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I see, thanks!

I’ve danced with dingos to the point of being untouchable and now I’m parrying a bandit who’s wielding an iron spear to train my axe skills.

I’ve outfitted my adventurer in full steel armor and steel shield, plus a cloak and battle axe made of the divine metal, and I’m able to train up dodge by just picking a fight with a dingo and spamming . but I never see parry as an option in the Aim menu. I do see the incoming attacks listed, so I thought my observer skill was high enough. Can you not parry with an axe (and shield), or do I need even higher observer ship to be allowed to parry?

Thanks, I’ll make axes from now on.

Ok, so I'm going the demon assassin Adventurer route! Here's the training facilty I'm working on (left half of the fortress):

Rooms from upper-leftt, in clockwise direction:

• Armory
• Tavern ("The Apple of Iron")
• Dormatory
• Store room for provisions
• Target practice
• Danger room
• (center) Battle arena

You'll notice lots of pedestals. That's so I can reserve specific items for the future adventurers (without being claimed by my military dwarves).

Is there anything else you would add?

Main level

Battle arena

Hmmm… my desert embark doesn’t have much on the way of big beasties. I’ve been toying with the idea of making an adventurer training facility and going into Adventure Mode to assassinate the demons if they can’t be beat in Fortress Mode, but that could also be used to bring big animals to train from far away lands.

What would you do? Train 50 dwarves to legendary and hope to get lucky, just keep trying with squads that only have 1-2 years of training until eventually one of them gets very very lucky, go adventuring for beasts and mercs, make an assassin adventurer, or something else?

Hi there!

I'm trying to conquer a goblin civ that was spawned by digging too deep during world-gen. However, each of their goblin pits and fortresses has at least 2 demons defending it. Every time I try to raid, pillage, raze, or destroy one of their sites, my dorfs hatch a cunning plan and ambush the enemy, kill a couple goblins and then get defeated and killed by a demon.

Can I successfully conquer/pillage/raze their sites with a sufficiently trained army? If so, how do I know when my dorfs are ready to take them on? Or are demons basically unbeatable in off-screen combat?

On a side note, this civ also sends demons along with the goblins when they siege my fortress, and killing them ain't easy.

Training my adventurer in Fortress Mode is a bit boring. Can I train armor and dodging as an adventurer using a trap hall full of wooden weapon traps? And how can I train up disguising under a false name so I can sneak into a goblin controlled fortress without having to fight the whole population?

If you can’t solve it using the above methods, you could retire your fortress and then reclaim it. That resets most of the fortress management stuff.