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[Kestrel]

I've never seen one.  Ever.  It's the only skill that migrants seem to be totally unable to obtain.  And since I've no clue how to train it up, is it possible this is the most valuable skill to embark with just out of scarcity's sake?

[NecroRebel]

You can train the teacher skill by encouraging dwarves to teach others. This is done by putting them in a squad with others whose military skills are much lower than the prospective teacher's.

Basically, you get teachers by training a pair of soldiers up to legendary, then putting each of those dwarves in a squad of 2 with a recruit. That recruit will be trained up, slowly, and the legendary soldier's Teacher skill will improve. Once the recruit is at a decent skill level, you rotate them out and put in a new one. The next recruit will train up faster still; I had a recruit go from totally-unskilled to Great level (L10) within 3 seasons under a Great teacher with L20 axe/fighter/shield. The first recruit that teacher taught, though, didn't train up significantly faster or slower than another squad of 2 totally-unskilled recruits, so don't expect to see immediate benefit.

[dash27]

You can train the teacher skill by encouraging dwarves to teach others. This is done by putting them in a squad with others whose military skills are much lower than the prospective teacher's.

Basically, you get teachers by training a pair of soldiers up to legendary, then putting each of those dwarves in a squad of 2 with a recruit. That recruit will be trained up, slowly, and the legendary soldier's Teacher skill will improve. Once the recruit is at a decent skill level, you rotate them out and put in a new one. The next recruit will train up faster still; I had a recruit go from totally-unskilled to Great level (L10) within 3 seasons under a Great teacher with L20 axe/fighter/shield. The first recruit that teacher taught, though, didn't train up significantly faster or slower than another squad of 2 totally-unskilled recruits, so don't expect to see immediate benefit.

This is super helpful information.  Thanks!

[krenshala]

I have received Teachers, though usually not better than Adequate, and most often either Dabbling or Novice.  I don't see them often, however.

[Urist Da Vinci]

One noob added to a squad of legendaries will benefit greatly from the teaching 80% of the time. This will quickly get you one more elite soldier, but you can only advance one noob at a time.

One legendary added to a squad of noobs will result in the noobs doing the teaching most of the time, and about 20% of useful teaching from the legendary. This is rather useless.

[misko27]

Curses, this conflicts with my strategy of making several squads, each with a different skill level. One is really advanced, one is conscripts, etc.

One noob added to a squad of legendaries will benefit greatly from the teaching 80% of the time. This will quickly get you one more elite soldier, but you can only advance one noob at a time.

I could do this.

[toomanysecrets]

Teacher skill is very rare on migrants. I have gotten a lv 10 teacher as a migrant once. Very rare, though.

[Azure]

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One noob added to a squad of legendaries will benefit greatly from the teaching 80% of the time. This will quickly get you one more elite soldier, but you can only advance one noob at a time.

One legendary added to a squad of noobs will result in the noobs doing the teaching most of the time, and about 20% of useful teaching from the legendary. This is rather useless.

I've had pretty solid success with 6 teachers and 4 recruits. Supplementing the recruits training with arena fighting did great on getting everything well trained. Anyone else had success with a high teacher to student ratio?