After surviving a pair of goblin "ambushes" every other season for three years, i grew bored of my creation and abandoned it. Seeking to get more dwarves in the second reclaim, the first reclaim was about 30 dwarves and headed for the adamantine. All of them were axe dwarves, and fought the demons over the chasm in the related movie.
This map is the aftermath of the failed second reclaim. Of seventy (70) spear dwarves only one remains alive, though mangled in the left upper leg and without food or drink.
Never, ever engage tentacle demons (or any demon really) in melee without very highly skilled and well equiped dwarves. Normal skilled dwarves with basic quality is simply not enough, no matter how many number you may have.
Personal Diary of Smomku Usmzatosno:
My left leg has been mangled by a magma man that my squad and i managed to defeat even barely (as my clothing will surely show) There were 70 of us when we started this operation. 10 of us fell to those horrors, they were waiting for us behind the rocks on the surface, but we did the same to them more then half our number of fallen.
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After, we decided to send the dogs in first. 70 of them there were, one for each of us, and trained to be apt in warfare; but not in warfare such as this. This, it was a slaughter. 30 dogs to a single demon, and it did not help them that they had aquired the taste for meat as they had chewed up a pack of naked mole dogs on their way in towards their deaths.
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Then our commander gets the bright idea to split into a few groups of seven and cover different parts of the fortress, but the bastard took 40 of them with him to the pits, and across such a narrow bridge! At least my mayor, my commander, we elected before we got here by lottery wasn't as much of a short-beard... The sounds of the fight are dying down. Could this be it, could we have won our hard fought battle? I'm so thristy for a cave wheat beer, and so tired.
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How long could it be before rescue comes?
Adamantine was found after all, and that's why we're here, to secure it and send it back to the mountain home. Surely, surely there's another squad on it's way here? Maybe, sleep, for a little while. - Mechanoid
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Submitted by: Cheepicus - 2009-09-30 to 10 Early Spring
Nice epic fortress death.