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[K4el]

So... my military is currently bludgeoning a titan to death(they may actually be winning... awesome) with wooden training swords while their metal weapons remain sheathed... did i set something up wrong?

[tieme]

Tell us what you set up and maybe we can tell you if you set it up wrong...

"My dwarves are dying did I do something wrong?!!?".

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[slothen]

it sounds like you've done several things wrong

[o_O[WTFace]]

(1) you allowed them to choose their own weapons.  In general you don't ever want to let them used ranged weapons, and bludgeon weapons are pretty pad, so just pass out axes and possibly swords. 

(2) you allowed dwarves to "train".  Training is bugged, hitting things with wooden training weapons is one of the many things that can go wrong.  Instead, assign dwarves to "no scheduled order" and disable all jobs on them.  They should do individual drills in their spare time, which do work. 

I recommend try and get someone to bring a metal edged weapon into the fight, maybe even all your civilians if the titan is immobilized. 

[Rockx]

Also, it seems like dwarfs won't hurt themselves training with real (non-training) weapons, probably because they're stuck with individual combat drills at the moment. So just stick 'em with metal weapons and burn the wooden training ones!

[TurkeyXIII]

I have a similar problem, I gave my folks some wooden training weapons to practice with until I found ores for bronze.  After assigning bronze battle axes, they now carry around both - and only hit stuff with the wooden ones.  Any idea how I can convince them to drop it?

[Niveras]

Training weapons are probably intended for use in Sparring, as opposed to the Group or Individual Combat Drill, which doesn't involve actually attacking another target, but instead going through motions and forms until they function without thought.

Fixing issues with weapon assignments, on the other hand, is a time consuming and buggy process. Even if you specifically remove their equipment, sometimes they keep them equipped, and when you go to reassign them, they don't all pick up what they should.

I've given up on micromanaging my military. If they (or other members of their squad) die because they didn't equip a breastplate or sword, they die. At least that way the items are completely freed from an assignment. I have plenty of haulers to promote into my military.

[Ivar360]

I have a similar problem, I gave my folks some wooden training weapons to practice with until I found ores for bronze.  After assigning bronze battle axes, they now carry around both - and only hit stuff with the wooden ones.  Any idea how I can convince them to drop it?

Im pretty sure you can delete weapons from the loadout in the militaty screen (by selecting them and pressing enter) Not 100% sure cuz i dont use training weapons.

[TurkeyXIII]

Yeah, their current uniforms exclude training weapons, but they hung on to them anyway.  I might just adopt Niveras' solution (if you could call it that).

[JmzLost]

Try going into z->stocks->weapons and 'd'umping all training weapons.  Some other dorf should come along and take away their training stuff, so they'll either use the real deal or wrestle.

JMZ