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[vertinox]

So I got a handful of dwarfs who are unhappy because they complain about the long patrols and drafts. Currently I have the schedule as a lenient on month off month of training and even then only 6 members are required to train out of 10.

Are my dwarfs hippie pansies or should I do something to improve their moral? I guess I could put statues in the barracks and smooth everything out to see if that helps.

[Flying Dice]

All new recruits and low-skill soldiers will complain about patrol duty and being brought up to active duty. The easiest way to get rid of this is to train them up, at which point they will prefer to be on duty. Also, having them kill things, even random animals, will give them the 'took joy in slaughter' bonus to happiness.

[vertinox]

Hrm... That gives me an idea. I have about 25 goblins in cages. I think I am going to move the barracks into the cage room.

[vertinox]

Also I noticed my recruits don't get happy thoughts about the grand dining hall like the other dwarfs. Is there anyway to make them eat there or are they just stuck with carrying their food around.

[NecroRebel]

In the military menus, the s(u)pplies screen lets you tell your soldiers how much food and what type of drink to carry. If they're told not to carry any food, they won't, and will eat in the dining hall like everyone else.

Anyway, they're probably unhappy about the draft due to your one month on one month off schedule. It takes about 1 1/2 months to get to novice in a weapon skill in my experience assuming 2-man training squads, so that schedule causes them to take that hit twice instead of the one time they would if you had them on a two months on one month off schedule. Of course, since you foolishly aren't using 2-man training squads, they're taking even longer to get decent skills and so are taking the happiness hit from becoming a recruit even more, but again the more rigorous schedule would probably help their happiness.

[Sutremaine]

Train them intensively in small squads and give them nice personal bedrooms near the barracks. The bedrooms will give a general mood boost, and the intensive traing gives them good thoughts about sparring and also means less time until they become skilled enough to stop complaining about long duty.

If they're told not to carry any food, they won't, and will eat in the dining hall like everyone else.

Only if they're inactive when they decide to eat. Otherwise they go and stand over the stockpile.

[Loud Whispers]

since you foolishly aren't using 2-man training squads, they're taking even longer to get decent skills and so are taking the happiness hit from becoming a recruit even more, but again the more rigorous schedule would probably help their happiness.

This, oh so much. Even letting a novice into a 3-dwarf legendary squad helps much more than having a 2/3-dwarf squad of novices.