But then again, someone like Urwumpe may set us up with a god-tier defense, and the place could drag on past the point of even incompetent rulers or uncontrollable Dwarven Stupidity™ being able to fell us for many years (unlikely.) :hmm:
While my defense works are really a piece of art
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and as far as I can tell in my current fortress, extremely devastating even when all goes wrong, I recommend my latest insight: A properly set up training program and a carefully balanced army is much more important than all walls, traps and guard dogs.
On Tuesday, the realization "Oh my Vraccas, I have no time for closing the gates" turned quickly into a "Oh, only two dead dwarfs and not even the single human maceman made it home."
33 dwarfs with good steel equipment are really great, despite only ten of them actually being competent. But need a lot of time to be trained and training injuries can still happen. Luckily nobody dies of infection now, that I have lots of soap and good medical dwarfs.
The changes in stone management make my current fortress design pretty suboptimal, I currently need to find out a better strategy to build good defenses quickly, because I am always running low on stone blocks. I am still unhappy there, the current fortress needed much too long before it can really harm invaders.
When I have my new PC, I can sure also find some time for such a fortress project. We should still try using a smaller map, I need to run small maps because big maps are too much for my memory. I am pretty sure, others also can't run the bigger maps easily.
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Similarly, I think having extreme protection is boring. I mean, you can simply put a wall in front of your door and live off plump helmets the rest of your life, right?
If you have no interest in wood or fish (or a cave) or no interest in trade. Also it is pretty hard to have animal pens underground.
A good defense forms the base for the offense, but then, no single defense is worth its money, if you don't have at least Marksdwarfs to give the enemies something to eat.