The fight has began - huge horde charged the fortress from 2 sides.
8 Goblin crossbowmen immideately got caught in a cage traps, which I built in abundance. Remains of their squad began a crossfire with dwarves stationed atop of the walls, while Goblin Axeman and Lasher squad stormed the south entrance to the fort. Lashers moved faster, and ran ahead of the rest to be all massacred by weapon traps.
This attracted the attention of nearby Dwarven merchants guards, who rushed into the battle with Goblin Axemen and Crossbowmen, leaving their protege trader behind. In the meantime, siege engineer fired a ballista, skewering 2 gobins
and 1 caravan guard, then ran inside. Seeing his squads murdered,
Elite goblin crossbowman and Axeman have fled. Using this moment of enemy fear, I ordered melee squad "The Imprisoned Armories" to close in to finish.
However, during the violent melee at the southern gate, a large (around 30) group of hammer-wielding goblin elk-bird cavalry led by the Hammerlord was waiting not too far away from the western castle entrance. I have lowered the bridge and opened the door, hoping to make them run into trap-ridden entrance. It had no effect on them, however, it awoke the mini-horde of trolls, who were, presumably, standing at higher z-level, hidden from sight all this time. Trolls quickly flooded down the slopes right into the cage and weapon traps scattered around. one of them avoided being caged, and
mauled an unprotected Dwarven trader to death.Meanwhile, I've noted, that 2 marksdwarves squads got 6 men seriously wounded. Seeing almost all of the goblins killed, I've canceled the alert to recover the wounded. Before I could realize, that western exit was fully accessible by the enemy, civilians have already stepped out of the safe vault...
Dwarven luck, so rare, this time has smiled upon the fort. Goblin Hammerlord, craving for some easy kills, rushed headfirst into the entrance,and, naturally, got himself caged. A number of his squad members followed him and had their heads and limbs sliced off. Such inconsiderate deed was probably the last drop for survivng squad members. They saw their comrades impaled, chopped into pieces, smashed by falling rocks and now imprisoned. Hammermen burst into chaotic retreat.
The victory was at hand. Yet, there was a certain someone along with the goblins. Here he is:
Somehow, this "someone" managed to stay unspotteed throughout the whole fight. I took notice of him when he decided to sneak inside right past the traps and bite the dog's head off:
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General was the last of his army standing. So I ordered 4 squads to finish him off, going for an easy kill. I was proven wrong.
The last fight took so long, that half of the squad soldiers fainted from exhaustion. Despite general wearing just wool/leather, 90% of bolts and strikes glanced off. Only squad officers managed to do any harm to him. And the fight was brutal:
That's right, he(it?) kept fighting after having both arms chopped off and getting stabbed a hundred times by a militia commander. I dont think there was any single square millimetre of general's body not mutilated.
Naturally, its blood splattered around everywhere- on walls, floors, dwarves. Nevertheless, it was killed and the fight was over.
