My baron went insane, so I killed her (shiny blue metal swords are awesome. Try entering a martial trance with one arm and one leg missing...).
Anyway, do I get another at some stage, or is that it for nobles?
In the latest version, that's it for the baron/count/duke, unless your baron has offspring, as these positions are now hereditary. Later versions should allow the mountainhome to appoint a new one if the old one dies without heir.
alright, so girlinhat pointed out that you can make everyone militia to get them to wear bone helms....when i made a uniform that is just a helmet and labled it civilian, but how do i get material to be bone? i went through the list and all i ever found was leather...
It's a bug, you can't specify bone/shell material in the military uniform screen. Toady says it'll be fixed in 31.22.
You can just leave it as any material and they'll find the most expensive free helms you have (or use "metal" if you have "partial matches" on). One problem is that they'll consider a well-decorated leather helm to be better than a no-decoration bone or metal helm, so you can probably get around it by selling/forbidding all other helms except metal/bone.
You need to specify it by colour. Bone is white and shell is dark green.
Ooh. I haven't thought of specifying material by color. Are all shells dark green, or is that only for turtle shells? Must test...