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[Ancalagon_TB]

wow... first military action.  A were-iguana showed up, and quite frankly I wasn't prepared properly.  However, it was a learning experience - I was able to form a civilian alert, my melee squad and even lead the attack vs the creature once it had turned back to human form!  (punk got away).   However, I also lost 3 dwarves *and* one other just got a fey mood....

I think this was fun.  DF fun

[Sirbug]

Fey mood is not related. He just wants to create an artifact.

[IleWieszOOsmiornicach]

I'd say that the best way to handle this is to grab a few your least talented, most useless dwarfs (bonus points if they're very young, I like creating a child army), give them some weapons and armor and throw them into a danger room for a month.
Pretty soon you'll have a legendary infatigable murdersquad.

That is, of course, if you don't mind using danger rooms. Some pansies people consider it wrong.

Fey mood is not related. He just wants to create an artifact.

Are we completely certain of that? There does seem to be a surprising amount of strange moods after big fortress events. They often depict said events, too. I'm not sure if it's completely coincidental.

[Ancalagon_TB]

Training weapons:  But if they use real weapons all the time, won't t hey grievously hurt each other in training drills?

(mental note: work on armor. at the moment they have iron helms and mail shirt and shields, but no complete suits).

I definitely want to create a danger room, but first I want a hospital to take care of injured dwarves, and for *that* I need a source of water, and for that I need to build an aqueduct/well (there is a river at the edge of the map, it will be my second "major" construction project after the archery tower).  I'm still feeling a bit overwhelmed by the large migrant wave, still working on making beds etc, and now I have to deal with 3 burials as well...

Once this is over, I'll have almost 15 dwarves in the military with reasonable equipment, so I think I'll be ok

[Tacomagic]

Training weapons:  But if they use real weapons all the time, won't t hey grievously hurt each other in training drills?

Nope, normal weapons are as harmless as training weapons for sparring.

The thing that will kill dwarves is wrestling training and the idiots who charge during sparring.

[Pyro627]

I tend to favor marksdwarves for the simple reason that they're far easier to equip. You can make bolts, xbows, quivers, and even leather armor easily. Melee dwarves, on the other hand, need to properly equipped to be viable and very well-equipped to be survivable. I may fall back to melee dwarves if I have access to obsidian, as it gives me easily producible masterwork short swords.

[BoogieMan]

I often end up having 2-3 full melee squads and 3-4 ranged squads. Takes awhile to get them all equipped and trained but they whoop ass once they are. I usually assign Dwarves without useful skills into the ranged squad if they have poor physical attributes, and if they are average or above I put them into melee squads.