I Imagine it'd be hard for the goblins to learn their lesson when none of them make it back to tell the other goblins how dangerous it is. They probably thought to themselves "gee, that raiding party we sent hasn't come back. It must have been some kind of paradise for them to want to stay" which would have made the fort a hot tourist destination. I don't think they're very smart.

A single soldier was brought down by the largest of armies... What if you upgraded to 2 soldiers?

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="135">2:15</a>: "All she wanted to do was get drunk and yell at the mayor" - the funniest part is it kind of all makes sense. Like I'm imagining her screaming at the mayor - Soldier: "MR. MAYOR! I AM THE *ONLY* THING STANDING BETWEEN OUR SETTLEMENT AND THE MONSTERS! MR. MAYOR!!! ARE YOU REALLY OKAY WITH THAT?!?!?! Mayor: "Yes. You're doing just fine, run along and train now" Soldier: "MAYOR, PLEASE!!! I AM BEGGING YOU!!! JUST ONE MORE SOLDIER!!! WHAT IF I DIE?!" Mayor: "Well then I'll hire two more soldiers to replace you because one won't be as good as the soldier you've trained to be" Soldier: "...I'm going to go have a drink"

Since exhaustion is the issue with well-armored dwarves, consider augmenting your one dwarf army by turning them undead if you have a necromancer citizen I had one undead soldier lose both arms then dodge a bronze colossus for 4 months before finally going down

T Shoutout to the ONE goblin on <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="202">3:22</a> who decided they didn't want to get disemboweled today. Truly the wisest of all its peers.

I like to imagine the failed siege went something like "guys our last group got entirely wiped out by ONE dwarf. Imagine what would happen if their entire army fought us!"

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="294">4:54</a> I had that issue a lot too! For me, setting "Uniform replaces clothing" instead of "Wear Uniform over clothing" in the equip menu worked

“Superior training and superior weaponry have, when taken together, a geometric effect on overall military strength. Well-trained, well-equipped troops can stand up to many more times their lesser brethren than linear arithmetic would seem to indicate.” - Spartan Battle Manual (quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)

you could do a rotation where there are 4 soldiers and each is responsible for a single seasons' defense

Just make your one soldier a vampire and you are all set!

*"Against all the evil that Hell can conjure, all the wickedness that dwarfkind can produce, we will send unto them... only you. Rip and tear, until it is done"*

i love her disdain for shoes

stories of these kinds of sieges are why i'm relived to have an artifact floodgate in a small hamlet next to a river

"Pitting one dwarf against the world is really just a fair fight." Yea, that seems about right.

love the tight design style! Gonna try using some dormitaries instead of 3x3 rooms.

I was really hoping the super soldier to be kitted out with adamantine, artifacts and buried treasures.

While it probably goes against the spirit of the challenge, I bet using a locked door to only let the sieging goblins in a handfull at a time would give any dwarf super soldier enough of a break to weather basically any goblin attack.

Would expanding the entrance labyrinth have helped? If so, that means there's no defence too little. Only fortress not deep enough.

I joined the Patreon today because my kids (daughter 11, son 9) love watching your videos with me and told me to. ❤

The reason they dont wear boots is because you nned to put the "Wear instead of clothes" order (or was it replace clothing?) when creating an armor set for a squad. Otherwise, they absolutely refuse their boots, and prefer their linen flip-flops or whatever in combat.

The biggest flaw I felt I was seeing was the long hallways. The small winding hallways went well due to a lack of range for the goblins. It makes me wonder if you had a large number of winding hallways drastically increasing the distance so it could easily handle a 100 goblin army without increasing line of sight.

Recognizing the difference between FUN and fun... I feel seen.

I remember one time being besieged by an army of elves and the macelord captain of my squad ran out on his own and fought like a bear, killing 37 elves on his own until he met his match with an actual bear whom he traded mortal wounds with

What I love most about you is how you just go into a Fortress and accept the most horrendous outcomes in order for an interesting story to play out! (Or plan the horrendous outcomes ahead)

Fun idea and great video, but can we talk about that absolute banger of a thumbnail?

See I always make large 2 or 3 wide halls with grand rooms since I always felt like there wasn't enough room for the dwarves to go around. Maybe I should be a bit more compact. It'd probably make things go so much quicker in my forts! Great video!

its pretty cool that the military dorf was a migrant from your previous fort. One of the things i like about the game.

Man, I used to play DF around... 10, 11 years ago must be? My tactic was always: - 2 lucky dwarves in small pass-through barracks - set them to eternal training with wooden weapons, shields, and whatever armor I could scrounge up - in the meantime, dig a long snaking 2 tile wide corridor - dig two channels in the corridor, remove ramps, place draw bridges - one pit/bridge at thr very entrance to the surface, the other just outside the barracks on the fortress side - turtle up, wait two years. Gather resources, find cotton candy, forge weapons and armor. Whistle a bit. Make sure the soldiers are still training. - when a siege comes, let them in, make sure every enemy is in the long snake corridor - raise the surface-side bridge - take a moment to behold my two sweaty oiled up blue-clad deities - watch the goblins, trolls, beak dogs etc be ground into fine paste by the pain train Good times, always fun to watch. I tended to always have a mace dwarf with a lead or preferably gold/platinum mace, and the other was whatever was my mood for the current playthrough. Once I did it with two legendary wrestlers, that was maybe less effective but somehow more metal with the two of them just manually dismantling the whole siege force limb by limb.

