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[Tiruin]

Idling dwarves = social time

They should be right next to each other.

As early as possible, a dwarf should have a LOT of friends. It helps his social skills and (partly) his innate skills, this also helps in trading.

[antymattar]

Dwarves are already pretty good at hand to hand combat. A squad of five unarmed dwarves should be enough to repel a siege.

As a new player, I felt the need to try some of these out.
This one worked.
Sadly, hugging the badgers was less successful.

uhhh... that worked?

Totally, have 10 squades of 2 miners and your fortress is indestructible.

[JoystickHero]

Dwarves are already pretty good at hand to hand combat. A squad of five unarmed dwarves should be enough to repel a siege.

As a new player, I felt the need to try some of these out.
This one worked.
Sadly, hugging the badgers was less successful.

uhhh... that worked?

Totally, have 10 squades of 2 miners and your fortress is indestructible.

This thread just got meta.

Legendary miners are a force to behold, though.

[Quietust]

* Dwarves gain happy thoughts from having their own bedrooms and dining rooms. The better furnished the room, the better the thought, so equip the rooms well.
(technically true, but it is hard and tedious to create great dining rooms and bedrooms for each individual dwarf. A great communal dining room and a simple bedroom are a much better choice)

It actually isn't that difficult to make bedrooms for each dwarf, since you don't need to actually assign each dwarf to a bedroom. Giving them fancy rooms is definitely "good advice" - it will make them happy, but it will likely result in very jealous Nobles.

[Quietust]

Make sure to keep your Idler count low by any means necessary.

but that IS good advice.  no one has time to socialise, no one makes friends, tantrum-spirals are harder to come by.

Actually, it's rather poor advice - by giving your entire population huge amounts of meaningless tasks just to keep them busy, they'll never get anything important done. The fact that the Dwarven Economy in 40d and earlier encourages this sort of behavior is something of a design flaw, and it's probably one of the reasons why it never activates in version 0.31.

[Aiyon]

Dwarves are already pretty good at hand to hand combat. A squad of five unarmed dwarves should be enough to repel a siege.

As a new player, I felt the need to try some of these out.
This one worked.
Sadly, hugging the badgers was less successful.

uhhh... that worked?

Yeah... I renamed my commader Chuck. three of the others died... but no matter how many wounds he took, Chuck and his captain refused to stay down. Meh, not complaining

EDIT:

Dwarves are already pretty good at hand to hand combat. A squad of five unarmed dwarves should be enough to repel a siege.

As a new player, I felt the need to try some of these out.
This one worked.
Sadly, hugging the badgers was less successful.

uhhh... that worked?

Totally, have 10 squades of 2 miners and your fortress is indestructible.

This thread just got meta.

Legendary miners are a force to behold, though.

Oh okay, now this makes sense. Chuck was a legendary miner and my Captain was... bloody lucky to have arrived after him :3

[Aiyon]

Put it into one post ^