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This happens quite often. I had similar volcano-without-walls draining to magma sea or caverns about 5 times in a row while trying to find a suitable embark with volcano. Sometimes, dfliquids help to close the gaps, sometimes not.

It is better to use df map archive than screenshots.
http://mkv25.net/dfma/ , just in case

Urist McDiamond withdraws from the society...

So over few last days, after another 230+ fortress was fed to loyalty cascade due to being boring, I had nothing much to do in my free time. So I reinstalled some old favorite games as I always do when bored, in this case it was Gothic 1.
So while wandering around Old Camp this idea struck me. These wooden hovels with flat roofs, that nice asymmetrical remains of a castle with a tower, few levels of the living area, combat arena, that wooden wall with fortifications... I just saw every piece of architecture in DF 2d-style. Well, I felt like I just have to do this.
So my question is: how do I go about doing this? Ofc other then switching to humans for authenticity, and making it large enough to be as detailed as possible? And probably settling it with peasants and guards with names from gothic series?

I even found a nice map for reference whenever I'll start doing this:

So, any ideas and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

regardless of breeding, I'm sure 150 wardogs will tear apart anything that triggers the presure plate, or when i throw the switch. I got as far as 30 last try before having too much fun (30 war dogs, 10 dogs and 15 pups)

Unfortunately there are some complications. DF has a limit of 50 animals and after it is reached all new pregnancies are blocked, but all current are finished. Therefore, I guess that about 100 dogs is max, unless you mod in multiple litter to be hundreds of puppies

I laughed at the end 

I just train my soldier with real weapons in barracks and send them out to fight sieges, nothing more than that. DF mod sends you weak and numerous enemies at the beginning, so unless you miss your chance you will have easy experience. Also, I can confirm (though it is said in wiki, but common knowledge is otherwise) that real weapons are not dangerous for training at all. Not a single sparring-related injury for 15 years, so there is no point in using training weapons in training, other than beating up enemies on arena with them.

I just leave mah dorfs training on 2 month training/1 month rest schedule, and trow into the training barracks any enemies (snatchers, thieves, animals) that I managed to catch in cages. Other then that, I don't pay attention to training, only to results. I check kill lists and experience levels to give my dwarves military ranks and titles after battles.

1) They are better then dogs.
2) Not as good as you may think. Big cats are better.
3) Just drop your enemies into meeting hall. No bears or glass walls needed.
4) Magma