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The lamest memorial slab dedicated to killing of a forgotten beast.

Sath - went missing in 255 / hunter of elk birds.

That's all. Nothing about the fierce battle or the killer.

Currently trying to set up a marksdwarf squad. Going poorly.

Legendary fisherdwarf! Aw yiss, winning at life. That does explain the absolutely bottomless supply of pond turtle shells, though. I bought out the elven caravan with *pond turtle shell crafts*, and the refuse stockpiles are still overflowing.

Edit: They're training! After DF2012's bugged archery, this is amazing.

Weird, i have never had any issues when it comes to training marksdorves. The most alarming issue with ranged units is that they want so eagerly enter melee fight... So I wont let them fire if they are not in a completely sealed building. I have seen idiots marksdwarves climbing over the fortification's roof and jump down into the goblin horde.

Use bears instead of dogs. They are large and fierceful animals.

Animals, trained for war or not, are most useless according to my opinion. This is really sad... I haven't seen a single animal that could be even distantly helpful! My experience: war dog = slows down enemy/wild animal for 2 seconds, war grizzly bear = gets beaten by other wild animals and runs away in panic, war giant tiger = cant even land one hit before turning into a fur carpet.

You want to mess up things? Hmm, I dont usually need to "help" my fortresses if I want them ruined, and I think I would just retire one if everything is too good and boring.

Try some FUN and play a human challenge if dorven realm gets boring. Surface city with walls, towers and and battlements, fields outside the main wall (forces you to deal with sieges quickly) and every building is dedicated to certain workshop etc. Build slums outside the wall. Dont dig too deep, it's unnatural. Build a stone castle when you get enough fame and nobles. You need to expand your city as more fools rush in.

See goblins and monsters climb over your walls and toss your bowmen from battlements, trading being the only reliable option to acquire anything, constant stress being only friend of your citizens and one fire-breathing monster being the doom of your city.

I survived three years until first civil war occurred (it was the super stress version of DF but still...), and second expedition that went to reclaim the city survived likewise three years and it seems things are on the edge now... one wrong move and bodies will fill the streets. It's fun to see things going south once in a while.

You can dig out and furnish a better suited chamber down the hall, seal off the area from other dwarves, put the vampire in a squad and station him in the desired chamber, and lock him in there. Once he's locked in you can allow access to the area again.

Wait, this is a human diplomat... uh, put him in the bottom of a well with a spike trap in it, stab him until you get a pool of blood in the well water, and feed that to a couple of dorfs. Then make one of them a dedicated record keeper.

The human diplomat was a vampire, but he visited my fort, drank blood and ran away. I wonder if I imagined but it didnt say human law-giver vampire until it drank blood in my fort...

One vampire existed before him (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15096.msg5832565#msg5832565) as i trapped her into a room that i filled with water. Now I ponder if these two vampires have some connection... annual visits from a vampire diplomat and people start to turn, hmm... Sneaky bastards.

The problem with preparing another room for the vampire is that she's most definitely thirsty when she can walk again, and darn me if I let her kill any more my elites. It seems I need to wall off that hospital room then. But since she received only half her punishment (50 kicks and puches, where the hell was my hammerer??) as 200 days in prison awaits... if she would be caged before she manages to kill, I could move the cage around...

Human diplomat visited my fort, and I wondered a moment if my fps had suddenly jumped into 999 because I saw human law-giver run at amazing speed across the map. But then I noticed his sluggishly moving guards lagging behind...

Turned out that he was a vampire who just had a nice drink. Sigh.

I'm a good guy who's in friendly terms with good folk. Real reason is that I can barely handle annual goblin sieges with honest fight and as I'm 99 % dependent on surface trees I dont need any more enemies...