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[Gizogin]

So, I finally accomplished enough with an adventurer that I felt it acceptable to retire him, and got to thinking: "What if, in an abandoned castle, I retired a whole bunch of adventurers with nigh-godlike skills, then recruited them all for my unstoppable army?". Has anyone tried this?  If so, could you please tell me how it went? (DF doesn't work with Lion, so I won't be able to try it myself for a while)

[nogoodnames]

I tried doing this once in order to lead an expedition into the HFS. It didn't turn out so well. There was no abandoned fort I could retire in nearby (some empty forts you can retire in but some you can't for some reason) so I ended up retiring them all in a town. When it was finally time to leave I could only find three of them, and they were all killed or critically wounded before they made it to the bottom of the staircase I had set up because a clown with deadly dust decided to blow up and slam them into the walls.

[Corneria]

Done it, results weren't impressive. They may be superior meatshields, but they still end up boiling down to meatshields.

[druid91]

More impressive would be to use that trick that leaves behind an active fortress... Filled with Masterwork Adamantine Gear and silver warhammers.

[Yoink]

You can retire them all in an occupied castle, but then rather than hunting around for them, use DFusion to find their names somewhere in the site, make 'em follow you, then travel away and recruit them properly.
Endless fun to be had with kindof thing, in my opinion! Although yes, of course there are casualties...

[Rumrusher]

You can retire them all in an occupied castle, but then rather than hunting around for them, use DFusion to find their names somewhere in the site, make 'em follow you, then travel away and recruit them properly.
Endless fun to be had with kindof thing, in my opinion! Although yes, of course there are casualties...

did Dfusion remove the ability to look at the person and force recruit them?
last time I check only the Git version of the game had it missing I don't know if Warmist/darius had remove it on his play alone version.