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Squad addition: "non-lethal sparring" + traini
nunix:
With the army arc being worked on, I think this is pretty vital.It's crazy to have rookie dwarves fight with battle-level weapons. So your best bet is to either get lucky and get wooden weapons from the elves, or make stuff with something like silver. And then go around forbidding stockpiles, turning dwarves on and off military so that the right squads pick up the right equipment.A simlpe on/off switch for non-lethal sparring in the squad management screen would, I think, take care of this. When on, the soldiers carry training weapons instead of the best weapons they can find. Which brings us to....a simple weapon made of one wood + one cloth, made in craftsdwarf workshop, does 10% damage. Training axe, training spear, et cetera. It's possible you could put a cap on experience gained from training weapons; after a certain point, you'd have to use real stuff. I don't have a care on that either way.
Torak:
How would you make a non-lethal spear from one log and some cloth?
Kagus:
I'm not sure I get the wood+cloth thing, but I think that this could be accomplished by just defining what weapons they're carrying while off duty.They only spar while off duty, so they should look for the lowest-damage instance of their chosen weapon type, and pick that up. While active, they should look for the ones with the highest damage.
Draco18s:
quote:Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG>How would you make a non-lethal spear from one log and some cloth?</STRONG>Wrap the cloth around the end of the stick. Duh. :P
John Johnston:
For a long-haul training regime, I go for:Give dwarfs the best armour you have.
Train dwarf to very high skill in wrestling and armour.
Give dwarfs the best shields you have.
Train dwarf to decent skill with shield.
Give dwarfs the best weapons you have.
Train dwarf with weapon.To work well without causing injuries, but it does take a long time. Worth it though! It would be nice to have the opportunity to manufacture/use rebated weapons though, definitely, or perhaps to have "target mannequins", like Archery Targets but for practice with dangerous melee weapons.
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