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On a related note, you really only need two types of military dwarves.

Axedwarves: For killing a Bronze Colossus
Marksdwarves: For killing everything else

Seriously, axes are the most versatile weapon due to the chance of dismemberment.  Even though other weapon types (i.e. spears) might be more effective vs. goblins, your axedwarves are perfect for fighting "unusual" opponents which might lack vital organs.

This is a disturbingly common occerrence of late.  I've tried generating three or four different worlds, but I have been unable to find a "hostile" goblin fortress yet.  Everybody's at peace.

In fact, just finding a quest has proven quite difficult.  One of my adventurers went to seven or eight towns in a row without getting a quest.  All of the towns were "untroubled".  When I finally received a quest, it was to kill a Titan which was on the exact opposite side of the world!

I started a new adventurer in the latest version, and my first quest was rather funny.  The resident axe lord (no mayor?) informed me that the town has a fearsome foe: Naza Prideyelled, the giant, who stole their carp meat!

I think he murdered somebody, too.  But theft of carp meat is an extremely serious offense, and for this he must surely die.

This particular device has probably earned itself the lowest safety rating of any of my goblin traps, but it's been fun nonetheless.  I present The Device:

http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-6019-mainentrance

Pros:
* Smooshes goblins into jelly
* No messy cleanup
* Hurls pesky elven traders as far as you want
* Extremely large target area

Cons:
* Takes forever to build
* Frequently kills dwarves who are in the wrong place at the wrong time
* Timing on The Lever can be difficult

For those too lazy to click the link, the entrance to the fort is completely surrounded by approximately 90 drawbridges (maximum sized, using 26 rock blocks each).  All the bridges are connected to a lever.  Pull the lever, goblins get hurled.  Pull it again, goblins get pulverized.

The device itself has caused a few fatal accidents (and at least one not-so-accidental accident), but oddly enough the #1 dwarf killer this time around as been the pack of wild camels.  I dug a moat around the entire border of the map early on, but these camels were trapped within the borders.  They bred... oh, they bred.  And then they started interrupting work on The Device.

They had to be dealt with, of course.  A single axedwarf should have been sufficient, but fortune conspired against him.  Maybe it was his lack of armor?  Anyway, his axe got stuck in the 2nd camel, so he resorted to wrestling the poor beast.  It must have kicked him right in the head, and he went down.

Unfortunately the camel was not injured badly enough to die from its wounds, so it was wandering all over the map - with my only axe!  Without an anvil I couldn't forge another one, so it had to be retrieved at any cost...

Long story short, two wrestlers later and I got my axe back.  The rest of the camels were dispatched without incident.

Wandering the wilderness, my hardy Dwarf adventurer was eagerly searching for a path up the mountain.  He knew that the cave he was seeking was close.  It was just on the other side of that steep bank, if only he could climb up!

But Dwarves are not natural climbers, so he continued to search for another way up.

My dwarf came upon a small brook in his path.  Perhaps there was another way up on the other side of the brook?  He started the cross the brook, when I received the following message:

"You have been encased in ice."

Followed by,

"You are deceased."

Egads!  That's quick-freezing ice!  True, I had noticed that some parts of the brook were frozen just a little upstream.  But I didn't think it was *that* dangerous...  It's only ankle-deep, after all.

My most unsuccessful fort ever:

Immediately upon embarking, my dwarves discovered a Kobold cave.  The entrance to the cave was about one screen away from the wagon.  If that wasn't bad enough, we were also parked about one screen below a magma pipe.  Within the first five minutes, both of my miners were roasted by a fire imp as they came up to get a drink.  Shortly thereafter, the Kobolds decided to attack with about a dozen archers.  One dwarf managed to survive the Kobold attack, only to be gobbled up by a Giant Cave Spider which I hadn't noticed before.

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When you buy something, it becomes yours. You just have to pick it up (at least in the previous version you did, so I assume it's still the same). So that armor you bought shouldn't just show up in your inventory. It should be on a table in the shop, most likely.

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Alas, my poor human maceman inadvertently became an outlaw because of the confusing merchant system.  I had bought an iron helm from a merchant, and went over to pick it up... but there were two, and apparently I picked up the wrong one.  Guards instantly began to treat me as hostile.

Frustratingly enough, even after I killed every single human in the entire town, I still couldn't travel  

Suggestion:
-1 point for every loose stone in the dining room