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[Archereon]

Hello everyone, I just weathered my first goblin ambush (which looked more like a siege, there was two pages of melee goblins), mainly through trapping the goblins between a bridge and magma (I has a volcano =) ), then letting my marksdwarves take care of them. Prior to doing that, I sent in swordsdwarves, who were dabbling and got promptly slaughtered...How can I train my swordsdwarves without getting them slaughtered? I trained my marksdwarves by letting them shoot at pitted goblin thieves, but I'm not sure that's an option here, since even an unarmored and unarmed goblin could pose a threat to untrained swordsdwarves, even if they're wearing full adamantine armor and wielding high quality adamantine shortswords (long story, well not really, a dwarf fell into the volcano, and was kind enough to report there was adamantine at the bottom, which I dug to, and started mining, then my weaponsmith got a strange mood and became legendary).

Right?

Or could I just toss them at captured and stripped goblins with training swords and the armor? Would that work?

Of course, to do that, I'll have to get the goblin cages (and a titan cage) over to my animal stockpile (since the titan doesn't have dust or any ranged attack, he'll be my marksdwarves training target), which is by a nice pit, but unfortunately, my dwarves absolutely refuse to haul anything.

[Blue_Dwarf]

You can train them by killing wild animals. Use wooden weapons to maximize the experience.

As for hauling, make sure the stockpile has no hidden stones in it, they prevent dwarves from hauling things.

[Archereon]

The stockpile definitely has no stones in it. Good idea with the animals.

[Garath]

you can use a couple of cage to capture animals and enemies and make an arena

[Archereon]

Yeah, for some reason my dwarves won't touch the cages, which is kind of bad, considering I have a titan in one (yeah, I have no idea how that happened)

[Garath]

an actual titan or a giant or other megabeast? there is a difference

[Stormfeather]

Make sure the cages aren't marked as forbidden, if you were already playing around with them, stripping the prisoners.

Alternately the usual culprits for stockpiles seem to be, let's see, stockpile already filled (which you've covered), either the source or end stockpiles inaccessible for some reason, or the end stockpile is marked to accept the wrong stuff. Oh, or hauling of (whatever) accidentally got turned off in the orders screen.

[Mushroo]

Put your swordsdwarfs in squads of 2 or 3 with one experienced swordsdwarf in each squad, preferably with the Teacher skill. Set them to train year round and give them a nice barracks and food/drink to keep them happy. They should train to Legendary in around 2 years.