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As it turns out, you don't actually need eyeballs to fight. Put him in the military as a melee dwarf, and he will learn. I know this because almost the entirety of my military lost their eyesight in a confrontation with a forgotten beast, and they are all axelords now.

So, in my quest to build a 53 z-level chute to drop waste into the magma sea, I've had to go through the caverns a few times. I had had them walled off to prevent forgotten beasts from wrecking my shit, but I had to breach them in order to get the chute channeled through. My military just got done tag teaming two forgotten beast, a giant ant and a sterling silver golem with a breath attack.

As a result, almost my entire military is severely bruised with no eyes. Nobody is rotting yet, so hopefully they all recover in time, but right now I'm down to a macelord and two axelords for a military right now. I'm thinking about walling off the entrance to the fort until things get figured out and this project gets completed. I'm not really hurting for food right now.

Of seven axedwarves, 6 of them have become Axe lords, + one legendary axedwarf Champion. When Rhinos are making my haulers cancel jobs, I send out my axedwarves to slice them into little pieces. It's a good life. During a recent ambush, I watched an axe lord rip a goblin marksman squad into little tiny pieces in a few seconds,dodging bolts like it ain't no thang.

Unfortunately, these super efficient and death defying dwarfs generate a lot of hauling jobs. I need to find magma soon to dump goblinite into soon, or things are going to get slow, in terms of FPS.

I had a Bronze colossus show up. After chasing down and wrestling a dwarven child to death, he pathed into a cage trap. Now I'm thinking of a doing a !!THUNDERDOME!! style fight where the 20 odd goblins I've collected (with a goblin pikemaster in there) and the colossus fight, and the winner gets stuck in a cage trap again. The goblins may be able to kill the colossi, but I'm doubtful.

Just had a goblin siege. They showed up right after I had disbanded a squad so they would go eat in my legendary room and stop being miserable. This time, instead of sending my squads to fight the goblins, I let the goblins come to me, banking on the power of my traps and crossbowmen to stop them. Unfortunately, as it turns out, stuffing twenty+ trolls, and a squad of axeman down a tunnel caused all of my traps to be used (every cage trap fired, 4x4 = 16 caged trolls/goblins including an elite axegoblin). MY two squads of melee troops, my fully equipped and completely noobish macemen and my partially equipped but very experienced axeman then fought in the entrance with the attackers. Body parts flying everywhere. I think my dwarves came out ahead (not sure because of the amount of dead and gore.)

 I then sent my dwarves outside to engage the squad of hammergoblins that hadn't joined the fight yet, and in the ensuing onslaught, I watched my armless captain of the guard kick a troll so hard in the head his teeth exploded everywhere and his head went sailing off like a football. The hammergoblins rushed to join the fray (as my military was duking it out with the trolls), but broke very quickly, losing quite a few in the battle.

Of 90-something dwarves that started out the siege, 12 didn't make it all the way through. Two dwarves The Axedwarves took the worst of it, as they weren't fully armored in the fighting. I watched one dwarf run out clothed in nothing but an Iron helmet and a gauntlet, but brandishing an axe. 3 of them were killed, two are injured. Of the mace dwarves, two didn't make it out of a squad of ten. None of the marksdwarves were killed. It was funny seeing the macedwarves wrestling the trolls with their maces instead of hitting them with it.

Lessons of the siege: moar traps. A quick look at the units tab reveals I have more a ton of trolls and only two goblins. Not entirely sure how I'm going to deal with that, but I think a drowning may be in order.

Holy balls. I just had a 63+7 trolls siege by Goblin. My fifteen man military all in all performed outstandingly (only 14 dwarves met their end), but one dwarf in particular went above and well beyond the call. After killing a squad of swordsgoblins at my trade depot, my main military started fighting the trolls that had followed them.

At this point, I look across the river and see my poor hammer dwarf getting whooped by a squad of twenty swordsgoblins. I send my dwarves along the way to save him, but I think it's too late. But then, holy shit. As my dwarves run off to fight with some goblins running toward them, the hammerdwarf just starts dodging like mad, goblin body parts flying everywhere. Then I see his arms fly off, and I think that's game over. Nuh-uh. Dude stands up and kicks a goblin so hard he goes flying, and then while the goblin is flying through the air, the dwarf chases after him biting him the whole way. Holy shit. He then proceeds to bite two more goblins to death, a legendary fighter. At this point, I think he's going to die because he's pale.

But no. The siege lifted, the goblins running, he zooms across the map to my fortress, goes down three z-levels, hits the bed in the hospital, and then gets off the bed again. Yeah, that's right. Despite having no arms, this dwarf gets off the bed because he doesn't give a shit, and runs back to the barracks. My pale, armless Legendary Fighter is such a badass he doesn't need medical treatment after losing both his arms. Holy crap.

As for the rest, 14 dead dwarves, two wounded. Five military dwarves were killed in the action, but now I have a legendary badass in Iron armor, I don't think we'll need to restock the military for a while. A number of the goblins and a troll also fell into cage traps, so I think I'm probably just going to unleash the my fifteen name long Fighter on 'em later. The flow of goblinite into the fortress threatens to overwhelm my stockpiles. Thankfully, I won't have to actually produce anything for years. I can just live on goblinite.

I looked at the dwarf. She's lacking a nose and sports a badass eye scar that apparently healed instantly. She's very pale, but no longer bleeding, I think. Apparently someone cleaned her with soap before she got out of the bed.

Lani Sweetcalled the Sensual Wonder, an ettin that according to legend settled and was promptly devoured by a vampire in 1 (it's now the year 7). He showed up on an artifact a dwarf made. Apparently he was "laboring".