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Danjen

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God Damn Military!
« on: April 12, 2010, 04:26:25 pm »
Yes, it's another one of those threads.

Welp, I thought that since I had a huge surplus of migrants, I'd draft some into the military for defense. However, a few years later, I realized nobody else was near my fort; no elves, goblins, humans - nothing. So, I deleted the squad the two military dorfs were in, and now they perpetually spar in the barracks. Actually, I've turned the barracks into a dormitory, and demoted away my military commander, but they still keep at it. Why?
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Hey, I'm cool with you tying a dog up and shooting it with a ballista if you're short on elves, but there's not need to lie about it to us.

PopeRichardCorey

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Re: God Damn Military!
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2010, 04:28:16 pm »
I don't think they're literally sparring  ;)
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And when you build your fortress walls from the bones of skeletal elephants, slain my weapons forged from melted goblin plunder, fed on cattle that graze on grass that blinks.  Then, you will know dwarfdom.

Danjen

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Re: God Damn Military!
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2010, 04:44:10 pm »
Well, they're stuck in perpetual individual combat drills, making them more useless than nobles.
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mrpoopyface

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Re: God Damn Military!
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2010, 10:41:51 am »
I've had this problem also. Try deconstructing the baracks. After that they should stop training and you can remove them from their squads. I had to do this when my expedition leader kept training rather than meet with our liason.
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tfaal

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Re: God Damn Military!
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2010, 11:14:36 am »
Yeah, we really need a way to say to our dwarves "DO (NOT) TRAIN" with no exceptions. The current system is just insane, to the point where taking them out of the squad doesn't even help.
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Quote from: Il Palazzo on July 05, 2010, 07:00:54 pm
I still think that the whole fortress should be flooded with magma the moment you try dividing by zero.
This could be a handy way of teaching preschool children mathematics.

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Re: God Damn Military!
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2010, 11:19:10 am »
In my last game I used no explicit training orders, as they train on their own in their free time anyway that's fine.
I had a barracks set up for them and whenever I wanted them to stop training I'd do "q" > "f" to free up the barracks (it seems just removing training permissions doesn't get them to stop) and my dwarves would all promptly leave the barracks and start doing other things.
Once I'm done I re-create the barracks and give the squads training permissions again and they'll continue training.
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LordSlowpoke

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Re: God Damn Military!
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2010, 11:20:01 am »
Quote from: tfaal on April 13, 2010, 11:14:36 am
Yeah, we really need a way to say to our dwarves "DO (NOT) TRAIN" with no exceptions. The current system is just insane, to the point where taking them out of the squad doesn't even help.
It's dwarven! They start training the split second you kick them out of the military.
They just want to go back to the paradise of not doing anything and having free booze.
Oh Toady, you sneaky little beast, this is the finest of Dwarven Psychology.
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Captain Xenon

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Re: God Damn Military!
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2010, 12:01:24 pm »
i still cant get my guys to train yet.....
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