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[UristMcDwarf]

I set my military to train in the barracks. Instead of sparring, they go into an "Individual Combat Drill".
How do I make 'em spar?

[Loud Whispers]

Give them time. Also, putting them on active alert helps ;P

[i2amroy]

Yeah, it sounds like your military isn't set to "active/training" in the alerts screen, so all that they will do at the moment is individual drills.

[Quietust]

Do they have Civilian professions (Mason, Carpenter, Farmer, etc.) or Military professions (Recruit, Wrestler, Axedwarf, etc.)? If the former, you haven't actually ordered them to start training; if the latter, just wait a while - they'll eventually start training.

[Thorik]

Can't they injure themselves if they spar?  Who wants to deal with assigning training weapons either.

[UristMcDwarf]

Can't they injure themselves if they spar?  Who wants to deal with assigning training weapons either.

I WANT BLOOD.

[WriterX]

Can't they injure themselves if they spar?  Who wants to deal with assigning training weapons either.

I WANT BLOOD.

...

*casts Tantrum on one of your Dwarves*

You are welcome.

[SirAaronIII]

Back in earlier versions, many dwarves killed each other in sparring. Now it's just light taps. I don't think they can hurt each other any more, but I'm not too sure as usually I use arenas with captured goblins.

[Matoro]

No, in new version sparring can be dangerous. Just minute ago I got raport like "dwarf 1 attacks dwarf 2 with sword lightly tapping target! dwarf 2 skids in floor bruising leg" or something like this. I noticed same thing, skidding, when something big hits to something little. I guess that feature is made as part of minecart-damage-system.

[caddybear]

Well when training for combat, accidents happen.

[WriterX]

*Urist McHero taps Urist McRecruit with Legendary Artifact to the chest*

*Urist McRecruit flies off from the impact!*

*Urist McRecruit's head meets Urist McStoneWall*

*Urist McRecruit's head cracks open, brain spilling out*

*Urist McHero considers a job change*

[i2amroy]

@Matoro
Even if that does happen, at least it's not as bad as 40d's "live fire" training which was indistinguishable from actual combat. I remember back when we threw untrained infantry up against goblin ambushes because it was actually safer then having them train where they might end up against Urist McHulk legendary military-everything lurking in the corner.

[oven_baked]

I haven't had any sparing accidents.
May training scheme is to have "min-2 training" in squads of 3, In larger squads i station some by my entrance so that the training group should spar.
The ones by the entrance get some training when a kobold wanders in, you would think the blood stains would warn them...

[Xen0n]

I haven't had any sparing accidents.
May training scheme is to have "min-2 training" in squads of 3, In larger squads i station some by my entrance so that the training group should spar.
The ones by the entrance get some training when a kobold wanders in, you would think the blood stains would warn them...

Someone recently taught me that you can give multiple orders to a squad for a single month.  So now I use 10-dwarf squads with 5x "Train (2 minimum)" orders, to hopefully allow lots of sparring.  Although I have also heard that sparring happens more often when the skills of the partners are closely matched, so I'm going by a lotta hearsay here...

[krenshala]

Can't they injure themselves if they spar?

Nope. Not unless the skidding gets really bad, and I have yet to see that happen in my newest fort.  It may be happening, but I haven't seen it.

Who wants to deal with assigning training weapons either.

Edit the uniforms to use the weapon of choice.  I also create a Recruit uniform that includes nothing but a shied and training weapon.  Then the magic happens: m -> e -> select squad -> U -> select uniform to use -> Shift+Enter (sets the entire squad to use that uniform).  Whats that? You want to change your all dagger squad in leather armor to a metal wearing spear unit?  No problem -- edit the metal uniform (I renamed it to Regulars) so it has the weapon desired, then m -> e -> select squad -> U -> select Regulars -> Shift+Enter, and watch all ten dwarves drop their daggers and leather armor in the halls and rush to pick up spears and metal armor (assuming you have some available).