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Hmm... how would you handle the complicatedness of wrestling in real time?

Goblins are actually taller than Dwarves by quite a bit in DF.

Depending on if I want safety and efficiency underground or something fancy and showy above ground, I'll usually start the same way(barring certain terrifying biomes). I dig a staircase straight into the soil, with a large massive entrance to quickly train my miners while the wood choppers fill the area up with as much wood as they can in the immediate area. Then I wall the area in and build a large 3x3 starcase going straight down with branches for anything I need until all the basics are done. If I can't immediately get farming underway I'll dig down to the caverns and wall off the immediate area for a few crops. Higher areas are storage and things like masons, and lower areas are the bedrooms, below which is the dining room closest to the farms. I usually don't go for magma at this point since the large open soil spaces tend to grow fungus trees and I'm all set to prepare for whatever I want.

If I'm near an incline or cave, I'll always dig horizontally into it for a long hallway to later line with areas for my dwarves to fire from and drawbridges. If I eventually want to build a fortress aboveground, and it's in a large enough hill or mountain, I'll plan ahead and build the inside of it first, save in the ground, and then hollow the fortress out of the mountain and engrave as much of it as I can.

PSX is looking pretty rad so far. Though most of them don't seem to capture the weird-ass Hussie storytelling style.

Though the Critical Miss whale telling Eridan what I have been thinking for awhile now is nice.

I wish we could 'fix' those dwarves.

And get Urist to finally admit his love for Dwarf Big Brother before ordering him into the room for his lava bath?

In 40d I gouged out the eyes of everyone in a village, broke the bones of anyone who could actually fight me afterwards, and then left them like that.

AlwayzL3git, don't think too much about wealth-production or things like "auto-butcher" etc. All you really need to have a successful fortress is Dwarf Therapist and a drawbridge or two for turtling. All forts are different, and after a certain wealth value nothing really changes as far as sieges or people attacking you goes.

Well I found a parrot on an island hopping around looking angry. I couldn't interact or grab it, so I declared war on it and my crew wound up killing it.