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I got to the pit, six demons poured out.  They chewed through 22 full-time troops and another 90-odd draftees, all armed with iron or better, without even breaking stride.  Most of their victims died in a single hit.  They completely ignored traps (which I expected) and ballista bolts (which I did not).  My cunning corridors around the barracks filled with doors to slow them down and hidey-holes to shoot out of gave them a refreshing pause to gather their thoughts before they systematically hunted the residents and trashed the fort.

I think I had one wounded on a leg or something.  The only ones that died drowned when the demons trashed the floodgates on my farm.  And when it was all done, there was only about four spaces of digging room behind the pit.  Is there, in fact, a point to getting past it, or is it just a good way to trash your fort when you're done with it?