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Seems more like there are groups of them.

Previously attacking one bandit or goblin provoked maybe one or two another. Now, attacking goblin fort with 30 denizens gave 4 waves from five to seven warriors in each. Some still could be killed in plain sight with no response and usually there are some which have been hurt by previous infighting after loading up the map.
With bandits camp it seem similiar, just less people in waves and more of them killed seperately.

I think it might be tied to deeper relationships in worldgen and now histfig tend to have some friends hanging around who would help them while engaged.

Interesting, is there a way to get this to occur more commonly? Currently i'm trying desperately to end a Dark Fortress as my current character goal and i'm 300+ kills deep and i've yet to have anyone i haven't already attacked engage me/engage as a group.

Just started a new fort, and I wanted to try something new as usually i am rather meticulous in how I design my fort. This time I rushed straight to cavern 3, and built my fortress fluidily. Shortly after getting a migrant wave, my 19 dwarves were beset upon by a blind cave ogre. The cave ogre immediately bit the head off of one dwarf, then punched the head in Oberyn Martell vs The Mountain style before passing out seemingly right after a dwarf hit him so hard in the chest it bruised his lung. He's been passed out for three days, while 17 dwarves are literally just going to town on him with fists.

Really setting the tone of Boatpages with this engagement.