I’d never lost a fortress to an invasion before but, it just happened. Silstukos, a two-year fortress of 56 dwarves and wealth of 389K. Invasions started in the 4th season and that’s a full year earlier than usual in Ye Olde Masterwork, the fort wasn’t ready. There’d been plenty of thieves and visitors in the Unclaimed Wilds but we dealt with those. The first invasion was a dozen Tigermen with some accompanying Giant Rats. Tigermen are easy but these were level 4 in skills. We took our casualties but made it through. Next came some Orcs, the following season. More Tigermen followed. A couple of werebeasts were troublesome. Beginning the third year, the Elves came with a caravan and 60 Tigermen came behind, this time with a dozen blood spider fiends, each larger than a dwarf. Down to only a few trained and armored troops, the order was given to raise the Front Gate Bridge but it wasn’t given quickly enough and they were inside with us. 52 with war beasts against 7 warriors and 42 civilians. It took less than a month for the fortress to fall. Quick invasions! Lvl 4 “easy” invaders still come with decent quality iron armor, good weapons and names. Three invasions in that second year took their toll, the fourth took us out.
i would have retired the fortress at the 2nd invasion in a year, not let it fall by the 4th XD