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A ton of my recent migrants have all been former liaisons and traders from the last few caravans. This makes me wonder exactly how well my civ was doing before I founded this current fort...

Just had a 75 unit goblin siege, 1 troll squad and 4 or 5 goblin squads, all mounted on cave crocodiles.

Versus my 5 or 6 legendary military members plus their students, totaling about 30, no traps or other fun stuff, just home-forged dwarven copper equipment.

The dwarves met the goblins from the ramparts, firing bone and copper bolts from the fortifications to the east and south, trying to inflict some wounds on the advancing army. Most of them were not carrying any ammunition (damn) and weren't very skilled, but did manage to get a few wounds in. The rest of the army waited around the corners of the southern wall, but they realized two squadmates weren't present...

They were outside the walls, trying to pick up gear! The military scrambled to meet the goblin forces at the main entrance, only to find a speardwarf dead, and the legendary sworddwarf, Sodel Startheaters. Startheaters was standing over the corpse of the speardwarf, fighting not one, but THREE squads of bowgoblins mounted on cave crocodiles! Wave after wave of bolts he dodged, getting bowled over constantly by the crocs, rising just in time to avoid another barrage from the riders. The only wound he suffered was a cut to his left arm.

The rest of the military caught up a few moments later, and began fighting off the other 2 squads, helping Startheaters with 2 other squads. The troll group and a few goblins began making their way into the main fort, seeing that my military had their hands full. I ordered the military back to the main entrance by the trade depot, and they slaughtered their way back, wading over goblin and cave crocodile corpses, with the occasional troll thrown in.

Three trolls managed to make it into the fort proper, only to be met by the crossbow-armed populace (probably why my marksdwaves had no ammo). The trolls met their match, bone bolts piercing their hides and breaking their bones, keeping them in place until the military arrived and finished the job.

A lone goblin was spotted running across the desert landscape, and orders were given to let him run. Better to have one survivor tell the tale  of copper-clad dwarves cutting through an invasion force like a hot knife through butter than let the psychological warfare chance go to waste.
 
A few dwarves are injured, a few missing minor limbs, four died and will be dumped into the magma sea, to keep necromancers from raising them. Two of the dorms have been turned into makeshift hospitals, and any dwarf with medical experience has been told to help the wounded in any way possible. Thankfully we have a few bars of soap produced, and easy water from the aquifer just under our feet.

Now to dump the goblin corpses into the magma, and butcher the mounts, and stockpile the gifts from Goblin Christmas.

EDIT: One of the cave crocs had a native platinum gizzard stone. Wow.

Ok, so my military is still having issues finding their gear and equipping it properly. A recent hammerdwarf recruit has been in a bad mood for a month because of this...

And the time comes for the RNG to bless us with another mood, and it strikes the ill-tempered recruit, who looses a fell and terrible laugh and rushes off to the nearby mason's shop, grabs one of my original 7 (a glazier, I meant for him to be a glassmaker but I screwed up, so no big loss) and begins his project. This no doubt terrified the human merchants in the nearby trade depot.

He made Eelbone, a dwarf bone scepter worth 2400 DB, circled with bands of dwarf bone.

I'd take their paycheck to sit in a chair and mess around online. Easy 50k a year at least.

That stats class I mentioned DID require us to use the equations and learn them, but only before we used the calculator method. And we did have to do some of the simpler stats questions on our tests by hand with no calculator.

Not that I remember any of it anymore :p

Going well, second summer brings the humans and a Guild Representative. I tell them I need wood and various fuel stones, and whatever iron ores they have. Bought out the merchants lumber supply and a bit of food to supplement the stocks here.

Also improved the defensive perimeter, restricting access to one entrance in the south, only reachable by an opening in the north outer wall. Found a few necromancers lurking around, but nothing else of note.

Oh, and since restricting the number of pathways available for my dwarves, it seems I have solved my FPS issues for now.

First artifact of the new fort is a granite coffin. Might be a sign...

First year was easy, a few kobolds handled by the crossbow-armed civilians; a militia formed from the first few migrant waves is awaiting armor, no natural coal on site, and the best material we have so far is copper, but that should suffice until we get a few goblin Christmas presents. Miners are working on a tree farm, a magma dump chute has been dug (in case necromancers make it inside and start some Fun) and debate goes on whether to bring magma up, or go down to it.

EDIT: A camel herd was chased into the fort by a migrant wave, one camel was quickly dispatched by the melee squads. While on its way to the butcher, the camel corpse shuddered and began attacking. Since half the fort is armed, it didn't last long, but kept coming back again and again, while the unarmed civilians scrambled to get out of the way and the civilian defense force ran around, searching for the necromancer. Finally got the damn thing butchered, didn't cause any wounds thankfully (and surprisingly, we all know how dangerous they can be) and especially since the first wave of armor hasn't even been finished yet.

The corpse has since been dismembered into various bits and pieces, and each is being butchered by a brave soul who doesn't seem bothered by the undead bits.

My fort seems to be having issues with FPS already, which is odd seeing as how I'm not out of my first year yet, have maybe 20 dwarves, and no water or magma moving around... Usually I run at 150 fps until I've opened all the caverns, pierced the magma sea, etc...

I'm thinking its caused by stealthed units nearby pathing around, since I'm at war with goblins and have a necro tower near.