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[VerdantSF]

After making sure to have enough ammo, quivers, and crossbows, and the correct archery range orientation, I tried the following set-ups for my 6-dwarf squad:

Alert - Active/Training
Schedule - Train, 3 minimum
Archery Target - 3 targets, overlapping rooms
Barracks, No
Result - Marksdwarves went active and then froze in place with the status message "going to Archery Practice."

Alert - Inactive
Schedule - Train, 3 minimum
Archery Target - 3 targets, overlapping rooms
Barracks, No
Result - Marksdwarves immediately began to practice, but only sporadically.  They only filled their quivers with a single stack of ammo. Not good for my stash of mostly bone bolts with their max stack of 5.

Alert - Active
Schedule - Train, 3 minimum
Archery Target - 3 targets, overlapping rooms
Barracks, Yes
Result - Marksdwarves not on training duty at the barracks went to archery practice, but again only picked up single stacks of ammo.  Sometimes they would train like the previous set-up, but other times, they would lock up like the first.

Alert - Active
Schedule - No Active Orders, 3 minimum
Archery Target, Yes - 3 targets, overlapping rooms
Barracks, No
Result - FINALLY! Now the marksdwarves are training pretty much non-stop.  Even better, they're picking up multiple stacks of ammo!

[zeziba]

That is strange, may hapes it falls under a bug if they don't train properly if given orders. Or mabey the A.I. makes melee training desisions over range. Dunno!

[Mobotium]

Oh? Still, this info might prove incredibly useful, many thanks!

[VerdantSF]

Argh! And now it's not working again!  Sorry for the false hope.  It really was working.  I'd test some more, but I'm in the midst of a vampire and ambush-induced tantrum spiral .

[Azure]

Verdant you shouldn't really be using target as your main training source anyway. Archery targets should be thought of as rust prevention devices rather than training. If you've popped ambushes/sieges make an obs platform with raisable bridges ringing it in case of wounds. they'll plink at the goblins and get a couple ranks per skirmish. Between battles you can:

• Ventilate prisoners from an arena obs platform. (Only strip marksgobs for longer live targets)
• Manually drive them into reshaped parts of the caverns to plink away at dralthas and floating guts.(Have decontamination showers/supply room/quarantine/execution shaft.)
• Fire at cavern animals from obs platforms. Laugh as only the strongest butchers and refuse haulers survive!
• Ignore them and pray to the Omnissiah that they train at a useful rate until a legend gets some teaching skill as well to round them out.

[Replica]

Use your captured prisoners of war and thieves as target practice.

The best source of experience are arenas and "live" archery ranges.