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For where to put all this water, I recommend carving a tunnel through rock to the edge of the map, and then smoothing the rock there and carving fortifications into it.  Infinite-drain.  Fortress-floods are a thing of the past!

Bah that's so non dwarven! Connect it to an ocean of magma!

Well that doesn't change the fact that from now on I will throw in about 4 dogs into the danger room in hope I will get another bad-ass unit . Even if his skills don't grow (although as The Grackle said they can train stats and I think that's the case) natural selection will tell me which animals are simply better than their companions!

So yeah as in the topic, I'm wondering if animals can actually "train". I think yes because I remember a bronze colossus getting WAY better during my fight with him (to the point where we were both basically invincible) and he is also considered a creature for all I know.

The thing is that during one of the sieges I assigned a few meatshields war dogs to my soldiers, I forgot you can't "unassigned" the dogs later on so they ventured afer my brave man into the danger room. Not knowing what to do I decided it's time to test the theory of evolution make my dogs into real badasses so I turned the switch and... well 3 out of 4 dogs died very very fast. (2 impaled on a stick and one suffocated having his both lungs pierced) but the 4th one survived the whole thing. After he left the danger room it took him some time to regenerate but after some time he was up to speed again.

Than a few seasons later (and the dog was still going into the danger room, only now he didn't have any trouble surviving) I got ambushed again and so I sent my soldiers to charge the foolish goblins. A soldier to which the dog was attached died (sadly he was my best man) so not wanting to have any more losses I quickly took out rest of the soldiers from the squad (through the military screen I basically unassigned them) so they were treated like civilians and ran back to the safe burrow.
But the dog stayed there.

And the awesomeness ensued.
The "hardened" war dog took out 4 goblins ALONE and than proceeded to chasing the scattered rest (which seeing the war beast in front of them just turned around and ran like hell), he lost both his ears, one eye and few fingers in his left paw but he SURVIVED AND KICKED ASS.

Not wanting to loose him I assigned him to a restraint in my barracks and now he scares all the rookies that get drafted that decide to get into my military.
I'm so proud of him :>.


So do you think it's actually a good idea to let the war beasts "practice" in the danger room as well?

Well if you are bored just murder the traders . Sieges will come later.

How did you crank a 930 up to 4.2? 

Magma.

"They"?

The little gremlins in Toady's head. Don't you know about them?

I'm surprised nobody's said it yet.

WAR DRAGON

I have a weird feeling that war dragons are beasts that created the term "Friendly Fire" in the world of Dwarf Fortress...