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[Sindain]

For me it seems to take a reeaaallly long time to train up marksdwarves to legendary... even with training bolts available 80 percent or so of the time and plenty of targets to train on it seems to take several years to get to legendary... is there anyway to speed the process up or do i just have to live with it?

[NecroRebel]

Make a path that enemy sieges can take that you can seal at both ends with fortifications overlooking it. Then, have your sole defenders be your marksdwarves. Marksdwarves get much, much more experience shooting at live targets than archery targets. I've had marksdwarves go from totally untrained to elite in 1 season from an orc siege, for instance. You just need some way to keep your "practice targets" where your shooters can hit them, hence the sealable shooting gallery.

The more enemies you can trap, of course, means more targets, longer to kill all targets, and thus more experience, so making the shooting gallery long and sinuous is better than short and straight.

[Hyndis]

Train them up to be champion wrestlers. After they're champion wrestlers then give them a crossbow and put them on the firing line.

Live fire training is vastly more effective than practice training, and assuming you have the firing positions next to your ammo stockpile (and you should!) then skill level of the dwarves should not matter.

It will still be a swarm of crossbow bolts despite the skill level, and after only a couple sieges they will be legendary marksdwarves.