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I propose that military dwarves gain a ranged/melee setting. If a melee weapon dwarf is set to ranged, they will bring a bag of stuff to throw. As per ranged they will throw things until they exhaust their supply, then proceed to use their melee weapons. If a ranged weapon dwarf is set to melee, then they will not use ammunition. Dwarves set to melee will train at a barracks, dwarves set to ranged will train at an archery range. This could be used in conjunction with specific throwing weapons, a list of allowable thrown items, or alot of damaged pig tail socks...

I would like to be able to train my marksdwarves as hammerdwarves without changing weapons. Also I would rather break many crossbows, than a few dwarves. In addition, I would like to have the option of ordering my super hammer-marksdwarves switch to pummelling something with their steel crossbows if I wish to conserve ammo, and/or piercing attacks are ineffective and I want to have my whole squad jump it at once...

Possible downsides:
Excessive amounts of ranged combat if everyone starts throwing everything...
Hammer training becomes too safe.
Would require more tweaking of military...

I apologise if this has already been raised...