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Author Topic: Surplus of Military Dwarves?  (Read 710 times)

Mercenare

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Surplus of Military Dwarves?
« on: February 22, 2012, 02:57:30 am »

It seems as if many of the migrants coming to my fort have high military skills, any idea why this is? I'm missing out on all the dwarves with good high skills, and instead are getting only dorfs with Competent Hammerdwarf, Skilled Axedwarf, etc.
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Newbunkle

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Re: Surplus of Military Dwarves?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2012, 03:11:47 am »

I guess it's because historical migrants have had a harsher life than the randomly generated dwarves. I prefer it though - I used to assign surplus farmers to squads, but now they've got a head start.
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sackhead

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Re: Surplus of Military Dwarves?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2012, 03:22:59 am »

i am having the opisit problem all my dwarfs are veary weak militarily
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Splint

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Re: Surplus of Military Dwarves?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2012, 04:13:46 am »

I just assume former adventurers or war veterans and wing it from there. Having them on hand will help in a pinch though.

Mercenare

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Re: Surplus of Military Dwarves?
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2012, 01:02:53 pm »

You would think so, but due to a lack of iron its not so great. Id rather have more exploratory diggers.
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Shinotsa

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Re: Surplus of Military Dwarves?
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2012, 01:42:52 pm »

Ive had the same problem but it's actually a nice fix to two problems. People complain about getting cheated out of training skills by getting legendary migrants, and about the military training too slow. Thus you get to train your own people while standing a fighting chance if your military kicks the bucket.
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