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[CaptainBadwheel]

So I'm still pretty early on this fortress (pop 34) and I just got ambushed by elves. I didn't even kill their traders yet!

[NRDL]

Your civ could have already been at war with them, since world gen. 

[Urist Imiknorris]

Which can only be a good thing.

[NRDL]

Also, I'm guessing you were planning to attack the elves, had they been peaceful?

[franti]

If you don't have a good military, Elves are a bitch to fight. They sneak up in huge waves and wooden arrows will easily go through leather/silk/cloth. More dangerous than goblins, in my opinion.

[Joël]

Capture them. Then put them in rooms with stuff made of wood.
Then, when their moral is down, let them fight against goblins/dragons/dwarfs.

[AWdeV]

If you don't have a good military, Elves are a bitch to fight. They sneak up in huge waves and wooden arrows will easily go through leather/silk/cloth. More dangerous than goblins, in my opinion.

Quantity has a quality all of its own, that's true but elves are generally easy to handle. You don't need a good military, just an armoured one. And they're damn good at murdering your undefended livestock, the bastards.

On a related note, I should try some messing about in ye olde raws and see if I can use the wooden items as "logs" for use in a wood furnace. Turn them into ash or charcoal and then you have an actual profit from murdering the sods.

[Girlinhat]

I'm certain you can make a custom reaction to take any wooden object and make charcoal.  Or, for that matter, specify "any wooden weapons" or "any wooden armor" but then you might burn your own training spears if they're laying about.  "Any wooden furniture" would let you burn tables, chairs, beds, barrels, and bins as well, because things like bins, barrels, and buckets are technically furniture.

[Urist Da Vinci]

In later waves of attacks, elves will ambush while riding war animals. Sometimes the animals will be revealed before their riders (or the opposite if the elves are bowmen). This applies even if the elf is riding a war elephant or a war giant badger.

Fighting elves is so awesome, that I have them set up as a permanently hostile enemy in most worlds I gen now.

[Girlinhat]

I had elves on grizzleys.  The bears would just loiter around the map and retaliate if attacked, so I ended up with a single soldier taking on entire siege-sized ambushes one on one, and winning hands down.  It was like worldgen battles!

[elf-fondling human]

Lucky. The only time I've ever seen hostile elves was that one time a trader went insane. I've slaughtered many a caravan over the course of my forts, and I still can't get them pissed enough. It's probably for the best, though, because I can never set up a military with all of my digging around anyway.

[magic dwarf]

In later waves of attacks, elves will ambush while riding war animals. Sometimes the animals will be revealed before their riders (or the opposite if the elves are bowmen). This applies even if the elf is riding a war elephant or a war giant badger.

Fighting elves is so awesome, that I have them set up as a permanently hostile enemy in most worlds I gen now.

How? this is exactly what i want to do for my next fortress!

[Corneria]

Unicorns, man. Dangers of a horse with a horn to boot.

[Necro910]

Capture them. Then put them in rooms with stuff made of wood.
Then, when their moral is down, let them fight against goblins/dragons/dwarfs.

Or better yet...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MAGMAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If you don't have a good military, Elves are a bitch to fight. They sneak up in huge waves and wooden arrows will easily go through leather/silk/cloth. More dangerous than goblins, in my opinion.

Wanna know the best siege finder?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MAGMAAAAAAAAAAAAA

and the resulting fires help, too.

[Pukako]

I started one fort (and only one) where my civilisation was at war with the elves.

Oh it was SO MUCH FUN!!!  Cute liddle elven limbs hanging from trees, unicorn horn crafts, wooden objects everywhere.  And so many strange animals to take - strangely, their traders still turned up on occasion.

I got breeding pairs of giant eagles, cave crocs and leopards too...

Can't seem to find this again, though...