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[GotIt_00]

Hey guys. I'm trying to get alerts to work so that a squad of marksdwarfs will go to a burrow.

I know I can schedule them to be there on a monthly basis, but I'd like to be able to just have them station there or patrol a route by going s-t and selecting it.

It seems like when I put them on the alert, they're no longer active, and if I set them to active, ordering them to the burrow prevents this from working.

Any ideas?

[smakemupagus]

It should be possible, notice that the military keeps a separate schedule for each alert state.  When you first go to the Schedule menu by default you are editing the "Active/training" alert, but if you press... something .... maybe plus/minus? from the schedule menu it will take you to the calendar for other alert states.

[Lida_Brainbroken]

The default schedule is just a starting point, and no good for real battle. It's really just a training schedule, I leave it that way except for some fine tuning.
For siege positions, you'll need some burrows and a new schedule.  for example...Schedule "Siege"...burrow "North tower"...assign "Crackarchers"...minimum "3".  Now if a siege comes, just change the alert to Siege and the Crackarchers will pick-up equipment, fill waterskin, get provisions, nap, and chat with the broker who's on break head straight for the North tower.

[GotIt_00]

Awesome, thanks guys. This opens up so many options beyond just splitting them between training and one burrow.