Garlicgrass - 206 Mid Spring by Aquilegia

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Progress is getting a lot slower with a lower FPS now. I've had my first real siege, 6 goblins were shot from the gate-towers, 6 were caged in my caged traps. Also the baron, tax-gatherer, hammerer and some other noble has just arrived now and things are going well.

Point of Interest: Towers

Here I've build some above ground defensive works above my main entrance. The towers are connected by staircases to my barracks 'deep' into the fortress for a fast response, negating the long paths with the bridge/maze/trap-system.

The one tile bridge should be permanently raised since this is my counter-attack bridge, but currently my dwarves are linking it to a lever. Since the path from the towers to the outside is very very long (you have to go down into the fortress, passing the trap-mazes when the bridges are up to the top of the hill and then go down again pass the second trap-maze before you can go outside, I decided to build that third tower in the nw and connect it with a bridge.

Now if I wish to counterattack in siege I just have to lower the bridge, unforbid the doors and they can strike at the invaders.

The towers have seen some use with my first siege. My 3 marksdwarves were able to shoot down 6 goblins and 6 others were cage-trapped. My military is still not very efficient. I have 20 legendary wrestlers now, but this will change once (if ever) my smiths are trained up enough. - Aquilegia

There are 2 comments for this map series, last post 2009-06-14

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Submitted by: Huttuunen - 2009-06-13 to 204 Early Autumn

This is actually pretty cool fortress already. :)
You are doing very well if this is your first fortress!

Submitted by: Aquilegia - 2009-06-14 to 204 Early Autumn

Thanks :) I actually read almost the entire wiki before getting started so that might have helped a bit, but I intend to keep playing with this one until I understand also the late-game so my next fortresses won't fail just after I spend days on some magnificent designs for them : )

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