Well, well, well. It's finally come to this. Our first invasion and we've been caught completely unprepared.
Things we need to successfully fend off an invasion:
- Soldiers
- Weapons
- Armor
- Traps
- Hospital
- Doctor
Things we don't have:
- Soldiers
- Weapons
- Armor
- Traps
- Hospital
- Doctor
So, that's obviously a problem that we have to solve in a big way!
Getting ourselves some soldiers is relatively easy, we just need to assign a new Administrator/Noble as our Militia Commander, which unlocks our ability to creat our first Squad!
Getting armor and weapons... that one is a bit trickier and will take some additional workshop creation. It's not time we have right now, so I cross my fingers and hope that in our default supplies we've been sent a sword or two. Maybe a shield if we're lucky. Maybe, if we're really lucky, some kind of low-tier armor.
It does turn out that we are slightly lucky. We have some T1 armor and weapons lying around in boxes from our Embarkment, so a couple of dwarves are able to suit up and with them charging in and the rest of the squad right behind to rain some punches, bites, and kicks on the zombies... we're able to push back this first, blessedly small, invasion.
That could have gone a lot worse for us. Thankfully, this seemed to be more of an expeditionary force meant to test our capabilities. Five undead aren't much of a threat without their necromancer there to constantly bring them back.
With the assault behind us, we ensure that a Chief Medical Dwarf has been assigned, and our Hosipital zoned and furnished, so that if we end up getting into future scraps that cause us wounds we can actually do something about them.
Dwarves are surprisingly resilient, and can take quite the beating. You can have dwarves without legs just motoring around on crutches just fine, as an example. Things only get really problematic when they loose their ability to grasp, since then they can't change clothes, eat, or drink. Thankfully, we haven't had to deal with that so far!
And that's going to be it for today. We covered a lot of ground fairly rapidly today. Next time we'll start trying to properly outfit our militia.
As always, until next time my friends: Happy Gaming!
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