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My problems are threefold. One, the entire training thing seems sort of clunky and broken, making my squad unevenly trained [if at all]. Two, the sit there and train until they are starving and dehydrated, which may be lethal if I forget about them. Three, they seem so ineffectual now. My ten Competent Axedwarves in full iron armor sets get slaughtered by a half-dozen Troglodytes that escape without a scratch, which doesn't make me very happy as I had to jump the first two hurdles just to get them halfway combat-ready.

I don't know if there's more fixes on the way in these respects, but I certainly hope so. These days, I lose a lot of forts because I depend on traps and sealing mechanisms rather than a standing defense force, which I can't seem to wrap my head around the creation of.

A Diorite mug. My stonecrafter got possessed, grabbed a dozen rocks, and cranked out the best cup ever. Too bad they're useless.

Also, does it seem like possessions turn out less useful artifacts to anyone else?

The military. A million times the military. I'd like the new customizations you can do if they weren't so buggy. As it stands, I prefer the simpler system used in 40d. I'll still play 0.31, but I pretty much rely on traps and what-have-you.

I've got a dwarf at the moment that "likes white demons for their rhythmic undulations".

But I thought everyone knew white demons couldn't dance?

Forum trolls only arrive when the forum worth and population rise above a certain number.  Doesn't this sound hauntingly familiar to a lot of you...?

I only hope we don't have the Hammerer come before our death traps are ready.

I don't think the BanHammerer will be taken down so easily, sir.

I had my mason make a bunch of statues for the dining room, right? He made all eight of them about dead dogs or dogs in the process of being killed by sundry humanoids and wildlife. I nicknamed him "Urist McJerusalem" after that.

Another time, I had an engraver put not one, but two pictures of the same dwarven soldier being killed in battle. Why was it inappropriate? It was in the soldier's mother's room.

I once had a squad of seven marksdwarves. They were all still green, as they were the first batch of military that weren't wrestlers at the time. My champion wrestlers had been slain in a goblin siege [somehow], so the marksdwarves were all that was left.

So, here we are, they're shooting at targets, when "An ambush! Curse them!" appears. I go, "No problem" and send them out to deal with it. About eight seconds later I noticed that the gobbos outnumbered them nearly three to one, and that it couldn't possibly end well. As it turned out, they filled the little jerks with wooden bolts and won and survived, but not without sustaining heavy injuries. So, per the 40d medical system, they were laid in their rooms to rest.

Fast forward a few months. Booze shortage! I had forgotten to make any, and had no natural water. Apparently, giving the invalids a drink was pretty low on their priority list. So, within a game week of my noticing, all seven marksdwarves go insane from a combination of drowsiness, dehydration, and unhappiness. By some odd sort of luck, six out of the seven went stark raving mad, while the last threw himself into my magma moat. So, I had six batshit dwarves running amok, pulling levers, and generally harassing the hell out of everyone. Their antics eventually caused a tantrum spiral that later doomed the entire fort; it's just as well, because they somehow managed to mess up my magma delivery system and flooded most of the lower levels with magma.

My favorite part was how they occasionally tried to regain a semblance of their old lives by going to the archery range, only canceling the task due to being "too insane."

I haven't gotten to play with the hospital too much. Either I have doctors and no supplies, supplies and no doctors, or both and no injuries during a time where they would be treatable.