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hmm, i dont have any images, but the time i finally cracked and pitted the 200 or so animals off my giant tower of doom into the huge pit underneath was stupid. the shaft went through a few main areas of my fort so i could throw rubbish in at any level, and all the heads and limbs and miscelaneous organs.... bounced.... and ended up in every room on the way down, leaving little trails of blood. had to get half the fort to clean to avoid the miasma.

until that point i was allways trying to be nice to my animals and prisoners. those battlefield pictures you people have are epic.

the one and only time i got a legendary elf leading a siege he ripped me to bits. it was incredible. he didnt even have legendary in any weapon skill that i could see, he was just a "recruit". i ended up catching him and setting him loose in my combat pit. he dodged like 5 champions on his way out of the pit, severely injuring several of them, before running at utterly insane speed through my entire very large, complex fort, causing mayhem along the way. he eventually ran into the little line of cage traps that got him the first time near the entrance. i think i ended up dropping him from my mega tower of doom still inside his cage, i really didnt want to let him out again, even disarmed.

elves + super agility + iron armor/weapons = craziness. and i love the interesting things that world gen kidnapping/enslaving/invading can throw up.

someone had a thread just recently about how their king arrived and due to a complex history of invasions, was an elf. yet they started the game at war with a different elf civ who started attacking them right off the bat.

unrelated to civs and such, ive been filling a 30z level dam for 2 ingame years now, and as the water falls in it seems to create little waves that run across the surface, reflect of one wall, then come back. as i have the show water depth thing turned on, this is showing up as little 1/7 squares travelling back and forth, or if the top z level is nearly full, i get squares of 6/7 in an otherwise 7/7 layer moving.

curious defence indeed.

i think myroc's one is also great. making elves scream is indeed a very constructive business.

haha. that would be so much better then the original bear mascot. i mean, im not going to go around starting fires in the wild if the forests have skeletal grizzly bearman running around ready to knock my head off.

if you want to be less vulnerable as a SoF take out the [severonbreaks] bit. that ways your head wont come off when you get a fractured neck or skull. although a fractured neck or skull may just be fatal anyway.

On another note: How come every single fortress i have visited contain tentacle demons? It annoys me.

by far the easiest way to make sure that your fort is filled with nasty things to fight. other ways might include killing off your dwarves then succumbing to a goblin invasion, or catching as many things as you can, making sure they have names, and then caging them around with levers to release them. you could also create forts built by goblins, lots of them should hang around after abandon.

and test the fixing up a town town thing first. the word on the forums a few versions ago was that embarking on a town would break all the shops. there are only 2 towns in the world, as i remember, so dont break them. i was orignally thinking of adding a big underground sewer esque place to the larger town and putting nasty things in it for my turn, but breaking the shops wound not be worth it.

dont know if i posted it in this thread yet. but my first time ever setting up a barracks and trying to train a military was quite eventful.

after reading about crosstraining crossbowmen in hammers, i gave my legendary sherrif a hammer and sent him training with the brand new peasant recruits. with me watching he hit the first recruit he came across. a dwarf chunk flew across the room, out the open door, down the channeled gap near the stairwell and landed in the dining room. the recruit wandered around bleeding for a short time then fell over dead. sheriff had the thoughts "has lost a friend to tragedy recently. has taken joy in slaughter. has had a satisfying sparring session recently". examining the chunk revealed it was a dwarf liver. my sheriff smacked a recruits liver clean out of his body without damaging anything else. that was how i learnt not to set unskilled dwarves sparring with high quality steel weapons and no armor.

other horribly irritating mistake i made was putting a well in the barracks, so the wounded would have water close by. dwarves would dodge into the well while sparring and drown. it took something like 10 deaths for me to figure out what was going on, i kept scouring the river every time i got the "urist mcstupid has drowned" message.

It is, actually!  Never doubt the Toad!
In fact, though I've never done this myself, I think it's supposed to be possible to have a child kidnapped in Fortress Mode, and then as an Adventurer, go back to the Dark Tower that the goblin came from and find, talk to, and rescue the child.

not only can you go find that child in adventure mode, but that child can actually appear leading later goblin invasions if you play long enough for them to grow up.

also, i remember reading an account of someones efforts to return children to their hometowns. aparently even finding the childs exact parent does not currently allow you to make the child leave you. you can sortof fudge it by retiring in the town. most rescued children will just follow you around like drunk substitutes, normally getting killed horribly.

my current new discovery is due to my very long lived fortress high casualty count, i very often get the message "no migrants even considered making the journey to your deathtrap this season". it seems to go on total deaths, rather then how many have died recently. i think i have well over a hundred dead dwarves buried around the place, but with a population of over 200 and something like a 15 year old fortress i dont actually consider that too excessive.

at least half of them are from the hammerer. not only have all my nobles got fetishes for steel, brass and bronze on a flux and copper free map, but my current hammerer has this odd and very annoying habbit of beating the chained prisoners to death. as i mentioned before, ive a caged titan ive been using to rectify this problem.