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well, there's always locking them in their rooms...

Ah, yes, that. I keep forgetting about the simple things...

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On another note, if I build a floor over my aboveground barracks, will that negate the cave adaptation canceling effects it has, or will it be just fine?

No, your military will be practicing in a "inside light aboveground" environment.  Cave adaption will be fended off because of the "light aboveground" part.  Once a tile has been revealed to the sun, it can never be subterranean again.  Something about that dratted sun.

You can do the same with your refuse stockpile so dwarves don't have to venture into danger to throw away a XXPig Tail SockXX.

Ah good. I knew about the not changing back to subterranean, but just wasn't sure if "Inside light aboveground" would keep them, somehow, from not cave adapting. Since it doesn't, I shall give them a roof. Thank you.

When marksdwarfs enter melee with their crossbows, they utilize hammer skill, correct?

So would it be worthwhile to have them crosstrain in hammer skill as well as crossbow skill, or would the extra effort not be worthwhile?

I don't want to see anyone but Toady working on this game. I searched for a long time for a good, quality gameplay-based game that would hold my interest for a long time, and I've finally found one.

Now, mind, I did have to use Mike Mayday's graphic pack to play it. I couldn't quite stand pure ascii--I'm just too visual. Once I had that, I was fine. I needed no more graphics than that, and I think the same would be true for a lot of people out there who might not know about this game yet. (Certainly games like the Avernum series prove that.)

So since I don't want anyone else to mess with the game and potentially mess it up for everyone, I think I'm just fine with just Toady developing.

Speaking of seiges, I just got my first one for this fort--and incidentally, my first one ever.

So far I am disappointed, as all the goblins are just staying at the edge of the map:

I've got my military mobilized and ready at the two entrances to my fort, but since they're just sitting there, I'm not bothering to order anyone inside until they start moving. (Why they're just sitting there I can't figure out. Might be due to that frozen brook...I'm going ahead and building a bridge further upstream just in case, so they have a way to path to my fortress if for whatever reason they can't cross the brook.)

Oh, and the channels on the edge of the map are my attempts at funneling caravans into my trade depot. So far, hasn't quite worked yet.

EDIT: D'oh, I know why they're sitting there; there's some random Dwarf down in the channel at the brook level and they're trying to get at him. 

So, I have multiple barrackses, mainly to handle immigrant waves. Silly me suddenly realized all his military were getting cave adaptation from sparring in the underground barrackses, so I'm building a new one above ground.

Question is, how do I force them to use it rather than the two below? Or is there no way other than to undo the other two barrackes?

First ambush of the fort, and yet they kill two of my champions. Probably because the goblins had several crossbows while mine were all swordsdwarfs still armed with their silver training swords. (Still irksome, though. Also I felt bad when I saw the dead dwarfs. )