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I unwisely decided to make the entrance to my sewerworks outside my walls. While carving it out, my miners were attacked by a horde of ghouls, which are tough customers. Since there was a ton of them and only four miners, I figured that they were doomed and recruited them. They tore a bloody swathe through the undead, causing all the survivors to flee. Unfortunately, all but one miner died. But each and every one of them had killed many more zombies than expected.

After the battle, it looked like a butcher's shop had exploded. Ghoul bits and dwarf bits were scattered over the fields, the bridge, the river, the tunnels, the stairs... A decapitated head even made it over my walls into the main courtyard! Every combatant had been torn to little bits, with not a single clean kill. After fighting his way out of the sewers, the lone survivor emerged to daylight to see the remaining undead fleeing in terror. Having sustained broken bones and near unconscious from exhaustion, the miner limped towards the main gate.

Suddenly, a ghoul leapt out of nowhere and they began wrestling on the drawbridge! The survivor was helpless! A passing weaver was drafted, and with a flying tackle knocked the zombie off and tore him to bits!

That miner was given the profession 'Tunnel Lord', and shall be among the highest of my nobles. Since then he has eviscerated all manner of monsters and men, often without being drafted.

And he just had a possession mood, creating a throne made of native platinum ore and platinum bars.

Called Matchedsank the Fist of Picks.

If you can't resist hoarding the gold (and you shouldn't!) then you must also hoard food early on. Try and get as much growing done in the fields, send them out for herbalism in between planting and harvest, and try and set up a little meat industry. Remember that simply hunting animals will extinct them, so capturing and breeding is the way to go.

Order as much food as possible from the traders, and make sure bears and raccoons don't steal it. Just make sure you have enough food to survive a large population increase.

Fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

What strikes me is that all this incredible flying -things- were made many decades ago, from the 1930's to the 1980's, and by the USSR, which had a less than stellar production quality record. And yet many of them were at least semi-useful.

Which leads me to think: With modern alloys, electronics, joining techniques, robotic assembly, top-notch oversight and unlimited funding, it should be possible to not only duplicate these results, but improve on them by a large factor.

So where's my flying battleship?

"Now, we thought the mead hall was a bit boring, so we upgraded it..."

"...with a 20-level obsidian spire!"
*Audience gasp*

"And that brook that ran past the town? We replaced it..."

"...with magma!"
*Audience gasp*

As far as I can guess, it is the lack of a king or similar that cancels out the upper nobility. Military Site leaders (like the Master Lasher who runs the town) may or may not affect this, but you'll have to test it to be sure.

Ergo, you could remove [CAN_HAVE_MILITARY_SITE_LEADER], and add [LEADER_TYPE:KING]

Food cannot rot in a food stockpile, but barrels let more get stacked in a single tile, and protect against vermin.