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:AFAIK they hold '''training''' ammo in their hand when shooting at archery range. But to hold a '''real''' ammo they need quivers. Marksdwarf without a quiver will take traning ammo and train, but at the time of emergency he will drop it and run to his station point, carrying no ammo with him. Kinda weird--[[User:Dorten|Dorten]] 23:08, 15 April 2008 (EDT) | :AFAIK they hold '''training''' ammo in their hand when shooting at archery range. But to hold a '''real''' ammo they need quivers. Marksdwarf without a quiver will take traning ammo and train, but at the time of emergency he will drop it and run to his station point, carrying no ammo with him. Kinda weird--[[User:Dorten|Dorten]] 23:08, 15 April 2008 (EDT) | ||
:I can confirm that a dwarf can carry ammo in his hand. I have one hunter who doesn't have a quiver and he's carrying his steel bolts. I haven't supervised him enough to know if it hinders him in any way, though. Just check on him: he's sleeping with a steel bolt clutched in his hand...--[[User:Klox|Klox]] 00:00, 18 May 2008 (EDT) | :I can confirm that a dwarf can carry ammo in his hand. I have one hunter who doesn't have a quiver and he's carrying his steel bolts. I haven't supervised him enough to know if it hinders him in any way, though. Just check on him: he's sleeping with a steel bolt clutched in his hand...--[[User:Klox|Klox]] 00:00, 18 May 2008 (EDT) | ||
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| + | :It may be some mix of those two. It seems like dwarves are reluctant to fire in a military sense with bolts in their hand. I have hundreds of bolts of both metal and wood around, but my quiverless dwarves chase down Rhesus Macaques and beat them to death with the side of their bow. The ones with quivers fire ammunition.--[[User:Dadamh|Dadamh]] 14:16, 2 June 2008 (EDT) | ||
Revision as of 18:16, 2 June 2008
If I'm not mistaken, a dwarf can carry around ammo in one hand, its just that using a quiver frees up that hand. Correct? --Bouchart 17:58, 15 April 2008 (EDT)
- AFAIK they hold training ammo in their hand when shooting at archery range. But to hold a real ammo they need quivers. Marksdwarf without a quiver will take traning ammo and train, but at the time of emergency he will drop it and run to his station point, carrying no ammo with him. Kinda weird--Dorten 23:08, 15 April 2008 (EDT)
- I can confirm that a dwarf can carry ammo in his hand. I have one hunter who doesn't have a quiver and he's carrying his steel bolts. I haven't supervised him enough to know if it hinders him in any way, though. Just check on him: he's sleeping with a steel bolt clutched in his hand...--Klox 00:00, 18 May 2008 (EDT)
- It may be some mix of those two. It seems like dwarves are reluctant to fire in a military sense with bolts in their hand. I have hundreds of bolts of both metal and wood around, but my quiverless dwarves chase down Rhesus Macaques and beat them to death with the side of their bow. The ones with quivers fire ammunition.--Dadamh 14:16, 2 June 2008 (EDT)