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[bcd1024]

The military is the main source of unhappiness for my dwarves. At any given time >75% of my military dwarves are enraged by long patrol duty. Often times the same dwarves are upset about being relieved of duty.

I have all my dwarves on rotating schedules, training two months, and getting one month off.

This isn't usually a problem as the bedrooms, dining room, food, booze, and quality furniture makes them really happy. When a baby or pet dies in the danger room I start seeing red arrows. How do I make them enjoy the military more?

[KaguroDraven]

Make their barracks really really nice, put a waterfall(if you can) in their barracks. Have them kill something!

[Urist Imiknorris]

Killing things will take their minds off the drafting orders.

[WrathNail]

Try not having all of your squad on duty at once. You can change that in the schedule screen. E.g. if you have a squad of 10, set the training/defend schedule to 7 or 8 dwarves at minimum.

[Mckee]

My lot run on a schedule of about 5 months training and one month guarding the caverns. Each squad is small, only three dwarves, and thanks to the unbelievably powerful danger rooms, they're mostly very well trained, so this may be an issue. Not had any noticable unhappyness, even though I lost one baby and a lot of pets in the danger room (Curiosity and -Oak Training Speak- killed the cat). Have stopped using the danger room now and not had any instance apart from one unhappy mother who lost her child in the danger room. I think the fact they all regularly get to traipse around the caverns killing crundles and anything else that shows up keeps them happy.

[varangian]

I have all my dwarves on rotating schedules, training two months, and getting one month off.

Does the schedule have much effect? I set up a month on/month off schedule for my first squads and, not having read the wiki, expected them to toddle off of their own accord in training months to a barracks to spar, as they would have done a year or so back when I last had a serious play. Of course nothing happened so, having read the wiki, I then changed the settings at the barracks to train squads. This got them training but all that seems to happen is the schedule changes them from Recruit to Milker and back again but they just keep on watching Dodging Demonstrations etc. in the barracks regardless. To get them off duty I have to cancel the barracks setting, so it seems I might as well leave the schedule empty as I'm managing their activities manually anyway.

[Zander J]

no matter what i do with the schedule, either giving my squad no orders or lowering the number of training dorfs to 1, my militia commander always trains and always becomes enraged at long patrol duty. currently i switched him out of that position and replaced him with another military dorf, but is there a better solution?

also, my (former) militia commander was a peasant. when his month off came around, it would say "Urist McDwarf has become a militia commander," which of course is his position all year long. However, it seemed he reverted to peasant, because he was upset about being relieved of duty. I've got him smoothing walls to gain a stat (Note to noobs: giving dorfs a skill will make them lose the bad thought about being relieved from duty) to get rid of this effect.

So, why won't this dorf stop training? again, i've had months with no scheduled orders, and months when the max amount of training dorfs was 1.