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Oh god.... last night.  Built a cat genocide machine (technically just one passage in my fort all spike trapped for keeping the pop down). 

Anyway my 4th hammerer arrived and, like before, I activated the main entrance spike traps to take care of him.  Unfortunately I put the wrong lever on repeat - the cat genocide machine.  Since I hadn't actually intended on using it I hadn't locked the doors at either end. 

To add insult to injury, I went off to make myself a cuppa while this was happening.  When I got back and discovered what I had done, it was after about 20 dorfs were already in bed due to a rare case of 'basketball sized perforations'.   Dammit...

Eh don't worry, I'm sure TD will make things right by fixing the trillions of bugs adding some new broken feature in the next release.

Wanted to move a titan in his cage to a different room and instead let him out of the cage.  All hell did break loose. 

Seconding the d/b menu in first few games.  ENTER ENTER ENTER ENTER ENTER ENTER ENTER.

Oh yeah, my first game or two, not knowing about bins.  Stockpiles coming out of my ears.

Or my first encounter with carps.  Couldn't figure out why my dwarfs kept dying, turning all the offshoots of the river red.  Even worse, couldn't figure out why my lemming dwarfs kept pouring out to go to the same place, only to die as well. 

Well not the best in terms of value but someone in my fort recently craft an image of the god of disease or something with three rotten dwarfs carrying out the ceremony or something.  Pretty sick stuff - think I'll plonk it in my mayors room and give him nightmares.

I will bother with military stuff when the effort required via work-a-rounds and other stuff you need to remember is fixed in a successive version/patch.  Until then the military will be an ad-hoc feature that I use only to take care of the odd berserker.  The lengthily process involved to get this buggy system working stretches the word 'fun' to the point that it becomes quite 'unfun'. 

Started in a cold area.  Spent most of the first year burrowing in (but not getting any traps or cages setup) and grabbing some water when the ice melted for a while.  Had just seen the dwarven caravan off when a Sasquatch entered my fort.  At this point I had no military, no traps, no cages and only 18 dwarfs.  I have never encountered one before so I wasn't too sure about the menace level.  After he ripped a poor farmer apart I realised he needed to be contained before I could deal with him properly.  Unfortunately my long tunnel entrance (only thing on the first floor for sealing/safety purposes) which has doors on either end failed me.  One of my other farmers, terrified at the slobbering monstrosity happened to drop a single plump spawn in the door    By the time my third dwarf dropped he Sasquatch had earned a )(*$#@#$ name for himself.  So I militarize my one miner and give him my war dogs.  He rushes off to..... get some water. 

When they do finally meat the cowardly beast actually turns tail and runs.  The miner and his woof are chasing but failing to close the distance... the bastard is going to get away!  Luck strikes when bigfoot tries to exit the door I still had control over.  I quickly lock it and the yeti is too stupid to head for the spawn-blocked door.  My miner damages his hand and bigfoot runs the other way back into my fort.  They clash again halfway down the passage with bigfoot going yellow on everything.  A few seconds later however and all his wounds have disappeared and gone white again 

Between the dog nipping at his heels and my miner giving it all hes got it is only enough to keep bigfoot busy but not dead.  So I add 9 more to the squad and they all pile into the fight amidst a thick cloud of miasma.  I imagine it must have been a horrible site from the outside - just the sweaty grunts of stunties bashing away at something that just wont friggin die.  It takes a few minutes of constant bashing for the thing to peg.  All in all, 2 farmers, 2 war dogs and one peasant dead.  Turns out the war dogs did die but the remaining untrained dogs decided to join in.  Only injury sustained amongst the survivors was a single red thumb (the first miner to fight). 

I am using May Greens tileset (as I always have).  It has been quite a while since I last played and I am having great difficulty editing the init file to get a resolution that works.  I have an old 17" CRT monitor if that helps. 

[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:0]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:0]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:mayday.png]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:mayday.png]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]

I have tried a whole bunch of combination's without success - could anyone give some help here?