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Author Topic: Sending militia out on missions - still traveling two seasons later?  (Read 2590 times)

Evaris

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So, I sent my militia off to an abandoned fortress that was listed as "more than a day's journey" from my fort, and after quite a bit of time they've not returned, when prior their trips to said site were always swift and brought me back many books. 

I'm kinda wondering what's up with that - more odd is that two of the group did return already, but the rest havent.  Most annoyingly, my Militia Commander is among those who haven't returned, restricting me to protecting my fortress with just my guard squad when a siege came. 



Wondering if anyone might know what's going on, and how long it will be to see them again or be able to replace them, seeing as I can do very little with my military right now, lol. 
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Re: Sending militia out on missions - still traveling two seasons later?
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2018, 07:36:40 am »

Hmm... haven't quite had this problem the way you're describing it, and I've raided my local necromancer's tower for library-filling purposes more than a few times already. Only thing that's ever delayed them is someone being late to the party and leaving the map after everyone else has left, or half the squad being delayed with something else before departing; the countdown to return will not begin until everyone has left your map. You sure the two that "returned" actually simply never left?

That, and if you accidentally assigned them to look for a given artifact instead of raiding a site they may be chasing it around the world, hopping bars to find out where it is.
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Re: Sending militia out on missions - still traveling two seasons later?
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2018, 02:06:52 pm »

Well, I was able to replace them after the siege finished with random otherdwarfs, though there's still been no reports or anything of the dwarves that haven't shown.   So.. that's odd.
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Re: Sending militia out on missions - still traveling two seasons later?
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2018, 03:23:32 pm »

You are not the only one , there seem to be a lot of raid related bugs going on with the current version. I recommend saving before sending people out, you know when they should come back based on the estimated time of travel, if they dont return load your old save.
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