Kilrudmokez 'Bronzecage' - 1089 Early Spring by Peter Horner

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• Δ 169. 01 Bronzecage: 6x3 Fortress in its 50th year
  Overview + Houserules
  
  A 6x3 Fortress in its 50th year that I did work upon on and off for 1,5 RL years.
  
  The aim was to build a above- and underground fortress with a massive ringwall around a large excavation. All should follow the lay of the land. The ringwall is pierced by towers which house heavy and light manufacture, housing, storage food production.
  
  House Rules:
  1) Architecture: All construction must make structural 'sense'. Spanwidth is not unlimited, floors need to be supported if wider than 8-10 squares, massive weight needs larger supports and the like.
  
  2) Mechanical Fortress: All workshops that produce goods above the basic quality need to be 'powered' (=have an active gear next to them). All drawbridges larger then 3 squares need to be powered as well, otherwise they can't be raised.
  
  3) Danger: There needs to be at least one entrance open to the outside at all times. Only 3-5 traps are allowed per entrance. No killing bridges or drowning rooms are allowed - enemies may only be killed be melee dwarves. - TanSerrai
• Δ 169. Megaproject 9+10: Curtain Wall + Moat
  The whole fortress is surrounded by a curtain wall: the wall is pierced by the manufacturing/storage/ living towers, is several tiles thick and several stories high with a fighting platform running all along it. Outside the curtainwall is a moat. The whole moat and wall follow the contours of the land (though nearly all of the original surface inside the curtain wall is gone by now).
  
  Actually the wall can only be accessed through the military tower (the only tower not piercing the surface - its below the most in the west). From there, the military access roads lead to all parts of the curtain wall and the fighting plattforms atop the towers. No civilian may go there.
  
  The moat is actually another megaproject as it can be flooded with magma at its highest point to the west...the magma then flows to the lowest point in the east where it is taken in by the fortress again, to be either routed back down to the magma sea or pumped back towards the western part of the moat. The system actually works but is - not surprisingly - a...bit...hard on FPS - TanSerrai
• Δ 165. Megaproject 1: Rerouted River on an aqueduct
  The landscape does sport a brook which did flow through the fortress. The lower edge shows the begining of this brook. This brook was rerouted into an aqueduct that does span the central void of the fortress, then exits to the north, flows through part of the moat, then reenters its original bed. One layer higher a row of waterweels do power most of the mechanical structure. There is a powerplant lower in the southeastern tower as well but I had to switch it off due to FPS. - TanSerrai
• Δ 163. The Main Entrance - 'The Maw'
  The Main Entrance into the Kilrudmokez. Outside the outer drawbride three roads come together, each cut into the cliffs, descending comfortable to the entrance level. Traders then pass through a double row of golden statues, then across the moat on a golden drawbridge flanked by two towers. Once past the towers there is an inner drawbridge and a long gallery, floored in gold, flanked by niches in which dead enemies are bound to the walls. At the end of the gallery the road descends a few levels towards the inner main concourse. Across that descent a tripple siege engine awaits enemies charging down the gallery. This setup even worked but once my military got good I did not bother anymore. Due to the graphics blinking you cannot see that the floor of the gallery, the drawbridge and everything outside are practically covered in skeletons. This entrance is left open at all times, once a caravan or siege comes one of my two squads is put on duty inside the outer drawbridge. One squad can destroy a full siege without breaking a sweat by now...once that is over the blood drains into the moat and a horde of haulers strips the goblins and trolls of their gear, throws it into the magmamoat but leaves the skeletons. Sometimes those lie three deep, only to be crushed by the (imagined) wagons of the traders. Their mules have to push through the piles of ribs to gain entrance. - TanSerrai
• Δ 161. Megaproject 2c: Main Concourse, Tombs
  This shows the tombs which are situated 1-3 levels above the Main Concourse. All along the Concourse are groups of three tombs - each tomb houses the sarcophagus of a dead dwarf, a masterwork golden statue, a cage with a captive goblin, often a totem made out of the skull of an enemy, sometimes the corpses of trusted wardogs who fell in battle. The walls are always engraved right after the death of its 'owner'. Later during the fort I did add notes with the name, date and reason of death to each new tomb. 106 dwarves did die during this forts lifetime - none were killed by goblins or the like for the last 40 years or so but I had quite a share of caveins, drownings and the usual brilliant stupidity. - TanSerrai
• Δ 160. Megaproject 2a: Main Concourse
  Well, it is debatable whether this is a megaproject at all. But since I plan to list all major constructions more or less in the sequence they were initiated here it is:
  A few level belowground the main Concourse runs all along the inner face of the ringwall. It connects all towers and the 3 central rows of it are paved in gold. The outer part of the concourse itself is roofed over a few levels higher by natural stone. The inner part sports columns reaching from the floor of the void up to higher than the ringwall. These colums are fluted and each column has a 'candelabra' on top, holding a large gem in the center and a golden statue on each arm. Seen from afar you would see the ringwall, tower rising above it - and then slender columns reaching towards the sky, glittering of gold and gems.
  
