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personofshadow

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guard question
« on: June 07, 2009, 04:53:28 pm »
Ok, when I make my fortress guard they just spar with each other forever. Am I doing something wrong or is my fortress guard always going to be a handful of champion wrestlers that refuse to do anything else because they're so awesome at breaking necks?
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Re: guard question
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2009, 04:59:08 pm »
They're there to keep the peace and make sure that the tantrum spirals aren't too destructive. They fail gloriously in both respects. Also, I think you can use the military screen to assign them a weapon and armor.
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Re: guard question
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2009, 05:02:26 pm »
Most people will advise you to only put the military dwarves with damaged nervous systems in the Fortress Guard. This will prevent them from sparring to legendary, so they won't be very good at beating your criminals to death, but they'll still cage them just fine.
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Re: guard question
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2009, 05:02:45 pm »
Yeah, but I don't care about them enough to give them weapons, they'll get leather armor and wooden shields and like it
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Re: guard question
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2009, 05:05:27 pm »
Give them hammers and hope they only smash each others spines to nothing but bits. No more sparring guards, everyone is happy.
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Re: guard question
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2009, 05:16:18 pm »
Quote from: Argonnek on June 07, 2009, 04:59:08 pm
They're there to keep the peace and make sure that the tantrum spirals aren't too destructive. They fail gloriously in both respects. Also, I think you can use the military screen to assign them a weapon and armor.

Could this have anything to do with the general populace only assigning cripples and other maimed dwarves to the fortress guard?
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