So, does anyone actually play dwarf mode anymore?
I've now experienced numerous sieges where manually stationed squads just stand their ground and let the enemy beat the crap out of them. I move either ranged or melee squads into the path of an oncoming siege and they won't fight back at all.
Sometimes they'll eventually snap out of it and fight back, but it's very rare. If they're stationed as part of their squad's orders they'll correctly attack enemies they see, but otherwise they're complete pacifists. This makes my archers completely worthless when attempting to defend a fortress under siege, unless I screw around with their squad's schedule to force them all into service to be stationed or patrol somewhere. Even switching their orders from Station to Attack doesn't do anything useful. Again, only sometimes can I make them fight be completely cancelling their Station orders, let some time pass, and then tell the squad to attack an enemy will they actually fight.
This has essentially made the game unplayable for me. It's ok when the sieges are five or ten guys, but once you get 50 goblins/trolls attacking, it's so cumbersome that it's untenable.
Some examples of this behavior are at:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=8394Note, this has been experienced from version 40.08 through 40.13.
Given how I've experienced this on four different forts and with 100% reproduction, it again makes me ask: are people just not playing fort mode?