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I'm thinking of some kind of mod to make an eternal war feasible.

We could use castes along with a well thought out fortress design.

Mod dwarves so that a tiny proportion of dwarves born are a separate caste *daemon hunters*, with the strength and endurance to face even the beasts of hell.
Imagine it!
The shaft breaks through into hell, someone must defend the fortress.
 
From the moment of his birth they knew he was special, his skin the unnatural color of adamantine, around him a holy aura inimical to daemons(some work has been done with creatures which produce toxic gas?), holy symbols glowing faintly beneath his flesh.

When such a dwarf is born a crusade against the dark horrors beneath the surface of the world is planned.

A fortress could be built around rearing even 1 or 2 such dwarves and training/equipping them and finally sending them to fight an eternal battle with the darkness.

Alternatively we could have a competition to see who can build the trap that kills the most demons in vanilla DF.
I'm thinking something like a layer of water over a layer of magma with hatches in between, at one end a small room separated with a door (which the demons will destroy flooding the room with magma)with a sacrifice and all the hatches linked to one lever. Draw as many demons as you can into the room, pull the lever and encase them all in stone.

Of course this would have to be done in a part of the fortress which is sealed off and with a few different measures to steralise the area and reseal hell in case not all the demons are killed in the magma trap.

Person who gets the longest string of demon kills in a row wins.

My last attempted excursion was a terrifying display of the random name generator... specifically, the group name "The Dark Basement" and the fortress name "Incestrape". Uh, yeah. I just went ahead and abandoned the fortress and deleted that world...

Quote from: Julius Clonkus on March 08, 2010, 02:56:00 pm

.... (and thus suggesting the towers are actually DROP PODS?!) ....

Gooooooobliiiiiiins iiiiiiiiiin Spaaaaaaaaaaaace.

Quote from: HungryHobo on February 03, 2010, 05:07:22 pm

I can't wait for that!
I can image it now.

An almost immortal megabeast trapped, used for target practice to keep it bleeding, it's blood gradually filling the moat.

When supplies run low it is chained down and a team of axedwarves hack at it to provide material for the butchers shop.

That's rather cruel and barbaric when you think of it really. 

Seeing we'll get dwarven healthcare next version, impaired laborers won't be much of an issue, as long as the hammerer doesn't have anything sharp to dispense dwarven justice...
Do remember the king and queen are NOT replaceable nobles (fortunately they seem to not make mandates at all), nor the advisor (which I think does some mandates). The philospher also appears to not be replaceable (although he'll be dropped on the next version)

Quote from: Cheddarius on January 30, 2010, 04:30:59 pm

Back when Al Gore invented the internet. WITH HIS BEAR HANDS.

I'm picturing Al Gore getting surgery to replace his hands with bear paws...