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Yes, that goblin ambush REALLY hit us bad. Things are far better now - most of the main fighters are up and ready, the equipment is also getting better. All of your dwarfs are still alive.

What the... before, I saw my pictures in the thread, but now, they only work if I copy the url into the browser. Do you guys see the screenshots, or is this problem common for others?
I could switch to some other image-hosting site.

Nevermind, she just died of thirst. Oops I may have jumped ahead a few updates on that.

From the Journals of 'Sir', 15th Malachite, 103
This was... educational. For one thing, the constant fighting seemed to train our lads quite well. Or killed them, anyway. Doesn't matter: those who are still alive seem to be genuine badasses. I haven't inspected the rangers and the fortress guard yet, but the two main squads look alright.
Except the mild state of depression. Everybody is fucking related to fucking everybody else it seems. If something bad happens to basically ANYONE, it may start a chain reaction. I could really appreciate some better gear for the troops, but the smiths still have to work with galena and tetrahedrite.
There is still smoke coming from the corpse of the titan. Also, its rampage burned down the grass, boiled half of the drow blood that's covering anything, deepfried any corpses still lying around... oh and two giant rotting sauropods are roaming the countryside, just to complete the landscape. Things are going well.



From the Journals of 'Sir', 10th Galena, 103
Finally, I'm back in action! The Doc said I could go, and hell yeah I'll go. It's been months since I've punched something in the face. Pity those sauropods have left. I've slaughtered a few zombie groundhogs with Hugo, and that was mildly amusing, but not much.

14th Galena, 103
- Praise the gods! Humans! What a welcome sight!
- Greetings, good Sir. May I show what I can offer you?
- You may indeed. You don't even need to unload all of that: I'm buying that hundred logs of wood right off your cart. What else do you have?
- What about this?
- What's this thing? It looks like a fairly ineffective club, although very intricate in design.
- That, Sir, is a pistol.
- Holy shit, I've never seen real guns before! Have you got any ammo for this thing?
- Sadly no, I've used it all up against the undead while traveling. If I had any, you can bet your beard I wouldn't sell the pistol to you.
- I can imagine. But what should I do with a gun without ammo?
- I can bring you the schematics for making your OWN ammo when I come back next year. How does that sound?
- Well bargained, and done. I'll take your pistol. Also, some of those fancy above-ground crops you carry. We can't exactly grow them here.
- May I interest you in some armor plates for animals, or maybe some of these beautiful weapons?
- Nah. We don't have any animals that could be trained for war, and while those weapons do look rather nice, they are more decorative than useful. And I DO need useful ones here.
- Fair enough. Now, for all these riches, what can you give me?
- How about these gems, and a few of our excess weapons? You should make 3000 urists of profit from that.
- Hmm... that is generous indeed. It almost seems TOO generous. What's the catch here, my friend?
- Not exactly a catch. I just want to make sure you come back again, with my plans, and with a nice haul like this again.
- You can count on that. Will that be all?
- Join me for a drink, if you can. We're a bit cut off from the outside world here, I'd like to hear what you know.
- Why not? I assume you have some stories to tell as well, judging from the corpse of that titan right next to your doorstep.

From the Journals of 'Sir', 19th Galena, 103
Fucking goblins.



They got one of our farmers in that ambush. We avenged him, sure, but the bastards really got us: four dead, and several wounded (Among them Weiss. That guy remind me of poor old Empfan for some reason). If a single ambush costs us five lives, I'm beginning to get worried. We REALLY need armor-grade metals, and soon. Very fucking soon, or the undead wipe us off the face of the world before the frost giants even get here. It was surely nice to finally swing this mithril sword however. It's a real work of art.



(Sir has 9 pages of pure ass-kicking in that battle. I really need to upgrade the equipment, these things are not meant to be met with copper and silver.)

