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well currently i'm getting my military squad in bronze equipment, while lamenting the total lack of iron, flux, or coal. (plenty of Trees charcoal so metal industry is up) Sorta disappointed in the goblin, a whole siege on year 3 consisting of 2 skilled fighters (for goblins at any rate) and 4 recruits with no weapons. (not sure if this is what i should expect from my green skinned neighbor or they are insulting me, either way no freaking iron goblinite from them.) their is a group of three batmen with wooden weapons slaughtering everything that moves in the second cavern layer. (made for a interesting discovery, You have discovered a expansive cavern! then the camera snaps to a cavern carpeted with bodies.) Not totally sure how i will trade with the elves once i completely switch over to metal (zinc and Nickel based alloys since that is what we have The little casserite we have goes to bronze) since my metal industry is totally supported by trees. (do they recognize if a metal doodad is made with charcoal?).

The fortress of Rocktower was at war, not with the goblins, elves, or any other creature of nature, but something darker, whose evil has ran deeper than anything else in the world of mortal. It was a war they brought upon themselves, When the dwarves greed out ran the natural pace of the world and they dug for the forbidden metal at its core they unleashed a enemy few dare even mention, but the dwarves of rock tower were a clever If not ruthless lot, and devised a plan to combat the demons. through a sacrifice of a animal they would lead them into a trap were the dwarves would bring the very earth down upon there foe, and it worked.. with one exception. on the second strike the dwarves brought a piglet to the sacrifice. The piglet who would of lived life happy as a pet, now had his future ripped from him by the dwarves greed.
This brave little piglet understood his fate as bait and in a moment of nobility excepted it. He new of the evil that he would draw, of the trap the greedy dwarves had devised. He accepted it all, and when the demons charged up the adamantine shaft to feast on them did something in his nobility no one had planed for.
With a WarSqueal on his lips and valor in his heart this brave piglet charge out of the sacrifice niche and strait into the demon hoard. sending the demons in disarray and foiling the dwarves plans and machinations, and while this brave piglet died to the claws and flams of the evil clowns, and defied the dwarves hold on him, he will be remeber be remeber as a great hero of rocktowers untill all the towers crumble to dust.

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so heres what happened. i wanted the adamantine, so i went and devised several traps to defeat the clowns. the one i settled on was a cave in trap using natural stone and two bridges. i would lure the demons in using a animal i would have put in the little niche on the left using a pasture instead of a chain.
     when the demons entered the hallway i would order the bridges raised use a cave in with natural stone to kill them and reseal the hallway (in case the right hand bridge got destroyed), clean up, re prep, and repeat until the clown car was thinned out enough for the military to handle. the first time (with a bunny) worked beautifully, killed a sizable amount of clown, bridge wasn't broken, flawless. The second time... was when i use the Bravest little piglet.
     As soon as the demons entered the hallway, the piglet charged out of that niche right into them. this ruined the second go around, by stopping more demons from entering and to get crushed by the cave in, and put the first wave of demon in confusion (or that what i think happened, since he survived long enough to get some hits in), and forced me to fight the all the demons after the second wave with military.
While i did eventually defeat hell, it had cost me more casualty then i had hoped for.
    Even though this piglet ruined my plan, i can not help but respect him for not only charging those demons, but defying my attemot at throwing his life away as a sacrifice.

I was playing with masterworks gnomes and 4 frost giants snuck in to the dining hall. we had know weapons so i drafted everyone into the military and order to attack in hopes that the 80 some gnomes could get in 4 lucky shots. my fort ended with 80 gnomes dog piling 4 frost giants until they all starved, dehydrated, and in 6 cases go insane. While how it happened annoyed me, the mental image of some of the smallest masterwork race swarming the largest and keeping them locked down until the end just puts a smile on my face.

could i get a dwarfed? wont be able to do any play but it looks like its going to be really intresting.

I learned about metallurgy.
that their is no such thing as a neutral or wild being, They are ALL hostile.
Goblins are not really that bad of a people and are quite reasonable to captured prisoners and slaves.
Dwarves should not be trusted with precision task like building a wall or pulling a lever.
Elves should be kept at a distance, its fine to trade, but no dinner invite, ever.
And just how much of a sadist and uncaring Overload (cough) Overseer i really am.

That will help. now just making sure my adventures survive long enough for me to look at the area,but thats a problem only time will help.

a little but ago in one of my first successful adventurers (successful by the fact that i actually started to understand adventure mode) i noticed something when i was adventuring through a mountain and i saw a ton of iron ores, bituminous coal and dolomite, and remember thinking how perfect this would be for a fortress. then i started to think about using adventures to scout out areas for fortresses!
now i realize you can't embark on mountains (unmodded), but this could be pretty useful for other reasons such as getting a feel for the wildlife of and area, to see if it has sand or clay, or for any number of story reasons. Thoughts?

a mix of military with choke points, and trap hallways. generally 4 squads of 4, 1 axe squad, 1 hammer squad, 1 sword squad ,and  1 spear squad. 1 squad of 6 crossbows, not sure why i keep this squad at 6, maybe because it less heavy then ten on bolts or something. sometimes with one extra squad of 4 mixed infantry that acts as the guard(one time they were lashers). i then set their barracks at the end of a choke or trap hallway that i also make as the only entrance to the fortress. (trade depot being in a airlock that leads to the barracks). Keeps me pretty safe. the biggest weakness to this i see is me, but that is also the biggest weakness to all my forts so i don't plan for that.