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I don't know, it seems to be related to the world I'm using.  Each world has a different set of exotics available at embark and for request from dwarf caravans.  If I abandon/succumb to !!fun!!, the same animals are available.  Also seems like the majority of the exotics are cave-themed which seems dwarf-related.  If I had dfhack (didn't come with the new version of the pack, so I dunno if it's updated for the new version of DF), I'd embark as elves or humans and see if that affected it. 

Currently re-genning a few times to see if I can get a Roc/Dragon available.  Very much doubt it'd be affordable on embark, but if I could request it from the liaison I'm sure I could make enough arts & crafts to buy a pair when the caravan comes back in the second autumn.  So far the biggest I've seen are giant lions/tigers/bears (oh, my!) and GCSes... but we'll see

Ugh... just had another one.  Elven caravan came, so I ordered all my remaining useless trash to the depot (old socks, etc) and traded all the wood they had.  Then when I get down to cages I see... a breeding pair of Giant Tigers.  Dirt cheap, too, cost much less than even big food animals.  Bug?  Anyway, I quickly tossed all the rest of my crap into the trade  looking to get rid of it (cups, bowls, etc.  my Baroness has this annoying habit of mandating huge amounts of stone figurines and banning their export, so I have tons of random other crafts laying around).  Had a minor graphical bug which made parts of text unreadable, but I didn't make any trade items out of wood so I wasn't worried. 

I hit trade and "yadda yadda beautiful tree dwarves suck bye"

Turns out I'd accidentally tossed in ONE alder scepter that had dropped off the last elven caravan that got killed by gobbos on the way out.  I didn't have a military yet on this fortress or I would have killed them for the tigers, as all I had for war animals were dogs and regular lions, but as they were leaving an ambush started.  I got excited, watched the elves getting slaughtered and just waiting to go loot those tiger cages... when the elf carrying the cages got knocked into a river by a goblin hammerman.  Double facepalm.

Thanks.  Didn't think it would be something I had the whole time, lol.

Forgive me if I may be mentioning the elephant in the room (no boatmurdered pun intended), but.... eh... did I miss something? Seems to me like Dwarf Fortress and My Little Pony would be on pretty much the opposite ends of any demographic chart they appeared on.  So let's just say I'm a little curious about some of the topics... mods... megaprojects... fan fictions... etc...

So, er, moving right along...

That is true.  We should try this on Mars to see what happens, since we're not using it anyway... we won't know until we try.  Gotta find us some hostile aliens, or space elves and exterminate the hell out of them. For science.

Lol. Anyway, most of the 100-500kt range warheads were used in aircraft, submarine, SRBM or MIRV roles.  For example, our Peacekeeper missiles could hold 12 300kt warheads or 1.2Mt MIRV warheads or a single, much larger warhead.  We also use "dial-a-yield" which is a setting on the warhead that alters the yield by controlling the reaction.  For example, a lot of aircraft based weapons used this, like the B83 (~5kt-1.2Mt), so you could select how much destruction you wanted to cause based on the tactical situation or just how genocidal you were feeling on that particular morning. 

Likewise, the Soviets had/the Russians have the SS-18 which can drop 10 500kt MIRVs or one 20Mt-range single warhead.  Mostly about target priority. Small military bases, carrier battlegroups, and smaller cities will get a MIRV, while big stuff or hardened stuff gets the big bombs.  So NYC, Washington, Norfolk, San Diego, Moscow, St. Petersburgh, etc.  will probably get a couple 20-meggers headed their way, while Albany or Tula might get a MIRV.  MIRVs are also used for saturation bombing of a large target (Lots of little circles of death kill off more civilians than one big circle and use less U-235.  It's a recession, shit ain't cheap) and getting through anti-ballistic missile systems, which nobody really has so that's kind of a moot point. 

Of course, now they're trying to greenify the nuclear arsenal by turning perfectly good nuclear-tipped missiles into kinetic energy weapons.  Basically giant bullets that fall down from space and make stuff not be there anymore with none of the nasty radioactive fallout, but still allowing you to destroy said area within 15 minutes of wanting to. Which is about as smart an idea as giving Bam Margera 2 kilos of blow and a case of hand grenades, due to the sheer unpredictability of how it may play out.  For example, someday Urist McPresident may decide that he needs x building in Uriststan destroyed RIGHT THE FUCK NOW instead of waiting 12 hours for a B-2 to do the job (Yes, Virginia, we can bomb any target in the world from Missouri.  Merry Christmas!), which sounds awesome until Comrade Urist McMissileCommader sees the thing and has literally no way of knowing whether it's just a big hunk of metal that's going to take out a random cosmetics factory or a MIRV bus ready to dump some buckets of instant sunshine on his kids.  He then decides to err on the side of caution and end human life on Earth, or at least vindicate the message of the Fallout franchise. 

Sorry, last part is a sore subject for me =p

Anyway, yeah, most of the warheads are in the sub-megaton range, but we still got a bunch of them big babies around for city-crackin' and the constant oh-my-God-I-just-shit-myself-when-I-thought-about-it-hard prospect of turning 90% or more of Earth's landmass into glass, ash, and cinders... leaving us a human race ruled by, and consisting entirely of, New Zealand.  Still, gotta be ready for when those Chilean miners breach HFS...

Current save is down to 17 dwarves, mostly kids and babies.  Though I have had children go berserk and killdwarves (One kid killed 2 leatherworkers and my legendary armorsmith before being put down with a silver warhammer.... cue visual.)

It was odd, none of them were cave adapted (meeting hall's technically "outdoors" even though there's a roof to keep the rain off),none of them had fought yet, and they had all literally JUST joined the military.  Barely even fitted out their gear.  Then half of them start tantrumming and the two snap.  Almost immediately I start getting a massive stream of berserk, stark raving mad, and melancholy notifications from other, non-military dwarves who were all ecstatic minutes before.  All of them had "lost a friend to tragedy" "witnessed a death" and "were forced to watch a friend decay" even though I had plenty of coffins assigned for burial and their friends had literally JUST died.  Then the legendary axedwarf went nuts at about the same time and killed a fifth of my population and about 40 war dogs, four of which were named notables that had taken down trolls and even a minotaur (which at least solved my dogsplosion problem, things were growing up faster than I could train them and I didn't have the heart to slaughter them, unlike the cats)

Might have actually been the fact that 6-7 of the war dogs were pets, had them pastured in the meeting hall to hang out with their buddies and be a last line of defense against snatchers because that's where most of my babies were. 

The "Oooh,shiny!" "RUN!!!"  "Ooooh, shiney!"  "RUN!!!!" "I see dead people" cycle during a goblin ambush when you haven't set your burrows. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmU5wWVjXHg