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[squamous]

As it says in the title, I would like to make trolls join military squads. In 47, this was possible, though very finicky. However, I am having trouble making trolls join military squads in the current version. To test, I added trolls to the dwarven civilization with as few other changes as possible.

This mechanic is particularly important to me primarily because of what it represents. If sapient pets can be purchased and conscripted, then you are effectively able to buy a weapons platform. Instead of a troll, you could purchase something like an "AI-piloted heavy mech chassis" and from there equip it with appropriately scaled weapons and armor, just as you would assign them to normal soldier in a squad. This neatly sidesteps the difficulties of making a different caste for every unit type (via assigning them different biological attacks) and allows you to directly control these entities instead of assigning them as war animals. If the current version of dwarf fortress has lost this functionality, that would be unfortunate. To this end, I'm hoping someone can prove otherwise through one means or another, with the given example (trolls) seeming like the best way to confirm or deny it can be done.