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[khearn]

I'm not fond of the idea of trials. You drop 10 dwarves into the caverns with sticks and stones and take those that survive. So maybe you end up with 3 studs. I take all 10. I now have 3 studs, 4 average, and 3 spuds. My 10 can beat your 3, since I still have all of the great ones, plus the others. Yeah, I may lose some of the weaker ones, but at least they'll die doing something useful, like drawing fire away from my studs.

But if you enjoy sending dwarves to pointless deaths making sure you only have the best, most elite soldiers possible, go for it. Play the game the way you enjoy it.

[Masked_Hunter1825]

Trials aren't required, its just fun to do. And it gets rid of useless weak dwarves such as animal dissectors or fish cleaners or something. Then again, theres always the chance that all of them will survive the training. Then I got 10 elites and you got 3 elites and a few chumps.

[Eoganachta]

I just make a few 'elite' melee squads who get steel/candy armour normally in groups of 7 and a few archer squads in groups of 5 with copper armour until I can equip some with steel or iron. I danger room then until they are decent and then let them train by themselves. My commander heads the Golden Flares and I then modded the game to allow me to make sheilds out of gold, just to give the name more backstory. I prefer axes and swords before I diversify into spears and hammers. I think I made a 'This is Sparta' squad in a previous fort with just spears, boots, sheilds, cloaks, and helmets. They got slaughtered.

[Psieye]

Trial by interview - I look at their biopage to read off stats and personality parameters. Stats are much harder to train than skills and personality never changes.

[Rasputin]

My trail is the best:

First of all I assign the Dorf to a squad, then if he manages to:

A: Equip himself
B: Arm himself
C: show up when ordered

Then he is considered one of my Elite.

Anyone who fails just ain't cut out for the Military lifestyle

[khearn]

Trials aren't required, its just fun to do. And it gets rid of useless weak dwarves such as animal dissectors or fish cleaners or something. Then again, theres always the chance that all of them will survive the training. Then I got 10 elites and you got 3 elites and a few chumps.

No, because your trials don't make them stronger, they just weed out the weaklings. So if we both start with 10 elites, we both end up with 10 elites. If we both start with a bell curve of quality, you end up with a few elites, and I end up with a few elites, a few average, and a few chumps.

Of course, I need more armor and weapons for my larger force. But even if we both have limited metal, I can still equip my elites as well as you can, and leave my cannon fodder in leather. They're less of an advantage, but they're still useful. And it's easy to equip archers, so I can make my chumps into archers and they don't need good armor. This all assumes that I can sort out the elites from the chumps without killing the chumps. As many people have noted, looking at their strengths and weaknesses would be effective for that.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I like the Trial By Whatever Small Tasty-Looking Creature Wanders Onto the Map First--you know, the TBWSTLCWOMF (tib-wis-tulc-womph, with somewhat arbitrary vowel sounds added).

[Masked_Hunter1825]

I guess we both just have diffirent ways of thinking. You care about your dwarves and I prefer to have !!fun!! with my own. And dwarves suffer pointless deaths all the time. And no, I don't just toss them into the caverns and let them back in. They actually have to fight down there for a while before I let them out. If they all survive, they're a little bit stronger and aren't just "canon fodder".