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durt101

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Need squad help!
« on: July 21, 2009, 08:43:53 pm »
This guy just won't move, regardless of whether I station him anywhere. He doesn't even move for food or drink when I unpause. What's the issue?
I'm trying to get him to attack some Gorillas. Just how suicidal is this if he has a companion wrestler and ~8-10 war dogs with him?
Edit: sorry, here's the screenshot
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Edit: My other guy insists on doing this too, even when he's in his own squad.
PLEASE someone help.
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« Last Edit: July 21, 2009, 10:09:10 pm by durt101 »
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loopoo

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Re: Need squad help!
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2009, 10:45:26 pm »
It's a bug. Just cause a cave in next to em to knock em away and it should unstick em. As for the Gorillas, 2 Champion wrestlers and 8-10 War Dogs is more than enough. If the worst comes to worst, the Dogs'll act as decoys and stop your Wrestlers getting harmed.

Just try and let the Dogs go in first. Set the Wrestlers to not chase animals until you're ready. Dogs are good meat shields :p
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durt101

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Re: Need squad help!
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2009, 12:51:48 am »
God, that annoys me.
Is there any other way to counter the bug? Something less time consuming?
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Tylui

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Re: Need squad help!
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2009, 01:29:37 am »
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RavingManiac

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Re: Need squad help!
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2009, 06:06:50 am »
Try setting a patrol route.
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ManaUser

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Re: Need squad help!
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2009, 11:12:00 am »
What about taking him off duty (or out of the military completely) and then putting him back.
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Re: Need squad help!
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2009, 12:26:32 pm »
Set all your dwarves to be in their own squads, and then flick through them using the squads menu while rapidly pressing 'x' to delete any patrol points.

When dwarves are put into squads with existing patrol or station orders, sometimes the orders stick despite being in a squad with different orders. So you need to remove all those orders and then maybe the dwarf will behave properly again.
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durt101

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Re: Need squad help!
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2009, 12:49:06 am »
FINALLY found the problem, completely by accident.
basically they were all standing down, and to them instead of sparring that meant "go and stand by an empty barrel while Gorillas harass all of the war dogs stupid enough to wander INTO SEVEN OF THEM."
Sorry for the hassel, guys.
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