Well, have had the delight of a fortress that has actually been almost impossible to maintain thanks to this mod and the Fortress Defense mod.
Running a warriors of chaos embark into a terrifying rocky wasteland. It rains skyre skaven blood constantly there--the entire map is covered in pools of it. There is a river that literally runs red with blood sometimes. Khorne has been pleased with the decision to settle this region.
The first year went swimmingly--I breached the aquifer within the first two months and began constructing my above-ground fortress. Only stockpiles and mining will go underground, the children of chaos refuse to cower in burrows.
The first few waves of migrants brought some interesting pets--including a pair of Asur dragons.
With the migrants came waves of enemies--thankfully held off by the incoming caravans (dark elves, norsemen, and of course the home civilization of chaos trade).
The trouble began early in the second year. A juggernaut of khorne megabeast showed up with a wave of 20 migrants, murdering all of them. It ran amok and butchered a dark elf caravan--but becoming badly wounded in the process (the dark elves possess murderously good aim with their crossbows). The gigantic beast lay stricken on the ground, its rage keeping it conscious through the immense pain it must have been suffering. A group of citizens decided to handle the problem on their own initiative. Around a dozen chaos warriors surrounded the monster and began pummeling it with their firsts to little effect. It was joined by my ramshackle military--a champion of Nurgle with my woodcutter's axe. However, before the execution could be delivered, one of the Asur dragons showed up and decided to chip in.
The flames were my undoing. The dragon blasted the wounded juggernaut with fire--and all of the brave souls that were trying to kill it
With around a fifth of my fort killed in an instant, and my drawbridge ruined (apparently dragon fire can wreck my granite drawbridge), the melted corpses were left to rot.
Enraged Chaos warriors don't make for friendly ghosts. Added to the nonstop tantrums from the devastating loss to my fort was around 5 murderous and sadistic ghosts. There would be dozens of corpses found contorted in fear over the coming years.
The sieges have been unending. Dark stranglers, beakwolves, brettonians, high elves, wood elves, and juggernauts have been slaughtering all migrants and the unlucky few citizens caught outside the safety of the slowly-rising walls.
Once again, a damnable dragon decided to devastate my fortress. A mantis man decided to suicidally fly down through the still-constructing ceiling and assail a baby. An Asur dragon seized the moment, belching out clouds of fire that annihilated a third of my main level. All of my workshops, my newly-reconstructed bridge, and 8 good children of chaos were ruined. The dragon was slaughtered, its meat sustaining my fortress in lieu of the crops it destroyed.
The tantrum spiral was horrific. A champion of khorne went berserk and threw himself upon a cultist mother and baby. He ripped her lower leg off with his goddamned teeth and then punched the baby's head in. A handful of nearby chaos warriors and a war hydra joined the fray. The second Asur dragon burned them all to death in an instant. The second and last dragon was put to the knife. Its succulent meat was little consolation to those whose family members were reduced to smoking husks.
The tantrums continued. My thriving fortress of just over 50 men stabilized at around 15. Ghosts took that number down to 12 before the deadliest of them could be laid to rest. Thankfully a champion of Khorne vampire was killed by a band of Brettonians, bringing the number to 11. I hadn't suspected him at first, but his death left a pile of +chaos human earrings+. That fool was wearing like ten crowns and thirty-something necklaces and earrings made from the bones of chaos humans...
I have only just been able to put the ceiling on my second level, so the dining room and dormitory have only just gone down. The last remaining chaos warrior has just gone berserk with my fort's best weapon (a bronze axe liberated off the mutilated corpse of a druchii) and hacked the foot off of my incursion leader, sending him hurtling off of the top level of my fort. His feeble cultist body was maimed from the 3 story fall, leaving him broken on the ground outside of my fort. A band of marauding asrai have kept my gates shut.
And that is where my fort currently is. I haven't had the time to make a proper graveyard; dozens of corpses lie under the hot sun, left to rot. No migrant has come in nearly a year. I fear that this excursion will soon come to an end.
I look forward to actually being forced to reclaim a fort for the first time in months. Thanks so much, everyone! This mod is especially awesome in this new release. Been so much fun.
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