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Hmm its finally decomposed. I think what it was doing was since it was the upper leg it was decomposing for every part the was under it, thus the five toes, lower leg, upper leg, knee, ankle, hip. Can anyone conferm this? (the dwarf is still alive)

Oops i guess I forgot to do the special update, 2 and a half pages in word.
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10th Granite
   “Siege!” The call echoed throughout the fort. I hurried to the lookout.
   “Where are they coming from?” I asked the dwarf.
   “So far I can see two groups from the north and another to the south.”
   “Good man, keep us updated.” I said clapping him on the shoulder. Heading down stairs I met with Catten.
   “We doing the same thing as before?”
   “Of course, get the dwarves in position.” Catten scooted off. I went to deal with the nobles.

12th Granite
Catten walked into my office a scroll clutched in his hand and a grim look on his face.
   “Here’s the troop numbers of the goblins.” He said handing it to me.
Group 1
1 human
-Thefin Atekrostfen, spearmaster, local leader
15 goblins
-9 hammermen
-6 wrestlers
16 beak dogs

Group 2
16 goblins
-Bosa Uslukstosbob, mace lord, local leader
-7 spearmen
-8 wrestlers
16 beak dogs

Group 3
1 Human
-Kuda Xemmori, spearmaster, local leader
15 goblins
-6 swordsmen
-9 wrestlers
16 beak dogs

I just stared at the scroll.
   “This many… and three of the local leaders as well…” I sighed and rubbed my eyes. “Well at least they have no ranged support. Raise the bridge for now, I want to put more cage traps in.”
   “Aye.” Catten saluted and walked away barking orders. I got up and began walking towards where the mechanisms were stored to help out. As I walked I worried about whether the elf caravan would be coming this year to the slaughter.



22nd Granite
We are almost ready to face the goblins. A line of weapon traps were taken out and many cages traps put in, I want prisoners and it’s the beak dogs that tend to be captured.

26th Granite
   “Drop the bridge.” I commanded ready for what was to come. The first group, headed by Kuda, slowly made its way forward. As they came in I snapped my fingers, the trap closed with only two not in the trap. As the first cage traps began going off, Kuda in one I saw with satisfaction, I gestured again.
   “Get up there boys!” Catten called and the crossbow squads went up to the tower. As the bolts began falling the goblins panicked and more began running into the cage traps, goblins were thrown off their mounts. It was chaos and I was thrilled at our simple plan that worked so many times.

2nd Slate
The first group was still being worked on when an unexpected call went up.
   “Titan!” I groaned but when I was looking out from the lookout spot I saw the titan was staying right where it was.
   “Catten.” I called.
   “Aye?” He yelled from the tower.
   “There may be a change in plans, we have a titan on our hands.” I was treated to the sound of cursing but I smiled anyway, we would survive.

19th Slate
Our drawbridge lowered. We waited most of the day but the titan came running into the base of the tower about midday. He laughed to the two goblin groups that were still trying to get to our fort almost run over each other trying to stop.
   “I will be the one to take this fort riches!” He bellowed and strode in. The bridge came up behind him but he didn’t care the titan kept coming forward taunting us. “I am Fathinu Nematheyane, named Fathinueyeyo. I have killed…” Bam! The titan found himself on his back starting up at the crossbars of a cage.
   “Like a fly to sugar.” I said walking up to the cage and stopping just out of reach. The titan roared and cursed at me but he couldn’t do anything in the cage. I turned around and motioned for the cage to be moved and the trap reloaded.

21st Slate
The next group of goblins began to cross the bridge.
   “Hurry raise the bridge.” I called, the last group wasn’t to far behind. The bridge began going up but not before Thefin followed Bosa’s group over the bridge, I cursed. Goblins went flying but now I may not catch all of the leaders. I watched as Bosa was captured and wondered what Thefin would do. He strode forward, goblins and their mounts being caught in traps, and entered the corridor. I cage sprung up and took his mount from under him but he got away before he could stumble into another one. “Then we wait.” I muttered watching, planning.


