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Elf Lover

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Military Immigrants
« on: February 29, 2012, 03:51:11 pm »

The most common profession amongst all of my three migrant waves has been military-based. I've had hammerdwarfs, speardwarfs, swordsdwarfs and the occasional pikedwarf (Masterwork Mod...).

Would there be any reason for this?
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raptorfangamer

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Re: Military Immigrants
« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2012, 04:00:49 pm »

there are wars in your world.

wars means soldiers.

soldiers are historical figures.

this version grabs historical figures when possible.
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Sting_Auer

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Re: Military Immigrants
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2012, 04:24:26 pm »

Also, the ones with military skills are more likely to survive world gen when towns get raided, so they are usually chosen.
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