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If you incorporate architecture, you can actually use tactics in the game as-is.

I've been building castles in my human version of the game. Triple wall system. The first set is the actual keep, a twenty by twenty building capable of housing the dining hall and a dorm. Then the first set of walls is a hollow three-square layer of stone. The outer layer is Fortifications, the center is a walkway for your dwarves. The gate is about five deep with a bridge inside, and a pair of barracks to keep guards training. Those barracks guard the entries to the archers' path, and setting up a barracks with a pair of doors will keep your squad concentrated where it can do the most damage.

Build a few inner walls around barracks to keep the enemies from being seen until it's time, and . . . there you go.

Seconded on the last one. March of Cambreadth is an awesome song for any war.

I didn't think Vampires starved. I thought they just went insane after a while of thirsting for blood. You can kill them by violence, but not very easily.

Bring a fisherman and a some birds for fish and eggs. The fish will tide you over until the eggs start rolling in. Bring a cook to use the eggs. You'll survive for a few years. Bring masons and materials for the rest and you can start building a bridge,

Yeah . . . the whole "You're not actually supposed to do no-item embarks" thing was in reference to DF taking up Gnomoria's track and forcing you to build items to build every workshop. 

The day when minor ailments like carpal tunnel syndrome are included in the game will be a majorly annoying day indeed.

Even Aquatic dwarves won't work in more than 4/7 water tiles. There's just something about that magic number that blocks all work. Besides, to build that platform would require supplies brought in from outside, and a pre-built stable platform for the wagons. You'd be better off embarking on the coast and flooring over the ocean by that coast. Then embarking on the edge of that platform and extending it. You'd need to bring in supplies over time to do it, too.

So anvils are monoliths? Sweet!

Um, how does converting it to Islam help at all? Considering dwarves usually get greedy and go for as much gold as they can, I think one of the other two Abrahamic faiths would stereotypically work better.