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Well, heavier armor will result in them moving slightly slower (although I believe armor training can decrease this penalty). However, because I have not yet seen a marksdwarf that will actually attempt to run away when fighting in melee or move to better cover when fired upon, moving more quickly isn't much of an advantage for them, other than possibly firing a little faster.

Also, marksdwarves only have piercing damage, so I think anything that can't bleed to death or die from organ damage will pretty much just laugh at you unless you have some other sources of damage, be they traps or more dwarf-based.

unless they got out of ammo or the target moves adjacent then there's a lot of hammering punishment no matter the ammo

that'S why alotta amries that are purely marksmen are consisting of hammer lords very soon if you dont let em train very long at the range or have plenty to shot prisonerwise

Create a tiny 1x1 meeting zone. Have as many idle dwarves as possible for about a year or so.

In about 12 years you should get a huge bumper crop of haulers, and additional haulers each year afterwards.

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but carefull those dwarfes tend to bond up very heavy so if you lose more than 2 dwarfes at once for whatever reason you might end up on the receiving end of an evil tantrum spiral

another way is to specialise crafters and haulers ..

so disable hauling for crafter and select groups of haulers for the specific job (refuse for those dumping jobs, stone for filling metal ore and stone piles and so on)

anyway the master recipe is ..dont do too much the same time .. that splits your workforce far too much to be usefull .. it heklps to forbid parts of the to be hauled stuff until one area is cleared .. and to speed up hauls between or from craftshops(butcher) design your fort so that specific stockpiles are very near (like refuse and food pile near the butcher or wood and furniture pile near the carpenter) .. remember that moving z-levels count as 1 step too in case of hauling distance (so piles above or below shops are quite fine when connected via nearby ramp or stair

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See:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Armor

Have you actually read that wiki page?  I have, several times, and it still doesn't make any sense and doesn't actually answer any of my questions.

... unless you mean that list at the end where it says to use the following for "upper body", for example:

Upper Body
1 x breastplate
3 x mail shirts
6 x cloaks

Is that legit?  It seems a little ridiculous (and ought to be physically impossible) for my dwarves to be walking around actually wearing all that stuff.  Shouldn't there be some penalty for having so much weight/layers?

its quite legit .. in fact in history multiple layers of  clothing was advised to soldiers that could afford it   (say around medieval times)

and well its extremely effective too ... but taking ages to pickup equipment aslong you dont precollect em in special stockpiles ... and even then

thanks for the clarification .. imma test around abit with it

wonder if its possible to get evil creatures like werewolves or harpies as pets  by adding the evil pet tag

graphics ... as i am too stupid to convert the asci tiles into a visual context

Pierced ears is elven hippie bullshit. Dwarves just don't stand for that kind of thing.

quite .. but still they die because of it


btwhad to abandon .. within 30min realtime the whole fortress engulfed in chaos and slaughter ... guard-squad vs tantrummers vs berzerking tigermen that were on trade visit but could not get out because of a frogman siege (70 frogs ...).. before the first guardsquad succumbed and started the thing there were 130 dwarfes on abandon 8 were left...

funny in sacredpicks .. after 6/10 soldiers of the royal guard succumbed to an ear ineftion!! about 4 random dwarfes managed to get into the double sealed off reservoir of the  power generator ... coffins are really needed those days ...

edit: the bodycount goes up to 25 by now .. mostly when prisoners ripped the chains(aka ropes) in the prisons and escaped ... the guard knows no mercy
 oddly in between a pet cat defended its master and was killed by the guard too never seen that