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[Trigonous]

The fact that we'll be able to mark weapons for sparring -and they will use only those- is topping my list of most awaited feature in the new version. Those wooden weapons the elves sometimes bring will be so much more useful. Also, copper. Gotta love copper.

Your carpenter will be able to make them too,  so you don't have to withhold that magma from your good elf neighbors.

[Danjen]

I guess they didn't ... make the cut.

YEEEAAAAAH!

[Shrike]

Thanks for doing it with images and style, Danjen!

[Retro]

Sharp wit has caused many more deaths than any mere sword >_>

[kotekzot]

Sharp wit has caused many more deaths than any mere sword >_>

Unlike a sword, though, a sharp wit tends to get the user killed.

[praguepride]

Actually, this sounds like an AWESOME way to train swordsdwarves.

A huge migrant wave comes in. Have them train with obsidian swords until you've either gotten the number down to a more managable number of a champion emerges.

Strip the winner(s) of their swords and put them back through the standard "wrestling & armor training).

Bam, a battlehardened dwarf out of an army of useless migrants. Sounds like an awesome trade

[denito]

Bam, a battlehardened dwarf out of an army of useless migrants. Sounds like an awesome trade

Given that I often abandon a fort when I get a wave of immigrants that I don't know what to do with, this could be win-win.

As for possible tantrum spirals, I couldn't figure out why in the midst of all my mismanagement and the lack of amenities, everyone remains ecstatic all the time.  Turns out the never ending party going on by the beachside well is exposing all the dwarves to constant mist from the waves.  I'm picturing everyone just spending all their time drunk on the beach, so they don't even care if they don't have beds or a dining room.

It makes the aqueduct mist generator machine I built later kind of redundant, but it does have a nice side effect:  the return flow of water from the machine drops from 2Z levels up right over the well; the force fo the water regularly knocks partying dwarves off into the water.  I just need to build a mist generator over the barracks now.

[Kagus]

A possible variation on the migrants-to-veteran equation...


Put a stockpile of swords (and possibly shields, if you're into that) outside.  Then place a weapon rack or something that can set up a sparring area outside (might need a roof, can't say I remember).

When a migrant wave comes, draft them all and make them fight to the death.  The winner will be allowed into the fort as a full-blooded citizen.

Come next season, the migrants will pluck the weapons from the corpses of the dead and start the cycle over again.

[Kav]

I recently learned this valuable lesson as well. All the leather and bone armor in the world wasn't saving them from each other. Hell even after upgrading them to iron and steel the injuries kept flooding the barracks. Never mind all the wrestling training they had already had. I'd never seen so many friendly inflicted spinal injuries. And then I saw some more, and then some more...

Training with masterwork obsidian swords is a great way to increase the Fortress Guard.

[Ninteen45]

I guess they didn't ... make the cut.

I guess they got the chop.

[ungulateman]

Even with good armour and a low-quality silver spear, my dwarves are cursed to either get brain damage before they reach Competent level, or a stab in the heart and die.

[Tarran]

Actually, this sounds like an AWESOME way to train swordsdwarves.

A huge migrant wave comes in. Have them train with obsidian swords until you've either gotten the number down to a more managable number of a champion emerges.

Strip the winner(s) of their swords and put them back through the standard "wrestling & armor training).

Bam, a battlehardened dwarf out of an army of useless migrants. Sounds like an awesome trade

...I gotta get out of this forum!

[Chicken Launcher]

My military training is survival of the fittest. I toss dwarves into the barracks with a weapon and shield, and if they kill each other so be it. It will weed out the weak. No mercy.

[Diablous]

Actually, this sounds like an AWESOME way to train swordsdwarves.

A huge migrant wave comes in. Have them train with obsidian swords until you've either gotten the number down to a more managable number of a champion emerges.

Strip the winner(s) of their swords and put them back through the standard "wrestling & armor training).

Bam, a battlehardened dwarf out of an army of useless migrants. Sounds like an awesome trade

...I gotta get out of this forum!

You cannot leave! You are one of us now! *puts on black robe* One of us! One of us! One of us! One of us! One of us!

[Argonnek]

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