Capture mechcluster turrets?

[Adeptguy]

Is it possible, without mods? Like can you sever some power and they shut off or something? (dont own the DLC, this was a random thought that just came to me)

[Cervidal]

Yes. I have done this in early games on rescue missions where enemy camps have had 1-2 turrets.

They're typically powered by a solar panel and a battery, the former in front of the latter. Blow up the panel, blow up the battery, uninstall and take home the turret.

Great for those primitive civilization starts to give them some home base defense when they've just discovered electricity.

[Adeptguy]

Originally posted by Cervidal:

Yes. I have done this in early games on rescue missions where enemy camps have had 1-2 turrets.

They're typically powered by a solar panel and a battery, the former in front of the latter. Blow up the panel, blow up the battery, uninstall and take home the turret.

Great for those primitive civilization starts to give them some home base defense when they've just discovered electricity.

smh
https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Mechanoid_cluster

[Azeth_s]

No, you cannot capture mechanoid cluster turrets; they're internally ''powered'' and basically work as units of their own. You can capture the power cells and gloomlights with some caution; but not the actual turrets themselves.

[Adeptguy]

Originally posted by Azeth Reed:

No, you cannot capture mechanoid cluster turrets; they're internally ''powered'' and basically work as units of their own. You can capture the power cells and gloomlights with some caution; but not the actual turrets themselves.

ah crap, i was afraid of that

[sarrowquand]

What if you got in close and built a wall around their minimum range and then opened up a murder hole as a trap for people you don't like?

It wouldn't be capturing them, but you would be getting them to work for you.

[Adeptguy]

Originally posted by sarrowquand:

What if you got in close and built a wall around their minimum range and then opened up a murder hole as a trap for people you don't like?

It wouldn't be capturing them, but you would be getting them to work for you.

ehhhhhh

[sarrowquand]

Originally posted by Adeptguy:

ehhhhhh

I mean yes it does sound like a bit of a suicide mission to set up the fence.

But you don't like all your colonists, right?

[Hoki]

well unless they have something thats a direct threat to you (smoke spewer, mortar, etc) you can ignore them for the most part and take care of raiders.

walls are great to break line of sight with the turrets so you can kill the mechs first and then attack the turrets one after another.

if you have access to smoke (launcher, grenades, belt) then you can destroy the turrets relativly safely as they cant shoot at you through the smoke (the smokecloud breaks line of sight for them therefore you can also deploy it between you and the turret and approach that far and them create the next cloud. rinse and repeat.

[Andy]

While messing around in dev-mode I gained the option to "claim" a minislugger turret, for whatever that's worth.

That said, mechanoid turrets aren't actually that powerful. They all have longer range than their human counterparts ( those being the mini turret, autocannon turret, incendiary launcher vs the mechanoid mini-slugger, charge blaster turret, and inferno cannon turret) but fire much slower, resulting in lower DPS overall. One exception is the auto-mortar, which has identical stats to a regular mortar, meaning it fires a bit faster since it doesn't need to fetch ammo between shots.

[Adeptguy]

Originally posted by Hoki:

well unless they have something thats a direct threat to you (smoke spewer, mortar, etc) you can ignore them for the most part and take care of raiders.

walls are great to break line of sight with the turrets so you can kill the mechs first and then attack the turrets one after another.

if you have access to smoke (launcher, grenades, belt) then you can destroy the turrets relativly safely as they cant shoot at you through the smoke (the smokecloud breaks line of sight for them therefore you can also deploy it between you and the turret and approach that far and them create the next cloud. rinse and repeat.

??? What are you on about? Who said I wanted "advise" for fighting the clusters? Did I ask? Read OP again.

[Adeptguy]

Originally posted by Andy:

While messing around in dev-mode I gained the option to "claim" a minislugger turret, for whatever that's worth.

That said, mechanoid turrets aren't actually that powerful. They all have longer range than their human counterparts ( those being the mini turret, autocannon turret, incendiary launcher vs the mechanoid mini-slugger, charge blaster turret, and inferno cannon turret) but fire much slower, resulting in lower DPS overall. One exception is the auto-mortar, which has identical stats to a regular mortar, meaning it fires a bit faster since it doesn't need to fetch ammo between shots.

Meh I guess thats it then. Shame really, but very understandable. Oh well.