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I once killed off almost he entire population of a fortress in a similar manner.

I built a very, very tall tower only a few tiles wide.  On the stairs along the way up the tower were storerooms with steel & iron hammers in them.  on the open top of the tower was an armor stand ow weapon rack that was used to make a barracks.

Everyone was drafted & assigned hammers.  Everyone made their way up to the top to spar.  Almost everyone died.

Even the skilled dwarves would die, as they'd dodge right off the tower.

I called it The Tower of Destiny.

...Balls!

I'm playing with dig deeper, so I've had to assume a very defensive strategy employing huge numbers of marksdwarfs and traps. Casualties have been relatively low, but the civilians tend to take more damage.

You need to position it right over the trade depot.

Sangus.  Sangus was a kobold.  Sangus successfully stole a (faint yellow) diamond artifact mug from me; I'm still not sure how she did it.  The result was an Adventurer Mode epic, as I hunted the mountains and caves seeking her out.  Poor thing didn't know what hit her when a raving, hammer-wielding dwarf grabbed her favorite mug, smashed her into a cave wall, and tore out of the cave hellbent upon returning the mug (I don't recall its name now, funnily enough) to its rightful place in the mountain home.

That is epic.

Whoa. Cool. To bad the elves are almost extinct. They trade good exotic creatures (pretty much their only use...)

Ballista target practice : )

Very nice map.

Quote from: Grendus

1. Elves will be immune to any traps their liaison has already seen.

Oh snap. Goddamn elf spy sappin' my sentries.

Yet another game in the whole "fortress" genre... albeit a slightly different take on it.

Quote from: Canadark on November 01, 2009, 12:13:30 am

Quote from: 3 on October 30, 2009, 11:53:40 pm

[LOCKPICKER] renders [trAPAVOID] redundant anyway (it includes the trapavoid effect), so if you're planning on cheating, remember to get rid of that tag as well.

My last fortress just got completely rocked by the orcs because they pranced right over my insane weapon and cage traps.

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Well... Some are born ready and others just can't handle the fire  .

See, I always try to have a backup in these kinds of situations. Alone, my traps could have handled the orcs easily. To top it off, I had about a dozen marksdwarfs with the very best Hairy Marmot bone bolts money could buy.

Then you decided to give the orcs steel armour from head to toe.

Sweet balls of Armok, man.

Quote from: Haedrian on November 01, 2009, 04:48:16 am

I was considering giving all my dwarfs leather armour (the non military ones) - such that in case of an accident/siege, they won't die that quickly.

How badly does leather armour slow them down though? Does it at all?

The problem is that nonmilitary dwarves will not wear armor or carry weapons unless they have the hunting labor (which will make them wear leather armor) or tree cutting labor (will carry an axe) or mining labor (will carry a pick). Unless you make them all hunters, this won't work well.

If I have enough axes, I assign all my non-miner/non-military dwarfs to cut trees.