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[weird beard]

I recently decided that, to celebrate the new version, I'd try to be hardcore and embark on a terrifying glacier.

Not being a complete idiot, I took the precaution of giving one of my starting dwarves weapon skills and some weapons and armour. Now that the arsenal dwarf position has been scrapped, I figured this was a safe bet.

And it seemed to be. My little warrior did a good job of equipping all the items I set to her. After a little while. You see, the first bug I noticed was that the squads from my previous fortress (which I had just abandoned), where carrying over on the 'create new squad' options. After creating and disbanding all of them (which retained their old squad names and uniforms, overriding any options I chose, and displayed the 1 position there was (the dwarf I'd just made militia commander as vacant) I finally made a new, working squad.

So, great, I think, let's have this fellah stand guard by my wagon whilst I get everyone underground, fair one.

A few seconds later, a skeletal yeti attacks. Okay, no big deal, let's see what my warrior's made of. The yeti is dispatched quickly. By my two stray dogs. Upon checking the combat reports, I see that dogs have gotten a lot more useful with the new update. However, my axedwarf, who I have set up with a copper battle axe and leather armour is uselessly punching away at the yeti. Yes, he has the axe in his hand, I check the inventory. Another attack by a skeletal polar bear and the dogs are dead. So is my warrior, not landing a single hit on the bear with his useless punches.

I quickly set up another dwarf to take his place. Again, he grabs the armour and the battle axe and stations at the wagon. And on the next attack, again, he punches uselessly at the enemy and then dies.

I think 'bugger it', let's just get the food inside and seal ourselves off. So this I start to do. I create a masons workshop out of ice and attempt to build a hatch cover. 'Mason cancels build rock floor hatch: no non-economic stone available'. Apparently ice can't be used in a mason's workshop anymore. Epic fail.

I abandon. Don't know what the hell is going on with the military but it's clearly broken as hell.

[Hokan]

That was a very specific bug. Military, for the most part, works fine for the rest of us.

[Angry Bob]

I've had something like this happen. I mobilized the military to take out some cave nasties. It was last-ditch before abandoning in the first year, so I didn't bother properly arming them. One of them at least had an axe, but he tried punching, same as the unarmed sacrifices to Armok.

[Quietust]

I create a masons workshop out of ice and attempt to build a hatch cover. 'Mason cancels build rock floor hatch: no non-economic stone available'. Apparently ice can't be used in a mason's workshop anymore. Epic fail.

I don't think ice has ever been usable for masonry or stone crafting, just for buildings and constructions.

[leftycook]

Maybe your commander just really likes punching things.

[einstein9073]

Maybe your commander just really likes punching things.

Spoiler: i love punching! (click to show/hide)

Hyperbole and a half: I'm definitely not dead

[Tsarwash]

This is likely to be my incompetaence rather than a bug, but I had an axedwarf attack a goblin with her shield. She did a good job too. 

[numerobis]

I've had my dwarves put their weapon in their off hand and then not use it, but only rarely.  Usually they find some other reason to die.

[Rotten]

This is a long shot, but maybe the dwarf was a better wrestler than axedwarf, so went with his higher skill?

[weird beard]

This is a long shot, but maybe the dwarf was a better wrestler than axedwarf, so went with his higher skill?

Nope, he had 0 in his wrestler skill. I set out all his stats before embark. And every dwarf I assigned the axe punched instead.

You're forgetting the 'memory from a previous game' bug for squads too. That was VERY odd, creating a new squad and seeing it have the settings from a previous game (which was even on a different WORLD)

[otze3000]

Had the same happening after I played a series of Fun embarks on caves. DF doesn't seem to properly clean the memory when it comes to military stuff. Restart DF before you embark.

[lanceleoghauni]

anyone else getting the Phantom Black tiles?

It has environment descriptors, but it's a big Blank, there's nothing THERE. it just blocks movement

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[kilakan]

I find giving anyone copper/sliver/wood weapons causes them to punch, maybe they go with the thing they believe does more dmg, aka those materials are so useless they punch?

[Akura]

I wonder... do gloves have any effect on punching?
If giving them wood/silver weapons makes them punch, why not give them steel/modded platinum gauntlets, and make damn sure it menaces with spikes of obsidian?

[kilakan]

you know I have noticed that my steel armored dwarves punch ALOT harder (aka punching a goblins skull through it's iron helm and smashing it's brain.)  Maybe wrestlers are useful with 'boxing' gloves?