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Images go in the avatar. Text goes in the sig. This makes the most sense in terms of compactness of display, since there's a lot of otherwise-wasted space in the avatar slot.

If you really need to show an image that doesn't fit in the avatar area, you can make a post for it. Other forums I've been on have often ended up having a gallery/art-oriented subforum for this kind of thing.

use [m] to list all dwarves.  from there you can [w] and assign weapons and armor types to each dwarf (miners are always unarmed, woodcutters will have axes of course).  many players like to remove the weapons from military units not on duty so that they spar via wrestling in the barracks, gaining strength and avoiding any major sparring accidents due to swords etc.....

also at the [m] page is another command [v] squad where you can set if they hang out at their station, chase down monsters, harass wild game etc.  carefull, or they might be chasing down a bunny rabbit when something really ugly comes along and beats the ever living f*** outta your fortress.....wait, that was MY fortress...  tradegy

lastly, at the [m] page you can [enter] to promote a dwarf to sgt, bossman, general, useless braindead f***stick moron, target numero uno, lazy-bastard, 'frag'im in the shitter' or whatever you like to call your military commanders (can you tell i was in the army?)  hit [enter] on the leader and then enter again on those under him in his squad.  NOTE:  you can have multiple squads jumped togetehr under yet more commanders, altho in the end this is for ease of use when BAD THINGS are attacking you and you NEED ALL you guys in the fight at 1 spot quickly, make 1 big squad and station them in the middle of the s***.

but speaking of tradegy - I got sick of those annoying dark gnomes running rampant scaring my poor wittle dwarfies so I sent my troopers out to deal with them, and once my guys were good and scattered chasin' the little gnomes (god i hate gnomes, all gnomes, in any game, most useless creature to exist-not), a bronze colossus arrived and proceeded to um....well.....be a colossus I suppose, and smash most everyone else flat before my troopers could reassemble.  Once they did, they were arriving in singles and pairs and were mostly useless fodder for the great bronze behemoth!  Luckily, (or not - depends on how you play), the fortress was declared a barony immediately upon the arrival of the colossus and her most pointless majesty baroness nonamegonnadiesoon appeared with her tax collector and personal guard of hammeres, who were also no match for the VERY nearby colossus.  I am still laughing.  She flew a LOOOOOOONG way.

For Dasleah if he is reading this:  my fortress was caller Amoshats which i of course read to be "asshats", thanks!

[ June 08, 2008: Message edited by: Gorjo MacGrymm of Clan MacGrymm ]

So.......waytoomuchinformation...........

Ummmm..YEAH!  I got all three!  Woot, I am a cool guy (sister) and mack-daddy (wife/girlfriend).  yeah, thats the ticket, that works better  

GMcG