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[azrael4h]

Dear Urist and Urista McMarksdwarf:

Crossbows are, in general, useful at engaging enemies at range. Walls, in general, are for keeping enemies from reaching you. It is probably advisable not to leap off a 3-4 Urist high wall, incomplete or not, to fight against 40+ goblins with 15+ trolls and beaks dogs supporting them. It is less advisable to do so with just the two of you. At the least, get the Siegebreaker. She can fight large groups of foes at once, as evidenced by the 6 beak dogs she killed in the last siege before anyone else arrived. And is smart enough to use the conveniently placed gate, which was open to allow the enemies to be caught in cage traps for eventual arena duty. 

[Atarlost]

Dear Urist and Urista McMarksdwarf:

Um, Urist is already a feminine name. 

[TheBiggerFish]

Dear Urist and Urista McMarksdwarf:

Um, Urist is already a feminine name.

Are names even gendered?

[azrael4h]

Dear Urist and Urista McMarksdwarf:

Um, Urist is already a feminine name.

Are names even gendered?

Not that I can tell.

I just defined it here specifically because I had a male and female marksdwarf who jumped down from a three urists high wall to go die. The wall wasn't finished yet, and I didn't even know they were up there when they were activated. They must have been actually building it on their off duty day.

[pikachu17]

Dear Urist McUseless

You took valuable time away from the farms that provide for our 60 hungry dwarves. What was the purpose of this? You decided to go make a freaking cup! A cup! The last two artifacts were actually useful. Our Captain of the Guard is armed with an artifact iron warhammer. There is an artifact quern built in our second workshop level. What possessed you to make a freaking cup? Get your ass back to the fields before I feed you to Boatarmor's atom smasher.

well, they CAN drink out of it. probably get more visitors, for siege help.

[ReynTheLord]

Dear Urist McAndMyAxe The woodcutter, Stop going missing in the first few days.

[Bumber]

Dear Urist McAndMyAxe The woodcutter, Stop going missing in the first few days.

Trees: The real most dangerous game.

[spazyak]

Dear Urist McAndMyAxe The woodcutter, Stop going missing in the first few days.

Trees: The real most dangerous game.

In the game of trees you either win or get crushed by falling oak log x4

[Atarlost]

Dear Rovod Standardaqua, It is not acceptable to flip out and murder random bystanders when struck by falling logs.  There was no axe on the corpse.  He or she can not possibly be responsible. 

[mikekchar]

try a civilian alert to force all your dwarves to go to a certain burrow at the same time with just one click, usually works for me

I should probably put this in the  facepalm thread, but I couldn't believe the effect when you put your squad on "inactive" and then set up a burrow alert.  Dwarfs in the middle of battle will retreat!  Maybe not 100%, but enough that it's effective.  You can even creatively create burrows to flank enemies as long as your squad is not active.  As soon as you set them active again, they attack.  it's awesome.

[ReynTheLord]

Dear Urist McLazyBlacksmith, DO YOUR WORK!

I Have more steel than what I know what to do with, and you guys aren't doing any work!

[Bumber]

Dear Urist McAndMyAxe The woodcutter, Stop going missing in the first few days.

Trees: The real most dangerous game.

In the game of trees you either win or get crushed by falling oak log x4

Or they snatch you and you die of thirst.

[Vrakanas]

Dear Urist McFruitgatherer,

Don't bother giant black mambas.
It wasn't bothering you, and you had no business attacking and punching the thing to death because you hate snakes.

Poor bugger never stood a chance.

[JumpingJack]

Dear Urist McFruitgatherer,

Don't bother giant black mambas.
It wasn't bothering you, and you had no business attacking and punching the thing to death because you hate snakes.

Poor bugger never stood a chance.

Dear Overseer,

I identify as a mongoose. Don't discriminate.

Signed, Urist McSnakeEater

[carnivorn]

Dear Urists,

While I'm glad that you all value knowledge so much, do you really need to read every single book in the fortress? Not to mention, why do you feel the urge to take books off of shelves and immediately put them back*? If I want to get anything done I have to forbid all the books and lock you out of the library!
Well no more. As of the new year, you're all taking a mandatory sabbatical until you can get this "reading" phase out of your systems and get back to combat practice, like proper dwarves.

(*correction)