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[Ivefan]

So i just felt like venting some anger over the last(and i mean my dwarfs.) brilliant move.

So this current fort got a nice predictable path for any hostiles to take and they are quite exposed to marksdwarfs along the way. Usually i just keep my few marksdwarfs over the entrance, entrenched with a huge suply of bolts, to not have to deal with the feeble intelligence of the suicidal soldiers.
A caravan came and so did some ambushers.
I see that the caravan will be attacked about the same time they're in range of my toweroutpost, approximately 20 squares away from where i station my dwarfs and connected with a tunnel, and i dont feel like cleaning up after a dead caravan so i send my dwarfs to the tower... or so i thought.
There was a copper vein through the access tunnel that i dug out, leading to the side of the cliff a fair distance away, a security breach that has been waiting for a mason to plug for atleast 2 seasons.
Anyway, the dwarfs head down the tunnel and decides that going left into the dug out vein is a good way to get into the tower(or something, dunno what theyre thinking), which cannot be accessed from the surface. They exit through the vein and go around a rather large mass of rock to get to the other side where the gobs are and thinks its a good idea to charge them.
They die. fast.
Now i wonder, how hard is it to go down two stairs, straight through a tunnel and then up two stairs and stay there?
And yes, They were ordered to stay close to their stations.

[folo4]

you should had put a NICE LONG restriced traffic blocks on the security breach.

of course, knowing le military dorfs, they may just ignore traffic tags altogether.

[soup_alex]

Now i wonder, how hard is it to go down two stairs, straight through a tunnel and then up two stairs and stay there?

Set up a door (or two), and a stockpile for pig tail socks. Wait for the stockpile to receive a pig tail sock, and set up or configure an existing stockpile to accept pig tail socks, and then delete the "original". Wait for the hapless dwarf/dwarves to come racing over to grab the precious sock, and then slam the door on the swine and lock it tight.

...at least, I think that's the only way

[Duke 2.0]

 And try not to station dwarves near thin walls when in squads. They will pile around the captain, even if they are in hostile territory instead of safely behind a wall.

 Another advantage for towers. They will never try to get into the open space outside of the tower and stay inside.

[Ivefan]

 And try not to station dwarves near thin walls when in squads. They will pile around the captain, even if they are in hostile territory instead of safely behind a wall.

 Another advantage for towers. They will never try to get into the open space outside of the tower and stay inside.

Thats another odd thing. they were not in a squad and they still seemed to want to go outside.

And they had no reason at all to even enter the breach so i doubt a restiction would have helped.