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Ok so I created a squad of marksdwarves, set their weapon to crossbows and I confirmed that they have them equipped.  I set their ammunition to be wooden bolts for training, and I built an archery range and used one of the targets to create the room.  I set the direction, set that marksdwarves squad to train there...and they're not training there.  For each of them, it says they can't follow these orders.  Anybody got a solution???

Thanks guys

So I told my military to equip battle axes and after realizing I had none, I ordered iron battle axes to be made.  Then my miners stopped mining and I looked at their inventory and saw they had no picks.  Apparently the military had seized their picks as weapons and now I have no mining capability.  I first tried specifically setting their weapon to a specific iron battle axe that I had created but the battle axes wouldn't appear.  The axes were visible on the stocks menu and they were stored in a weapons stockpile but they wouldn't appear on the weapon list in the military screen.  Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

ok so I googled liberal crime squad, and I found a wiki.  I also looked on wikipedia and couldn't find any help there.  So I have a list of questions:

I've got a printing press up, but I don't see the option to print the newspaper...

Is it possible for me to buy weapons?  Or do I have to kill guards and police and take their loot?

I wanna start teaching my recruits vital skills to further my liberal agenda...how?

Also about half of the activities listed on http://lcs.wikidot.com/activities don't even show up on my list of activities to do...any idea why?

Wow I thought this was pretty neat.  I took the Number and plotted it on a graph starting at 1295 and on down till the most recent number (which was 10/21 at the time of this post) and took the best fit line.  Based on the line, Toady should be done with the number and reach 0 by January 1, 2009, 72 days from today.  Of course this will change as Toady decreases the number and actually, the line doesn't take into account Toady's breaks at the end of the month so this isn't really realistic but hey just for kicks

and sorry Toady, not trying to set a deadline for you, just anxiously curious to know when I'll be able to ravage the world with my armies so don't feel rushed at all (and you probably won't)

Yeah so as you can see, I've been bored lately and that's mainly cuz I'm supposed to be applying to colleges right now but have almost no idea which one to go for.  seeing as this site is populated by a modest amount of programmers, which colleges would you recommend applying towards? 

And to give this topic some relevancy to the area, I wouldn't mind being a game developer aiming for emphasis on content instead of graphics too

thnx

wow, my discovery was from near the back of some gameinformer issue that was like an inch by an inch and surrounded by all this other (then) cooler stuff and I just remember seeing this weird picture that looked like it was supposed to be art but actually a map of a world and I decided to check it out and yeah I've been a faithful fan ever since

although I have yet to donate, sorry Toady

dude what if this economy problem started affecting Toady's donation rate?  it might not but still I'd hate for Toady to have to get another job and spend less time on DF...