I think I might as well use this thread to report my experience with the lovely military so far...
First of all, I'd like to point out that I do like the new features regarding it, they are much more advanced and useful than how the military previously worked, the main problem, though, is that the new features seldom seem to work properly... then again I guess that's expected.
My experience with the military so far include issues such as dwarves not training when I set them to the active/training alert, which seems to be a pretty common problem, from what I've read so far. The times I get it to work properly, sort of, they randomly get enrolled from time to time, which gave unhappy thoughts to some dwarves, but they also got so excited training and waiting or organizing demonstrations that they forgot to eat at all, to the point of starving and dying. Interestingly enough, when they try to organize demonstrations they seem to get stuck on it most of the times, I've observed them a few times 'watching' these demonstrations, but most of the time they just wait and do nothing, effectively not training any skill at all.
Interestingly enough, as I think was mentioned in this thread, the most effective way of getting dwarves to train (other than apparently beating things with training weapons until they get tired to death), is to just let the 'inactive' alert set to any squad, and assign them to train in any barracks, which will make them stay non-enrolled and to perform individual combat drills, thus raising their skills quite fast. I'd also like to note that dwarves don't seem to stop these individual combat drills unless they are sent to patrol, or kill something, or the barrack they are assigned to gets disarmed.
I've also had a few fights, though nothing too interesting to report, I easily killed elephants with two axedwarves, killed a few underground creatures without much trouble, though once I found a few
dozen undead lizard people and other random undead things, which were unable to kill my miner, even though half of them attacked him, and my military was also unable to kill them, which didn't even lead to any fun, though I'm sure my dwarves would have died eventually, you know, when they run out of food
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I also wonder what kind of logic dwarves use when deciding which weapon to use, I had a dwarf with both a copper and a training axe equiped, and he decided to attack an elephant with the training axe only, though I guess that's more of a mistake on my part...
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