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« on: March 23, 2011, 04:35:56 pm »
Hey guys, I'm slightly noobish (not too much though). One of my forts recently had a goblin ambush. 3 squads: 1 spear and 2 crossbows. I had fortified my fort with fortifications (yes, painful abuse of "fort") and had made sure to protect it with a bridge and trenches. So I thought. They managed to find a spot I had missed, and fire some shots into my barracks, copper arrows punching through exceptional steel armor (rage). I had one squad of soldiers fully equipped in high quality steel, whom I was trying to train into speardwarves (I never have any luck when training melee soldiers for some reason) after I have given them some skill with crossbows. They stood their taking arrows while never firings, though they could have been failing to hit the now fortified goblins. I hastily gave them their spears and sent them out to kill the crossbowmen, as there was only one squad of goblins at the time. They barely managed to shred through the three squads, regardless of lack of skill; my medical dwarf is very busy. Now I can power my corpse catapults, coincidentally.
I was wondering, in the aftermath of this carnage, is there a way to equip dwarves with both crossbows and spears (could be any other close range) and actually get them to use both? Though, there is something satisfying about watching a squad of crossbowdwarves beat an Ettin to death ever so slowly.