DF is fun for a lot of reasons but the way your problems can swing from "dug into an underground lake from the bottom, 5 floors of mines are flooded, 6 dead 12 missing" to "one of the hunting dogs got stung by a bug" is very funny
I do like that not wanting elves to do eco terrorism to you for cutting down too many trees in this means you end up doing the dwarfy thing of making household items out of rock and weird alloys
what's billon? an alloy of copper and silver too soft to make weapons or structures out of, so ideal for mugs right
this run has been weirdly quiet with raids so far, so I've got a squad of guys suited up in iron armour and pretty well trained, a well kitted out hospital, etc, that I haven't to use to do much but chase kobolds off. unlike the previous game where half my dwarves died in month 14 when a necromancer sieged the place.
gonna build up a bit more, get a second squad kitted out and then dig down and down until I find the caverns.
it's a shame coins don't seem to be more valuable than the bars you make them out of though, might still make a bunch as a flex
building a bridge and a 10 floor deep pit with iron spikes at the bottom of it for my main entrance
jeez, my guard captain hit a croc with his axe and took it's head off on the first swing
skills really make or break combat in this. armour is just about staying alive long enough to git gud, weapons are about bypassing armour of anyone who's gotten gud
because when you hit legendary in a couple of combat skill you can do fights against less armoured things like this
somewhat gruesome discussion of DF combat
@Nerts I love DF's combat system, even if it's hilariously awkward to do manually in adventure mode. It's way more intricate than almost anything else--your dwarves don't have hit points, they have bones that can be broken, limbs that can be torn off, blood that can be lost and result in loss of consciousness, hell they even have lungs that can be punctured, and the game even goes so far as to model their *liver* (which is proportionally much larger than humans', to account for all the alcohol)
and every type of injury has different effects on them, both temporary and permanent
-F
