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Or train them to be decent wrestlers first, and then coat them in heavy armor before going with anything that can chop off limbs.  It's how I do it =P  Haven't lost a dwarf to training yet.

I like to think that the way it is now encourages the player to get the bookkeeper and start up the economy early.  It's always easier to maintain it without many problems that way.

Heh, I only kill nobles who constantly (and I mean nonstop) make impossible demands like colored diamonds and the such.

I tend to keep my army at 20% of my population, but I do have to drown the enormous amount of immigrants I keep getting (~ 50 at times).  Everytime I get sieged two of my swordsmen stand in the entrance and massacre the crowd of goblins/trolls that feel like going inside.  It's the archers that kill my troops =[

Good to know that red wounds eventually heal.  Oh, Toady said in some other thread that neck wounds will never heal since they are considered spinal wounds.  That guy with the neck wound that keeps passing out; he won't get better even if he does rest.

Idleness is not a problem unless you play with the economy.  I prevent idleness simply by preventing my dwarves from gaining skill too fast.  My miners are also masons, my farmers help with the hauling, and my craftdwarves are always pumping out lots of trinkets, toys, and mugs to sell in the stores.  The only profession that doesn't have an average balance of 1k in credit are my mechanics, but that's only because I don't need as many traps with half of all my dwarves being in the military.  Oh, one last thing, I don't let my dwarves specialize unless absolutely necessary, but the only specialization I've had to do so far is have two cooks to feed my fortress (they just have farming duties turned off; they still haul).

After that, you just have to make sure to prevent your legendary dwarves from taking too many jobs.  They complete things far too quickly, and most of what they make turns out to be too expensive for your dwarves to buy with frequency.

You never got immigrants because your fortress suddenly became suicide post.  As in going over there is just plain suicide.

The death of your population affects immigration.  Don't expect immigrants if a large portion of your dwarves die suddenly.

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Originally posted by Paul:
<STRONG>I like using spiked balls. They kill things without chopping them up, so the bodies are just 1 item and not a messy pile of limbs. When I used the large serrated discs before, I would have a couple goblin thieves come by and my dwarves would fill my entire refuse pile with arms, legs, hands, feet, heads, lower bodies, upper bodies, etc. With spiked balls I just look over and see a pile of 4 bodies, instead of 40 assorted parts.
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Thats the part I enjoy the most about sieges, seeing the parts fly around =D

My traps are filled with at least 3 dismembering kind of weapons.  That's if I put any traps at all.  I'd rather have a standing army to protect my fortress though.  I just keep 2-3 squads per location to guard various places around the fortress all year long (rotating between seasons so they don't complain).

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Originally posted by Paul:
<STRONG>Supposedly they are being detected when you see them, they 'spawn' before that and head in.

I keep having them magically appear in my dungeon master's bedroom, hes becoming a good fighter just from strangling all the kobold thieves. Apparently my hordes of animals and dwarves can't see them, only my sleeping dungeonmaster can.</STRONG>

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He's probably the only one fat enough to force the kobold to climb around him to get to the loot =P