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« on: July 15, 2011, 09:59:17 pm »
I found my first caverns. There is more gold than I can believe. I am like drowning in gold now.
The moment I breached it (well, not QUITE... I managed to pump out a couple gold sarcophagi for some dwarves who had dodged into lakes during a goblin ambush), a bronze colossus wandered onto the map. I decided to kill it. I thought it would be a lot easier than it was.
While my entire military was beating on this thing, no less than four parties of goblin ambushers showed up. The good militia commander saw fit to dispatch herself and and my best swordsdwarf to deal with them while leaving the squad of rookies and a few hammerdwarves to the now one-armed colossus. I lost a baby and about five soldiers; meanwhile, a pair of goblins fell through a hole into my fort. (I really should install a ceiling at some point.) When I last looked at them they were advancing on a moody dwarf in his workshop; I'm not sure how he survived.
Eventually the goblins were scared away by my two dwarves, who then returned to finish off the colossus. By the end I must have lost ten dwarves, but all of my surviving soldiers were at least skilled. (From like dabbling.)
And of course I had a shiny masterwork bronze statue.
