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Does anyone know how to interact with armies on the march? I went to a fortress that had an army on the way. Place was too laggy to wait. I did find and kill a random goblin patrol nearby that included a lord consort and some recruits. I went and talked to the fortress and they still said the army was coming.

were lizard showed up in my tavern, luckily armored swordsdwarf was nearby to put it down immediately. But then the dwarf stabbed a bard standing adjacent who hadn't participated in the fight at all? My best guess is the same attack that killed the werebeast happened to kill the other bard.

Question in the title. It's funny because I just set up some beautiful magma forges so I wasn't gonna need to cut down many trees, then I offered a barrel full of fish when I wasn't paying attention. Do my relations with the elves go straight to war now or will I have to do more to piss off the knife ears.

Havent done anythung too horrific yet just standard wrestler stuff. Still my favorite game to play is, how many joint locks to give into the pain, the lucky ones give up at three. Still sometimes a poor human is on the ground with 2 broken hips and 2 broken shoulders , and I have to start trying to hit fingers.

I will explore the world and create a party of the largest animal people I can find, then bring them back to my fort and make custom masterwork armor and weapons for all of them.

First epic caverns battle for the first fort I've made went as follows,
Spotted cave dragon roaming around, decided that was dangerous and sent 1st square to take it out (4 macelords, 1 spear recruit, well made steel equipment) the recruit happens to get in front of the charge and engages the dragon... Can't land a single blow and is shredded to death by said dragon. Next in line is a macelord. Runs up to the dragon and hits it in the head with her steel mace, the dragon falls unconscious. She then hits it I. The head again, killing it.
Well recruits no longer get to be in combat squads till competent.

Different fort, were chameleon climbs outer wall(no overhang yet) into animal pasture, is spotted and mauls nearby donkey before charging the nearby dwarfs fleeing inside. No time to gather military, closest member get there and kill it!
3 fisherdwarfs fight unarmed against the beast before a competent steel clad hammerhead arrives. She promptly begins dominateing the fight without taking a single hit, until near death the beast manages to bite her hand, and is slain, one of the fisherdwarfs bled out but otherwise I have 3 infected.
Highest priority a pit is dug next to my well spillway, the infected at ordered there. Next month the 3 transform and the spillway is opened, 3 drowned heroes and the fort is safe. They are buried in personal tombs for sacrificing all for the fort.

Killed a Forgotten beast that warned "Beware of its deadly blood" or something like that. Didn't have much choice so my macedwarfs had to go smash it(curbstomp battle). Luckily the effects seem not to be fatal as none of my dwarfs have died to anything other than accidents and none of them show up as having injuries in the health tab. The only effect I can tell is that anyone whom comes in contact with the beast's blood will permanently bleed, but not to a point that it is lethal to even my cats(judging by the trails of cat blood and lack of dead cats).
 So other than one of my squads painting everything red with their own blood wherever they go, things are going good in BellBasements, not bad for my first Fortress.