1) If I'm creating a uniform for my dwarven military and I have both "SHIELD" and "BUCKLER" in the uniform, do they weigh themselves down by carrying both? before I had the uniform as 'individual melee choice" but they'd pick up two bucklers when I had perfectly good Iron Spears lying around. So I figured maybe they could do a spear and a buckler or spear and a shield. But I'm not sure if I have enough Shields and Bucklers to go around, so I put both on the uniform hoping they'd pick one or the other.
Does that make sense? How does that work?
2) Trying to build a tower. Built ramps on ground level so dwarves could reach 2nd Floor for building purposes (even though there is a stairway in the middle). Dwarves won't build on 3rd floor, can't get any ramps to go between floors 2 & 3, stairway exists from 2/3 on inside of structure. What am I doing wrong?
tl;dr how u build for tower?
N/M. Figured out second question. I have to build the 4 post corners that constitute my wall first, which also means building a floor at the base of each new level first so the carpenters and masons can walk to the corners and build the wall posts that "hold up" the next level.
In case anyone is interested, and let me know about your designs (via here or PM or whatever), but this tower I'm building is an archer's nest / lookout keep. It starts in my fortress below ground and goes above ground level. It is 5 tiles wide by 5 tiles long. At ground level it's just a solid wall surrounding the 5x5 floor. But on the second level their are only wall "posts" (individual wall tiles located only at the 4 corners) with fortifications built in between. Repeat this for each level except the top which won't have the 4 wall posts, just fortifications. There is a 2x2 square of up/down stairs running through each floor inside, and since the whole thing starts in my fort there is no above ground access to the tower.
At the top I'm going to try something I read about in the wiki, which is to chain a dwarf to the top as "look out". Or maybe I could just chain up a dog, although I don't know what their range of sight is. I suppose one could turn the top floor into a mini barracks for a one or two dwarf squad with a table, chairs, two beds, and a small stockpile of food/ammo nearby...