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[Philii]

How to protect my soldier head??
I use one metal helm.It that the best???
One of my Legendary soldier wear 3 mail shirt, 1 mail legging, 1 helm and 1 shield.In battle, he is killed by normal goblin soldier by hitting his head.
What happen my soldier wear many metal armor(helm) and shield? And It that the best protect?

[Urist McRas]

Helm is almost the best. You can add a bit more protection by adding hoods, but that hardly makes a difference. Much more important thing is metal used for the helm. Adamantine is the best, steel is second best, then goes iron, bronze and copper.

And by any means the crucial part is training your dwarfs (wiki is your friend).

[Zammer990]

6 leather hoods can serve as quite a barrier for many attacks, especially arrows

[Sutremaine]

Actually check that your dwarves are wearing their gear. If they're allowed to wear clothes along with their armour, they might choose a cap for the clothing and then be unable to fit the helmet over it.

You can also set their uniforms so that they wear only what their uniform tells them to, but you need to have enough items lying around to cover a dwarf's body, legs, and feet.

[Talvieno]

Use v > i to view their inventory to make sure they're wearing it like Sutremaine suggested. Also, it's very important that you use stronger materials. Copper is weakest, iron is an upgrade, then steel, and finally adamantine, which, if you haven't found it yet, just requires digging deeper.

[PDF urist master]

a helm does great job preventing most attacks, especially bites as I often find those glancing off of goblins when they're in my cave croc farm.

still won't save you from an arrow to the head though.

I think it takes two wafers to make a helm, which is actually pretty good considering the cost ratio for most pieces of adamantine armor.

[Swonnrr]

If it's all you have, bones armor are (with training) surprisingly efficient at deflecting copper, bronze of lolmaterials such as silver or gold.
And excellent at protecting from animals bites and claws.

[Philii]

I use steel for armor and weapon. And I use silver for mace and hammer.
I like to use Adamantine.But I hate demon Too much.
Digging Adamantine is too dangerous.And can open gate of hell.

[Fenrisson]

I use steel for armor and weapon. And I use silver for mace and hammer.
I like to use Adamantine.But I hate demon Too much.
Digging Adamantine is too dangerous.And can open gate of hell.

Plz use spoiler tags when talking about the HFS (Hidden Fun Stuff) - or at least say Candy and Circus...

[Quietust]

I use steel for armor and weapon. And I use silver for mace and hammer.
I like to use Adamantine.But I hate demon Too much.
Digging Adamantine is too dangerous.And can open gate of hell.

Plz use spoiler tags when talking about the HFS (Hidden Fun Stuff) - or at least say Candy and Circus...

Technically, only

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

demons from the underworld

are HFS - Adamantine isn't that much of a secret.

[Beast Tamer]

On topic:

Make a uniform consist of a breastplate, mail shirt, gauntlets, greaves, high boots, helm, and whatever weapons you prefer. Adding a cloak, shield, gloves, and hood add extra protective layers. For armor Candy is the best, followed by steel, then by bronze/iron.