A video I watched brought up something I recognized earlier on. We cannot assign our companions to guard or harvest the farm. But they count to the people and resources.

The only reason why Hancock is at the Red Rocket.....or was suppose to be....

was because I needed more than a weakling Settler to help my character Artair, guard Red Rocket.

The way Sanctuary and Red Rocket is set up.

Is Red Rocket is my giant guards station. It's the road block that protects Sanctuary from dealing with any crap. And I am suppose to have armed guards there. Problem is Settlers are weak.

Shouldn't I be able to assign companions work?

Artair's work is harvest, guard, and gather more material to make repairments. I already assigned an in character job.

Companion assigning is... buggy. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes they'll auto-assign themselves, sometimes they'll unassign themselves, sometimes they won't accept certain work.