27th Slate
The floodgate began to squeal open. Thefin noticed this and grinned.
   “You don’t have anymore traps!? Are you coming out to fight? Well then let’s do this.” He ran towards the rising gate, and was caught by the last line of cage traps before the weapons. He roared, furious he had fallen for it. I grinned but then saw the rest of the group we caught rush forward.
   “Close the gate.” I yelled but it was too late, some had gotten in. A goblin on a beak dog rushed Mebzuth our jeweler, Ingiz a planter, and me. With a yell they both jumped and tried to wrestle the beak dog to the ground knocking the goblin off. I backpedaled ordering Mothkat’s squad, the Daggers of Searing, forward. They came around the corner and began wrestling the beak dog down. Sigun, a peasant, unfortunately tried to help as well before they got there and was killed. When the beak dog and the goblin fell, Catten and his squad rushed up the ramp and picked off the last two goblins in the courtyard. I looked around. Mebzuth had gotten off with a shallow wound to his right arm but Ingiz hadn’t gotten off so easy. Ingiz had lost his entire right leg to the beak dog and a few other wounds aside. I called for a peasant to be set to taking care of the wounded and turned to face Sigun.
   “Make sure that he is buried with all respects.” I said. “What is going on outside?”
   “The goblins that were outside appear to have left sir.” One dwarf replied. I looked again to Sigun. In my greed to capture the leaders I had cost a life, yet was that not the way of war? If I had stepped forward and helped maybe they would all have been ok. Someone put their hand on my shoulder.
   “It’s not your fault.” Catten said.
   “Yet it seems as if it was my fault.”
   “No one can anticipate the outcome of a battle. May this dwarf’s soul go out to the gods, but don’t disrespect his spirit by doubting yourself.” I smiled.
   “Thanks Catten.” He patted my shoulder.
   “Alright lets get this cleaned up!” Catten shouted and everyone moved forward.
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RIP Sigun. The first dwarf casualty. I think he was trying to pull Ingiz out of there, or get the sock he dropped from his leg, but I guess this proves I need to expose more of the entryway to the sun. At any rate I've now got another titan, male this time, and three local leaders.

Hmm rather odd but I've had two sieges within a year, the most recent I'm going through right now. Heres the troop numbers
Group 1
1 human
-Thefin Atekrostfen, spearmaster, local leader
15 goblins
-9 hammermen
-6 wrestlers
16 beak dogs

Group 2
16 goblins
-Bosa Uslukstosbob, mace lord, local leader
-7 spearmen
-8 wrestlers
16 beak dogs

Group 3
1 Human
-Kuda Xemmori, spearmaster, local leader
15 goblins
-6 swordsmen
-9 wrestlers
16 beak dogs

and I've just begun the 5th year. They brought 3 out of 4 local leaders who i plan to kill/capture. Is it normal for this many beak dogs to show up? Plus ambushes stopped about 2 years ago roughly 6 months before I got my first siege. if your wondering about the last siege heres a pic which I expect to happen this time to



kinda sucks I wasn't able to finish my second courtyard (trap them in!). So (aside from my questions) what are sieges like for the rest of ya'll?

edit: heheh got the third leader in a cage so far (the 3rd group is the only one thats reached me so far), but now a titan has appeared. Oh well he an't going anywhere till the bridge goes down anyway. I hope I can catch him and mate him with my female titan :

Well I had no ambushes for awhile then I started getting sieges. Like for half a year to a year no ambushes then bam first siege ever. Then over the next year no ambushes at all and I just got another siege.

Fortress defense of course. [I do not use moats / I try to use very few traps] However you gotta be careful with Dragons, they tend to fire up the surrounding, so always use them properly. 

If I ever get a dragon (not sure how to check how many beasts are still alive without spending alot of time in the legends) I think there was a fortification thing where you chain dragon to the back of it and he'll flamebreath.

How does building a cage with a prisoner inside affect a rooms value? I just got the baron and his crew and I'm considering putting the titan cage in one of their rooms.

Weeee I caught myself a titan!

Apparently she has been worshiped by dwarves, humans, and elves, she fought with the elf queen but neither were injured, and has around 30 kills. I wonder what I should do with her. I'll probably drop her down the execution shaft but savescum when I'm done and put her in the zoo. Heheh my first megabeast!

You just don't get this kind of community at most other internet forums

No but you can get pretty damn close. Damn I miss the random mussings at skies of crimson.