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[darkgloomie]

As the title says, I have a lot of ambushing goblins around the map (i'm just that bad at defense-making and military), and was wondering if there's any difference. In the unit list submenu I have 3 distinct groups: goblin swordmen in blue, pikemen and spearmen in ochre, and a single bowman ins green. Oh, and a caged maceman in red.

Is the difference purely in term of what they do, or is there something i'm missing?

[greycat]

The colors are based on their profession, just like with your dwarves.

[Quietust]

As the title says, I have a lot of ambushing goblins around the map (i'm just that bad at defense-making and military), and was wondering if there's any difference. In the unit list submenu I have 3 distinct groups: goblin swordmen in blue, pikemen and spearmen in ochre, and a single bowman ins green. Oh, and a caged maceman in red.

As greycat stated, the color is a rough indicator of profession. If you look at your Z-Status screen, you can see the colors used by all of the various professions your dwarves can have, and the military ones are consistent with what you observed - axe is dark blue, sword is teal, mace is red, hammer is purple, spear/pike is brown, bow/crossbow is green, whip/blowgun is dark gray, and wrestler (which was only common back in 40d) is light gray.

For people who don't use tilesets, these colors are very useful for identifying hostiles approaching the fortress, and experienced players rely on them almost entirely.