Brawler vs Careful shooter if you have the brawler trait, nimble and strong melee gene?

[Zunymitshu]

thoughts?

[Defektiv]

Nimble can work on Careful Shooters, but imo Brawler should always be paired with Tough. And personally I prefer Tough on any pawn I can get it on. I don't really even like Careful Shooter much at all tbh. Once they have shooting high enough the extra aim time just becomes more of a burden. Brawlers with Tough are insane tanks that can take massive amounts of damage before falling down. I've had them tank infestations and walk away with 3 pages of injuries and still not be in danger of dying. The melee genes are a nice touch but far more important are things like Unstoppable, Deathless, Fast wound healing and immunities.

[Astasia]

Brawler and Careful Shooter are both fairly bad traits these days with so many ways to increase accuracy stats through other means, they end up being fairly trivial increases in accuracy and take up a trait slot that could be used for something better. Triggy Happy and Tough are the two meta combat traits, jogger is still decent. Nimble isn't much better than Brawler (but is better), the diminishing returns on dodge means after bionics and decent skill nimble is only a few percent extra dodge.

The run down with decently skilled pawns with bionics:
Brawler is like a 1% melee accuracy boost, from like 92% to 93% chance to hit.
Nimble is like a 5% higher dodge chance (which caps at 50%).
Careful Shooter becomes a DPS loss with most weapons by around 30 accuracy (even at 45 range). 200% sight is +12 accuracy by itself for reference, shooting specialist is +8.
Trigger Happy's accuracy penalty is easily negated now resulting in just like 20-40% more damage depending on if they are a specialist or not and the weapon used.
Tough is just 50% damage reduction, it's amazing.
Jogger is always like a 9% movespeed bonus since it's multiplicative with the moving stat.

If you want a strong late game combat colonist I would never take brawler or careful shooter, though those traits can help a bit early game.