Advanced Training Guide

Tired of your squad getting whooped by bandits and rival factions? Training dummies just not enough to give them the edge? Then I have the perfect guide for you, my friend. With my advanced training guide, you'll be on your way to steadfast domination. No one with a brain would ever want to mess with you again!

Check out pt. 2 for a new training method, expansive guide on the best path to escape Rebirth, and how to most effectively grind resources to prepare your squad for base-building.

Getting Started

Where does my magical trainer come from you ask? It's simple.

Kidnap a bandit.

Yes, indeed, a bandit. You're going to need a live victim to train on. You can pick up a knocked out bandit after a raid, or via other means. It's not too hard to find a victim. From henceforth, this victim shall be known as your Training Slave. However, you can not just pick them up and dink around with them from the get-go. You're going to need to construct a special place to house them. Personally, I use outpost buildings. Which building you use is up to you.

Once you have this building built, you're going to need to fill it with beds and prison cells. Beds to let your Training Slaves to rest in, and cells to throw them in when you're done training. The beds are essential to keeping your Training Slaves healthy enough to be a challenge for your squaddies. Let them get too weak, and training becomes pointless.

Here's part of my own personal setup:



It is imperative that you keep your door locked. If you don't want your Training Slaves to run away, you best keep that door locked.

Now that you've constructed your housing and accomodations, it's time to move onto the actual process.

Training (Detailed)

Unless you're really low skilled, basic equipment for your Training Slaves just won't do. You need to forge them some decent gear, after all, they're going to need to challenge your squad. Without that challenge, they're useless. Personally, I forged special gear just for my Training Slave, all of it top quality, to give him the ability to challenge my squad.



The stronger the gear, the harder your Training Slave will be to beat. The harder the Training Slave is to beat, the more you'll get out of each training session. However, don't get too overzealous, as a well equiped Training Slave could easily kill one of your weaker squaddies. We don't want that.

Now, here's how the process works.

Once you've got your doors locked and whomever you plan to train inside, release the Training Slave from their prison cell. Combat will ensue, and hopefully, your squaddie will previal. Eventually, the Training Slave will be unconsious. Once this is so, make sure you heal them. If you don't, they will die. We don't want that, either. Once they are healed, throw them in a bed. This will ensure that their wounds heal quicker, keeping them in shape for the next training bout. While they sleep, take the time to heal your squaddie. They'll need it. Once the Training Slace wakes up, combat will begin yet again, and the process repeats. When you feel you've trained enough, put the Training Slave back into their cell, and leave.

Training (Simple)

1. Lock doors
2. Release Training Slave
3. Fight, and win
4. Heal knocked out Training Slave
5. Put Training Slave in bed
6. Heal yourself

Repeat starting at step 2.

Tips

Your Training Slave is training too! As your training progresses, so does theirs. Keep this in mind when sending weaker squaddies to train, as they can easily get overwhelmed. To counteract this, you may wish to send in several squaddies at once.

Always keep a strong warrior nearby! If your Training Slave defeats all your squaddies, you'll need to send this warrior in to beat the Training Slave and rescue your trainees. If you don't, they'll likely bleed out. Remember, this is legitimate combat. Bad things can happen, and you need to be ready to react. You may also wish to keep a medic nearby aswell, to heal any severe wounds incurred.

THIS IS NOT A PASSIVE PROCESS!

You must ALWAYS keep your eye on the game while training. Anything can go wrong if you look away. From Training Slave dying, to squaddies dying, you name it, it can happen if you're not paying attention. So pay attention.

Also, the stronger the house you choose to place to keep the Training Slave, the stronger the door will be to keep them at bay in case your squaddies are put out of action.

Finale

This process is highly effective. Your squad will be at top fighting shape in no time, and you'll be ready to raid whomever you choose without hesitation. As long as you're mindful of the risks, there's no way to fail. Common sense and abiding by my method will lead to a strong squad, and an unbeatable raiding force.



No one's going to be able to stop you.

Thanks for reading! Enjoy!

[Lordly Cinder]

Skeletons are great for training and you patchem up after then hold them on your back till ready again. I wouldnt even call that exploiting unless you poutem in a skele bed and train onem like that.

[7% bodyfat baller]

9 years later lol

I have produced an updated/alternative training guide! Check it out.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3078172709

[Doom]

@Terminarch

For crossbows check out this trick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-aPZRlxRI8

[Doom]

The Punching Bag method (using a creature put in a bed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKq_cjL8mR4

Even if you don't want to use Martial Arts, training martial arts on a punching bag will increase your dexterity at the same time basically 1 to 1 or more (depending on race, stats etc)

Starting from every stat as 1, takes a few min to reach around 50+ martial arts and dexterity. Around 60-70+ before it starts to become a bit tedious.

Can still get some pretty fast levels with a high strength char if they are training a new weapon or martial arts is low. Just give them all the debuff gear you can find (like backpacks etc)

keep in mind you will take limb damage and might have to rest you toon. Limbless characters should equip shoddy limbs that debuff strength for max results, robots and artificial limb users won't take damage.

[Doom]

- Put BLOCK mode on if you just want to train melee defence

- TOUGHNESS Aggro slave and sleep in a bed while they attack you (heal with team mate)

- Picking up the slave and dropping them again will give them back a short KO timer

[MarquisGigglesnort]

damn, this some good info

[iansomniac]

Don't forget to feed 'em.

[The Raptor Factor]

Ranged training is possible with enemies but the setup is tricky. Ranged training with ALLIES is super easy, barely an inconvenience. It will cost you the character, unfortunately. Get them in the best possible anti-pierce gear, set to defend+hold, release them from your faction, attack. You'll get the gear back when you knock them out. The defend+hold behavior is lost on loading a save BTW but *not* on KO so make the most of it while you can. This setup is so effective you may need to manually cancel combat so your shooters don't starve to death. Also works for attack training but there are cheaper exploits for that.

[The Raptor Factor]

Robot slaves recommended for endgame training since the robotics bed is MUCH faster than healing fragile flesh. Consider kidnapping a named robot enemy (like in the spider factory), Bugmaster works wonders as well in the meantime and is super easy to cheese with crossbows.
Slave weapon recommendation: Jitte (one-handed) for the massive indoors defense boost and negligible cut damage. Weakest you can find or craft without skill penalties.

[Bingoose]

It works best with end to mid game guys ex: The Screamer in the tower of abuse. Since training speed if affected by the general skill of who is beating the nuts and bolts out of you