I have a couple of questions about the way Military Squads work (I am aware the Military still has features yet to be fully implemented): If I assign a regular non-soldier to a Military Squad, what happens to him? Will he eventually grab a red coat for himself? I started a new colony on my last playtest. It was immediately besieged by a wave of fishpeople who killed, among others, my Military Overseer, which meant my Military Squad dispersed, and my two soldiers became unassigned. If I assign soldiers to non-Military work squads, do they still defend against fishman invasions? I'm aware the button to promote colonists to Overseers was removed because it was buggy. I do think it's pretty important for creating new Military Overseers, though, because (I think) new ones never arrive as part of a wave of immigrants.
