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[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

So, I just got a crazy idea. Instead of just having a couple groups of guards to take car of things, I'm just going to force everyone in the fort to train and wear armor all the time. That way, if anything happens and someone can't get to the safety of a barrow, they can at least hold their own and maybe even win.

Imagine: Entire fort full of Legendary Hammers.

[Putnam]

More like a fort full of novice hammermen. There's less experience for each person if everyone is a military person.

Also, a lot of people just start conscripting migrants into the militia anyway

[Aseaheru]

seven peeps deep below in a self-sustaining fort, the rest of the pop army... i like!

[dbay]

That sounds like an awesome idea, but there's a hidden catch: tantrum spirals will be so much worse. With the entire population armed, a single tantrum could cost you dozens of dwarves.

However, their armour might mitigate that somewhat. Let us know how it goes, I'm really curious.

[Aseaheru]

all but 7.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Give everyone a crossbow, quiver, and set of bolts. Don't enable training.

[Facekillz058]

Give everyone a candy greataxe, no armor.
And order a few people to dig lava channels after they become friends with everyone.

[Drazinononda]

Give everyone wooden weapons and bone/shell armor. Send them out against all the wildlife. Even the Giant Boars.

[Aseaheru]

then put them in modded in powersuits and arm them with pulse rifles. then evict the demons from hell. and live there.

[Facekillz058]

Give all the dwarves guns that shoot really, really hot saw blades.
And give them armor made out of....
Really, really hot chains!
Name them the Red Army!

[Fishybang]

Give all the dwarves guns that shoot really, really hot saw blades.
And give them armor made out of....
Really, really hot chains!
Name them the Red Army!

Then invaid the nearest elf town and shoot their trees to the ground!

[Uthric]

here i thought you where going to make an army of adventures and retier them all in your home city so they would come to your fort then have THAT be your army,

[katana]

That sounds like an awesome idea, but there's a hidden catch: tantrum spirals will be so much worse. With the entire population armed, a single tantrum could cost you dozens of dwarves.

However, their armour might mitigate that somewhat. Let us know how it goes, I'm really curious.

On the other hand, your entire population will be heavily armored and skilled in defending themselves. Just make dwarves who are unhappy equip a training weapon that they're not proficient in, and your other dwarves will block every shot.

I tend to run my forts like this- a few people keeping everyone alive and equipped, then everyone else stabs things. 10 crossbows and 30 melee soldiers took out hell, but it did take some 20 years of training.

[AutomataKittay]

That sounds like an awesome idea, but there's a hidden catch: tantrum spirals will be so much worse. With the entire population armed, a single tantrum could cost you dozens of dwarves.

However, their armour might mitigate that somewhat. Let us know how it goes, I'm really curious.

On the other hand, your entire population will be heavily armored and skilled in defending themselves. Just make dwarves who are unhappy equip a training weapon that they're not proficient in, and your other dwarves will block every shot.

I tend to run my forts like this- a few people keeping everyone alive and equipped, then everyone else stabs things. 10 crossbows and 30 melee soldiers took out hell, but it did take some 20 years of training.

Plus dwarves in military training tend to become less familiar with each other and more hardened anyway, which makes tantrum spiral rare in first place.

[Loud Whispers]

I've been doing this for a while; casualties are at an all time low after five years of training and combat, 5 Dwarves have become legendary weapon lords and everyone is ecstatic or else cares for nothing.
Of note however is that everyone gets Grand Bedrooms; because the event of a military cascade is too terrifying to fathom. Also it's absolutely delighting to see a goblin ambush a couple of farmers, only for said farmers to smash the ever loving teef out of the gobbos.

It's feasible, but the early days of the Fort will be spent trying to arm and armour your Dwarves. The result will be you often first only rely on your best armoured Dwarves, who become more experienced and skilled than the other Dwarves. This in turn results in a disparity between the skill of the earliest arriving migrants and the fresh off the caravan ones. Of course, this gap decreases after any significant of time, but the useful overseer can turn these unmagmad potash makers into the farming heroes that your elite soldiers so sorely need, and once they in turn become weapon lords, new potash makers can fill the auxiliary ranks.