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[CarbonNitride]

I've just beat back a goblin siege, and have captured and claimed their armour. It's all sitting inside my armour stockpile now. In my uniform I have cloaks 2 mail shirts and a breastplate. My dwarfs put on the captured cloaks just fine, but the breastplates I captured just sit in the armour stockpile without being picked up. Any ideas why?

[nanomage]

You'd better not assign mail shirts to be worn together with a breastplate. AFAIK, this is likely to cause an infinite loop of equipping/taking off breastplate because dwarve tend to put them on in wrong order.

Also you problem may be because of your captured breastplates being too large - goblins do not wear breastplates, and those taken from humans won't fit your dwarves.

[CarbonNitride]

Well, I haven't made or bought any so they must have come from the goblins and it just says "<iron breastplate>" while sitting in my stockpile.

[nanomage]

Well, I haven't made or bought any so they must have come from the goblins and it just says "<iron breastplate>" while sitting in my stockpile.

That's strange for me, i.ve never seen a goblin in a breastplate.
If you are certain about them being of the right size, try ordering your military to equip breastplates only as their body armour.
If they would then equip breastplates ok, then the problem must have been in the loop i mentioned or just in assigning too much armour.

[Pukako]

My goblins have both copper and iron breastplates, and I've had to take measures to stop my dwarves wearing them.  Providing them with steel versions works, although one of them has 'grown attached' to a copper shield, which I'm not happy with...

They aren't forbidden or claimed by someone else, are they?

[Naryar]

Can you even wear 2 mail shirts at once ?

[Angel Of Death]

Can you even wear 2 mail shirts at once ?

Yeah.

[Torgan]

You'd better not assign mail shirts to be worn together with a breastplate. AFAIK, this is likely to cause an infinite loop of equipping/taking off breastplate because dwarve tend to put them on in wrong order.

Also you problem may be because of your captured breastplates being too large - goblins do not wear breastplates, and those taken from humans won't fit your dwarves.

Um, sorry this is wrong.

Dwarves can wear a breastplate and mail shirt (up to 3 apparently!) at the same time without any issues.  Goblins do wear breastplates - most of my military are using ex-goblin breastplates and goblins wear dwarf sized gear.

I think if you set their military equipment to (r)eplace their clothes in the equipment screen they will remove all their clothes and only wear what is assigned as their military uniform.  It could be they already have too many shirts and robes on to wear a mail shirt and breastplate, there's a limit on the amount of stuff they can wear in a slot - the wiki page on armour explains it.

[dagger]

Can you even wear 2 mail shirts at once ?

I use this and never have a problem. Also, a few areas might not be protected, but it works pretty dang well.


Steel Cap
Steel or Candy Helm
Leather Cloak
Steel Mailshirt
Steel or Candy Breastplate
Steel or Candy Gauntlets
Steel or Candy High Boots
Steel or Candy Greaves
Steel Shield

I don't bother about having them wear anything else, but you can add even more.

[Minnakht]

That setup is great as it is. The only thing you could add is a few more cloaks. Gauntlets cover the arms up to elbow, mail shirt covers them down to elbow, together with the cloak, so you're covered. Greaves, high boots, and even the mail shirt do a good job at covering the legs, too.

I don't think you've left any unprotected area.

[dagger]

I thought I read that only a hood can protect the face/eyes but I may be wrong on that.

[Minnakht]

I'm pretty sure cloaks are absurdly good at coverage, protecting everything from toes to the head. I think I've seen a cloak deflect a blow to the teeth...

Either way, they aren't very reliable, not being made of metal, but definitely make great supporting wear. And you can stack like six of them on top of the mail shirt and breastplate combo!

[Naryar]

I thought I read that only a hood can protect the face/eyes but I may be wrong on that.

Masks.

Also gives an epic samurai feel to gobbos. If only they dual-wielded long swords and short swords...

[wuphonsreach]

I go with:

metal mail shirt
metal breastplate
plant-cloth cloak
silk cloak
leather cloak
metal helm
any hood
any mittens
metal gauntlets
high boots
any trousers
metal greaves
metal shield
weapon

Early on, they tend to be lacking the metal pieces though...

[Triaxx2]

Easy. Just replace the metal bits with Cat Leather until you've got metal. Or coat them in Magma. (Since I'm required to suggest it. )