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just loaded up a new game, all looks good except for one of my miners who can barely move, check his inventory and he is wearing a pig leather coat that weighs 718238 dwarf pounds, wrong value in somewhere?

3 other tricks for defeating ranged attackers:

1.  layered armour (briefly mentioned above)  set all you military to on duty, set them to no armour, wait a bit then set them to leather (you did dump all your crap leather armour on the caravan and make good stuff right?), then wait a bit and set them to chain, wait a bit then set them to plate. you should now have layers of all 3 types of armour.  This helps a fair bit.  Also use your first lots of steel for top quality shields, these are THE MOST IMPORTANT BIT OF ARMOUR.

2.  Meat shield:  chain up the biggest/toughest animals you can get (elephants are great for this, horses and cows will work ok, if not just use lots of cats) a bit infront of your fortress, give them a few layers of fortifications to hide behind if you are feeling kind.  bowgobs will happily blaze away at the closest enemy they can see, make that enemy something expendable and tough as nails.  Most gobs only carry about 25-30 arrows so they run out pretty quick

3.  ranged attackers usually come decked out in leater armour and move a bit faster than their mellee companions (at about the same pace as wrestlers though) therefor they are the first to hit your defences if they have a decent way to walk.  My cage traps on my bridge ( i use a huge moated courtyard with one 3 wide bridge)  mostly catch elites, bowgobs and wrestlers.  A "minefield" of randomly placed stonefall traps will work pretty well too.

I never really liked statistics because in the end the answers are always a bit useless.  If I ask a chemist what happens when I mix 2 things togeather  simple answer: "It will explode stupid, get that stuff away from me"   ask a statician (bugger to spell too) and they will say "well it might..."    The amount of ways that you can "fiddle" data in stats is just criminal.  Stick to physics, make a bomb that works dammit, not one that has a chance of spewing forth a swarm of burning unicorns over the land (hey its possible, so it will have to go into a statistical equation.)
  Mind you all my contact with stats was at uni and then through working for other peoples (bs but interesting) psych research projects.
 

Give everyone an iron battleaxe or pick of +quality+ or above and you can come pretty close to shutting a fort down with tantrums.  I had 3 wounded turn into about 20 wounded in 4 seasons.  Nothing like a legendary pump operator with a masterwork axe having a very bad day to spread the hurt around.   Many of the wounds were amputations (I had 8 miners and about 60 "woodcutters") so not much chance of recovery, the other problem is that I didnt notice my sherriff going down early minus a leg below the knee and my hammerer falling prey to an accidental rain of goblins the previous season. 

same z level? is there any angle at all? it looks tight (like one z level wide)

pitchblende (its a purple rock): you can mine it, request it from some liasons and take it with you on the embark screen.  At least I could when I played the corprates.

if you want potassium so much mod raw potassium into your game, or for extra fun, try francium... make sure that it explodes on contact with air... meaning that as soon as you reveal it BOOM

Wait, so I can mod in something like firedamp?  dwarvern knockers anyone? (had to).

well if you hit a zombie with the stock the bastard will stay down.

  Similar problems have been reported with the weight of some moulds.