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[ampillion]

Alright, so I've got this fortress going, and to prepare for HFS, I've been training a squad of champions to handle some SoF's hanging about. Now, I started about twelve dwarves training about the same time. I know Marksmen are slow arses anyway, but I have one dwarf that has seemingly never advanced beyond recruit when all the others are now champions. He hasn't been bed-ridden for any real amount of time, and every time I zoom to him, he's hanging about, but he doesn't seem to be training even as the rest of his squad does. Any suggestions?

Also, I've got a spear-dwarf equipped with his weapon, but he seems to becoming a wrestler. Will he eventually skill up enough to lose the wrestle moniker and become a proper spear-dwarf?

[Jim Groovester]

For your first layabout he probably has a damaged nervous system. Scroll down on his wounds screen. Nervous system-damaged dwarves can't spar.

As for the second, is he holding any clothing or armor in his hands? If he is, you can set his armor preferences to clothes, let him drop whatever he's holding and set it back. He should then spar with the spear.

[ampillion]

Ah, yep, nervous system injury. Thanks.

And my dwarf decided to fix my other question for me just now. He flipped from a wrestler to a spearmaster.

[Wahad]

Ah, yep, nervous system injury. Thanks.

And my dwarf decided to fix my other question for me just now. He flipped from a wrestler to a spearmaster.

Wrestler and Speardwarf skills are probably only one skill-level apart then; remember, a dwarf becomes his highest skill. Alternating between dodging and stabbing with the spear, wrestler and speardwarf rise about equally fast though with alternating highs.

[Leafsnail]

Ah, yep, nervous system injury. Thanks.

And my dwarf decided to fix my other question for me just now. He flipped from a wrestler to a spearmaster.

Remember, as long as his nervous injury doesn't prevent him from moving, he'll make a great marksman (as well as having wrestling and toughness, he'll also have marksmanship).  I once had a legendary hammer get a nervous injury.  Moved him to marksdwarf... he can smash most enemies in melee.

[Skorpion]

Also, I've got a spear-dwarf equipped with his weapon, but he seems to becoming a wrestler. Will he eventually skill up enough to lose the wrestle moniker and become a proper spear-dwarf?

Probably not. Dwarves tend to train weapons and wrestling together if someone's hanging around without weapons and training.

[zchris13]

Marksdwarves require:

• An Archery Range, designated as a room from an archery target.
• A clear path to said archery target from the direction the range is.
• Bone bolts
• wood bolts

Certain bugs with the equipping script cause them to sometimes be unable to fire their crossbows.
Unequip them.