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[StagnantSoul]

If a spear dwarf gets his spear stuck, he'll start bashing. Most weapons get stuck sometimes, so it's good to have a heavy copper shield to do some whacking with.

[pisskop]

Can you control what they do? I thought you could just order them to use stuff and hope they would pick up what you told them to get and then use it in a (at least marginally) sensible way. I guess not giving them weapons would induce bashing behavior, though.

Dwarves will occasionally shield bash.  If you want to optimize them for damage give them heavy shields, so that even a maimed dwarf can still fight.

  If you want them to be fast to respond use lighter shields, so they can move that much faster.  I usually mix both, having a light and heavy version using the appropriate loadouts.

[StagnantSoul]

I always have a mixture of light and heavy soldiers:

Drapnir (not sure what it even means, or where I heard it, but it sounds cool) for heavy soldiers, consisting of metal everything, plus five leather cloaks, hoods, mittens and socks.

Then, Vilkai, for light soldiers. A metal weapon, mail shirt, helmet, then leather armour, leggings, gloves, boots, socks, mittens, one cloak and hood, and a wooden shield.

Ranged combat is completely ignored by me.

[PatrikLundell]

Googled Draupnir (= The Dripper): A magical ring owned by Odin in the norse mythology. Every ninth night it produces 8 new rings of the same weight as the original.

Thanks for clarifying the use of a heavy shield vs a light one.

[StagnantSoul]

Oh, Norse mythology. That explains why I knew it. Fixing all the names now. It was forged by dwarves, a fitting name for the strongest of my dwarven soldiers.

[Garath]

I've had some cassiterite occasionally between caverns, which is nice for making bronze. I quite like bronze since it's more likely to be available to me than iron