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.
@Nerts time to build a dwarven guillotine
the difference being that, instead of using valuable metal to kill nobility or trying to engineer the known hazard of underground magma, they set up a super-impressive drawbridge for the noble to "inspect"