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On a serious note, the addition of live and nonstandard ammo may actually add something, launching a jar of helmet snakes or a cage of war dogs may be an effective way to weaken attackers.

As long they survive the initial impact.

Maybe you could have parachutes?

There should be a squad that's dedicated to only rescuing soldiers and civilians who have their pants down. Their job is basically to rush injured military dwarves, risking their lives on the battlefield. You can also control where they go on the battlefield.


Mostly, in peacetime, they train their dodging, speed, and shield use. They also sleep and eat in the same barrack. Also, you can awake them for emergency sessions, although that result in unhappy thoughts.

I imagine private merchants will benefit tremendously from speedy letters as well professions that benefits a lot from correspondence, such as magicians, historians, engineers, and other type of scholars.

Merchants can use the letters to communicate information about various market conditions, allowing them to make lot of money. (Homing pigeons anyone?)

Scholars needs to work with people across the world, write letters asking for book loans, or communicate to rivals about their mad new discovery.

My fortress is now entering late stage. I am working on making enough masterwork steel suits for each dwarf.

A while back, my dwarves murdered 3 forgotten beast that piled up. It wasn't so bad, although I lost 3 dwarves.

I think for urgent news or if something is not worth an armed escort you could send a single dwarf who could walk, ride an animal, or travel by chariot.

A chariot is lot more useless if there's no paved roads. A horse or an eagle is better.

Toady said that he wasn't morally opposed to the depiction of sex, though he was opposed to explicit depiction of rape and other sex crimes. However, he was wary of the media attention it would bring. The stuff you suggest is probably planned, but won't be implemented for quite a while.

So infanticide, torture, murder, and other form of violence ok, but not sex? 

I propose that there should be a dwarven postage system in which dwarves mail each other letters acrosses different forts and towns.

For example, if a 160 years old great grandmother just die, you will get a delivered a letter informing the relevant dwarf the losses, which will cause him to suffer bad thoughts.

However, it doesn't means all letters are delivered. If the mailman got murdered by bandits on the way, or the letter is lost on the way, etc, than the dwarves won't get notification in a timely manner or maybe not at all. Thus, it is prudent to send the same letter three times on different routes and different time.

If the territory is pretty safe, you can bet that delivery will be swift and timely. There can be a new job for clerks who have to write back that the dwarf in question is dead. Than you can have jobs for couriers and courier guards!