From the Journals of 'Sir', 2nd Malachite, 103

I'd be jumping with joy if I could stand up. Our Freya could. Or Silus. This way, this could be a death sentence for all of us. Orders are out to raise the bridge and assemble the army. What's left of it anyway.

From the Journals of 'Sir', 9th Malachite, 103
This went unbelievably well. Sure, the titan burned down the surrounding area, but the military managed to defeat it. Quite easily, in fact.



Just after the titan incident, a big bunch of migrants showed up. Normally, that would be a bad thing, since the booze supply is dangerously low again, but we desperately need to refill our ranks with fresh soldiers, and some of these newcomers actually look like they can handle a weapon.

15th Malachite, 103
'OK maggots, this is starting to get confusing. Recruits die and get replaced so often, I don't know half of your names. So, report. Freya and Silus are excused from this, since they just passed out. First off, Cudgels of power, my squad:









Holy shit, you are fucking NINE? I didn't know that. 28 confirmed kills is great then, especially since one of them is the titan. Next!



Next up, Machines of Bearing:







Hugo, is it? You look capable. I'll be keeping an eye on you.







That's enough for today. The other two squads are on duty, and the rangers aren't good for anything anyway. Dismissed.'

(There you have it, that's roughly half of the militia. I've lost some of them since then, and sadly, my favorite - the 9 year old titan-slayer - went mad.
Wypie has two kills, a male and female zombie dark strangler. Long-range weapons perform poorly against the undead. Especially since the little shits routinely forget to bring ammo with them: they have the quiver and crossbow, and we have hundreds of bolts, just nobody uses it. Also, some of the long-range guys just flat out bring an iron zweihander with them, logic and orders be damned. I'm tempted to disband the whole ranger squad, but I'm worried about flyers, so I'm still trying to make something useful out of them.)

Well, when Weiss does get in, just set him up for animal training as well I guess, that room is going to be mine...

As soon as I named a capable soldier 'Weiss', he was hospitalized after his first battle. He's alive though!
For now, the four squads are led by:
-Sir (primary forces)
-Silus (secondary forces)
-Wypie (rangers)
-Higginbottom III (captain of the guard)
We can't afford another squad for now, half of even these are stuck in bed. Your request is noted though, I'll see what I can do in the future.

Can i see the likescreens, and relationship lists for the unclamed? or atleast the un related to anyoneelsehere ones?

There are no such dwarves here. Basically, everyone I've checked has a number of kids, or at least a lover/wife. I'll post a partial list tomorrow.
Also tomorrow: the world is literally ON FIRE.

Excuse me, this will be a very uncharacteristic outbreak of ranting and nerdrage, BUT:

How in hell can anyone think that 25 evil races vs. 4 good races can in any way be balanced ? I get so many reports from people saying: Oh, my, the races are inbalanced, the dwarves die... oh, and btw, I enabled 20 quadrillion invaders. The game is designed to have ONE, and just ONE evil race, goblins. And 3 good ones. Now I did my best and balanced 4 good and 5 evil races against each other, and it works. When do people realize that I do not mod the Fortress Defense mod, that even clearly states that it is inbalanced ? When do people realize that it makes no sense to enable ALL the races. Thats just ridiculus, take 2-3, play with default and you have 5, play with more and it is no surprise that the good ones get overrun.

/rant.

Sorry for that, and that you, jesusmod, were the target, but enough is enough. This question was asked and answered just a few pages ago. And before that... and before that... and so on. About the rest: dragons dont kill themselves with their own dragonfire, but can die by dragonfire of another creature. Spawn of Hollistic I would rewrite of course. 

EDIT: PS: There is a difference between    [IT_REQUIRES:FIT_FOR_ANIMATION and [IT_REQUIRES:FIT_FOR_RESURRECTION], so the idea to bless dwarves so they are not made zombies would work.

The world of Shadytorments did fine* with all the invaders on, so a lucky embark IS still possible even in those extreme conditions.

*by DF standards