Thank you darkflagrance! This is an excellent mod, it certainly brings the challenge back into DF.
I have embarked near 14 civilizations (using challenge+bonus), and the first 2 years seemed way too quiet... but it became brutally difficult after that.
The War Elephants and Great Fiend Spiders are especially deadly, and they just keep coming! In comparison, the Ruthertaurs, Pandashis and Beak Wolves seemed like target practice.
I'll mention a few things in case that's unexpected:
- My first siege was 9 Beak Wolves, they ran away immediately (I already had 30 dwarves in military, half of my population)
- In a battle between War Elephants and Great Fiend Spiders (two simultaneous sieges), I noticed the spiders weren't using their web attack against the elephants.
- My meager tavern is receiving a ton of Badgerman visitors. Not that I mind, but it's somewhat unexpected.
- I have received a War Elephant pikeman visitor, except he didn't survive on the way to the tavern (another siege...).
- The library has never received a scholar visitor, none of my dwarves initially had any skill in writing/reading, and the caravan isn't selling books/codices (is the world so harsh that no one has time for intellectual matters?).
- I haven't really seen any large siege of weaker enemies, probably a coincidence.
It's a great mod. I wish the dwarf battle AI would be a little better, it makes it difficult to use complex tactics necessary to meet that challenge...