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[Troas]

I like to make my military triple threats.  To do this I train as follows:

recruits - spar unarmed
wrestlers - spar with hammer
hammerdwarves - crossbow target practice
marksdwarves - spar unarmed

Whenever I get a notice that "Rith McUrnst has become a Xxxxxx" I swap his equipment over, and check the rest to see if I missed any.

This way they are always working on their worst skill. When my first wrestler (and unit commander) went elite, I thought it was odd that while he was "great" in wrestling he was only a (noname) hammerdwarf.  So I placed him on hammer sparring duty, and confirmed that he had a Silver Warhammer in inventory.  After producing two more elite wrestlers, my first one went Champion.  He's now a legendary wrestler, but still a (noname) Hammerdwarf, and he still has a Silver War hammer in his right hand. 

Also - when set to use crossbows, elite wrestlers grab them but seem to continue sparring.  This may be related to bug #000528

[Toady One]

Do you have a save where the dwarf is sparring or about to spar?  It's possible that the dwarf is refusing to use the hammer because wrestling is what he is good at and the combat rolls there are judged more in his favor if he wrestles.

I'll need the region folder in some kind of zip/rar/7z, and any new objects that were added to the raw folder.  If it's less than 20 megs, you can send it to toadyone@bay12games.com.  You can also try The Dwarf Fortress File Depot which has a special section for bugged saves.

[Troas]

That makes sense.  I ran for another year and watched closely - the heroes are gaining skill in their assigned weapon, but very slowly.  And they gain skill in wrestling quickly while doing so. 

Here's the bugged save: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=391 - in the 7z I included all of the seasonal snapshots for 2 years.  Ritholonul (the first elite & champion wrestler) is sparring in most of them.