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v0.31:Fortress guard
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The Fortress Guard are a squad of military dwarves who take care of Template:L within a fort. Headed by the Template:L, they are otherwise identical to your standard military Template:Ls, and can be treated as such.
Selecting Guards
As this squad will be used to enforce justice and deliver beatings, it is good idea to selected dwarves that are weak and unskilled in offensive combat. Basically, exact opposite of good candidate for proper military squad.
Equipping guards
It is important to equip dwarves with weapons as unarmed guarddwarf can easily kill peasant by suffocating him.
Training weapons or adamantine hammers along with no-quality wooden shields from light material like feather tree wood solver this, but also make guards mere meatshields that can't deliver killing blow when attempting to use them to fight-off invaders.
Compromise is to give guards Template:L wood (or Template:L as seccond best) Template:Ls as they will use them to deliver justice beating in melee but pincushion invaders with masterwork steel bolts.
Guardhouse
Guards will train in Template:L as any other squad, so it might be wise not to assign barracks to this squad.