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[Pirate Bob]

I think it might be nice if upon the death/capture of your adventurer, you could be given the option to transfer control to one of your followers.  In particular, I think this might make a lot more sense in the context of the "Hero" role updates Toady is planning to work on next.  If your followers have more of a personality, and different levels of loyalty to you, then perhaps you could only be allowed to transfer to a follower who is extremely loyal, as a kind of reward for making them happy.  This also could be very interesting in the context of of justice, as if you are captured then you could take control of your followers and have them mount a rescue or raise your ransom.  I feel like if your little group is going to become an entity and be given a name, then maybe it should be able to persist even without it's leader.

[Logic]

This seems like a great idea, but I think that you should be able to switch between loyal followers at any time, not just when your main guy has been captured or killed.

[Pirate Bob]

Yeah, definitely I agree that it would be nice to be able to switch to loyal followers any time as well (I tend to already do that using dfhack ).  I just think that the *most* useful time to switch would be if you die.  It would be really satisfying to have your followers avenge/rescue you...

[Nyan Thousand]

This would be most useful when crossing rivers. Damn rivers.

[Pirate Bob]

This would be most useful when crossing rivers. Damn rivers.

If this were added, I assume it would be in the context of other controls for followers (which is definitely planned as part of the "Hero Role" update).  Although not specifically listed, I hope one that one such command would be a simple "move here", which could be more useful for getting followers across rivers, assuming that it could be made to behave reasonably near rivers.  I realize this is a lot of assumptions, but I would imagine that we will at least get the same level of control over followers that we currently have for squads in fortress mode. 

In the meantime, as I mentioned above you can use DFHack to assume control of followers right now, if you really want that.  To be honest though, I haven't found it to very useful for crossing rivers, as when you switch to the guy that's floundering in the water, all the idiots that got across already jump back in.  I usually avoid crossing rivers altogether (bridges in towns are your friends), and when I do have to cross one, I try to do it really fast and then fast travel before anybody drowns...