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Thanks. After equipping all that shiney armor, I got chased by a bunch of goblins into a river, which froze two turns after I got in. How unlucky.

I set one Siege mechanic to build and fire the bolts. First one missed by about 2-3 squares, second one killed 4 out of the 3 goblins. Hot Damn. I got busy at that point with something else, and when I checked back a few minutes later, they were all gone. Ballista FTW!

I like the idea of digging a ramp from a room full of traps. Just didn't want to lose any dwarves.

What's the range on ballistas? I was thinking about building one out of the xbow gobbo's range, and just taking my sweet time throwing sharpened logs at them.

Well, not exactly. With forethought, I built a channel in front of a few areas I believed my first siege would come from. Luckily, I was correct in my thinking, and now there is 1 goblin crossbowmen and 6 goblin spearmen stuck on a small ledge, surrounded by the level edge, a wall, a cliff, and a channel. This is the first time I've had my fort survive to my liking to this point, so I've never done combat before. I had one of my new immigrants with novice marksmen skill draft up, and sent him to fire across the channel. He hit the gobbo crossbowmen a few times, and then promptly died from return fire. They are just milling about over there, I think their AI is busted. None of my dwarves have any military training, I have yet to build a barracks, and I have no idea how I should go about killing these guys.

I have 2 crossbows, a steel battleaxe, and around 55 bolts. I could go into melee with them by digging through to the wall they are trapped by, or I could do something with the xbows. Any help?

Edit: It's not a siege, sorry, it's an ambush. Only have about 30 dwarves.

[ June 09, 2008: Message edited by: King-Panda ]

Sorry about not telling you guys what happened. I lock him in there for about 2 sleep cycles... and then he finished it. I have no idea exactly what happened. He didn't have access to anything but wood and rock, so who knows.

I'd be more than happy to let the little guy grind a pokemon into a mechanism. Sounds painful. But seriously, I get the feeling that that is the name of the legendary item, but it isn't telling me what he needs. Any help would eb appreciated.

Thanks. Another quick question, when I'm lookg at my stocks, and an item is listed as having ##?, does that mean I don't know quite how many I have?

Okay, so this is my first real game. I've been reading the wiki all week, and I think I'm finally ready to start playing... but the wiki's down. Panic sets in. Hopefully I can get a few answers for these before I hit the sack:

I'm just starting to mine out a storage room, and I need the rocks removed from here to make space. How can I designate to remove "these" certain rocks from this room only and move them to a stockpile, and not just move every freakin' rock from miles around to a stockpile?

With the wiki down, I'm lost as to what I do first, really. Which workshops should I set up first? Should I start building beds for all the dwarves, or doors, or what? About how long IRL does it take for the seasons to change? About when should I expect the first wave of immigrants to arrive?

If I could just get like the first 10 things I should do to get my bases grounded, I'll be your BFF. Thanks.

edit: Can wood rot outside?

[ June 06, 2008: Message edited by: King-Panda ]