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Where is your marksdwarf tower when you need it?  Any goblins within bolt range of my walls are hamburger!

I thought a dead dwarf + available coffin combination just triggers a "move item to stockpile" kind of command, so if a dwarf becomes NO JOB, he searches for the nearest job.  If that's a dead dwarf that needs burial, then he buries that dwarf.

Right now I have 6 marksdwarves shooting copper bolts at him from the catwalk but he keeps healing!

Hello!  I have a little bit of a colossus situation here.  I am getting attacked by a colossus and I need to survive!  

My Fortress:

Population:  75
Trained Marskman 6 left alive
Trained Spearman 0 left alive

My Fortress Layout

Fully walled outside area protected by maze filled with chained dogs then drawbridge.  There is a catwalk above the maze.
The outside area leads to the only fortress entrance, which is protected by a 10x2 hallway of stonefall traps, then a barracks and stairs to all levels of my fortress.  If he gets to those stairs, I’m pretty much screwed.

What’s happened so far:

*  Colossus showed up, I buttoned up the drawbridge and called on 12 marksman and 6 spearman.  Spearman assembled on safe side of drawbridge, waiting for it to open.  Dogs ready in maze.  12 marskman on the catwalk above the maze (fortification).
*  All troops equipped in place and I open the drawbridge.  Spears stay where they are, colossus approaches maze.   8 of the marksman start shooting off the catwalk, the other 4 go get a drink or something.  Plink plink, no damage to colossus, many, many iron, steel, and copper arrows bounce of colossus.  
*  Colossus continues through maze killing all wardogs along the way.  Spearmen rush into maze and surround colossus.  They get thrown around and smashed.  Colossus continues through maze.  He may get in before I can raise the drawbridge.
*  I send in 6 marksman to slow him down, it works, the drawbridge closes and all marksmen  are killed.  Colossus is now standing in middle of dead dwarf and dog bodies in the maze.  Drawbridge is up.

This is the situation now.  I am not sure how to resolve this.  I have some ideas.

*  Wait, maybe the colossus will go away?
*  Draft ½ of the dwarves as marksman, and the rest as other weapons (any ones better against a colossus).   Wait until they are fully equippend then station them inside the barracks at the end of the 10x2  stone trap entrance.   Then open the drawbridge.  Let colossus come through and run through 10 stone fall traps, then swamp him with all my dwarves before he gets to the stairs.
*  Have my miners/masons build an additional maze at the entrance to the fort.  Build more stonefall traps so the colossus needs to go through even more stonefall traps before he gets to my fort.  Then let him in as before.
*  Some other genius plan that you guys tell me to do!  

Thanks so much in advance, I don’t want to feel the fun of losing just yet!

[ April 09, 2008: Message edited by: greggbert ]

A more fun way to defend your fortress is with a maze and fortified bridge over the maze, instead of traps.  When they start going through the maze, station your archers on the fortified bridge.  Then there is more excitement because your dwarves stand a chance of getting injured/killed and they will get lots of XP firing crossbow bolts at invaders in your maze.  Chain wardogs to the insides of your maze to slow the enemy down.  The chans and the dogs will not block caravans so don't worry about that.  Neither will the dead bodies, but you might generate some vomit lol.

Try to set up little farming/fishing/mining villages outside your town and keep them  defended against raids.  You will have to spread your defenses much more thinly and the goblin raids will be much more painful.

ZIP Up your entire folder and post it somewhere!  Maybe we can get you out of this!  Souds fun!