It's been a year and a half since my last fortress (hmm,... I feel like I'm introducing myself to a Dwarf Fortress addicts group), and I'm anxiously awaiting the next version before starting a new one. Meanwhile, I'm still trying to learn what I never learned before.
Despite studying the wiki, I still have a few questions about the military:
1) What do military dwarves on "inactive" do? Will they just go back to their civilian professions?
2) If so, will they retain their armor and weapons?
3) If so, could I just put
all of my dwarves into the military, but keep them on "inactive" most of the time, so that I'd have civilian dwarves in armor and carrying weapons, just in case?
I'm just wondering if this would work. I might do it for a certain number of my civilian dwarves, as a sort of militia back-up to my military - just having them train occasionally to develop some military skills, too, just in case. (I saw something about this, called "National Self-Defense Training," on the wiki, but I wasn't entirely sure if this is how it would actually work.)
I guess I'm just not sure what "inactive" tells military dwarves to do. Do they go back to their civilian jobs? Do they just loaf around doing nothing? Does it depend on their personalities?
When
I'm inactive, I just loaf. Are dwarves as lazy as I am?