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Clicking with mouse in Military screens makes it much easier. 

The miltia commander in the squad  has a bismuth bronze battle axes choosen  for "īndividual choice , weapon" and the other 9 dwarves has not  choosen (could not, because there were no weapons ?) a individual weapen choice.-> how to get weapons for them ?

Suppose the squad members were all soldiers ?->. no i give them all names:  soldier
They are training and do work in their Original profession? ...no hauling jobs for them seems to me 
   

Quote from: janamdo on March 18, 2020, 03:16:05 pm

Yes, i am lost with the militairy screen: assigning a squad is not a problem, but what the initial outfit of a dwarf is ? (beginsituation).

 
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Dwarves start with regular clothing.  You need to make, loot, or buy them armor.



In the military screen you can create an outfit type or use an existing preset type (armor and weapon), then you can assign it to an entire squad at once and it applies to any, past and future, dwarves you add.  Or you can assign them one by one if you want.  I usually end up with preset outfits that I name like: Axedwarf, speardwarf, crossbowdwarf.  Then I apply them to the squads as needed.

You can specify the type of armor and the materials they'll choose.  If you don't specify materials, they'll just use the best they find laying around.

When setting armor, set it to "Replace clothing" to avoid bugs. 

Outfitting unskilled Dwarves in heavy metal gear slows them down at first until they work up some armor use skill.  Leather armor solves this problem but also leaves them pretty unprotected.

Does that help?

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Yes, it makes it more clear what i already had roughly in mind and ofcourse the dwarves  do have regular clothing and armor comes on top of this.
- preset armor/ weapons
- custom armor/ custom weapons
Its not really intuiative the militairy screen...

Start with metal or wood axes, and wood shields.

To help you learn how to use squads, you can attack wildlife.

Put two dwarfs in a squad, use 'm' 'e' to assign any weapon and shield, use 's' 'a' 'k' to order the squad to attack any non-flying animals. Use 'v' 'f' to follow one of the dwarfs, and use 'r' to read the reports.

If you do this, you can learn while attacking weak opponents.

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Using the squad.. i  make a second squad ..good

So, you'll want to set their alert to "active". And set their barracks to train. Then they'll stop carpentry and stuff and actually get to work in the barracks (after putting in their uniforms, hopefully).

"Active" alert gives them a schedule that sets them to train every month. (Alerts are tricky, scroll to the "active" alert, then move across to the squad name, then push enter).

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Active training : 1 squad, no burrow restriction and scheduled list on top : months  .. squads : "The bust of Channeling"
So i presume the training is scheduled for the whole year now.

First they were all : recruit and now they are all ( 8 of them ) wrestlers ( its only T(raining) now in the barrack) and there is a marksdwarf and militia commander in the squad too ( makes total of 10 ) 

The schedules training squad has no uniform or armor or weapon yet..let me look if they gathering in the barrrack?

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Ok its a bug, (found it already strange to be inactive and sleep and train and gain a high skill  ) , that's why i ask: how about this .. i follow your instructions 
lol.. was a little bit complicated, because they went all to a burrow, but i managed to get the squad back in the barrack.

They have now a helmets on ( status icon = squad member ?) (eq ind/ squad ? = on ) some and not the whole squad is there : the unit list gives info what the squad is doing!

I did not assign armor or melee weapons (could not , because there were not i think )
Then i must try to get some armor and weapons for the squad?

There is no ore yet to get metal weapons /armor  and  they wear also not uniforms  ( was this handy by assigning a squad ?.. or must they have at least leather armor? )

Note : Only first level z underground has gotten  cave moss and floor fungus from the caverns
Yes, DF on steam , should be easier the GUI...interesting to try to get the most out of DF : lose is fun ?

I read here: it would be nice if you had some armor and weapons lying around , either smelted yourself or traded for
Even wooden training weapons will do for learning the basics of the military system

Could be the most complex subject in Dwarf Fortress is th emilitary system ?

Ok, smelted yourself .. no experience with this ..traded also not, because i ignored the caravans because it was not understood how the trading must be performed.

What armor and melee weapons to smelt ? for the squad.. i think there is no stock of this. 
So, what armor and melee weapons (or archery weapons ? ) to start with ?
   

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Remarkable that chancing the stairshaft direction prevents the spiders to sneak in the fortress
Seems to me a programming failure or not?
Safety stairs ? ..you mean that vertical combined  horizontal shafting ?