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[K4el]

When the military was first revamped your dwarves would proudly equip and train with wooden training weapons. Then when the alarm bell sounded they would be so eager to join the fray that they would forget to equip their properly sharpened steel axes before they started hacking away.

Anyone know if dwarves now have the presence of mind to swap weapons before hopelessly bashing away at the shell of a forgotten beast?

[telarin]

My experience has been that dwarves don't use training weapons at all anymore. However, they also don't do damage when sparring with their regular weapons.

My sparring logs have hundreds of entries along the lines of "The Axedwarf hacks The Axedwarf in the head with hid adamantine Battleaxe, lightly tapping the target!", so apparently it has been worked out so they can train without the training weapons.

[K4el]

My experience has been that dwarves don't use training weapons at all anymore. However, they also don't do damage when sparring with their regular weapons.

My sparring logs have hundreds of entries along the lines of "The Axedwarf hacks The Axedwarf in the head with hid adamantine Battleaxe, lightly tapping the target!", so apparently it has been worked out so they can train without the training weapons.

Theyve always trained with normal weapons too, but some times when they intend to tap they bash. Try training some speardwarves. You'll eventually get a "Urist McSpeardwarf has suffocated message" its because some one "tapped" his throat with a spear. 0o

Oh well, acceptable losses.

Here's the thing though.... damn my dwarves seem to train slowly with normal weapons. I was hoping they'd train more quickly with wooden ones. Maybe my barracks is too small to accomidate proper training sessions. It's only a matter of time before my engraved marble super barracks is complete and my dwarves can train in luxory.

[Khift]

I've had naked dwarves train with adamantine weapons before. No injuries ever occurred. Training weapons just get your soldiers attached to them; they really have no benefit to their use.

[existent]

Except training axes, which, despite being entirely counter-intuitive, can chop down trees.

[Psieye]

Training spears are also used in danger rooms to quickly train up defensive skills. Training weapons (at risk of attachment) are best used to spar against weak wildlife or stripped prisoners.