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I did have a message to that effect and also had the SIEGE flags at the top of the screen. As with the OP, they did attack eventually, just took a very long time. And they always had a path into the fortress.

Ok this has happened twice now in my first 39c fortress. I've received a message Urist McBlahblah has fallen unconcious. The first time I quickly paused the game and jumped to poor Urist. He was unconcious and had about three red injuries, three yellow, 6+ grey including grey spine and brain. While I couldn't see any obvious reason for his injuries I passed it off as possible that he set off a trap or fell from somewhere, but I was suspicious.

So when it happened a second time (Sodel Blahblah, Bone Carver cancels Construct rock Throne: Unconcious.) I paused the game almost instantly and jumped to the poor dwarf. He was lying, slumped over his rock chisel and mallet, in a similar state to the first dreadful accident. In fact, to be precise...
Grey:
Lower body
Left upper arm
Right hand
Left upper leg
Left shoulder
Brown:
Left lower leg
Left kidney
Yellow:
Right upper arm
Right upper leg
Red:
Right lower arm
Right hip

So yes. As we can see, somehow while carving this throne, Sodel slipped with his mallet and chisel and really did a doozy on himself!

And I really have no idea how it happened. He was in mid work. Not moving, didnt set off any traps, didn't fall, no other dwarfs or nasties near him. Is this a bug perhaps? Anyone else had anything like this? Or are my dwarfs suicidal??

Yep, 100%.

While I'm not sure why your marksdwarfs aren't firing through the fortifications, the way you have designed them kinda defeats the purpose. Shooting through a fortification is more difficult the further away from it the shooter is. So dwarfs that are hard up against the fortification can shoot through pretty much fine, but the gobbos who are kept 8 squares from the fortifications by your moat will have trouble shooting through the fortifications as they are further from it.

From the look of your tunnel, the goblins will be closer to the fortifications than your dwarfs are, so the gobs get the benefit of the fortification. Of course, it wont protect them from that nasty ballista...

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Originally posted by Ghostpaw:
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Maybe you can recruit him and force him to engage a bronze colossus in epic combat.</STRONG>

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What about a fine pewter colossus?

I too, build an external castle style wall, to avoid the problem of my curious dwarfs poking their heads out in times of trouble. My towers are generally three levels with fortifications at the top level only. The only way into the towers is through underground tunnels, the only appropriate entrance for true dwarfs! I use pumps to raise water so that I can make pretty waterfalls to fill my moat and use pressure plates to stop them overflowing.

My dwarfs still often get caught outside and mashed by nasty goblins. I have recently though it may be a good idea to make little scattered bolt holes over the map, so woodcutting dwarfs may dash for them and into the safety of the underground tunnels they contain (locking the doors behind them of course...)

Raised fortified towers make your marksdwarfs a lot more efficient.  

I have a hunch that if a dwarf has a current task and you turn off a skill, he will still complete the current task if he can. Just one more elephant before I give up hunting forever!