Squad training and sparring require multiple dwarves and yes marksdwarves will spar as long as theyre novice hammerdwarves training their melee skills while doing so. Your dwarves at that point should equip themselves head to that room and begin training.
After some time in individual training they will begin to spar among one another.
Dwarf fortress training weapons. Picks are extremely effective weapons overall. To get them started with weapons you just need to assign a weapon to each as well as preferably a shield. 9242008 I made practice weapons called practicetraining sword club mallet etc.
Having all dwarves in a squad use the same type of weapon. My first few recruits usually hit legendary fighting in four seasons weapons in five to six and shields in seven to eight. This keeps your craftsdwarves from running out during a battle to stockpile weapons bags etc and keeps them safe.
Then you will need to set up a barracks for them by building an armour stand or weapon rack in a room and designating that room as a barracks. Its an edge weapon with a fairly small contact area decent pentration and 2x velocity modifier which means it hits damn hard with a good chance to penetrate armor but still has enough contact area to sever limbs unlike the spear. I Optionally strangling it unconscious so you can hit it easily remember to release your grip ii Striking both its feet with the flat of your blade make sure you fracture the bone to keep it on the ground and to reduce its speed iii Striking both its hands with the flat of your blade to make it drop whatever equipment its holding.
Training weapons can also render your fortress guard harmless to any unfortunate criminals. As offensive skills improve and goblin skill stays the same dwarves tend to kill goblins far too easily making this method less effective as your dwarves improve. This is a valuable order to maintain if one of your dwarves dies to a giant cave spider or forgotten beast since the creature will likely.
Look at it to make sure that it is holding nothing- no shields no weapons. I also gave them all bludgeon damage figuring. Dwarves may grow attached to them.
Spears are good against very large targets like buffalo or fleshy forgotten beasts where blunt weapons are just absorbed into the layers of flesh or skin and edged weapons cant lop off limbs because the limbs are too fat. Training weapons also have a few specific applications. Once designated access the room settings with q and press t to set that as your squads training room.
Once a dwarf hits level 12 Great they become a master of that weapon and are collectively known as weaponlords. When theyre not training they haul and make blocks and stuff. 9282012 Training about half the members of each squad of 6-10 dwarves all year round every month in the scheduler is set the same.
As before activate them and assign to a barracks. Poor- quality training spears are a prime component in danger room design and training axes can be used as equipment for tree cutting freeing up embark points for other supplies. With a weapon designed not.
They come in the form of spears swords and axes. When training a dwarf has four possible options which they will take in roughly this order. The first one resembling a small oven because he found all the pieces he needed the next wearing a breatsplate gauntlets greaves and boots and the last dwarf charging into battle naked wearing nothing but a pair of iron greaves and iron boots and a individual choice melee weapon because there were no more parts available.
552015 The same applies to 2H swords and several other weapons in fortress mode. Heh it seems your running into some of the problems I ran into with my own mod in that adjusting the games balance very quickly causes a sprawl of. Dodging and armour typically take a lot longer.
February 11 2017 034924 pm. Adventure mode seems to ignore size issues in this regard for the most part and thus its practical to have a dwarf use a pike there. Make sure you limit each squad to one weapon type otherwise theyll do a lot of worthless cross-training.
If you use training weapons. Spears can penetrate deeper into the fleshy bits and injure organs and muscle layers which bleed more than fat or skin. At the end of each month dwarves go onoff duty automatically.
Dwarf Fortress Revised for 04305. Except for archery training dwarves require a. Dwarf Fortress is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games.
Freeware and in development since 2002 its first alpha version was released in 2006 and it received attention for being a two-member project surviving solely on donations. I prefer to specifically assign the weaponryshield so they dont play musical weapons at inopportune moments. Training weapons are edgeless wooden weapons created at a carpenters workshop.
The primary game mode is set in a procedurally generated fantasy world in which the player indirectly controls a group of dwarves and attempts to construct a successful and wealthy fortress.
