Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Apollo Densin]

Is it better to have all your war animals assigned to someone or to let them wander around the fort and act as a roving defense or a mixture of both? I have several war dogs 2 war grizzlys (wish i had a breeding pair) and 3 war jaguars (these are assigned to my marksdwarves)

[fricy]

War trained animals will follow the dwarf that trained them, unless you assign them to a specific dwarf, - which may, or may not be the behavior your want. You can assign them to a dwarf if you want, but expect the dwarf to get unhappy thoughts when they die, like they were pets. This, can cause !trouble! (and FUN) with military dwarves.

I tend to assign them to a pasture near my entrance to spot and kill thieves/ambushes - the boring way. I'm sure you can do better. 

There's no "right way to do it", only preferences, there are always ups and downs to every approach.

[Apollo Densin]

right now all i am really using them for is having them hang out in my burrow when my civs run inside so they have a little defense in case the worst happens and my traps/ military fail. Although that is just a last and desperate measure true I think imma go and put some of my dogs in a pasture by my trade depot like you suggested.

[pisskop]

I like to do like above and pen them by an entrance.  Then if battles start to go badly I assign to a dwarf and release them. Five or more war dogs showing up to a good but wounded solider has occasionally saved a life

[Tirion]

AFAIK, assigned war animals respect burrows and alerts just like anyone else, so they won't follow the soldiers they belong to when you send them out to fight, not that they are good at fighting armed enemies (with the exception of megafanuna). On the other hand they are useful when attached to high-value civilians, they are good enough to deal with thieves and snatchers.