Wrestling helps when an enemy disarms your dwarfs as they have to fight unarmed then, and yes, a few enemies can disarm your lads.Yes, they bash the enemy to death with their crossbows. Wrestling Hammer weapon skill is the skill used by crossbow dwarfs when out of bolts. Sparring unarmed trains “Wrestling” which is very handy, as it builds the key stats (like all training) but also trains quickly.Why do we want them to spar unarmed? A few reasons: You did remember to make a bunch of armor as instructed earlier, right? They will then go to the barracks and spar. Your soldiers will now go and get a bunch of leather armor and a shield each. And note that any you’ve told to be woodcutters who don’t have an axe won’t cut wood… although they might try and arm themselves due to being tasked. If you look further down your weapons list you may note how woodcutters are armed with an axe.Then go to the next column and hit “enter” until you see “Shd” for shield. Scroll to the first “A”, which is for “armor” and hit “enter” until the field shows “Lth” for leather.You now have a field you can move around using the arrow keys and cycle using “enter”.With the military screen up, hit “w” for weapons.But shouldn’t we give them some weapons and armor? Maybe, is the answer, lets show you how: What’s that you ask? Well, drink, eat and hang around the barracks sparing mostly. Our dwarfs are now soldiers and are going to go do soldierly things. Leave other settings and repeat for squad two.Hit “f” for “Food carried” and they’ll go get backpacks and put a stock of food in them for long duties.If the squad is “on duty” hit “t” to stand them down.On the first squad leader, hit “v” for view squad.Scroll to the top of your military list, your squads are now up there with their names in grey.Scroll to the second squad leaders and “a” activate him as well.Scroll to the first squad leader, hit “a” for activate.You will now note that the dwarfs in the same squad are now sharing the same squad name, “The Relieved Irons” and “The Muscular Palaces” for me, awesome! But they’re not doing anything yet, they’re assigned to squads but aren’t active doing soldierly stuff, so: Chose another spare peasant, hit enter to promote and then choosing two more dwarfs, create squad two.Scroll, chose another dwarf, and hit enter again.Now when you move your arrow you will see the peasant is marked and there’s an arrow to chose another dwarf. Scroll to one of your no-life peasant dwarfs, hit “enter”.Smaller squads helps your response time to enemy threat and gives you a bit more control. We’re going to aim for two squads of three dwarfs. ![]() Primarily, this screen lets you organise your squads and it lets you set squad weapons. The difference is that there are a few different commands at the bottom of the panel. You’ll note this screen is not unlike the “u”, “units” screen. Something similar will work for you for now. This is both somewhat alarming and somewhat risky as you’re going to have potentially dead babies on your hands due to combat, something that might cause a lot of emo among your dwarfs.įor this tutorial we’re not going to worry about detail to much and we’re just going to grab 6 peasants – which is 10% of my current fortress population. ![]() When they give birth it’s not uncommon to see them running into battle carrying a baby. Others like to use miners (which train up quickly and are thus easy to replace) as they usually are quite strong and tough already.Īs a further consideration, some don’t like to recruit women as soldiers. Another strategy is to have some peasants work on screw pumps to quickly build up their strength and toughness before drafting them. First up, you can pick complete newbies and let them work up their skills and strength through sparing. There are a few different strategies for this. The first thing you will need to do, fairly obviously, is draft some dwarfs into your military. Soldiers can be a bit fiddly to manipulate, but once you get the hang of it you’ll find it second nature. While you’re exploring and digging around (see Tutorial 9) how about we set up a military? You’re going to need one, goblins are pesky bastards and likely to bother you more and more (if they haven’t already). I’ve written a book – Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress, available at O’Reilly and Amazon! It covers the current version and takes you from knowing nothing to being a confident Dwarf Fortress player!
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