Ah good, another hoodie video. Felt like ages!

Sad drunk is a mood.

reminds me of the "superdwarvinly strong, superdwarvenly tough, superdwarvenly agile" days where one soldier really could handle a whole siege single handedly with good steel equipment.

I don't know why I got recommended it, but this video was a bit like seeing someones life story. I was hooked for some reason. I never even played Dwarf Fortress. I think I gonna give it a try! Thanks :)

thanks Hoodie, your videos the reason why i'm still coming back and playing DF

This is like if you had adventure mode but restricted to one fort and your job was just killing threats as the fortress was built around you. That actually sounds like a fun game now that I think of it

I think this might work with an undead warrior, since they don't get tired.

Brings to mind: "One riot, one Ranger."

[<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="120">2:00</a>] when you build a fort like that I get the feeling your about to flood ot with something eventually

This was before the adventure mode, building a super soldier after that WILL BE INSANE

this has inspired me to optimize my military by simply placing them each in their own sequential 3x3 room. If one dwarf is doing all that then why would I waste the others' time

Awesome idea and challenge. It's cool that you were strong and never considered changing the rules to 2 or 3 soldiers instead. :D Looking forward to your Adventure Mode videos!

I love this format of video! can't wait to see what u will do in adventure mode

One dwarf in the right place can make all the difference in the world

Such an underrated channel

You gotta force them to remove their civilian clothes when in armour, since they won't be smart enough to remove their own boots. And they can't fit the armoured boots over their civilian ones.

Lol I just had the same problem when it comes to boots. You gotta select them as metal footwear, at least that's what I did.

people are out here suggesting all these ideas to make this challenge more feasible but in reality all you need is a windier hallway. the dwarf only died when they went up the stairs where they got swarmed - a longer hallway that splits up the invaders better would have easily solved the issue.

if you want them to wear the boots you have to select the armor replaces clothing option when creating a new uniform

Heavily armoured like an Ironbreaker with combat skills and experience akin to those of a Longbeard. This pint size terminator was a death dealer among the dark and narrow corridors of the once mighty fortress. I am on a tangent here but I have always thought that the Dwarfs are extremely deadly in underground tunnel combat due to spacial restriction. The giant cave battles shown in Warhammer wouldn't make much sense because they were too spacious and didn't go well with the dwarf "blockage" tactics or the Skaven's ambushes.

Why are these so fun to watch?

From experience, dwarf are monsters and can solo siege, problem is whip, if it hits it will hit hard

Few war dogs would have been all you needed

this was awesome!

Super fun idea! Do you think it could be done if you had a dwarf with exceptional stamina and really min maxed with armor?

A single dwarf is like 100 500kg bombs from helldivers 2

and here i was, hoping for a story of a single mortal overcoming its physical limitations ascending to godhood

Hoodie hairrrrrrr lets goooooooooo

Who needs any soldiers at all just use magma 🤑

I've been wondering if I make the minerals generation sparse on my world, does that prevent my world to enter on a goblin era? Since they will have little to not access to good metals

You should do a "Let's play series" and do long format video content, I'm sure people would watch!

If you only have one person in the military, do they train slower since they are unable to watch demonstrations or spar?

ye i tried this once when i discovered my manager was a intelligent undead when they cut a clown in half with a pickaxe as a result her stats limits were insane and they did not get tried the only thing that could kill them was Webs with eventually was the case

she fought the good fight

sieges are the casual filter, not the challenge

Dastot the Destroyer

I wonder if the single soldier could have won forever if they had full artifact armor

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So the main reasons why your militia dies is either recklessness or militia not wearing their equipment properly... sounds like some things never change. You can still make terminator dwarves though. Though they seem less godlike than in the really old versions.

When does adventure mode drop? I mean a time? Are you going to make AM videos?

How about a hospital focused fortress. The game has so much medical functionality to play with! :) love the videos!

I always thought that you had to gave at least 2 soldiers for them to train weapon skills (through sparring)...

Is you can make a giant trap (fall, magma, drown, anything), i would gladly watch it

could they have survived if u made more snaking hallways upstairs?

Now what if you were able to make them undead so they don’t get tired?😊

Yep my militia commander had all the best character description to indicate that they'll be an unstoppable killer. But after the 1st or 2nd siege, they became incurably depressed. It's a game-breaking bug in my opinion. The fighters are too mentally fragile.

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This is why you don't give women weapons. Or a dwarf a sword.

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On the subject of war, do you think it's possible to genocide the elves? Or at least wipe out one of their kingdoms?

How terrifying for the goblins in the back as the listened to the sounds of the dwarf hacking closer and closer.