Psychic ship question

[Dumbledood]

Is there a point where the mechs just attack?

It's in a weird spot where I can't really approach in cover, and there are 20 lancers, plus 20 Pikemen, so they've got the ranged advantage.

I thought that if you mortared the ship beyond a certain point, the mechs would attack, but do you need to completely destroy it? I got it to 50% hp and then ran out of shells because I didn't think I needed more to draw them. Then managed to ping it with a sniper rifle to 49% thinking that might be the breaking point.

The mechs are pretty tethered to it too. I tried to lure them away by mining a path through a mountain and setting up an ambush on the other side, but they just blast my guy trying to lure them and then go back to their robo circle jerk.

[marcusaddamsson]

Yea, if you mortar the ship to death, they'll attack. You can play little hit and run games with 'em while they're still tethered to the ship, but that's a dangerous game to play against lancers 'cuz they only need one good shot to kill a colonist.

I like to build a full wall around my settlement, hit 'em with a few mortar shots and then do one of those animal pulses. It was hilarious earlier... watched squirrels and raccoons and everything taking down a centipede. Note: don't do that when there's a friendly caravan on your map, and also you need to 'wake' the bots up first otherwise the animals won't attack 'em.

[Dredphyre]

It's nice if you have a few mortars cause you can whittle down the 'mechs while you destroy the ship and they won't come after you.

[Dumbledood]

Well that's good to know. There's still a situation I need the mortars for.

I had to pop my soothe pulsar to deal with it. The critter army sounds hilarious though.

[marcusaddamsson]

Originally posted by Dumbledood:

Well that's good to know. There's still a situation I need the mortars for.

I had to pop my soothe pulsar to deal with it. The critter army sounds hilarious though.

Yea, I came to that exact conclusion a few runs ago, after I lost my best shooter (more than once) to those lances. Shiver... those are brutal. Mortar isn't "needed" too many other places, but it is in those...

Yea, it is fun to watch the animal army come to your rescue, and quite useful too. Think of all that free meat!