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[Naes Draw]

Better yet, do they gain skill as a child? At least basic stats? If so, Spartans anyone? Give him simple fights in a arena setup and level the sucker up. You could pick out a handful that show promise and train them together as an elite squad.

And if treading water still builds strength, then you could include that too.

I might have to try this... 

[Wastedlabor]

I've just seen a ninja dwarven liaison dodge several bolts, cross in front of a dumbfounded goblin squad that somehow ignored him as he moved through the dense forest a few tiles from them, run away from the only axeman that chased him and plunge literally through a squad of goblin spearmen to reach the border receiving only one hit.

[Naes Draw]

I've just seen a ninja dwarven liaison dodge several bolts, cross in front of a dumbfounded goblin squad that somehow ignored him as he moved through the dense forest a few tiles from them, run away from the only axeman that chased him and plunge literally through a squad of goblin spearmen to reach the border without receiving one hit.

One of mine met a brown bear on top of the outdoor housing and ripped it to bits. Blood everywhere. 

[FuzzyZergling]

I've just seen a ninja dwarven liaison dodge several bolts, cross in front of a dumbfounded goblin squad that somehow ignored him as he moved through the dense forest a few tiles from them, run away from the only axeman that chased him and plunge literally through a squad of goblin spearmen to reach the border receiving only one hit.

How exactly does this make you facepalm?
This is awesome.

[NewSheoth]

I've just seen a ninja dwarven liaison dodge several bolts, cross in front of a dumbfounded goblin squad that somehow ignored him as he moved through the dense forest a few tiles from them, run away from the only axeman that chased him and plunge literally through a squad of goblin spearmen to reach the border receiving only one hit.

How exactly does this make you facepalm?
This is awesome.

Seconded. Could make you facepalm on the goblins' part, but why would you do that?
Liaisons can be pretty awesome at times.

[Beardless]

I've just seen a ninja dwarven liaison dodge several bolts, cross in front of a dumbfounded goblin squad that somehow ignored him as he moved through the dense forest a few tiles from them, run away from the only axeman that chased him and plunge literally through a squad of goblin spearmen to reach the border receiving only one hit.

How exactly does this make you facepalm?
This is awesome.

Seconded. Could make you facepalm on the goblins' part, but why would you do that?
Liaisons can be pretty awesome at times.

I think I've got it. He didn't say where the liason was hit, or with what.

[zwei]

Yesterday:

First fort ever to reach 200 dwarves (usually having popa cap of 100). Legendary dining room, masterpiece meals, etc ...

Panda twisted to humanoid form came. Beware its poisonous vapors!

Whole military was sent to dispatch this beast. 8 squards of 10 dwarves. They swarmed it and slaughtered it easily.

But within few months, participants of battle started to suffocate. Pet cats, Pet dogs too. Cue in unstoppable tantrum spiral.

Apparently, Killing fogotten beast is just NOT enough to "solve fb problem". /facepalm.

[Urist McTaverish]

Yesterday:

First fort ever to reach 200 dwarves (usually having popa cap of 100). Legendary dining room, masterpiece meals, etc ...

Panda twisted to humanoid form came. Beware its poisonous vapors!

Whole military was sent to dispatch this beast. 8 squards of 10 dwarves. They swarmed it and slaughtered it easily.

But within few months, participants of battle started to suffocate. Pet cats, Pet dogs too. Cue in unstoppable tantrum spiral.

Apparently, Killing fogotten beast is just NOT enough to "solve fb problem". /facepalm.

You got a syndrome.  It starts in the initial infected then moves to smaller creatures like pet dogs and cats before moving to further dwarves.  If not for the tantrum spiral it's likely your whole fortress would have died due to the FB's vapors and resultant syndrome.

[celem]

I just had a similar event with a pair of 'beware its poisonous gas' fb's.

The first was a shrimp that I handled with marksdwarves, it gassed a few through the fortifications and I thought nothing of it.

Two of that squad turned up in the hospital a few months later and proceeded to burst into huge miasma clouds, no-one liked em much and this plague died out without too many tears.

The second was a chamelion that butchered a few melee types and goo'd all over everything, half my fort showed up to fetch the dead dwarves and waded through lakes of crap, it spread ridiculously around the fort while i installed decontamination showers at major intersections, contamination levels were too great so i ordered all dwarves out into the rain with a burrow while i diverted the river through my fort into the caverns to flush the place out, the sick were left to drown in the hospital.

Cue seige....

Thats all she wrote

[K17U]

"Aquifer" is actually another word for "huge drowning trap that spans an entire Z-Level".

Right now I'm being haunted by three miners who either drowned or died from cave-ins.
On the plus side, I get to see ghosties.

[Tinker Thinker]

So I decided to try out the adventure mode in my brand new .17 install (it's just some file merges, no big deal).

I get sent to kill Random Goblin McDouchenugget, and his merry band of iron-ore-in-waiting. I brought a random wrestler with me. I'm a human mauler. We get ambushed by our target, so we charge down the hillside to him and his swordsman buddy. I get them mixed up, because I forget about the shiny, and I beat the swordsman to death, and I notice the wrestler is battling the main guy who has fallen into a pit. I decided to see if I can take him out. My adventurer decides to do simultaneously the most awesome and moronic thing ever, she does a flying leap into the pit and bashes his head into a pulp on impact. But now she's trapped in the pit. No big deal, right? Wrong, there's one goblin in reserve, who comes up with a crossbow, shoots the wrassler to death, and then stands a few paces from the pit and expends his quiver in an attempt to kill me. He succeeds in tearing my ear. Instead of doing what I was expect, which is then charge me with his crossbow, he just stands there and does nothing. I can't sleep, can't travel, he's not drowsy and I am. . . I give in to starvation.

[Dakk]

I just figured out my new awesome .17 fortress is placed is such a steep cliff that the wagons will not be able to reach my depot. I just have to build a ramp from the ground up to the fortress entrance, but when I found it was already time for the first caravan to arrive, and I'm going to lose it.

[SmileyMan]

Ah!

Tried the tactic of sending a team of seven miners to dig out a shell of a fortress, until starving to death, then sending in a reclaim team afterwards.  This used to work quite well.

Now, there are ghosts everywhere!

[Oglokoog]

Ghosts! Interesting.
Can't wait for 31.18. Unfortunately, I can't use .17 because weapon traps crash the game :/

[proxn_punkd]

Finally got around to removing all the EXOTIC tags from the critter raws and taming all the weird wild things I'd caught, to make handling and butchering them easier.

Then I got a Stray Giant Cave Spider (Tame) and now I have nothing hostile/wild to feed it for a silk farm.

*facepalm*