  One the western side 'tongues' of stone extend into the central void - these house the dining 'rooms'...see next PoI. - TanSerrai
• Δ 158. Megaproject 2b: Main Concourse, Dining 'Tongues'
  Here is shown one of the 'Tongues' reaching into the central void. Each Tongue houses the dining...spaces for around 15 dwarves. Each has its own well, is accessed from the Main Concourse via an access that is 'guarded' by dead goblins. One level lower you can see the seats - between the seats are major trophies like dragonskulls or Hydra corpses and the like.
  I imagine the dwarfs sitting there, looking out into the void, watching the sparks from the heavy forge hammers rain down into the void, listening to the howling of the captive goblins who 'guard' the tombs of the dwarven dead a few levels up. - TanSerrai
• Δ 158. Megaproject 5: Power infrastructure
  One level above the magma distribution, two above water distribution run the tunnels along which power is distributed all through the fortress to all workshops and drawbridges. Power comes from a few windmills on top of the towers, from a large number of waterwheels in the Aqueduct and from a powerplant in the lower level of the storage tower (southeast). Many parts of the whole system can be switched on and off, to be able to reroute power or to only power emergency grids (necessary for the drawbridges....) if a part of the system should fail. Once I had the whole thing grind to a halt due to a mistake, luckily never through a siege...
  
  Total power output is over 6000. - TanSerrai
• Δ 157. Megaproject 4: Magma infrastructure
  One level above the Water Ring is the Magma Ring. It draws Magma from a 140 level pumpstack (yeh gods, that one took ages...), distributes magma to all magmaforges and smelters in the 'Heavy Manufacture Tower' (to the northeast), can flood the central void, provides magma which can flow through the Amphiteatre...AND it provides magma for the Magma Moat (explained later...). Oh, yes, and it provides Magma for the 'Fist of Armok'.
  All magma comes from the Magma Sea - and can be drained back into the same sea. - TanSerrai
• Δ 156. Megaproject 3: Water infrastructure
  Again running all around the central void, 4 levels below the Main Concourse you can see the water distribution suystem (or 'ring'). It is fed from the brook, can be drained via pumpstacks back into the brook and - of course - flood the central void in times of need. From this central ring all necessary water can be drawn. Each Dining 'Tongue' has its own well which draws its water (via flooding chambers) from the ring. The watersystem also floods the food plots - and the outer shell of the Gemstorage.
  
  To the right of the PoI marker you can see the massive colums which support the water aqueduct (its shadow can be seen as well) - TanSerrai
• Δ 154. Megaproject 6: The Fist of Armok
  The main temple of the fort - a 38 level tower built entirely of gold. And what would a good temple to Armok be without magma, eh? At the base of the tower there is a double magma reservoir - the top one is shaped like a bowl, filled with magma from which the tower itself does rise. Magma can be pumped up the tower for 30+ levels to then exit through two spouts in the top (= the 'Fist') and cascade down the outside back into the bowl. Since the tower is the highest structure of the entire fortress and rises quite a bit above the curtain walls I think it would look pretty impressive seen at night from far off. (note that the magmafall is currently switched off due to FPS...sigh) - TanSerrai
• Δ 154. Megaproject 7: Gem Storage
  I think that with all the wealth that had been dug up over the years a worth gem vault was needed. This vault is a vertical double drum made of green glass. The inner drum is used to store gems in (mostly) golden bins (took a bit of fiddling to make that work...). The space between inner and outer drum is filled with water, so anyone boring into the outer drum will be blown back the way he came in. The outer drum rests on supports which can be cut if needed, destroying the whole thing. And no, I will not tell anyone where those levers are. The only access to the vault is via a drawbridge. I imagine it should look nice seen from outside to have the golden bins and single gems glitter behind the curtain of water. - TanSerrai
• Δ 148. Megaproject 8: Kolloseum
  A place for merriment: A ringshaped kolloseum. It can house all of the fortress on masterwork golden thrones. The central pit is surrounded by a moat that can be flooded with lava...in fact the plain of the central pit can be flooded with magma as well if any pesky creatures refuse to die. Access to the kolloseum is via a green glass bridge to the east which arcs down fro mthe main concourse and is decorated by the usual golden statues.
  
  To the west of the kolloseum you can start to see the magmabowl from which the fist of armok rises.
  
  To the southeast you can see one of the 3 levels of the perpetuum-mobile-powerplants. - TanSerrai
• Δ 147. Megaproject 11: Magma Garden
  Below the 'Dining Tongues' on the western floor of the central void a 'Magma Garden' is being constructed. Not finished yet but getting there. It consists of several terrasses (further terrasses can be seen if you go down a few floors). The top ones can be filled with magma from the magma channel running below the central concourse. The excess then spills over into the lower terrasses - and so on.
  
  Should be an impressive view to the diners above... - TanSerrai

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• Fortress Name: Kilrudmokez 'Bronzecage'
• Map Year: 1089 Early Spring
• Author: Peter Horner
• Submitted by: Peter Horner
• Date Added: 22/12/2011