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1) you lost your miner in the process.  this could be construed as either a good or a bad thing, depends on his level of cheesemaking.
2) it is beyond cheap that you can lock the doors to a necromancer's tower. 
   a) the doors should be guarded by undead sentries
   b) even were you to reach them, it should be impossible to forbid a door that you did not place yourself
      i) or at least should require a dwarf to reach them physically..

Im thinking it would be more dwarfy to tunnel from the tower basement into a candy spire, funneling all sorts of !FUN! upwards like a fountain of death.  This would of course require some kind of automated system of hatches powered by a drowning goblin captive of some sorts..

Limit interconnectivity of the fortress (contrary to what many people think, more pathing options is BAD), limit distances by grouping related industries and required sustenance items across xy and specially z levels, very few large open spaces.   then make liberal use of burrows and traffic designations.

the vast majority of my dwarves are simple haulers.  a few legendary artisans are more than enough to meet production in other fields, and i dont even bother with crafts.  spend most of my time first finishing the fort, then expanding upwards into megastructures. 

Yeah, military commander needs to be some guy who will never see the light of day, let alone an actual battle.  I usually appoint my chief medical dwarf. 

After that, there is so much more info needed on how to train troops up, best starting skills, appropriate attributes when they actually count, etc, etc.   Guide needs more guidance, but nice start.  Oh, and you might want to mention removing food and drink on the squad screen, so they dont screw around making sammiches while the boars are raping the peasantry.  Might be why only 6 for 10 showed up, actually.

Where is your God now?

I worship Huskor, the Husk God of Hubris and Vanity.  He is currently raping this fort.

Not if you train your Dwarves. Vampire didn't stand a chance against the very same zombie ostriches my hammerdwarf smashed. Did I mention all of my Dwarves are virtually unbreakable, incredibly strong and never tire? Vampires can't improve their attributes.

All your dwarves have had their eyes put out, and probably have had their fat melted off as well.  Not to mention a childhood spent fighting off turkeys for survival. I'm not sure that counts... 

You're a cheese miller, you say?  Welcome to the US Army Corps of Engineers!    (now go build a bridge over that raging chasm of death)

Man, that was cruel. I have to hang out with girlfriend while I could be weaponising gas clouds or making a werewolf farm. I might even have to have sex instead of play the new release!

cool story, bro.  but we all know that girls are too busy weaponizing sex to have any with werewolves on VD day.