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[Balistic604]

I had a tower on one of my walls and had stationed some marksdwarves there during a siege. Well instead of shooting through the fortifications they instead got the bright idea to climb to the very top of the tower, over the walls and jump off the side to go shoot at them from the ground.

Needless to say they got slaughtered. Short of walling off the ceiling to prevent them from climbing on top, is there a way to stop them from advancing towards enemies when they are armed with crossbows?

[Magistrum]

Try keeping some ammo inside the tower so that they don't feel tempted to bash other's skulls in when they run out of bolts. Creating a ceiling is more certain, but you can also create only a small overhang so that they can't path over the fortifications.

[Balistic604]

That's the thing though. They had ammo yet they still pathed outside the tower and climbed down to shoot at them. It's like they were trying to get at point blank range to shoot them.

[Magistrum]

I usually make my towers so that there's no path to the enemy, but other than that there aren't many options... Did they fire at enemy after they came down? If not you may have problems with them equipping bolts, since they don't recognize bolts inside bins.

[utunnels]

You can use fortifications.

[Balistic604]

I did use fortifications, they just climbed out. When they got on the ground they just fired at the enemy there. It's not like they were dodging arrows off of anything either. The marksdwarves were shooting at some hammergoblins.

[se5a]

Are you able to confirm that they're climbing over the fortifications not jumping through them?

there was talk somewhere that dwarfs were jumping through them, but over seems more likely.
I'm having the same problem. making an overhang is a good idea, I'll have to try that after this current seige.

[StagnantSoul]

Remove training bolts from their outfits.

[Aslandus]

What's their marksdwarf skill? Just a guess, but maybe they don't want to shoot from the top of the tower because they don't think they can hit from there and wanted to get closer for a better shot?

[Magistrum]

Dwarves don't care about chance of hitting yet, so he probably has a tower that let they see the enemy before they approach enough to shoot.
Try using station oders instead of kill orders, so that they will stand ground. You may also make it so that your tower don't has path to the enemy.