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[Raphite1]

You can't assign war dogs to champion military dwarves from their "preferences" screen, since apparently the game considers it a kind of work. Is there any other sneaky way to give a war dog to a champion, aside from giving a dwarf a dog before it becomes a champion?

[Phantom]

Nyet. (No)

[AtomicPaperclip]

Nyet. (No)

Russian?

[Phantom]

Let me point out i'm American. And yes that is Russian.

[Aspgren]

Nej man kan inte ge dom krigshundar såvitt jag vet. Dom behöver dom ju inte ändå, en legendary champion är mycket snabbare än en hund och når fienderna innan hunden ens hinner få nosen ur baken.
(No you can not give them wardogs as far as I know. They don't need them anyway, a legendary champion is much faster than a dog and reaches the enemies before the dog even gets his nose out of his behind.)

[Dorf3000]

Gentlemen, the answer is obvious.

War Cats.

 

[RebelZhouYuWu]

The question is here, do champions still adopt cats as pets?

[Svafa]

Gentlemen, the answer is obvious.

War Cats.

 

This.

Turn those fiendish felines back on the AI that created them.

[Derakon]

I'd say that assigning animals to champions isn't such a great idea. The animals are almost certain to die in any serious conflict, and that makes the champion unhappy...and an unhappy champion makes everyone unhappy.

(If you just did one dog per year or so, then the champion'd have plenty of time to get over Fido's death before Fido II heroically tries to bite the next plate-armored axelord)

[Halconnen]

Yeah, war dogs and champions don't mesh together very well.

I just had a champion lose six war dogs. (Dumb idea, NEVER give them that many, heh.)

They were trailing behind him when the champion was on his way back into the fort... and one of them uncloaked a goblin ambush, all six dogs died in the resulting crossfire before the champion could make his way back. He subsequently trashed the goblins, but has been miserable for months now.

-THANKFULLY- he managed to get his left hand pierced by a bolt during the fight, and is now recuperating in bed. So far he has tantrumed three times while asleep, and once -before- he went to the bed to rest, which caused some chaos, but thankfully no serious injuries.

[Aspgren]

War dogs and marksdwarves go well together.

The enemies get shot and are weakened enough to be killed by dogs - and the dogs latch on to strong enemies, preventing them from jumping around... so they are easy targets.

Sure the wardogs still die like fluffy wamblers in a cat factory but more often than not there are survivors and the dwarves are kept out of harms way during the combat.

[Grimlocke]

Wardos realy arnt usefull for actualy combat... I only give them to my marksdwarfs and important civilian dwarves.

They allways get either killed or maimed horribly at the first ambush, but its master has a much better chance at running away.

Though it would be neat if I could put my other war annimals on my elite/champion/master soldiers, like dragons, beakdogs and ice wolfs. Actualy, about this, does anyone know a way to reassing a pet owned by a wounded dwarf to an unwounded dwarf? The sworddwarf which I assinged my dragon to had his arm maimed, and now I cant reassing my dragon. Not even by setting and unsetting the dragon to be butchered, which normally works fine.

Also, my champions and even my other soldiers that are in the army for a few years tend to have '(s)he doesnt realy care about anything anymore' in their personality list (gee I wonder why ), so a few dead pets probably wouldnt hurt much.

I had dwarves with that masacre berserk children in a fort breaking down from tantrums, who had half of their friends, children and family killed and who were 'quite content' with thier lives.

[Derakon]

Once assigned, pets cannot be unassigned, reassigned, or butchered.

[expwnent]

Once assigned, pets cannot be unassigned, reassigned, or butchered.

What happens if their owner dies?

[Shrike]

They hang around where their owner was last alive (at least, when testing with atom smashers)