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Come to mention in, Reg is a woman...

Oh, God. What have you done.

My good Fish Dissector, Reg Oilgates, seems to be bleeding all over the place spontaneously.
He's bled by the wagon, in the barracks, everywhere inside the fortress, and in my mayor's chambers.

He has no wounds (on both the V screen and the Z-health screen) and hasn't requested a diagnosis.

I don't know whether to figure out a way to get him diagnosed in case there's a wound I'm not seeing, or just to mark it off as him sweating blood.

Alright, cool, one's already training now.
Many thanks.

So the general idea here is that they'll only use an archery range when they're inactive?

When I designate an Archery Range and set my marksdwarves to train in it, they'll ignore it entirely and won't even enter it.
Just to be sure:

• they're equipped with bows
• they have arrows designated for training (which are stored in a custom stockpile for bows and ammunition inside the range)
• the archery range is marked as a training zone for their squad
• the squad is set to train

They're set to train with a minimum 2 soldiers each month with the 1st and 7th months of the year off, and I'm positive that they're set to train this month because they all dropped civ status and went to soldier status.

I made a barracks out of the same room with a weapon rack and they all proceeded to train in it using the crossbow-as-hammer technique.

What am I doing wrong?

After having killed a multitude of beasts ranging from a cyclops to a troll to many minotaurs, I got bored and headed to the northernmost point I could reach without swimming.
On my way back, having decided to not commit suicide by drowning, my party of 8 (including me) goes to sleep and shortly thereafter gets ambushed by a local gang and all but 3 of us are dead upon waking up or killed within the first few turns by their 3 crossbowmen, one of whom being their leader.

Entered a martial trance upon waking up and took out 4 men (a wrestler, a lasher, a swordsman and a spearman) in the same general area in order to save my spearman companion from certain doom. The gang had a maceman that had engaged my surviving hammerman and had, before I was unable to reach the battle, killed him. I immediately took vengeance by severing his head in one swoop of my axe.

My spearwoman shortly thereafter got shot in the hand by a bolt, damaging her bone and making her pass out from the pain.

I ran into the center of the three crossbowmen (to my NE and SE were crossbowmen, to my SW was a tree and to the NW was the leader) and proceeded to sever more limbs and disable more of them - even killing one by striking them with the pommel of my axe and sending a rib through their heart.

***

After the carnage, I waited around for my sole surviving companion, the spearwoman, to wake up from her pain. We traveled southward to the nearest town and went into a house to sleep.

By the hand of either luck or fate, we stay in the house that I had gone to to receive my first quest. I got a nice welcome from them.

I would have never seen it coming.
It was my adventurer's first quest. The camp was a little ways away from the closest town I could find, so I got up at dawn and started heading there as soon as I could.

I was pretty sure that I wouldn't make time before night fall and get attacked by bogeymen on my way back. Instead, they ambushed me a good number of map tiles away from the actual camp.

Within the first turn, their human swordsman leader (the one I was tasked with killing) up and dies of old age.

BTW, his last name translates to "Honestquests."

EDIT: The following turn, one of their axemen engages a groundhog by picking it up and shaking it around by the tail until the tail rips off.