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I have tried a lot after reading the wiki and forum, but I have 0 luck getting these guys to do...anything. Some of them say Soldier (no activity) and the rest is at Go to Archery practice. Those guys who are at that point do not move from their current spot thou...

At theame time, my squad of 10 speardwarves trains just fine, so the general idea (make squad, equip, set to active, assign barracks) has worked for me, just not for marskdwarves.

Here is what I did:
I have set up several archery targets for them. I made each its own room (wich makes them overlap), made each marksman his own squad and assigned them individually. No luck.

I noticed under the orders tab that there is a train 10 dorfs minimum setting. I set that to 1, that also did nothing.

There are plenty of bolts and quivers for them and my crafters are making the last few crossbows right now so all have one. I chekced ther equip and all available things have been picked up, there are three "going to archery practice" guys with a quiver, crossbow and bolts, but they do not actually walk to the archery target.

What am I missing?

Two of my dwarves got stabbed by a kobold and now they are slowly dieing in their beds I have 45 dwarves and an average number of 15 idle dwarves, but no one seems to want to feed or water my wounded.

I tried disabling all jobs besides feeding on some of them, but those dwarves just hang out in the dining room with no job.

I also have a chief medical dwarf with a high diagnisis skill and another doctor who is good at setting bones. Neither of them has looked at either dwarf. In the medical screen it says that a diagnosis is requested, but they do nothing. I was making a hospital when the attack happened, so I had some of the essentials in there but not all of them. and since no hospital zone was designated, those two dwarves are in their own bed,s not in the hospital zone.

Are there any tricks I should try?

How about adding oil to the game as a underground resource? Oil could have many uses:

-It could be a coal substitute (I am no expert in metalurgy so if thats unrealistic cut it ^^ )
-it could be used in traps that make fires
-flasks of burning oil!
-it could make cloth, items and so forth in alchemy labs
-tar blocks could be created as a byproduct of alchemy, to be used in road-building
-it would create poisoned tiles where it seeped (=evaporated) into soil. Nothing would grow there again.
-add a kind of dirt to creatures that makes them burn faster and hotter
-create lots of smoke while burning to obscure vision
-flames from burning oil could be higher then 1 Z level, making interesting traps possible

The stuff could be transported in barrels or vials and it would be available in pools or pipes (representing small and large oil fields. I am sure there are more possibilities, but I have little time to brainstorm because I am at work ^^