Raiding question

[Hanuman]

This will sound like a crazy question but..if you play a raiding ideo, when you "raid" is that like attacking a town or a world map site? When you raid, do you get to fight the battles with your pawns or is it an RNG thing where you "attack a town" and the rng decides if you win or lose?

[Excellion]

A raid is an attack on another site, so it involves actual combat with your pawns. The game now periodically spawns resource sites near your base belonging to other factions which you can attack for resources (And to satisfy the ideology raiding requirement).

These resource sites are honestly the way to go, because faction bases are a LOT tougher want wont replenish should you defeat them. Resource sites scale to your level so they can have as little as 1-2 pawns and a bit of loot, up to entire groups of pawns and a fairly sizeable cache of goodies.

[Raelic]

You get to control your drafted colonists.

I'm not sure the difference between town or world map site in context of your question..

There are different options you're given when raiding. Some can be mining sites, some can be wood farming sites... When you reach the hex on the map it's at you go into the area like it's your own place in the world. You see their building and their colonists.

You control your colonists like you do as if they are drafted and fighting off a raid against you, but from the other side.

They are often puzzles. You should look at the way they are set up to see how best to approach them. Can you take out a battery on the blind side of a turret? Can you attack them while they are sleeping?

[Hanuman]

Oh very cool thank you. I did one resource site and loved it (and got a bunch of chocolate from it) because I was on an actual tile. I did a quest where I had to send leaders of the colony to a place for peace talks and was so hoping it would involve an actual tile but all it did was tell me "You failed the talks and got such and such social xp", which was a bit disappointing that there was just text.

[Raelic]

Originally posted by Artist formerly known as Bob:

Oh very cool thank you. I did one resource site and loved it (and got a bunch of chocolate from it) because I was on an actual tile. I did a quest where I had to send leaders of the colony to a place for peace talks and was so hoping it would involve an actual tile but all it did was tell me "You failed the talks and got such and such social xp", which was a bit disappointing that there was just text.

Some of the talks end in fights too.