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I've also heard that blind melee dwarves will only engage an enemy once they have actually touched it.  After that they won't lose tracking of it.  I'm not sure if this means the enemy has to get the first strike in or just pass on the same tile. 

Well for the hoods make sure to use padded hoods.  They are specifically armor compared to clothing.  As for cloaks I don't know if there is a armor vs clothing difference there.  But you might want to look at that and see if you see a padded cloak or something.  On the computer I'm on the newest version I have is 4c to look at.  I could check when I'm back at my main computer.

You could also extract metal strands and make them metal cloaks though.  Would be pretty cool.

Besides that it could be an issue with stockpiles.  Either burrows or maybe crates.  Maybe try having a stockpile for leather cloaks near your barracks that doesn't accept crates then disable it everywhere else.

Hopefully someone with more military setup experience helps out.  I tend to just use massive war animals armies, golem squads, and stupidly dwarfy large traps.

Quote from: kamikazi1231 on January 12, 2014, 07:38:46 am

The only danger I see in that is failed moods. I personally like the idea of an insanely long automated atom smasher.

We have fewer than twenty dwarves.  Moods will not occur.

Ah I hadn't thought of that since I've never run into a no migration wave bug like this before.  I guess it would work out well then.  Maybe just cage up all the female animals first so we don't get overrun in all those years with breeding.  When it's my turn to run the fortress I may push for the townportal as quick as possible.  At least we can start getting more workers then.

1. They are the golem type you create. Swordgolem. Hammergolem. They can be upgraded with mechanisms.

2. Honestly a rune upgraded highly trained dwarf is probably better.course it situational. Golems are very tough and should be immune to many effects that magic users use. I assume arrows wouldn't do much either. Again they can be upgraded with mechanisms to improve fighting skills. They should also be good against undead... theoretically.

3. Very tough. Make steel ones and upgrade. Send out a whole squad of them and wipe out sieges. They can also be repaired. Im sure your golem is all red and flashing but of course still kicking ass. If you play with diseases I find them a great solution for unstable dwarves.

I don't even give my schizophrenic dwarves a chance.  They've ended several of my forts.  They go right to the altar of armok for sacrifice or become golems.

I don't suppose the manual has some kind of general search function, like a wiki?

I use ctrl + F to find everything.  95% of the time you'll be in the general workshops page anyways and can use that to find stuff.

A good Mason churning out stone blocks.  Use the blocks at the stone cutters to make all kinds of things. I'd bring some shaggy badger dogs to war train. Mole weasels breed fast so I'd bring one female and several males. They are fast vermin hunters. Have fun experimenting with the tons of new systems like religion, magic, and trade.