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[Firearrow15]

So when setting up a small basic military, is it necessary to ever have them set to inactive? Meaning, will soldiers set to active/training stop training long enough to eat, drink, and sleep? Do I need to make a barracks dorm and food stockpile in the barracks so they will not die?

In other words, do I need to change their schedule so that they can rest for a month between training months?

[smeeprocket]

no they will do all that themselves also if you go to m then s you can modify their schedule so that all ten don't train every month. I usually set it to 3 or 4 minimum, as opposed to 10. Then you still have maybe 6 of the squad doing other things.

[Firearrow15]

Ok thanks. Will they starve to death if I station them somewhere permanantly?

[smakemupagus]

Ok thanks. Will they starve to death if I station them somewhere permanantly?

No, they'll leave station when starving or dying of thirst, but you're better off using the Military->Schedule tool to a standing order that requires only a sub-set of the squad to stand at a point marked by a Note.  Then they'll automatically rotate on and off duty without getting upset.  You can similarly automate patrols between several points, or issue multiple guard orders to split the squad between points.

[greycat]

As a counterpoint, my main squads never go off duty.  I do not mess with orders and alerts and schedules and all of that.  I just assign the whole squad to train all year, all the time, every dwarf.  They take breaks for food/booze/sleep whenever they need to.

You don't really need all that micromanagement.

[Bumber]

You only need to set them to inactive if you want them to do civilian labors, or if you need to force them to unequip something (e.g., a training sword they've gotten attached to.)

[Scrip]

As a counterpoint, my main squads never go off duty.  I do not mess with orders and alerts and schedules and all of that.  I just assign the whole squad to train all year, all the time, every dwarf.  They take breaks for food/booze/sleep whenever they need to.

You don't really need all that micromanagement.

And you never had unhappy dwarf with 100% training?
I usually train 5 out of 10 dwarfs in each squad.

[Codyo]

I make my dwarves train all the time too. If they're unhappy that's too bad, they have a finely crafted bed to admire. Once they're experts with their weapons they no longer get draft thoughts anyway.

[smakemupagus]

IMO the main problem with 10/10 training is not dwarves getting mad but time wasted "waiting for demonstration" to begin while stragglers are sleeping or drinking.

[Bumber]

And you never had unhappy dwarf with 100% training?
I usually train 5 out of 10 dwarfs in each squad.

They don't get unhappy thoughts for training in DF2014, and the unhappiness didn't reset properly prior to that.