even though the general was gone. He quickly went and eliminated the trolls without incident. Not a scratch on his body and not a wound to report among any of his soldiers. Truly a magnificent battle! Now would be an excellent time to get some sleep.
OOC: I thought Derm was done for when I realized his soldiers weren’t coming into the fight to support him. But Derm proved more than capable of dealing with the problem! Nothing like a dwarf dealing with arrows by hitting them out of the air with an axe! Not to mention, I looked through the entire list and I don't think anyone even touched Derm with a weapon in this one. I can’t say I blame the general for buggering off when he saw the Soulchopper coming.
@Dermonster: No kidding. You'll like this past fight. Derm is more like a force of nature these days!
@Riversand: Nice design, I like how full of floodgates, bridges and traps it is! I’ll be widening it to two tiles width but otherwise I’ll build it as designed. I’m using the rule of one weapon per weapon trap for balance reasons. I’m also going to lean towards purpose built weapons (Giant axeblades, etc) rather than using goblin garbage to build the traps.
@Syntic: That was one of the first things I took care of when I reloaded the game. Thanks for the reminder though!
@Scaraban: Thanks!
@Tuxman: Wow. No wonder Catten is going a little nuts; we’ve had a huge number of trolls showing up for these sieges along with the goblins.
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