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[Coco146]

Okay well I've made all the armour and weapons/training weapons but I cant get my squad to train with them.  See I'd rather not have a squad of wrestlers when I have some high quality war-hammers on the go. 

[imperium3]

Assign the squad a barracks by designating from a bed, weapon rack or armour stand.

Go into the schedule manager (press s twice). Make sure that all entries are for training. You may have to change the number training - default is 10 and you might want to make it one or two less than the number of dwarves you actually have, so they take a break for food. IDK if that's still necessary though.

Now to make sure they're properly equipped go into the military screen (press m from main screen). Hit e (equip) and then you can specify what equipment each soldier has. So to give them all metal armour and weapons, hit U, scroll to "Metal armor" and hit Shift-enter to apply to the whole squad. You can also use the settings to fine-tune each soldier's equipment, for example if you want a certain dwarf to carry an artifact weapon.

Oh and by the way I'd recommend using swords or axes instead of hammers, they're a lot more general purpose whereas hammers take a long time to finish monsters off, though they are more effective against heavily armoured foes because they ignore the armour.

[Coco146]

thanks man

[EveryZig]

I think making training weapons is generally not a good idea. They train fine with normal weapons, and if they train with the training weapons too long they might get attached to them.

[Lexx]

One redeeming feature of training weapons is training axes are usable to chop wood. So it saves you embark points to spend on skills/more stuff.

[thegoatgod_pan]

True, but the log-chopping power of training axes really doesn't make up seeing your dwarves use said axes on armed invaders. Whereas spending the extra embark points on a real axe, and seeing your woodchopper take down a badger or two is worth a million urists.

[Psieye]

In the current versions, training weapons have no purpose as far as sparring is concerned - nobody ever gets hurt during sparring (unlike the old days). However, they can be used to beat up live targets for practice.