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[sweitx]

Active duty soldier won't train (need to stick them into off duty).

For crossbow, make sure their off-hand (the hand not holding the crossbow) isn't holding anything else.  If their off-hand is holding anything else, they'll never train or fire their crossbow (they're not smart enough to drop it, so dump it).

Check if your soldiers are idle.  If they're not, they're probably constantly busy doing something (storing items, sleeping, eating, drinking, partying).

Try the following.
1. Double check barrack assignment, make sure they're barrack and not just unassigned rooms.
2. Make sure your barrack is big enough (in my experience 11x11 seems like a good size).  And make sure your archer range is long enough and facing the right direction (minimum is 3, the target, a floor, and the dwarf, but I always use 5).
3. Dump EVERYTHING the dwarf is holding in their hand.  If you have spare weapon and gloves, the dwarf should re-equip themselves fine.
4. Make sure your soldier are off-duty (and even if they're try cycling to on-duty then to off-duty, maybe it will reset something).
5. Cycle them out of fortress guard/soldiering then cycle back (again, maybe it reset something).

[ToonyMan]

Did I just read that you dropped a bridge on this hippo and it broke on impact?

Awesome.

[Sensei]

Actually, what happened was the hippo destroyed the bridge in the interval before it closed. The only thing that can actually survive the Dwarven Atom Smasher is a wagon, I'm afraid.

[ToonyMan]

Lalalalala I can't hear you.

[Phantom]

Unless you put a hippo in the Wagon Equipment file in the raws,
Incestrape, Hippo tank has been scuttled

[Beanchubbs]

Urist McDwarf cancels Activate Atom Smasher: Hippo in way.

[TheDJ17]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Demons of any kind can also survive the atom smasher.

[zchris13]

So can most megabeasts.

[Hippoman]

Ok first off, what do you mean by Idle and on duty? All it says is fortress guard, and all they do is walk from meeting zone to meeting zone, then slepe and eat.

Did I just read that you dropped a bridge on this hippo and it broke on impact?

Awesome.

Yes, i use NO mods, and NO changes to the raws. All i did was close a bridge, and the bridge broke into a bunch of rock and mechanisms.   


Basically... They are unstoppable.

[Funk]

odd most one man sieges are like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTHJngZweTg

[Elliott_Thinas]

Haha back to the one man siege bit the siege is announced as the first part of the siege arrives; if only one squad is arriving the siege is announced as the first guy enters (hence your one goblin siege). Often a number of goblins enter simultaneously so a single goblin is rarely seen in a siege; moments later, as you saw, the next goblins became filing in.

[EagleV]

Ok first off, what do you mean by Idle and on duty?

Go to (m)ilitary, go to the squad you want, press (v)iew squad, check if it says "squad is standing down". If not ("squad is on duty") press (t) to let them stand down. Only squads that stand down will spar, only squads on duty will fight and patrol. I mostly only have a few soldiers on duty guarding the entrance, the rest can be standing down untill you have a siege.

[carebear]

Dispatch a horse foal. From my experiences with an arena I built Horse Foals > Goblin Wrestlers.

[zchris13]

Ok first off, what do you mean by Idle and on duty?

Go to (m)ilitary, go to the squad you want, press (v)iew squad, check if it says "squad is standing down". If not ("squad is on duty") press (t) to let them stand down. Only squads that stand down will spar, only squads on duty will fight and patrol. I mostly only have a few soldiers on duty guarding the entrance, the rest can be standing down untill you have a siege.

Didn't he say that it was fortress guards? Yeah. He did. It shouldn't make a difference for them. But you DON'T want fortress guards to train, really.

[Rowanas]

They barely do anything. If justice ever needs to be dispensed, I'll have the "special peasant" turned into a fortress guard.

the "special peasant" is a dwarf I keep around with no skills, and only hauling enabled. He will never be good at anything, but if he's lucky he might get to take a bullet bolt for a better dwarf.