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[Enemjay]

I've been sending a 60 soldier army out for raids and I've found that my leading dwarf gains a +1 skill level in Military Tactics per battle - he's progressed from 0 to Expert this way. I'm not sure if raids involving significant fighting train tactics faster than those where I'm raiding a site with an insignificant defending force.

When I started my raiding campaign, I started with sites with populations around 20 and expanded as my forces improved - I'm now raiding sites with populations ~100. Most of the time my enemies were push overs but occasionally you meet a surprise. I had a dwarf die from a yak and at one point an elephant killed 6 skilled warriors despite my raid leader's Expert tactician skill.

[Tomsod]

Yes, I recall reading before that Tactics skill can be trained reasonably fast, but I won't be able to spare (or train, or even equip) 60 soldiers any time soon, and I'm not cool with letting them die without good reason, so in the end I embarked with a proficient tactician, who is just about to retire as miner, then intern as a manager (organizer is useful for soldiers too), and then he can lead the military.  Hopefully proficient + full steel will be enough to avoid early losses.

On that topic, it's sad that mining apparently doesn't increase attributes anymore, I was hoping for at least some strength gain, but no luck (and he's been legendary+5 for a while now!)