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Teemant

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Military memory
« on: January 09, 2013, 08:21:46 pm »

How do you deal with your dwarves following canceled orders? I order a squad of crossbowdwarves into a tower, but they find a way through an access tunnel to engage goblins in melee. When I cancel the order they still have to go to the last known point of the order before returning to whatever they were doing.
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Nuoya

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Re: Military memory
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2013, 09:53:47 pm »

Military always do this. They head to their last station order before turning back and doing a task or going to the meeting hall. I think the best you can do is pause, give them a new order to station somewhere safe, unpause for a tick, and then cancel the order. They'll still go to that new station point before doing something useful though, but it's a bit better than wandering outside alone when there might be ambushes.
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