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Recently I was hit by a dragon attack
I had some cage traps, so I wasn't worried, but I wanted to know how well my Danger room trained military would react to combat
Using multiple save files
Round 1: Marksdwarf pierces the dragons heart with his first shot, and its down for the count before my melee can even close
Round 2: I had my range disabled, but a passing off duty ranger took a pot shot, again, ripping through its head, again killing in one hit
Round 3: Finally with no marksdwarves around to interfere, I set upon the dragon with the full vengeance of my 20 or so mix of axes, spears, swords, maces and whatnot
about 20 frames later, the dragon lies in several pieces on the ground, having let off a single blast of dragon fire (which was blocked)
Round 4: I send my single militia commander in.... and he proceeds to make short work of the dragon, sustaining no injuries whatsoever... On the other hand, the dragon got 4 hits in, all of which were blocked =/

I now have the dragon stuck in my cage, and I'm wondering what to do with it
I already have a dragon, so is it possible to get both and chain them up to my front walls to act as super special awesome guard dogs?
One of them managed to kill a couple of dwarves b4 it got caught by a cage and the other.... I just described the... "battle"
Also, I am currently in the process of setting up an arena, and so far I have about 15 gobbos, 4 or so elite leaders, 2 dragons and a pair of trolls
1. Will the dragons fight each other if I set them in my arena with all my goblins?
2. Who do you think will win, the pair of dragons, or the Goblin Alliance?
3. Any other suggestions for what to do with my pair?

get rid of all the labors except for your medical related ones
diagnosis, surgery setting bones, suturing, dressing wounds, and feed patient/prisoners
This is cause feeding and watering injured dwarves is pretty much at the bottom of the priority list, so for example, if theres some refuse to be hauled around, a dwarf would rather do that then keep their comrade alive

When you embark, you should look at the different types of stone you get
Go to the DF wiki for the types of flux stones, but off the top of my head, they're limestone, chert and marble, but I'm sure there are others
Bituminous coal only appaers in sedimentary levels, like rock salt, limestone and chert
They appear white on your embark screen
maybe you embarked there instead?

[r] gives you the combat reports
and just set up a danger room to train up your dwarves
Just search around this forum, you'll find at least 5-6 posts discussing these
God knows I've explained it at least that many times...

How do you know there aren't any elves?
They hide just as well as goblin ambushes, or better, as far as I know
unfortunately I haven't been able to piss them off well enough for them to declare war, (despite having slaughtered my way through the past... 4-5 caravans =[)

as an atom smasher or to split up your opponents?
And what kind of dwarf are you, not engaging in melee,
THAT BE ELF WORK
to be honest, I have a squad of marksdwarves, but unfortunately, they're all attached tot heir bows or cross bows
I've trained then to legendary hammer, so they can hold their own, its just.... yeah
I keep them in a nice walled off tower

and what do you mean underground towers?

use the nobles screen
[n]
and there should be a manager thing, go down and press [enter] I think

So as long as I don't unlock the HFS and keep my staircase down to my fort totally fortification-ed, all I have to worry about is randomly generated flying titans =/
Fortunately, the main ways into and outside of my fortress are long and winding, AND roofed, so flyers would have to brave the chokepoints I've made,
but how exactly do I add a vent above, for example my 6 butcheries trying to slaughter their way through about 10 pages of animals without getting them all killed?