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Hopefully the next development cycle will mix Optimization and the Army Arc so we get some serious improvements to the military. We'll need them, that'd probably be the point where we start seeing portable siege weaponry and sappers on the battlefield. It'd also mean us getting to send out militaries and integrating the Hill/Deep dwarves into our society as an active tool. I'm hoping for tighter formation control and smarter enemies too, and maybe seeing non-combatants on the field as support personnel. All we get right now is raids, really. What we need is true sieges, with engineers and workers building walls and fortifying enemy positions to block us in.

Being able to truly fight wars shall be glorious and brutal all rolled up into one. Hide while you still can, because once things get fixed, you'll have nowhere left to turtle without serious defenses besides a closed door.

That'd be finicky as Hell to pull off if you're working directly with the trees themselves. You'd need to track where the elves were going on the map, and you'd have to plot which trees they get within two squares of during their trip. Then there's the timing. If all you're worried about is using logs to kill them, all you have to do is set up a Depot trap. Build walls around your Depot, with a drawbridge for one wall so you can lock them in there. Then set up a retracting bridge for a roof, stick a stairway or ramp for top access, and make that roof a wood stockpile. Hook the retractor to a lever, and pull the lever to drop the logs on their heads. Close it again, refill the trap, and repeat as much as it takes to kill them.

Everything in this game is inevitable.  There's too many players running too many forts to let much pass by.

There was an answer to it: pen the dogs in 1x1 animal pens. What happens is that the animal trainers are going to where the dogs were when the task was first set, instead of where the dogs were when the trainer got there.

I've been a victim of it. Don't do No-points embarks without using a burrow anymore. I had a guy fall into a pond and drown this afternoon.

I love LoZ . . . so by all means, continue your obsession. In fact, 34.11 had a LoZ mod named Earthward Pick.

I look forward to the days when it gets updated.

Eh, it could work for many purposes, not just military. It's more like, if this works, we just came up with the Dwarf Fortress version of the school system.  And I'm sure it'll get stickied and possibly added to advanced fortress guides the way working hospitals and the military system already are.