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[UristMcDwarf]

Ettin: RAWR I HAVE YOU NOW MINER!
Me: OH GOSH LAST DITCH ATTEMPT TIME -drafts miner-
Miner: HELLO I WILL KILL YOU NOW
Ettin: Hahaha. WHAT CAN MINER LIKE YO-- OH GOSH MY FLESH
Miner: HURHURHUR

Results:

One dead ettin,

1 Totally unscathed miner

[ZetaX]

Note that miners fighting ability is heavily influenced by their mining experience. So heavily that if they get some luck (first attacks, little dodging, other targets for the enemy) they can take out real FBs.

[UristMcDwarf]

Note that miners fighting ability is heavily influenced by their mining experience. So heavily that if they get some luck (first attacks, little dodging, other targets for the enemy) they can take out real FBs.

But it was ssooooo cool.

[ZetaX]

This is Dwarf Fortress^^

[Girlinhat]

A pick is a weapon.  Some players prefer to have their military equipped with picks, so that they can become miners in their off time.  You can get legendary miners by having military armed with picks fight weak captured things or danger room, and in reverse, you can quickly armor your miners and have a militia.

Fun Fact: Normal soldiers become Heroes when they reach level 9 in a given weapon skill, and cannot be given civilian duties and don't really leave the military.  Pick-equipped soldiers will not become heroes, and can therefore become a legendary+5 army with civilian duties included.

[CaptainArchmage]

A pick is a weapon.  Some players prefer to have their military equipped with picks, so that they can become miners in their off time.  You can get legendary miners by having military armed with picks fight weak captured things or danger room, and in reverse, you can quickly armor your miners and have a militia.

Armouring miners helps if they meet cavern residents, but there are issues with assigning picks to dwarves with the mining labour attached.

Fun Fact: Normal soldiers become Heroes when they reach level 9 in a given weapon skill, and cannot be given civilian duties and don't really leave the military.  Pick-equipped soldiers will not become heroes, and can therefore become a legendary+5 army with civilian duties included.

In the current version of Dwarf Fortress, you can assign civilian duties to heroes, but they will get a bad thought about it. If you still play 40d though, this looks like a good way to allow high level soldiers to do civilian jobs.

[Girlinhat]

Well, I use Dwarf Therapist, and it doesn't let you do so, but that's fine.  I have plenty of nameless masses for my various civilian duties.

I think that the bug with mining and military would be somewhat alleviated by having a miner equip a pick as his weapon, or by making them out of uniform while off duty.

[Maklak]

Fun Fact: Normal soldiers become Heroes when they reach level 9 in a given weapon skill, and cannot be given civilian duties and don't really leave the military.  Pick-equipped soldiers will not become heroes, and can therefore become a legendary+5 army with civilian duties included.

Great, you just resolved one of my issues with civilian defense. Time to mine some organics! (KOTOR2 joke)

[Nikov]

I assign all my miners to wear helmets anyway. Safety first!