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[Will_Tuna]

A different look at the patrol system:

- assign single tiles as guard location
- assign routes as patrol routes
- assign guards to locations (tavern/temple/...)

- assign dwarfs to the guard profession or a special type of military squad.
- ...
- PROFIT?!

Guards will bring food and drinks at the start of there station so they can hold a location longer (if they have proper equipment: water and food bag).

I'm not sure how much of a problem people have with the current patrol system, but this could be part of the military rewrite where it is more closely integrated with the current systems.

[Ggobs]

bullet one and three can be done now w/burrows

[Shonai_Dweller]

bullet one and three can be done now w/burrows

Would be kind of nice to have Locations included in the list of guard burrows on the military schedule screen though.

[FantasticDorf]

bullet one and three can be done now w/burrows

Would be kind of nice to have Locations included in the list of guard burrows on the military schedule screen though.

It can be done with burrows, as they don't hard conflict and you apply guard duty (military screen < schedule < change activity to guard burrow from training) to that squad in buuuuut its kind of bugged.

Last time i did it, dwarves starved to death (refused to pick up backpacks) and became distracted by activities when they were meant to be actively on duty guarding the tavern to pick up drunks, opportunistic thieves and the occasional "suprise" werebeast who hasn't popped yet so i put them over the plain unvisited museum instead where most of my artifacts were stored.

Id have to deassign or otherwise de-nominate them from time to time so they could fetch drinks/food but they guarded the place pretty good.

[Shonai_Dweller]

bullet one and three can be done now w/burrows

Would be kind of nice to have Locations included in the list of guard burrows on the military schedule screen though.

It can be done with burrows, as they don't hard conflict and you apply guard duty (military screen < schedule < change activity to guard burrow from training) to that squad in buuuuut its kind of bugged.

Last time i did it, dwarves starved to death (refused to pick up backpacks) and became distracted by activities when they were meant to be actively on duty guarding the tavern to pick up drunks, opportunistic thieves and the occasional "suprise" werebeast who hasn't popped yet so i put them over the plain unvisited museum instead where most of my artifacts were stored.

Id have to deassign or otherwise de-nominate them from time to time so they could fetch drinks/food but they guarded the place pretty good.

Yes, I always do it with burrows. It's how I defend my fortress generally. Locations would also be nice to have too. In addition, not only burrows. Also, military seem to be OK about fetching new equipment and provisions during guard duty in the latest version too, which is nice.

[Ninjabread]

Aren't all 3 already features? Granted they're kinda hidden, the first 2 using the Notes menu for some reason, and the 3rd one using burrows instead of locations, but yeah, all existing features.

That said I'm 100% on board for making them easier to find and actually allowing locations to be defended without having to make it a burrow first.