-12- [Machinemornings] (2.6) Knowledge is power

Time for another Great Leap Forward for Machinemornings !

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1st of Granite, 257
It seems I have forgotten myself. I seem to have been in this room for so long I barely remember any people. I must've been in here a long time, I barely remember the years going by. I better take a tour of the fortress so that I won't be ruling it via the old blueprints.

... Looking through the orders for the military, it's no wonder we lost them all last week. They wear only breastplates, greaves, shields and warhammers.. Anyway, it's recruitment time.
And it's SCIENCE time as well. We could agree on which method of training was faster, so i set up an experiment.
We had two legendary+5 hammerdwarves and one adept (7). I gave each of these battle-hardened dwarves a green recruit to train with. The squads are "Ghost", "Solon" and "Urist". I then made three new squads, concidentally named "new1", "new2" and "new3". In each of these are two Fresh recruits. Everybody has the same equipment (that's the order I gave at least) and are ordered to train 2 dwarves at a time. (100%) Skills

3rd of Granite, 257
Uh. Somebody's knocking at the gates. I can hear GhostofGod's voice outside. He must have been there for a couple of days now, so I assume it's safe to open. You probably won't hear from me again if it's not safe.

18th of Granite, 257
As I was waiting for the recruits to start sparring, something unbelievable happened. Migrants arrived. We're at 197 dwarves in total now. Faster hauling, I guess.

25th of Granite, 257
I have bad news and I have good news. Which do you want to hear first? Well, the good news is that my eldest daughter has withdrawn from society in a very recognisable way. The bad news is that she'll never become a proper smith now that she's going to be a craftsdwarf. Oh well..

28th of Granite, 257
Most of the recruits are in their uniforms now. Yay! They're only watching each others' crappy dodging demonstrations, though, no sparring yet. I certainly hope that improves.

1th of Slate, 257
The, erm, "roof" is complete. At least it's patterned prettily, though it don't quite understand its function.

20th of Slate, 257
Finally, they're sparring!

1st of Felsite, 257
It's a goddamned awful job to be overseer! We have a prisoner, who every other second tries to speak to my conscience by shouting that the chain is restraining him, keeping him from reaching his bed. sigh

2nd of Felsite, 257
I'm proud of my kid again now. She made a Goblin bone shield with images of the Queen and the founding of our proud home. Behold, The Pink Allegiance

14th of Felsite, 257
A VILE FORCE OF DARKNESS HAS ARRIVED
It's wonderfully powerful. Lashers. Bowmen. Axemen. Spearmen. Cave dragon Cave dragons. Lords and masters. Horrible, huge, furry monsters. The leader has a silver warhammer. That's a tactic they share with us.
However, we aren't ready. We have 3 trained soldiers, the rest are just dabbling. We can't even rely on a squad of newly drafted marksdwarves, since they've got ranged support as well. We're gonna have to wait for them to leave or our army to become stronger.

15th of Felsite, 257
They've spotted the guard dogs. I've ordered six haulers to take up the crossbow.

Those savages! The goblin leader and his mount bite off a paw each!

20th of Felsite, 257
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. WHO DUG THE TRENCH? IT IS TOO DEEP. THERE'S A WAY INTO THE FORTRESS. Pray. Pray hard and fast. It won't help, but why the hell not

23th of Felsite, 257
Somebody died of thirst, which I don't quite understand since we have over 300 units of drinks and the brewers set to repeat and with no other jobs to do.

10th of Hematite, 257
What's this? A new invention? Silver crossbows. All made by my kids? I told you they'd be of use!

(meta: it's possible to allow kids to work through therapist. I modded the raws to allow crossbows to be made from silver. All for flavour)

28th of Hematite, 257
Finally, proper marksdwarf training!

14th of Galena, 257
Just as I had finished the new needle pillows, more gobbos show up. This time with Trolls. Oh well, back to work.

1th of Sandstone, 257
Those new gobbos aren't anywhere near the wall. Our bolts can't reach them. But I think it's time for a cavern expedition for some melee training. I've spotted a bunch of Olm Men, who would have been no problem if we'd had any armor at all. Alas, we have none, and I've ordered a smelting operation instead.

10th of Timber, 257
I've dared venturing outside. I stationed half our army, including the skilled marksdwarf squad just out side and hope they can take care of eventual hostiles.
Time for a cleanup

11th of Timber, 257
Too early!

14th of Timber, 257
I send the army. Our marksdwarves hail them down and they scatter. Some hammerdwarves, including GhostofGod decide to charge. He's kicked dead in the face, getting his skull jammed through the brain. A day of strife and sorrow. We will fight on!

The goblins are quicky killed, though not without another loss. The sole goblin bowman keeps evading the charging hammerdwarves and gets a lucky shot through another dwarf's skull. Also, 2 civillian losses. All in all, the military did better than expected, but it it a sad day.

3rd of Moonstone, 257
An outpost liason has arrived!!

22nd of Moonstone, 257
We traded a glorious amount of food for a few silver corkscrews. No idea why those corkscrews were worth 3-8k urists each..

24th of Moonstone, 257
I think egrutt knows it's his turn soon..

17th of Obsidian, 257
A small ambush, which we dispersed with only one novice hammerdwarf wounded (by a goblin hammerman)

26th of Obsidian, 257
Another ambush .. dead. egrutt is unhappy with GhostofGod's tomb filled with silver statues. I've ordered some other statues constructed. He'll have to place them himself.

1st of Granite, 258
Today is the day egrutt is appointed duchy. It seems power is what he wants - I'll give it to him. My time as overseer is over, I hope we'll all live to see me back by the command keyboard.

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My FPS was quite low. Didn't measure it, but it took a while to play. I hope it won't be too much for my pc when my next turn comes around. The gates are open, but we have guard animals stationed, and our army is quite effective at dispatching goblins, especially the 'Snipers' marksdwarves squad...
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