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Hello! I have to thank you, DS, for writing this. It's what got me into dwarf fortress in the first place, watching such an inhospitable embark zone turn into a delicately balanced fortress that against all odds has survived close to two years realtime and several DF regions. And coming back after a year's hiatus from the game to find Roomcarnage still trundling on warms my heart like the mountain itself  .

So, thanks for weaving this tale, and hopefully luck continues to shine on the fort!

(PS: What kind of temperature settings did you use to get an iceworld?)

That was interesting and gave me a few ideas, hehe...

On the subject of mounted archers: I honestly don't think they would be that much of a hard counter against prepared dwarves. With their defensive emphasis, the dwarves probably would wait in pre prepared structures/tunnel networks to shelter from arrow fire while forcing enemies to engage them on foot, negating the advantages of both cavalry and archers.

Of course, they'd get slaughtered if caught unprepared, but what army doesn't?

If elves actually were a little better about bringing warbeasts, they would quickly become more threatening than the Gobbos or Humans. Imagine a tamed Dragon setting all those trees on fire, dropping armor piercing logs to pulp your dwarves...

Soo... Minecarts.

I finally figured out how the trackstop QSP works and got one running.

THen I learned how to make a minecart railgun. With a set of impulse ramps spanning half of a 7x8 embark. Accidentally.

There are so many blood stains the wall looks like it was painted. I don't even know what got killed. 

At least I managed to get an Admantine breastplate artifact during all the chaos.

It's the perfect way to train doctors up too! not only do you level up your soldiers, but medical staff can get training on the injuries they sustain!

(And coffin building every now and then)

I finished designating sixty sets of upright weapon(S), linking them to a single lever.

10 glass menacing spikes in each. Now all I need is a goblin christmas... which still hasn't arrived. 

I finally got something to beat that Slade Warhammer decorated with Plat I lost in an older fort.

A gold shortsword made using the planepacked glitch, it used (I think) 10 gold bars in its construction.
It was worth quite a bit.

Very.

I have an image of a line of carts suddenly flashing past a goblin, discharging bolts as they do so. Goblin boltcushion!