Ok, had a wierd wee thing happen in my fortress last night. Some creepy giant bat lats himself in and starts making a nuisance of himself. I am alerted to his presence when he savages one of my bonecrafters so I instantly mobilize my 4 squads of well trained and armoured wrestlers, and the 2 squads of marksdwarfs. I dont like taking risks. The giant bat obligingly flutters about in the same general area until my dwarfs get there. Then one of the wrestlers (one of the fresh ones, not the heroes) engages the beast while all the other stand around watching. None of the other wrestlers join in. The marksdwarfs all just hoot and wave their crossbows in the air. The noobie wrestler gets his ass handed to him. The bat speeds off to another part of the fortress...
Cutting a long story a little shorter, my 6 squads chased the bat willy nilly all over the fortress, only ever engaging him one dwarf at a time. In the end, in frustration, I drafted every non-child in the fortress. 4 injured dwarfs later the bat finally expires, but more due to exaustion than my efforts I think....
WHY! Why would only one stupid dwarf attack it at a time?! Is there a strong gentledwarfly trait evident in my fortress? I've seen no engravings to indicate such outrageous behaviour. Can anyone give me any enlightenment as to why this might have gone the way it did?
Tanks.
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