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[Burnt Pies]

Marksdwarves with bone/wooden bolts and crossbows sounds like the best plan.

[BigJake]

Marksdwarves with bone/wooden bolts and crossbows sounds like the best plan.

This.  I had completely forgotten about crossbows; unarmored kobs won't last 5 seconds.

[Diacritic]

You could wait for your next mood and savescum until you get an anvil.

[JoRo]

I had a group of goblin archers sieging me once, and hidden kobolds stole their ammo.  This emboldened the kobolds enough to try attacking in numbers, and one of my military caught a steel arrow with his eye and survived.

Not the most relevant story, but I always liked that dwarf.  Named him "Ol' Stinkeye" after that.  I rarely name dwarves for anything but amusing injuries, as "Wheezy," "DeadLeg," "Dr. Fumbles," "Lump," and "Left Hand" can attest.

[Kobold Troubadour]

kobold-sized metal armor doesn't really make sense (since they technically aren't capable of metalworking either, and their entity definitions only include tunics and loincloths, not actual armor)...

Maybe some have been wearing some shoulder guards roped around his body & called it "armor".

Wait, so if they kept on stealing your glowy blue weapons of death...they'll eventually siege you using them? Interesting...

[Urist Imiknorris]

They will not.

[meto30]

I haven't got time as of right now for caring about those kobolds aboveground, because a giant insectoid with deadly secretions decided to invade the privacy of minerdwarves working down in level -45 (counted from the wagon position). I luckly sealed the shaft off in time without any losses, but now I have to figure out how to dig downwards without freeing the FB. Urgh.

In the meantime,

Ah, one of my favorite kinds of game.  Lock the doors and watch the world burn!
Never seen a kobold war party, though, that's awesome.

Are controlled cave-ins out of the question?  I'd think that would be the easiest to mop up at least a few of them, get your hands on some of that steel.
Speaking of, wouldn't the anvil survive a drop as well?

Taking your que, I dug up from beneath the anvil and succeeded in retrieving it. I had to seal off the hole immediately because all of a sudden 15+ kobolds started running towards it, though, so no actual entrances yet.

The map has zero trees, and I've yet to find any coal or lignite, so I guess steel production is completely out of the question. On the other hand, I had already breached the volcano and set up a nice magma smelter(and the new magma forge next to it), so bronze armor will start pumping out. Since I have no bones as well, I'd have to resort to metal bolts... or go melee and hope my dwarves are as good with swords as they are with picks.

[Zaerosz]

You could make one of your dwarves a hunter and get him to go kill some beasties. Or give him an axe, draft him and send him to go kill some beasties. Either way, same end result(s) (either dead beasties or dead dwarves).

[krenshala]

I haven't got time as of right now for caring about those kobolds aboveground, because a giant insectoid with deadly secretions decided to invade the privacy of minerdwarves working down in level -45 (counted from the wagon position). I luckly sealed the shaft off in time without any losses, but now I have to figure out how to dig downwards without freeing the FB. Urgh.

Thats easy ... set up a tunnel to the surface leading down to the insectoid's location.  Open it up, and the FB and kobolds should go have a party with each other.   Just be sure to seal yourself away from the Hallway of Doom.

The map has zero trees, and I've yet to find any coal or lignite, so I guess steel production is completely out of the question. On the other hand, I had already breached the volcano and set up a nice magma smelter(and the new magma forge next to it), so bronze armor will start pumping out. Since I have no bones as well, I'd have to resort to metal bolts... or go melee and hope my dwarves are as good with swords as they are with picks.

Use the cassiterite for bolts?

[meto30]

Thats easy ... set up a tunnel to the surface leading down to the insectoid's location.  Open it up, and the FB and kobolds should go have a party with each other.   Just be sure to seal yourself away from the Hallway of Doom.

Use the cassiterite for bolts?

... that's a great idea! I'll start looking for a safe place to mine that tunnel then.
Cassiterite is still too valuable an ore to use in nonretrievable items, like bolts. All tin should be used in bronze smelting.

[meto30]

Ok. now that's done I need to find a way to kill the FB while on the surface.

Is it just me, or did my problems just get more complicated...?

[Man of Paper]

Complicated? Dwarf Fortress?
I don't see any correlation here.

[Niveras]

This sounds like a job for Dwarven engineering. I recommend building an underground corridor one tile wide with a 10 z-level drop on either side. Fill the corridor with weapon traps(quality does not matter). The invaders will either take damage from the trap, or dodge to an adjacent square.

Note that kobolds are trap avoid so this solution would not work against their ambush squads.

[Xenos]

it would with repeating spike traps. 

And bolts can be retrieved (I think.  or is this only if they miss and drop a z-level?  can you designate broken bolts for melting?)...If you retrieve them then melt them down you can actually get an increase in material...

[Vehudur]

Crossbows, crossbows and more crossbows.  Oh, and you want some bolts too.

Kobolds, being unarmed, are really squishy.  Of course, you can build an Atom Smasher and take care of them that much more easily with that much less risk.  Or drop them into magma.

it would with repeating spike traps. 

And bolts can be retrieved (I think.  or is this only if they miss and drop a z-level?  can you designate broken bolts for melting?)...If you retrieve them then melt them down you can actually get an increase in material...

Maybe that's where the atoms from the atom smasher actually go.