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[Loud Whispers]

Always wondered how you raise "bite" up to legendary in fortress mode. If you have your dwarfs unarmed eventully they will only use their hands in combat negating other skills suck as kicking and biting. Suppose i could modify the raws to make them just as likely to bite as to punch

...Considered just having your Dwarves in actual combat? Dwarves tend to start biting, kicking and scratching when their weapons are lodged in skulls.

[Jenniretta]

Always wondered how you raise "bite" up to legendary in fortress mode. If you have your dwarfs unarmed eventully they will only use their hands in combat negating other skills suck as kicking and biting. Suppose i could modify the raws to make them just as likely to bite as to punch

...Considered just having your Dwarves in actual combat? Dwarves tend to start biting, kicking and scratching when their weapons are lodged in skulls.

My dwarves tend to punch when weapons are lodged, if they're trained a bit (untrained dwarves will bite and scratch a lot), but if you want to train biting have them drop a limb or two (eg. send them into a siege with breastplates and no chain mail), the fewer arms they have the more likely they are to bite it seems. Though, personally, I'd rather my dwarves have their limbs available.

[Loud Whispers]

Bah, let nature run its course, the skilled and equipped will survive, the dismembered will bite and the useless will die. It all works out

[doublestrafe]

If you get an armless dwarf to bite a few times, Runesmith them up to some decent skill level, then make them a militia commander, will they lead a Biting Demonstration?

[Nan]

Yah, you can also embark with a biter/teacher to teach the other military how to bite. This is a colossal waste of embark points and military training time, but you can do it if you like.

[Poindexterity]

nah dude.
long lasting military is ALL about shield user. No accidentally dodging off cliffs and whatnot.

[Jacob/Lee]

Solution: don't fight near water.

Or precarious ledges.

Or bridges.

Or stairs.

[Blade Master Model 42]

I've recently taken to embarking with 3 military dwarves, each with embark maximum teaching skill (proficient? Not looking at it right this second), and giving each a different maxed skill, axedwarf, fighting and dodging, generally.

Once I get some useful migrants, I break them up into three squads, each headed with, generally speaking, a dwarf with good axe, fighting, and dodging skills. I've been cleaning up with this set-up on my latest fortress, even though I have nothing but Galena for metals on map. I was up to five separate axelords by year 4. Normally, I don't get those for a while, and not many at that.

Lost one of my embark militia dwarves though last year. That was a bit of a blow.

[Mechatronic]

The best Biter I've trained up was Talented which took about seven years, although I wasn't specifically training for it, it as just from fighting and demonstrations.

I find Shield User to be the most useful against archers while Dodging is most useful against large creatures that can knock soldiers over.

[Girlinhat]

Weapon skills are the most useful against archers.  Well, maybe not, but nothing beats a good "He bats the flying {silver arrow} out of the air with his +Steel Battle Axe+"

[Wannazzaki]

So..legendary biter would...?

[Oliolli]

So..legendary biter would...?

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Exactly my thoughts.