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201. disembowelled by an elf who proceeds to devour your guts while you're still alive.

the worst thing you could probably get is a trap component or a crossbow, but even those are still kinda badass.

Hmmmm. Capture a siege or two of enemies. Danger-room train them to legendary +5. The lever should 1) set them on fire and 2) unleash them (preferably by dropping them from the ceiling), resulting in a !!DOOMSDAY!! lever, it should also flood the fortress with pressurized magma just to be sure.

a captured or defeated siege prefers to run away rather than fight, so this method might not be fast enough for what he's going for.

definitely profiecent hammer dwarf. with the skills in armor user and dodger, you gain benefits to defense with very little benefit to offense. shield user improves the frequency of shield bash, but shields aren't as powerful as proper weapons. with skills in hammerdwarf and axedwarf, you can parry attacks as well as hit more frequently, giving you an offensive edge as well as defensive.

prioritize weapon skills before other combat skills.

shields are incredibly useful for blocking attacks, but I'm not sure if sinking points into it at embark is a good idea. migrants often come with pre-existing weapon skills, including shield user, so you will likely not run out warriors.

hammers are almost always singlegrasp weapons, so your dwarves can almost always carry a shield.

can a dwarf really get too drunk? they drink alcohol all their lives, surely he must've built up tolerance by now.

a short while ago, I had a forgotten beast made of charcoal come into my fort and eventually clashing with a guard dragon at one of my entrances into the 3rd lvl cavern.

The beast managed to beat the dragon to death, but caught on fire. Soon its upper body turned yellow, then cyan, and eventually every part of it was burning. But it refuses to die. What's really irritating is that my military can't target it for some reason, but my civilians can still see it and run away. Moreover, it can still breathe poison gas even though it lost its ability to move. I managed to seal that part of the fort off, but the beast problem has not been solved. I'm just waiting to it to burn to death.

what ability does it have? if it's poison gas or vapors, you can easily snipe it with marksdwarves while it's trapped in the water.