Good day Fair Ladies and Honorable Gentlemen
Tl;Dr: Dwarves fighting enemies run into them and get solid beatings, not bothering to hit the enemy even once.
Is this a bug or an error on my behalf?
Just in case you may be interested in whole story with all the details:
The Fortress I have led (since 0.40.08 to now 0.40.10) was once attacked by a small goblin party (around 12 gobbos), After luring them into my bridge trap I figured even my "ill equiped" (steel breastplates, steel weapons, and random other steel equipment + clothes) military will be able to handle goblins with broken limbs and bleeding arteries.
As they were preparing to charge the enemy one Goblin Lasher charged into them. To my surprise they could not hit him (no hit register in the reports, just them getting a beating from this one goblin).
I figured it may have been a problem with equipment, so I ordered the retreat and let the "Bridge of Death" resolve the "Goblin Problem".
As I made ready for the next possible attacks, I created 30 fully steel-equiped dwarf killing machines with 10 veterans led by a swordmaster, 10 standard warriors and 10 recruits.
The moment came and The Hill Giant: fire-breathing antilope came to bring doom and destruction on my dwarves.
I pulled the bridge, however the beast was already inside (and good it was, because while fighting war dogs it had started a massive lagfest of a forest-fire). In the beggining it was fighting inside my secure pasture with war dogs burning them and everything around, My 30 dwarf strong military was waiting behind the first corner of the enterance corridor (clay corridor).
Due to all the smoke they waited. When the fires and smoke went away the beast came inside and the brave dwarves jumped at it from the corridor. It was quite a quick fight, but not as one would have thought. The dwarves stood bravely their ground staring at the beasts eyes while it tried to pummel them to the ground and penetrate their steel armours (of very high quality).
After the military had been dealt with (5 scared or unconscious remaining), the beast was actually attacked by some tantruming civilian dwarves.
During the whole "fight" I have tested both with and without calling alerts and freeing the Barracks from training orders. With attack orders, and just with station orders, with and without any other jobs in the Dwarf Therapist.
I reloaded and decided to conduct one more test: I ordered my dwarves to attack the caravan guards that were at my fort during last save, the situation was identical: All 3 Squads ran into the "fray", only to stare at the enemy angrily (they did not attack, just stood near the would-be enemy).
I checked their equipment regularly, most of them had been 100% fully equiped in steel (with many of them getting high expierience with their weapons in the course of training sessions as said swordmaster), but still they wouldnt attack, not even once.
Before I post a bug report I figured I may ask this honorable community just in case it was an error of mine and not the game itself.
ps: I did not have any of this sort of problems in previous versions of DF.
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Topic: Dwarves not striking foes? (DF 0.40.10) (Read 3772 times)