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Linking up levers, to a spear or spike traps original purpose, was to allow you to remove the impaled victim from it. Once pulled, the dwarves could reclaim the stuck gobbo.
 Weapon traps will never hurt a healthy dwarf, cage traps either, they just know where they are, and dodge them. So when you hook a pressure plate, continually repeating, to a spear trap, any nearby dwarf gets extra dodge, deflecting with weapons, or shields, as he has to continually have to react to it.
 I would seriously bet, if you set up a patrol route, through a narrow corridor, lined with spear traps, would give same bonus as a danger room, without hooked to a repeater. A pressure plate assigned to a spike trap would be near worthless, since it would not help at all, if it was retracted. Think pungi sticks

I thought the best use would be for a new trap, boiling oil. Have a open space in the floor, contstruct a cauldron trap, then any evildoer gets french fried, passing underneath it

There used to be a problem, about archers firing through fortifications at enemy, on the same level. This might be a dumb suggestion, but check to see if your archers, have bolts in their quivers

 I just had a brainstorm about the problem about designating the Bolt allocation C.
If bolts are designated T, the archers, when they decide to train, will go to the ammo supply, put a stack in their quiver, then go to archery practice. Once finished, will not restock their quiver.

 If Bolts are designated C, then the next time they practice, will grab a stack of the training bolts, fire them off, then will restock quiver with bolts listed, as C. I think C means store in quiver, not Combat. So the next time they practice, since their quiver is already stocked, will fire off the more deadly bolts meant for combat, when finished, will restock quiver with bolts designated to carry(C). Next time they practice, the idiots will fire off the more valuable bolts, since they are already in the quiver, then repeat this nasty process till all good bolts are used.

 Now if you have two seperate allocations, for C, and T, when you run out of the combat bolts, they do not have anything to refill the quiver with, after practice, thus Cannot follow orders.

Another fix, you can use for the future, is to make two uniform templates. One with no items, and another armor only. When your dwarfs get attached to a pitiful weapon, assign them the no item uniform template. Which then, they will remove all armor, and weapons. When check their inventory later, when they drop the pitiful weapon, forbid it, assign armor only uniform, then add a better weapon, to its equipment

  Dearest Overlord,


  We know you try, but in your free time, which you have loads, research military science a wee bit more. If you knew how to properly run, the military, there would be less boo boos, and you could save your energy, from not cussing us, for said boo boos.


   Sincerely, the Militia
   (P.S Bomreck the axedwarf totally disagrees. She likes having no job to do)

Thats nice to balance out imported, exported wealth, on the Z screen