Archers. Don't Be Like Me

[Pizza Wife]

Hey for those you having the same trouble I am as a newbie. When making archers and equipping their Squad... Don't give them shields! It takes the place of the quiver so just leave their off hand empty. I've been watching these dwarves punch goblins with their crossbow butts for hundreds of hours completely unaware lol. Good luck out there and hope this helps.

(If I'm wrong about this someone correct me!)

[Makkenr95]

Im pretty sure i have marksdwarfs with shields and quivers. ill have to go double check sometime

[Haethei]

Quivers are worn on the body like backpacks, not held in the hands. Marksdwarves and outfits have always had plenty of bugs that make them stop shooting things though, it could be completely wrong or just a bug

[Pizza Wife]

Update: Yall are right it has nothing to do with it. However, whatever weird bug I'm running into, having them swap out their gear to remove the shields did seem to help. Now they shoot at least part of the time. I gave them bucklers at the very least with no change good or bad. So as of right now I don't know what's going on.

[Deggo]

Have you tried recreating the squad? There's currently a bug where they won't equip ammo sometimes. Also, you need something like an archery tower with a roof to avoid archers charging the enemy instead of shooting their weapons.

[Pizza Wife]

:O I was wondering if putting archers in a defensive stance or limited barrow might help. I will try this at once and when I get some results I'll let ya all know.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Weebles Von James:

Now they shoot at least part of the time.

That's how it's supposed to work, so all is fine.

[Premium]

Do you have the uniform set to replace the outfit instead of wear over? This fixes like a dozen bugs.

[Teemo]

Here's a bit of help with some of the marksdwarf bugs too if you run into dwarves not grabbing ammo:
https://youtu.be/m-3aU1RDJsE

[McOrigin]

Currently you cannot define the bolts used for archers. Thus you have to use either the default "Archer" uniform or create a new one based on that. If you create a new uniform from scratch, that uniform will not have any bolt assigned.

If you, like me, deleted the default uniforms, you are screwed.

[AlP]

Originally posted by McOrigin:

Currently you cannot define the bolts used for archers. Thus you have to use either the default "Archer" uniform or create a new one based on that. If you create a new uniform from scratch, that uniform will not have any bolt assigned.

If you, like me, deleted the default uniforms, you are screwed.

New uniforms work fine for marksdwarves. As has been mentioned before, you need to remake the squad with it.

[Pizza Wife]

Wow ok more good info. Thanks all.

[76561188078797539]

Just to clarify - create whatever uniform assignment you want prior to making a squad using it.

Otherwise ammo will likely glitch. If you make any changes to the uniform afterwards, disband and re-create the squad.

Known issue, hopefully will get resolved soon (and, hopefully, ammo material selection will get added back, too).

[Crab Battle!]

Originally posted by Teemo:

Here's a bit of help with some of the marksdwarf bugs too if you run into dwarves not grabbing ammo:
https://youtu.be/m-3aU1RDJsE

This worked well, thanks!