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[Zeebie]

I finally picked up the Steam version, and it seems my years of previous experience aren't helping me keep my military properly equipped.  Some dwarfs equip everything fine, but some will only pick up one or two things (seems to be a problem with both armor and weapons).  Things I have tried:
- There are no uniform or labor conflicts (eg, no woodcutters)
- There is plenty of armor and weapons available for pickup
- The squads are active and set to Equip/always
- I have given them kill and station orders
- There are no injuries
- The same uniform is working for other members of the squad

Any suggestions? What have I missed?

[Blue_Dwarf]

Any suggestions? What have I missed?

Replace clothing/exact matches?

[Shonai_Dweller]

There is an issue with citizens picking up and hanging on to items flagged for military use right now. So stuff like cloaks, hoods and so on. And if the highest ranking dwarf can't grab his cloak, no-one else will even try.

Bit annoying.

Specifically what stuff is not being picked up?

[Zeebie]

It is set to replace clothing and partial matches.

One of the problem dwarves at the moment has picked up his shield and left gaunlet, but refuses to pick up his mace, right gauntlet, helm, leather cloak, mail shirt, greaves, or high boots.

[Blue_Dwarf]

Are you drafting dwarves one by one, or did you create an entire squad at the same time? You should let a dwarf pick up stuff before drafting the next.

[Zeebie]

Are you drafting dwarves one by one, or did you create an entire squad at the same time? You should let a dwarf pick up stuff before drafting the next.

Oh, that wouldn't have occurred to me. The squad is only two dwarfs but I didn't let the first one get dressed before drafting the next. I'll try that. Sounds tedious for a big squad though.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Are you drafting dwarves one by one, or did you create an entire squad at the same time? You should let a dwarf pick up stuff before drafting the next.

Yeah, that's not a thing. I have three fully equipped squads and I formed them 5 at a time.

[el Indio]

I select the squad, go to the equip screen and re-assign the uniform.  If there is equipment available they will usually go and pick it up. 

[Panando]

I've had uniform jank caused by missions going wrong, e.g. send a squad on a mission, while one dwarf leave the map, another dwarf slips into depression and refuses to leave. I removed the depressed dwarf from the squad and the mission concluded. But thereafter the game got extremely confused around that squad and wasn't successful in assigning uniforms in it, like I had a dwarf just put on a single high boot.