So, basically, it is just a matter of luck whether you live or suffer horrible death... sounds like dwarf fortress.
Sigged.
Also, got two goblin ambushes in a row, the first killed one of my woodcutters since he tried running away before I could activate him but the
second woodcutter they attacked killed two of them and send the rest fleeing the second I activated him. The other ambush only moderately injured a woodcutter/herbalist's hand before a lone champion (through wrestler skill training) arrived:
First, it was only one, outrunning the rest, but he seemed to have a weapon equipped like I tell them to each emergency that happens. He killed one of them and entered a martial trance, the bowman tried to shoot him but he kept moving by the time the arrow reached him! Another goblin got killed and the rest of my army arrived, even an injured elite with a mangled
lung (via
arrows) that's been bedridden for roughly three seasons (his name is
Mörul, even!). Most, if not all, of those ambushers got killed, and -besides the civilian-
no-one got injured. Clearly the training is paying off.
The crippled Mörul got out of bed, grabbed a weapon, beheaded someone IIRC, then went sluggishly limping off to hang out with his friends. Must've disturbed his beauty sleep.