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[aiseant]

Hi there

Is there a tool for military management ?

I know dwarfTherapist can sort dawrves by squad, but I don't find anything about changing assignment or whatnot.


Thanks by advance

Aiseant

[Noobshock]

I second that question. Managing military, its equipment etc is one of the most tedious parts of the game due to the default UI. And I see no tool being praised for making that somewhat less of a headache, which is a shame :/

[marvalis]

You can right click dwarfs to assign them to squads in therapist

[Etherdrinker]

Not just for assign, but giving orders, patrols, equipping they etc. Yes is the only thing I donīt like from DF cause the management is bad.

Yes I am searching a software than helps me in this point. And not just be defended by traps and mechanism than sometimes the enemies avoid.

[rmblr]

I don't think this exists. It would be an interesting project. I wonder if dfhack's mapped out the memory addresses for this bits and exposed them in its API..

[Noobshock]

Bumping this because this is IMO the single biggest problem with the UI that needs to be addressed to make the game less of a headache for new players. DF has plenty of merits and unique aspects to get people interested, and the UI while being kind of a headache at first is mostly workable, but someone was making a joke about the learning process in DF feeling like a job, and I was about to say "nah you're exagerating", but then I remembered the fun times I have with assigning military equipment, piece by piece, soldier by soldier, etc etc. That's just awful and something needs to happen here. Yes I know I should go right ahead except I have no idea how to mod this stuff. I'm just saying this in case an intelligent fellow happening to have skills agrees with me.

Someone do something about military management!

[Noobshock]

Now if Toady said anything about revamping the military management in the next release, forget it and I guess just waiting it out is the best thing to do. But if it's not planned for the next version, someone here needs to get to work on it.

[Deon]

Make a single uniform and assign it to a whole squad.

[Noobshock]

Yes, that's nice when your industry is already working very fluidly and you have all the same types of weapons and armor to assign to all the soldiers in a squad. If you can't see a problem with the military part of things then I don't even know what to say.

[Deon]

I can, but I thought you could not know that.

[Putnam]

Yes, that's nice when your industry is already working very fluidly and you have all the same types of weapons and armor to assign to all the soldiers in a squad. If you can't see a problem with the military part of things then I don't even know what to say.

This is why people usually assign different weapons to different squads?

[rmblr]

DFHack has the gui/choose-weapons plugin which is very useful. TL;DR it assigns weapons to a unit or squad based on their topmost skill, replacing the "individual choice weapon" entry.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

gui/choose-weapons

Bind to a key (the example config uses Ctrl-W), and activate in the Equip->View/Customize page of the military screen.

Depending on the cursor location, it rewrites all 'individual choice weapon' entries in the selected squad or position to use a specific weapon type matching the assigned unit's top skill. If the cursor is in the rightmost list over a weapon entry, it rewrites only that entry, and does it even if it is not 'individual choice'.

Rationale: individual choice seems to be unreliable when there is a weapon shortage, and may lead to inappropriate weapons being selected.

[thistleknot]

DFHack has the gui/choose-weapons plugin which is very useful. TL;DR it assigns weapons to a unit or squad based on their topmost skill, replacing the "individual choice weapon" entry.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

gui/choose-weapons

Bind to a key (the example config uses Ctrl-W), and activate in the Equip->View/Customize page of the military screen.

Depending on the cursor location, it rewrites all 'individual choice weapon' entries in the selected squad or position to use a specific weapon type matching the assigned unit's top skill. If the cursor is in the rightmost list over a weapon entry, it rewrites only that entry, and does it even if it is not 'individual choice'.

Rationale: individual choice seems to be unreliable when there is a weapon shortage, and may lead to inappropriate weapons being selected.

whoa!!!

[Ruhn]

I see the need also, but playing DF is more fun than writing code.  Maybe if a few of us form a team it would be easier to get something together.