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Oh yes, I remember the tales of Mormund the Vicious: The greatest warrior who fought with twenty-five arrows and a ballista bolt hanging out of him.

I'm not sure whether to blame the "adequate" diagnoser or the "novice" suturer, but I had a dwarf who got shot through the hand by a goblin.  He went to the hospital, got diagnosed, got the wound cleaned, stitched up and bandaged, and went happily back to his daily routine... where I found that he still had the arrow stuck through his hand.

If he attacks somebody, can he use it/does it affect anything?

Lead. Useful for everything, pipes, poison, bullets, weights, models, clubs, control rods. Everything.

CRYPTIRON IS NOMINATED! COME ON! LET'S VOTE FOR IT!

Naw, sweet. Thanks guys

In other news, I've just set up my skirmishers.
A squad of five remarkably useless speardwarfs clad in leather wielding copper and iron spears. They're purpose is to defend the overground, building up skillz and finding ambushes with their skulls. By years end, any survivors are cycled into the main army with proper armor and weapons. I currently have an awesome squad commander, who after wiping out an entire strangler siege by himself, managed to loose an eye to an elven arrow. He now commands the squad responsible for defending the hospital/morgue/crypt, which is one of the more tactically important places in the fortress.

Good news guys. Despite not being able to set up farms on the surface due to both zombies, skeletons and ol' vomit titan, I have managed to start a decent butchery underground. I broke the first cavern and filled the place with grass. Then built a small ranch on the soil layer with a nice pond. From there I can grow cows and goats for food and milk.

As for ol' vomit titan. He just saved me from the third siege. Dark stranglers and goblins seem to have an issue when blasted with boiling necrotic poison. Fun times. I'm thinking of just leaving him and using his close proximity to wipe out anyone who comes nearby. He only has one limb, his stubby tail. Other than that, he's a blob. So, another question.

How well does a blob vomit titan hold up in battle?

Ok, excellent points. I think I'll do all three once I reclaim. I just lost the fortress to Oson Uslukstetso. The dworfs had taken a break from dragging everything inside, within moments he wondered over to attack. With all of my dworfs clustered around one point, he simply attacked with his poison breathe and wiped the lot out. Funny as hell.

I had a shrine once... then I dug under it, dropped the floor by one Z level and used that and a drawbridge as a defensive point. Exploding goblins are remarkably funny creatures.