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I'm looking thru legends at a virgin world I made, 1050 years of history.

In 215, a dwarf civ attacked a goblin civ. The attackers had 2,283 dwarves, 200 humans, 5 elk birds and 5 cave crocodiles. The defenders had 12 goblins and 2 trolls. Dwarven casualties? 2,192. Goblin casualties? 12...

"Defender was victorious."

...HOW??

Edit: The first THREE battles were all like this. Thousands of troops in the dwarf/human army, killed and defeated by about a dozen goblins and a troll or two, with a couple survivors, and the defenders win and inflict massive casualties. It wasn't until the fourth battle that over 2,500 attackers killed all 19 defenders, while taking almost 2,300 casualties. There were no defenders after this, and the dwarves installed a new government.

Edit 2: I've never looked this deeply into legends before, so maybe all battles go like this? Nope, another war against the same goblin civ hundreds of years later shows thousands of attackers defeating a handful of defenders with no, or very few, losses. Man, those dwarves SUCKED!

I made a new world and started a fort at the base of a volcano, with a river nearby. Currently trying to figure out how to harness the river's water. I dug a channel and have water available down in my fort, but it drains. so. *slowly*. It will take forever to get water from this thing.

I got bored of having very few sieges, no river to play with, and almost no surface animals, so I took my military force of about 18, recruited 20 more and gave them random weapons, and sent them deep into the earth, positioned in a smallish room. Then, the adamantine was breached.

Many creatures made of salt, snow, steam, ash and fire poured forth. A beast made of steam was quickly dispatched, when one made of ash easily destroyed an inexperienced recruit's brain. The more experienced dwarves were able to put it down, when they were swarmed. Hammers swung, axes slashed, spears stabbed. one by one the unnatural abominations fell, over a dozen, when the king was bested by a towering blob of salt. it broke his spine and sent him flying.

15 abominations ended, 2 dwarves dead.

One of my spearmen is injured and falls unconscious. The fell beasts deliver many blows to the head, but her adamantine helm is keeping her alive for now. Or, it was until she bled out. The king suffocates, more death occurs.

24 abominations ended, 6 dwarves dead.

The room is full of fire, smoke, steam, blood and vomit. Many dwarves lose their resolve and try to flee. Many more are struck down.

27 abominations ended, lost count of dead dwarves.

The taint released from the pits quickly affects the fortress. A child in the dining room goes berserk and is quickly torn apart by animals. Another abomination is ended, but the troops have lost hope and ran. More dwarves succumb to madness as child after child begins tearing into everyone in reach. The abominations burst into the fortress proper, and the slaughter is immense. Dwarves fall by the dozens, though they surprisingly manage to kill a few more of the elemental monsters. Finally, two dwarves remain. The newly elected mayor, who decided this crisis would be a good time to seize the position, and an animal caretaker who decided a nap was in order. Both are behind closed doors, but it is only a matter of time... Ah, yes, the caretaker was just kicked to death. That just leaves the mayor, who refuses to leave the office. Oh, good, she left and bumped into an enormous winged scaly earthworm with deadly blood. A swarm of monsters join in to pummel her into sweet, sweet release. About 37 monsters saw their end, after all was said and done. Of course, the rest now have the world as their playground...

The End

A goblin baby? Huh. Too bad you couldn't capture it.

Setting the chained occupant to "nothing" does result in a dwarf carrying a cage and placing the creature in it. Just another strange little quirk to remember, I suppose. Thank ya Loci.

I currently have a chained goblin and minotaur in my Baron's office. They are making the liaison very uncomfortable, and I wanted to move them elsewhere, but they aren't showing up on the list of creatures to assign to a cage. What do I need to do to move these guys?

My baron has a chained minotaur in their office, and my melee squad is equipped with adamantine helms. I got a good feeling about things. It'd be nice to get another goblin siege.