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[amade]

It's evidently very important in Adventurer mode, but apart from spotting ambushes, avoiding surprise charges, and reducing the likelihood of penalties from flanking attacks, does it have a major influence in combat in Fortress mode? Training it passively for civilians is relatively very easy compared to training dodging, but I'm wondering if the defensive benefits are substantial.

[anewaname]

In fortress mode, I have always set up barracks near taverns and temples for that passive observation training, and believe it has influence on seeing other creatures at a distance and on noticing stealthy creatures. There have been many times a dwarf would cancel a job because they have seen a creature but that creature didn't see the dwarf, so the dwarf successfully runs away in fear, calms down, and walks back to be frightened again. I never checked their observation skills, but when the other creature is an undead who would have charged if they saw the dwarf, I can only assume the dwarf's observation range was better than the undead's. I have no idea if it effects combat in fortress mode.