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GreatWyrmGold

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Random Suggestion for Military
« on: February 11, 2011, 10:08:15 pm »
Danger room? Bah, never used it. There are simpler ways to train your military...and they ADD to your fort, not subtract!

Here's how:
1.) Have semi-skilled dwarves.
2.) Tell them to ditch their weapons.
3.) Have them attack some non-deadly critter.
I did this and had a legendary fighter and striker in two weeks, with just one camel! You may want to start with groundhogs, though.
4.) Once their levels in fighter, armor user, shield user, dodger, etc, are high enough, give them their weapons back.
5.) Go to step 3.
Optionally, skip to step 2 or 3.
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Re: Random Suggestion for Military
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2011, 10:35:33 pm »
I'm sure PETA would enjoy watching a video of your dwarves spending several weeks beating up a camel. In fact, you should attach a transcript of the combat reports too for science.
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Re: Random Suggestion for Military
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2011, 12:57:30 am »
Quote from: Brandstone on February 11, 2011, 10:35:33 pm
I'm sure PETA would enjoy watching a video of your dwarves spending several weeks beating up a camel. In fact, you should attach a transcript of the combat reports too for science.
hahahaha, *cough* *smile*

I thought striker was relatively useless though if you're using weapons (I mean, who hits goblins with their hands?). And if you're training weapon skills on camels and groundhogs there won't be much skill gained before you run out of creatures.
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Re: Random Suggestion for Military
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2011, 01:06:09 am »
ive been embarking with 1 dwarf who's got 5 lvls in a weapon and 5 lvls in teacher.
i make him the military leader and add semi-skilled migrants to his squad as they come in till i get about 5 or 6 of em and they SEEM to lvl up in whatever weapon the leader is good at pretty quick.
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Re: Random Suggestion for Military
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2011, 01:03:04 pm »
When ever I tried that, it's always "Militia commander scratches camel in the lower body, bruising the fat. Camel kicks militia commander in the head fracturing the skull and tearing the brain, militia commander has been knocked unconscious, militia commander has been struck down"
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Re: Random Suggestion for Military
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2011, 01:47:59 pm »
Quote from: thegoatgod_pan on February 12, 2011, 01:03:04 pm
When ever I tried that, it's always "Militia commander scratches camel in the lower body, bruising the fat. Camel kicks militia commander in the head fracturing the skull and tearing the brain, militia commander has been knocked unconscious, militia commander has been struck down"

It's "jamming the skull into the brain".  damn tantrum spirals made me memorize that armok-forsaken line...
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