Raiding Outposts

[Rav3n]

Just wondering where you should be before conducting raids on outposts (not faction bases, but the small mission type ones) . I had my colonists trapes for 5 days to one only to discover about 13 raiders. I thought wrong with my headstrong column of 5 soldiers :/ They promptly high healed it. Is it doable with so little a force?

[Swirler]

Depends on how skilled your men are and what equipment they have. The AI is certainly at a disadvantage against a human in combat so use that to your advantage.

Try a few test attempts to see if it's doable.

[HunterAlpha1]

You have to look not only at the enemy's weapons and armor, but at their stats as well. The the current stage of development the game isn't too good at pairing AI with weapons appropriate to their skills; you may see a double flame melee brawler with 0 shooting armed with a sniper rifle, or a double flame 15 skill shooter with a longsword. Just pause the game and check weapons, armor, and stats.

[Rav3n]

Howabout combat enhancers? At least one for my soldiers usually freaks out mid-trip due to low morale. Would gogo juice help? Although I'm unsure if I should use it as the game says it's highly addictive and it's impossible to remove the effects according to the info pannel.

[HunterAlpha1]

Personally I avoid drugs like the plague; sometimes I'll brew beer for a quick mood boost to be administered by a doctor, but everything else I sell to the next trader who happens by, and the moment I get a pawn with drug interest, the beer goes too.

[GuessMDK]

Ive found the ai to be lacking. I send useless colonists to suicidescout the outposts and they can usually walk up to the wall and punch people with out alerting the other pirates. Ive even managed to get a guy with molotovs to ignite his teamates. They just stood there, watching my elderly peglegged tribal move back and forth in their little courtyard as the pyro overthrew his molotovs and cooked them.

When assaulting, bring a mixed force or overwhelming firepower(12+ rifles). I try to bring a few melee and then hide them around a corner while my shooters peek around from a dozen or so tiles back. That way my melee will engage their charging melee some distance from my gunners and allow them to change targets. Always prioratize on assults. You need to choose who to shoot. I usually focus fire guys with the best guns, and allow my longswordmen to slice thru their melee.

After the battle, go into the building with a pawn and lay down sleeping spots to turn into medical spots. Your people will be wounded, patch them up and if you can, capture the survivors and take them back with you.

[avil]

I started to raid camps with podlaunchers. With it you don't have any joy/food/sleep issues. Well, maybe it's more doable when you're on a big road or on easy terrain, but for somereason I always end up with rough pathing >_<

[Wolfguarde]

General rule of thumb: Have a melee with bionics and a personal shield (and jogger/bloodlust preferably), at least a couple of snipers, a couple of mid-rangers and a couple of tamed animals as decoys for enemy fire. You want pod launchers for fast travel and easy looting (either mine your steel/mechanisms for the return pods on site or launch them in). Two to three bionic melee is ideal, but you want at least one to kite enemy fire and flank enemy melee if they come after your gunners. If you have multiple, you can rotate bulletbag duty to allow shield recharging.

[GuessMDK]

I started a scenario last night where i have 8 people with full power armor and mixed weapons. My goal is to wipe the planet of all human life. In the couple hours i played, i wiped out 3 tribal towns and a pirate town. Only one person has received a serious wound, lydia had her brain tickled by a tribals arrow and now she has a permanent brain injury.

Other then that, im loving it. I set up far from thier building and just mow them down as they charge. The ai base generation is cool.

[HunterAlpha1]

Originally posted by GuessMDK:

My goal is to wipe the planet of all human life.

People like you are why we can't have nice things -_-

[GuessMDK]

The tribal towns burn so nice :)