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[RTiger]

I am under siege by 32 bowman (2 elite), 16 pikeman (1 elite), 4 maceman, 15 axeman, 2 crossbowman(1 elite), 15 spearman, and a hammer lord.

They are all now locked up in an area that I had not finished trapping.

My current military is 10 dwarves, with little training, and no armor.

Trying to think of safe ways of handling this situation. Flooding is not an option. The river is frozen, and flooding that space also means flooding the magma caverns. and the rest of my fort. I can't afford that.

If I keep them pinned down long enough, will they eventually starve?

[Girlinhat]

Invaders don't starve, so no, but if you open that way to the outside, they'll eventually break the siege and leave.

[Megaman3321]

Redirect your entrance or wherever that room is through a long trap hallway.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Well, you said flooding out the goblins would mean flooding the magma, so 2+2=magma.

Just wall off your fort from the burn zone.

[Girlinhat]

Dig a hole in the ceiling, and toss all your cats down into the room.

This won't actually help, but it gets rid of cats...

[Urist Imiknorris]

Pasture all your animals on a retracting bridge over the goblins, retract the bridge.

[imperium3]

As Urist said, you have magma - what's the problem?

[RTiger]

The magma is down at the magma sea. I have not tapped that source yet. It has not been any priority. The passage where the goblins are is just directly below the surface, at the river level. on one side is a drawbridge connected to my main drawbridge. Closing my main drawbridge opens up the path I trapped them in, which I intended to be a goblin grinder, but did not complete. The back of that leads to the mineshaft directly to the level above the magma sea. If I were to flood the magma chamber with water, then to drain it would be an incredible pain.

[_DivideByZero_]

Collapse the ceiling on them?

[Skivverus]

My thoughts: dig out a small side area that uses a pair of one way hatches (pressure plate linked to adjacent hatch over open space) to trap a few goblins at a time; in this area you can set up repeating spikes or fortifications (for marksdwarves or siege engines) - essentially, an auxiliary trap corridor, that you can connect to the main one once it's complete.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Goblin grinders are the best automurder devices.

[RTiger]

This shaft was intended to be a goblin grinder. Anyway, I found an answer.

Though the traps were not set up for the grinder, the hatches and pressure plates were, so the goblins cant advance to the stairway. Taking advantage of that, I dug out to the z level just below where the goblins are, and placed a hatchcover over the stairway, then placed a regular door, effectively sealing that tight.

Now I just need to wait for the river to thaw... It is only 3 squares away.

[Pan]

Now I just need to wait for the river to thaw... It is only 3 squares away.

This ought to be good. Nothing like a waterlogged goblin corpse to make your day, eh?

[RTiger]

Well, it will be a good jump start to my goblin grinder to sacrifice 64 goblins for weapons.
http://img199.imageshack.us/f/goblintrap.png/

[RTiger]

That did not quite work as expected. The water flushed the goblins out of the main corridor, and instead trapped them on the lower level. I don't see any way I can get to them now, but they are now effectively out of the way.

Now to pump out all this water and reset the trap