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poothoottoot

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Concerning sparring
« on: August 14, 2012, 04:39:31 pm »
I made a new fort in an evil biome to test my skills (which are pretty well non existant.) I got lucky and locked myself underground before being killed. But as we all know military is pretty important in evil biomes especially reanimating biomes like the one I am in. I drafted a military of three dwarves and watched as they improved their abilities. Ocassionally two of them would spar together and raise their skills quite a bit. But recently I looked using the (v)iew units button all three of my swordsdwarves were sparring together I looked in the reports and sure enough all three were the most recent combat reports and all dwarves were indeed sparring at the same time as all have swords that have different qualities which I could see in the reports.

So was it known they could spar in groups of threes, or am I stumbling on something interesting?
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Re: Concerning sparring
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2012, 06:00:50 pm »
Never in playing for years have i herd of this before.

Modded at all?
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Re: Concerning sparring
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2012, 06:02:07 pm »
 Sparring more than 2 dwarves? Interesting, I didn't heard about that.
 On other way... Sworddwarves? On Evil biome? Bad choice, man, bad choice...
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Re: Concerning sparring
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2012, 08:33:46 pm »
Dwarves can indeed spar in groups larger than 2, but setting up the circumstances to do so is weird...  And I've never seen a group larger than three, though I assume it could be possible.
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Re: Concerning sparring
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2012, 09:39:18 pm »
Quote from: Agent_86 on August 14, 2012, 08:33:46 pm
Dwarves can indeed spar in groups larger than 2, but setting up the circumstances to do so is weird...  And I've never seen a group larger than three, though I assume it could be possible.
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Re: Concerning sparring
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2012, 09:51:30 pm »
Quote from: Volfgarix on August 14, 2012, 06:02:07 pm
On other way... Sworddwarves? On Evil biome? Bad choice, man, bad choice...
Well, it could be one of the nice ones that rains blood.
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Re: Concerning sparring
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2012, 10:36:29 pm »
Quote from: Agent_86 on August 14, 2012, 08:33:46 pm
Dwarves can indeed spar in groups larger than 2, but setting up the circumstances to do so is weird...  And I've never seen a group larger than three, though I assume it could be possible.
Back in version 0.31, I saw it happen all the time - the key is to make sure your dwarves are always training 100% (rather than leaving some of them in Civilian mode) and making sure your squads are big enough to support such training activities.
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poothoottoot

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Re: Concerning sparring
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2012, 07:16:10 pm »
Oh ok just wondering If I was stumbling on anything new. also I used swordsdwarves because the migrants I had coming in ended up having their greatest skills being in the sword go figure ::). My game was not modded at all. Shoot I don't even know how to mod yet.
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Re: Concerning sparring
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2012, 07:27:18 pm »
I've found its best to leave them on active/training all the time. Just throw a big pile of dwarves together in the same barracks that also happens to be where you want your soldiers stationed. It takes a while for them to figure things out, but eventually they get training and sparring very well and become elite dwarves on their own.

You can speed up the process by giving them a danger room, but in the end, it still seems best to put them on active/training all the time at the same barracks so they can help each other out.
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