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[Cheese]

I keep getting snatchers,there's just been 4 in a row. I had 2 ambushes at once 2 seasons ago and was forced to lock up the fort. Is there anything I can do? My military is basically 4 dorfs in a mix of iron and bronze stuff, that last ambush took out 3 of my military dorfs aswell.
E: Oh good lord.. another ambush..

[Abaddon]

Mass produce large serrated disks and mechanisms for traps, cage traps are good too.

Nothing beats a good military though.

[Golcondio]

Trap the entrances. 1-tile-wide corridors full of cage traps will stop almost ANY invading force, to the point of boredom...

[FleshForge]

Sure, but the problem after that is (as you say) avoiding boredom, especially dealing with all the micromanagement of traps   How about building a nice mass-invasion-dropper or drowner? 

[Cheese]

This is what I do, I just have a mix of stonefall and cages. I was going to redesign it but I hardly got a chance :/
E: Oh wow, my only weapon trap just went off.. The goblin is in 2 pieces.. 2 PIECES 
And weapon traps reset themselves over time, right?
E: Feck.. another ambush, 7 goblin lashers.

[Gnauga]

Channel a moat around your entrance, with one opening. It creates a chokepoint for ambushers, and lets you narrow your defenses to specific path. If you really need the security, stretch the moat so that it reaches the map edge. This is considered an exploit by some.

[theqmann]

I've found chained(or roped if you prefer) kittens detect stealthed goblins nicely.

[Osdeath]

This is what I do, I just have a mix of stonefall and cages. I was going to redesign it but I hardly got a chance :/
E: Oh wow, my only weapon trap just went off.. The goblin is in 2 pieces.. 2 PIECES 
And weapon traps reset themselves over time, right?
E: Feck.. another ambush, 7 goblin lashers.

I think the best I got was a guy in 8 pieces.

We should have a competition for who can chop a goblin into the most pieces...

The winner gets a adamantine masterwork serrated disk.

The loser gets stuck with cleaning all the traps.

[Cheese]

I have a moat, but the hallway is 3 wide all the way down. It has fortifications on the side for my marksdwarves that the invaders seem to love hugging, but they still go to the other side sometimes. I have a war-dog chained at the end. It's just annoying how everytime they attack one of my dorfs is trapped outside because he ran away from the entrance rather than to and I have to set everyone to my underground burrow. Once I can get a tree farm or something underground my problems will be solved
E: This is getting ridiculous now; three ambushes in a row, two appeared right on the bridge..

[KojaK]

Raise it an fling 'em. Then drop it and smash 'em.

[Gnauga]

You need alert systems further out from your fort. Try chaining a kitten far away from your fort. You can also place said kitten at the center of a large wall spiral, causing the gobbos to path to the kitten through the spiral, and filling the path with traps. Best of all, if you use weapon traps, and the path is long enough, survivors will need to walk back out through reset weapon traps.

[FleshForge]

Yeah I also tie up a couple of animals on the border, you tend to have them coming out of your ears anyway.