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:Every dorf has the sacred responsibility to drop his weapon before going into combat, lest he injure the enemy, but if you leave them as civilians right up to the instant of combat, they might not get the chance to put away their weapons before being pulled into a fight.  But I haven't managed to get them to ''drop'' their weapons without forbidding the weapon - otherwise given the chance they want to take it back to a faraway stockpile and leave it to the civilians to fight.  I think it might work to try going into the military screen for the squad you've created, hitting "e" for equip, "W" for weapon, and choose ''specific weapon'' from the menu, then choose that particular dorf's specific weapon.  Note that this one option gives you the green check mark right away, no arsenal dorf input required.  But I'd still bet they'll drop the weapons just as a matter of civic duty... [[User:Dorf and Dumb|Dorf and Dumb]] 21:34, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:Every dorf has the sacred responsibility to drop his weapon before going into combat, lest he injure the enemy, but if you leave them as civilians right up to the instant of combat, they might not get the chance to put away their weapons before being pulled into a fight.  But I haven't managed to get them to ''drop'' their weapons without forbidding the weapon - otherwise given the chance they want to take it back to a faraway stockpile and leave it to the civilians to fight.  I think it might work to try going into the military screen for the squad you've created, hitting "e" for equip, "W" for weapon, and choose ''specific weapon'' from the menu, then choose that particular dorf's specific weapon.  Note that this one option gives you the green check mark right away, no arsenal dorf input required.  But I'd still bet they'll drop the weapons just as a matter of civic duty... [[User:Dorf and Dumb|Dorf and Dumb]] 21:34, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
::Right now, Kill orders are buggy in that fashion.  However, MOVE orders tend to work as advertised.  So, if you're moving your squads around, they might reequip before they obey your first Move order, but they won't reequip between slaughtering stuff and following your next Move order.  Not perfect, but close.  Do note that after a soldier uses his weapon for a while (for training, say), he'll keep it and it'll become forbidden. --[[User:DeMatt|DeMatt]] 06:03, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
 
  
 
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== More of a "getting started" slant? ==

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