1. how can I use the ton of raw fish I have? It seems that even a simple meal needs to different raw food... I have a plentiful of fish, but not much of the rest. Can't I just cook the fish in an oven and voila?
2. Is it better to have you xbow dwarves in another squad than the meelee dorfs, so that they stay behind?
3. relative to 2, are xbow dwarves willing to back off some squares when the enemy approach, or not?
4. why the station mode is so approximate in its position? I remember in 40d it was very precise.
5. How can I destroy wooden weapons? Atom smashing bridge only? I would like to burn some training weapons made of wood in charcoal, possible?
6. the # of bolts specified for squad ammos, is it for each dorf or for the squad? I have a doubt!
1. Raw fish needs to be prepared in a fishery by a dwarf with the "fish cleaning" labor enabled. This is analogous to "butchering" the fish.
2. Yes. Among other reasons, you want your Crossbow dwarves to spend their time training at the archery range, not in a speardwarf demonstration just because a squadmate has a spear. Also, see 3
3. Oh my stars, no. Crossbow dwarves will not retreat, and will in fact charge if they run out of bolts. If an enemy closes to melee, they just start meleeing with their crossbow as a bludgeoning weapon. (One of) the reasons you want your crossbow dwarves in their own squad is so that you can force them to retreat via squad deactivation.
4. *shrug* my guess is that it is designed to have bigger squads cluster in an area rather than have them all try to dogpile onto the same tile.
5. I'm PRETTY sure you can accomplish this by having your wooden weapons outside during a wildfire (you can start one through judicious application of magma.) If you just want to destroy them, atomsmashing is much easier and more efficient. Flaming weapons yield no benefit (although they do threaten your booze stockpile). I myself prefer to shove wooden weapons in random weapon traps scattered about the map.
6. This one, I do not know, and surprisingly
the wiki is silent. If anybody knows the answer, I hope they'll put the information on there (or if it is there, point out the relevant article to me
)
EDIT: NINJA!