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And, this whole discussion starts to remind me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhlHzYt4xRM

Why? Because marksdwarves are op as hell as well? To be fair the crossbow is extremely inaccurate irl unlike dwarf fortress, very much so on the old ones pre 1400 which is the time toady seems to have said df is from. Also even the largest of bows (ex: english longbow) had trouble piercing armor, I doubt dwarves could wield a weapon that size. The most amusing battles are in adventure mode where you have legendary throwing though. You can kill enemies at a distance throwing the bolts at them. I like to imagine that Im using a sling at times because it can be pretty absurd.

Some trivia:
The reason they didnt have that fight in was because harrison was sick that day and it was very hot. So he just said "instead of having the elaborate fight scene why dont I just shoot him" and they liked it so much that they had that scene in instead.

I've never actually managed to create a single tantrum spiral. I feel a bit embarrased saying that. Perhaps this fortress design will fix that.

Its about playing on a dangerous setting or doing something Fun.

I had a massive tantrum spiral when I tried to mine through the aquifier layers by exposing them to the surface which was freezing, thereby creating ice walls which stopped the flow of water. Unfortunately dwarves are retards so when they channeled downwards they often ended up walking in the same channel (despite me trying to stop them in several diffrent ways like making the whole layer restricted) this caused the to instantly die when the water that poured in froze. Lost about 25 dwarves like that and about 10 picks. This caused a massive spiral among most of the dwarves which had very little to do but make friends above.

120 is enough for anything I think.

Hippoes are very dangerous if you provoke them, they are completely harmless if you let them be. Really anything with hooves can easily destroy you in adventure mode though, just needs a bit of luck if you are highly skilled and a bit of less luck if you arent wearing a helmet.

If you have dfhack theres some command to fix them I think.

Its the true way of becoming a necromancer, sneaking in and reading the book before anyone notice that you are there. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

If you dont like sneaking then dont, you dont have to be a sneaking swordmaster/lasher every single game.

Could as an example be a wrestler/thrower who doesnt use any weapons in melee. Its def possible and fun. Killing titans with rocks like a baws.

I think theres a command in dfhack to empty buckets which are half filled with lye or water.

Steel shields would be the best if they are used as weapons. If not then wood is actually the best for shields I think, since all shields work the same way but wood is lighter. Wood shields can burn though, I once was attacked by a dragon and the fire burned the shield away.