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[Ryo]

While browsing my unit list I noticed something different than usual. One of my royal guards had the action "Guard Tax Collector" and was following my tax collector around - how long has this been going on? I thought the royal guards just sparred and rested their broken spines all the time.

[Lazer Bomb]

Could you have (gasp)... Assigned a non-wounded dwarf to the job!?!

[Granite26]

seriously, I never assign wounded dwarves to guard duty and I've never seen this...  I'll be on the watch.

[Ryo]

Whoopsie, I've just realised a mistake inh my post - I meant royal guards, not fortress guards...

[andrea]

i have never seen this (never had a tax collector for enough time) but some time ago i read on the wiki that it would happen

about recruiting guards, my guards are mostly healthy people. i use them to give a work to useless dwarves.
but for injuryes there is still time. since i don't recruit them to fight, they have no weapons, no armor, no shield. only clothes. and they spar with military dwarves wearing iron chain/mail and iron weapons (some of them steel weapons)
really, you don't have to use wounded to make a fortress guard. make a fortress guard, and then wound them. at the end it is just the same thing

[LegacyCWAL]

I've seen Royal Guards guarding the Tax Collector as he does his thing, and it's really easy to miss.  It's the Tax Collector wandering around and a couple Royal Guards in roughly the same area, which looks pretty much the same as what they're doing anyways.

I wouldn't think that being wounded would keep Royal Guards from doing their thing.  Yellow and red wounds obviously would, but AFAIK non-crippling nervous system injuries only keep them from sparring without interfering with their other duties.

[pavlov]

This is why I don't bother with guards. I put my tax collector in a house out in the middle of the woods for a reason! Besides, the hammerer does a decent job of protecting him anyway (he lives in the basement).

[Axe27]

Fortress Guards are supposed to act as police, so I generally recruit useless peasants to go out and do their thing. Unfortunately, Fortress guards are always the first one to die in a siege, because they heroically charge goblins, with nothing on but their clothing.

[Neoskel]

Besides, the hammerer does a decent job of protecting him anyway (he lives in the basement).

That's horribly funny for some reason. 

[Flar Moonchill]

I usually stick nervous system wounded guys in the Fortress guard and load them up with crossbows. Means they at least shoot people before charging and dying uselessly!