User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassin's Creed: Revelations (PC) - Official Assassin's Creed Wiki Review/@comment-30497090-20111204011247/@comment-1625914-20111205015108

Yeah, but what I mean is the same thing you do to send them on missions, but send them to dens isntead. A Den is being attacked, you go to the nearest coop, send one or two or three apprentices and it's done, they'll try to defend it -- no need to cross the entire fucking city in a hurry.