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[Raz]

Quickly put them into quarantine! (read: the magma showers)

[jarathor]

How many dwarves does it take to kill a Rutherer in the workshop area? Apparently more than 30 - they've been chasing the stupid thing in circles for two seasons and it's killed 10 of them and ripped the hands or arms off of a few more. Luckily I've got a hopsital set up, but I'm going to have a lot of crippled dwarves.

[penguinofhonor]

Yeah, kill orders tend to turn into a game of "follow the leader" as your dwarves chase the creature around, hit it a couple times, and it gets up and runs off and rapidly heals. Something that's pale from extreme blood loss should not move as fast as my uninjured soldiers.

[Folly]

My kill orders don't even get that far anymore. I gave my dwarves an order to drop a naked mole dog into my death-machine, but they decided to go release one in my animal stockpile instead. I immediately gave 20 dwarves in 3 squads a kill order. Now 20 minutes later, they are still standing around in the barracks. About half of them are still trying to train, while the other half have the kill action but are just standing around waiting for something. The naked mole dog is still running around in my stockpiles, terrorizing any dwarves who attempt to pick up or drop off anything.

[Draco18s]

My kill orders don't even get that far anymore. I gave my dwarves an order to drop a naked mole dog into my death-machine, but they decided to go release one in my animal stockpile instead. I immediately gave 20 dwarves in 3 squads a kill order. Now 20 minutes later, they are still standing around in the barracks. About half of them are still trying to train, while the other half have the kill action but are just standing around waiting for something. The naked mole dog is still running around in my stockpiles, terrorizing any dwarves who attempt to pick up or drop off anything.

I think it has something to do with how the kill orders are coded: from my experience its only followed through if the unit can see the target.

[de5me7]

id like to play some comody chace music during kill orders. i dont find it so bad unless its something like a goblin thief that disappears from view. They can take ages to catch

[Draco18s]

i dont find it so bad unless its something like a goblin thief that disappears from view. They can take ages to catch

I had a goblin master thief end one of my forts.

He cut me up so bad I wish he'd not cut me up so bad.

[Dakk]

I'm confused about something, now that I finally got my first squad of 10 dwarves to train in the barracks and wear the uniform I gave them, they still don't show up as sword/axe/speardwarves on the status screen. Some are pretty skilled on their respective weapon skills, but still just show up as whatever they were before I drafted them. Am I doing something wrong?

[Draco18s]

I'm confused about something, now that I finally got my first squad of 10 dwarves to train in the barracks and wear the uniform I gave them, they still don't show up as sword/axe/speardwarves on the status screen. Some are pretty skilled on their respective weapon skills, but still just show up as whatever they were before I drafted them. Am I doing something wrong?

They are, for some reason, not recognizing that they've been recruited.

[Dakk]

Maybe squads only count as active now when they're doing something other then train? Dunno.

Now that I got most important parts of the fort, industry and a squad ready, I think its time to start digging down and exploring. I'm going to need another migrant wave to create the fortress guard squad so they can take care of sieges while the military explores the underground. Need to mine moar coal and smelt more iron/pig iron to make steel to get them equipped, hopefully before the gobbos arrive.

[Fault]

I still haven't found out how to assign kill orders

what button is it?

[JanusTwoface]

I still haven't found out how to assign kill orders

what button is it?

schedule, choose a squad (probably a), choose kill and select the target.  It actually works really well once you find it.

[Genoraven]

Maybe squads only count as active now when they're doing something other then train? Dunno.

Now that I got most important parts of the fort, industry and a squad ready, I think its time to start digging down and exploring. I'm going to need another migrant wave to create the fortress guard squad so they can take care of sieges while the military explores the underground. Need to mine moar coal and smelt more iron/pig iron to make steel to get them equipped, hopefully before the gobbos arrive.

Go the the (m)ilitary screen, and go to the alerts menu, scroll to active then select you squad, they should, as far as i have experienced become their respective military types. Hope that helps.

Also to asign your squad a kill order you hit (s)tation select the squad(SHould be a if you have only 1) then hit (k)ill then select a creature.

[Draco18s]

I still haven't found out how to assign kill orders

what button is it?

schedule, choose a squad (probably a), choose kill and select the target.  It actually works really well once you find it.

Just remeber: you're SAK'ing them!

[TheDarkJay]

....fighting characters will leap into Lava to chase down the Kobold they just smacked into the Lava.
I have a Lava moat.

It leads to some interesting fights to say the least 0_o