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dakenho

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hunters still having problems in 31.10
« on: August 10, 2010, 01:16:36 pm »
so despite the removal of the arsenal dwarf my hunters are still not hunting. I have plenty of hunters, xbows, quivers, and bone bolts, but my hunters will not hunt.  looking in the equipment screen hunters have 100 bone bolts (though it shows only one in use despise there being three hunters) one hunter seems to hunt most of the time, the second hunter only seems to hunt at the start of the season and third refuses to hunt.  Even when the hunters do hunt they suck at it, taking pot shots at horses, ground hogs and buzzards but rarely hitting or killing anything, its getting to the poitn where I am considering steel bolts instead of bone just so that they can kills things.
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FleshForge

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Re: hunters still having problems in 31.10
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2010, 01:39:27 pm »
That's kind of the opposite of how it works for me, single hunters bring down elephants with bone bolts.  Meat and prepared food are a pretty fair export item for me, plus all the bone and whatnot.
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FleshForge

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Re: hunters still having problems in 31.10
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2010, 03:52:00 pm »
occurs to me to ask - did you start your hunter out with ambushing skill?  pretty sure it is the core skill for hunting, "sneak up on stuff" etc.

I should also mention I'm playing 31.12, oops.
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Bartleby

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Re: hunters still having problems in 31.10
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2010, 06:15:38 am »
bolts were fixed in .11 (at least some) , so no wonder you have problems with .10

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Tuumi

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Re: hunters still having problems in 31.10
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2010, 08:30:03 am »
I have similar problem (.12 here)

I had one hunter from migrants which ended up leading archer squad. He got 5 other dwarves with him squad. One of them (according to military screen) was somewhat good with crossbows.

Every dwarf is equipped with a crossbow and quiver and there is plenty of bolts in stockpile and allowed for them. Every archer squad member has hunting turned on and they train min 3 at a time. (Most of them have no clue about ambushing). There is deers and foxes outside - so there is game to had.

I havent seen any of those dwarves hunting in ages. Neither have I seen them train archery (6 archery targets marked for squad) apart militia commander (the hunter who leads the squad) once went and shot few arrows.

I'm pretty frustrated.. Most of the moods I've gotten thus far have asked bones, which I start to run out.. I hate butchering dogs and cows for bones (I'd rather use dogs as hunting / war animals and cows just breed for more cows that I get decent supply before turning them to meat)
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