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[Patroclus]

1.  Catch Goblins in cage traps.
2.  Take away their weapons only; leave them all their armor.
3.  Set up a 2-man squad of dwarves to be trained, with metal armor, clothing and wooden training weapons.
4.  Build a 5x5 room with a lockable door, and a way to put goblins in it (either pitted from above, or installed cage and lever).
5. Station your squad in the room.
6. Lock the door.
7. Release one goblin into the room.

The dwarves will pound on the goblin, gaining skill while doing so.  Once the goblin dies, add another.  Repeat until dwarves are legendary fighters (other skills raise slower); usually a pair of dwarves will reach legendary fighters after about 7 goblins.  Don't forget to unlock the door to let the dwarves out in between murders if they get hungry, thirsty or drowsy.  Also dont forget to unlock the door when you're done, then assign them a barracks so they will continue sparring and training.

This works for axes, swords and spears (but not maces or war hammers).  Actual amount of murder may vary.  If you have a murder last longer than 4 in-game months, consult your chief medical dwarf.

[khearn]

"Murder" is such an ugly term. We prefer "training sessions" with "temporary contractor instructors".

For training hamerdwarves, use a candy hammer.

[Lordraymond]

This works for axes, swords and spears (but not maces or war hammers).  Actual amount of murder may vary.  If you have a murder last longer than 4 in-game months, consult your chief medical dwarf.

Candy maces and hammers can train as effectively as the training weapons.

[Hyndis]

You could also just use a zombie in the training room. Make the training room into a barracks.

Put cage traps leading out of the barracks. If you ever want to cancel training turn off the barracks and they will leave after they knock down the zombie one last time. The zombie will stand back up, wander out of the barracks, and get caught in the cage trap.

[khearn]

You could also just use a zombie in the training room. Make the training room into a barracks.

Put cage traps leading out of the barracks. If you ever want to cancel training turn off the barracks and they will leave after they knock down the zombie one last time. The zombie will stand back up, wander out of the barracks, and get caught in the cage trap.

This assumes evil surroundings that happen to be the sort that auto-raise undead.

[Rbrx]

Step One: catch a necromancer
Step Two: chain him in a room that creatures can be introduced to.
Step Three: build a raising bridge followed by a window between him and corpse room, and some way to seal the corpse room. A door works fine.
Step Four: attack creatures with bridge down.
Step Five: ? ? ? ? ?
Step Six: dead army because you dropped too many corpses/creatures into the room.

[NonconsensualSurgery]

1. Strip your dwarves naked.
2. Send to fight flesh balls/floating guts
3. Legendary wrestler/biter/striker/kickers zomg!
4.
5. Much profit.

Zombies... unsuitable for anything except marksdwarf training.

[Damdern]

How do I strip caged prisoners of only their weapons?

I thought it was an all or nothing type deal.

[SirAaronIII]

You could mark only the foreign-looking weapons for dumping in the stocks, leaving their clothes alone.

[NonconsensualSurgery]

For some reason dumping from the stocks screen never works right for me. I have to mass-claim, dump the whole stockpile, then use the stocks screen to un-dump all the clothing, armor and cages.

[jonsnow]

I tried this and it didn't work.  The goblin ripped out their eyes   Now they're blind

[Stromko]

For some reason dumping from the stocks screen never works right for me. I have to mass-claim, dump the whole stockpile, then use the stocks screen to un-dump all the clothing, armor and cages.

I'm pretty sure you can go into the cage from the map and tag-dump the individual items directly.

I tried this and it didn't work.  The goblin ripped out their eyes   Now they're blind

Blind Justice for Armok!

Seriously now that they're blind, it should take a lot less goblins to get them up to legendary.

[SharkForce]

I tried this and it didn't work.  The goblin ripped out their eyes   Now they're blind

Blind Justice for Armok!

Seriously now that they're blind, it should take a lot less goblins to get them up to legendary.

or make them into siege operators instead. that works too.

[SRD]

To train hammerdwarves near endlessly without injury or even need to check on them, cage some flesh balls.

Those big testicles can take a bashing.

[Loud Whispers]

You know, I once had a Dwarf hero of mine take down a minatour with a training sword, in a fight that lasted quite a while. She whacked off every extremity the minatour had, before eventually making it die from extreme blood loss. A skilled Dwarf can kill anything with anything.