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[nickbii]

Are there any uses to guard towers besides just asthetics? If so are there any recomendations on how they should be made? On one map I had mostly flat land with 3 seperate small mountains, I turned one into a military area and another into a weapons/armor cache, was it a good idea?

It was probably a good idea.

I don't use the spotting towers other guys have mentioned, but in theory those should work great. I may try them myself.

I do use archer towers. I place them at strategic points, and make sure they're inaccessible to the outside. Each tower has a small (like three-man) squad. In 40d the towers could totally dominate a 15-20 square radius. In the current version bolts are a lot less lethal (I had one guy running around my arena with 27 of them stuck in him before he finally died), but a guard tower manned by decent marksdwarves with access to good bolts is still a low-risk, non-gamey, way to hurt besiegers.

Nick

[Funk]

im thinking of keeping my army in a close tower and tunel run.

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[W]all, [F]ortification, [.] floor, [X] up/down stais, [c] hatch cover over down stairs
[T] traps,[P]pit

[nordak]

I currently use bunkers along the sides of my volcano.  I use towers when I have flat land generally 2 z high, I'm not sure why but I was told that was the optimum hight to not get hit by gob arrows and not waste range and it works.

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F- fortification
w- wall
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x- stairs
z- ammo stockpile

also, guard dogs or any animal for that matter have a tendancy to fall asleep while chained (or its a bug and they are just unresponsive...)  1 square guarantees detection, since animals have no observation skill you should always put them in an area where the enemy has to walk around them.  I've had dwarves detect from multiple squares away, but every animal detection I've seen has been at one square distance.