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I find it helps if you use small 2-man squads for your melee dwarves. They'll take a lot less time getting everything organised for a demonstration and they'll spar a lot more often. I've had a skilled fighter with no weapon skills and a complete noobie sparring for a few months and after that time they were both competent. Not very impressive but it's good enough against disarmed goblins and with proper equipment (steel shortswords in this case) they can manage perfectly well in actual combat.

Giant Badger > Carp > Badger

Giant Carp? I'm shocked and appaled they don't exist yet.

Oh, the gobboes who are waiting for their glorious demise have plenty to look at.

Namely, the blood and vomit from the previous batch.

edit: Also, I dug out the killing room from soil so engraving isn't possible. I did tile it though, with bands of grey stone alternated with microcline.

1. Make a room they can't flee from.
2. Place their cages in the room. B - C for the cages and use x to see specific cages so you can place the correct ones.
3. Once the cages are in place, use d-b-c to claim their items. Make a dump zone somewhere outside the room and use d-b-d on the cages to select everything they are wearing (which you have just claimed with d-b-c) for dumping.
4. Use "t" to look at the cages and undump the cage itself.
5. Build a lever. Somewhere safe.
6. Hook up the lever to the cages and wait for dumping to be complete. It helps if you have a lot of idlers (with refuse hauling enabled) for this.
7. You now have their stuff (claim them from the dump zone) and the cages are ready to open. Prepare your dwarves and pull the lever!


edit: ffff, two replies.Thank you for interrupting me while I was typing, random person! And another one!

Huh, me neither. Odd, I could've sworn it said sock. I must be going crazy.

It would be interesting to see something like a giant cave spider actually adapted to hunting humanoid prey.

They might do something like weave a giant cave spider silk sock, leave it in the middle of the caverns, and when players breach the caverns some hauler might run out to try to claim that sock, and get tangled up in the giant cave spider web.

Sock-weaving spiders? Now that's specialisation.

I made a thread about bone and shell armour once. There's not a lot of data to go around and the conclusion was the same there. It's better than wearing no armour but any other armour is better.

Although I'm not too sure about leather.

My milita can train on aforementioned langurs, goblins and (carefully) on each other. And kobolds if they're fast enough.

And Forgotten Beasts, I got plenty.


Anyway, I'll just fiddle around. If I fuck up I'll just abandon the fort. It's been going for a while anyway and it's not even *gasp* the latest version.

Fiddling will have to wait untill later this week. Got more important things to tend to.