@Cyclone I think the way you've acted have been in line with the way you play your civ, and that's what matters! Dag being friendly to the goblins in a mine they made and/or claimed would probably go against his character. At least, in my opinion.

it seems you both come from a similar land before settling here. Perhaps you came from the same home? Perhaps lycans are actually skraelings? :^)
Jokes aside, I see potential here, if you two want to explore anything like that.

The tales of our ancestors spoke of some other lands, but we found them dead and just as frozen as our own. So we could only sail past them, farther south, following the warmth.

Fair points and I agree that something like that would have been a good approach, but the problem as a whole is that the settlement was barely developed or organised yet and the defence as a whole was haphazard and very short notice (and frankly the OOC planning of the battle wasn't handled very well either, but let's not get into that). I'm not sure the pre-knowledge of the enemy's movements, the organisational ability, time and resources were really there to make an elaborate defence. But maybe I'm just making excuses for my lack of creativity.

This does make me wonder if the cult includes war time engineers/sappers though, I hadn't really considered that.

Turn 8 is live.

Also, I've been sick for about two weeks straight and my cold have now hopped down to my lungs, of which I'll get a checkup for tomorrow. Shouldn't be a giant issue but if I'm slow and/or some of the text seems lazy or is missing things, that's why. Just lemme know as usual if I missed antyhing and I'll fix.