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[inteuniso]

Hey, I just got my first immigrant wrestler. He's a novice wrestler, hammerdwarf, shield user, and armor user. Does this happen often?

[hexedmagica]

Yeah, Immigrant soldiers pop up every once in a while.

[Malrin]

It's happened to me every now and again, but they seem to be less common than a non-soldier dwarf.

But perhaps if you tweaked your fortress to be more military-centralized, you'll get more immigrant soldiers.

[Arrkhal]

They're incredibly rare.  And utterly worthless.

One time I had a moody peasant who was demanding silk cloth when I had none.  I stationed my immigrant marksdwarf in the room with the stupid peasant, just in case he went berzerk.  And he did go berzerk, of course.  And the stupid marksdwarf was off drinking herself into a stupor, of course.  The berzerk peasant chased around children and peasants, straight into the apartment complex, of course.  I stationed the marksdwarf to the apartments instead of the now-vacant workshop, and hoped for the best.  She showed up after he had killed 7 others, including an infant and two children.  She shot him in the hand, then charged and tried to engage in melee, becoming his 8th kill.  I finally drafted all my miners, still with picks, and the 3 miners in the apartment complex, none of whom were even up to proficient yet, struck down the peasant in the blink of an eye.  The bastard also managed to mangle another baby, giving him red wounds to the head, lower body, and all four limbs.

I swear, immigrant military dwarves are better off trained as soapers, while the soapers, lye makers, fish dissectors, etc., make better soldiers.

[NecroRebel]

I think it has to do with the total value of your unused weapons and armor. At the very least, I literally never get soldier-migrants when I have no excess armaments, but in my current fort where I have a couple hundred thousand money's worth of masterwork steel I've gotten one every migrant wave since the tantrum spiral ended.

Then again, it might not have anything to do with value and actually just count if you have extra weapons, armor, or both. Hard to say.

[Viprince]

I think it has to do with the total value of your unused weapons and armor. At the very least, I literally never get soldier-migrants when I have no excess armaments, but in my current fort where I have a couple hundred thousand money's worth of masterwork steel I've gotten one every migrant wave since the tantrum spiral ended.

Then again, it might not have anything to do with value and actually just count if you have extra weapons, armor, or both. Hard to say.

Considering migrant proffesions are affected by the workshops you have built, spare weapons are probably the closest thing to that to trigger military dwarves. Then again military migrants are nothing special considering a peasant can train up to their level ina  flash.

[JmzLost]

Creating weapons also influences the type of sodiers you get.  Forge axes, you might get some axedwarves.  Make wooden crossbows, you might get marksdwarves.

JMZ

[Grafsburg]

I think it has to do with the total value of your unused weapons and armor. At the very least, I literally never get soldier-migrants when I have no excess armaments, but in my current fort where I have a couple hundred thousand money's worth of masterwork steel I've gotten one every migrant wave since the tantrum spiral ended.

Then again, it might not have anything to do with value and actually just count if you have extra weapons, armor, or both. Hard to say.

I agree. I notice that I've gotten a lot of immigrant soldiers right after a goblin siege, when there were a lot of weapons and shields left around that I wasn't using.