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[Kat]

What are people's thoughts and experiences with giving marksmen a secondary weapon ?

the modded civilisation I am playing, one of the weapons they have access to is a large knife, so I am wondering if perhaps that would be a better weapon than their crossbow's bash attack.

Has anyone tried giving marksmen a secondary weapon, and did it work ?

[anewaname]

In 43.5, I had several squads train for a couple of years, each with a different uniform. The uniforms each had a shield and two weapons. The difference in the uniforms was in the order that the shields and weapons were added to the uniforms. All the equipment was built before the squads were created.

The dwarfs seemed to wield the first two hand-held items that were added to the uniform, and strap the third item across their back. During that time, training and sparring, they only used the first two items added to the uniform.

[exodius1]

[...] and strap the third item across their back. [...]

That makes me think, would this mean they would draw their secondary equipment is disarmed? 'Cause while that is not much benefit for Marksdwarves melee troops could have some, if negligible, benefits of the secondary weapon is light enough...

[Egan_BW]

Do fighters ever get disarmed in a way that's not literal, and thus precluding rearming?

[martinuzz]

weapons get stuck in wounds, that's an effective disarm that could benefit fropm a second weapon

[exodius1]

I think the easiest way to test that, at least in controlled environment with repeatable results would be the Arena. My plan is the following:

• Spawn two dwarves, one with 3 objects, other unarmed.
• Possess the unarmed Dwarf
• Instigate conflict
• Wrestle one of the objects away
• ? ? ?
• Profit

I will do some testing tomorrow, unless someone beats me to it.

To answer original question, if it is possible for dwarves to have secondary armaments it is likely to have no positive effects on Marksdwarves. In my experience they should be behind fortifications, at least on Z-Level higher than ground, and if they get in the melee from there without a dedicated melee squad being involved something already went horribly wrong thus extra weapons wold only mean more weight.