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Well I just realised that I don't need a 5x10 farming plot for a fort of 13... I'll move some dwarves around, see what I can do. Thanks for the suggestion though, it's exam week in my school and I guess I'm kinda distracted.
Another question: Do you think I should spam the outside of my fort with cage traps so I have more trap coverage and maybe I can catch some butcherable animals?
Edit: And also, none of my dwarves have any combat skills whatsoever. And since I will have a very small squad, I want to keep it professional. I want to make sure they get the job done. What would you suggest? Axedwarf? Speardwarf? Marksdwarf? Or just a luchador or something?
I, personally, do not use cage traps...I find that they are more trouble than they're worth sometimes (dwarf runs into battle to swap a fresh cage, gets killed!) plus I consider it kind of an export. I am surprised you are having trouble getting enough food with such a small population to feed. What crops are you growing, and what animals did you embark with?
No combat skills?? You didn't embark with a military dwarf?
You are in for a frustrating year or two of trying to train complete novices up to reasonable skill without a teacher. There are about 1,000,000 threads on how to effectively train military, unfortunately you are at a huge disadvantage without at least 1 competent or better to act as trainer. What I would do in that situation is designate one (or more) dwarf as a Hunter. This should train him/her to competent marksdwarf in about a year (and also solve your problem of not enough meat).