Right. I've always been able to make steel and the weapons and armour that they need but the stupid little
refused to put the stuff on. I've had other problems like this before when I tried to put two shaped pieces of armour on the same part of a dwarf but I fixed that by removing the conflicting piece from the uniform. But now, after years of faithful service to the fort, I decided to upgrade my first squad, The Copper Vipers (to whom I built a snake on my dining room floor and am working on a statue in my courtyard in the shape of a multi z-level viper eating a gob), to the Fortress Guard and my military commander to COTG. But as soon as I switched them over, they dropped all their masterwork steel armour and weapons and rushed inside to grab weaker copper and iron. And the armour they had was stolen by the other squads. Now, no matter what I've been trying, they insist that they're good with copper rather than my painstakingly made steel. There is no burrow restrictions (and their military), no conflicting miner/woodcutter sub-uniforms, but the uniform I've set restricts them to steel armour but they insist on wearing other materials. The armour is there. They just won't take it!
So my question is this: will they start from the bottom (copper, iron) and cycle through the armour until they get what they want or do I have to take more !!EXTREME!! measures?
Thanks in advance