I'd like to know this also. I have moved a caravan over to my colony under attack and can't seem to do anything. If i try get onto the map all that seems to happen is that I attack my own colony which is no bueno.

I have tried deploying the squad i made in the military tab, I have no idea if this helps or not. There is no indication that doing that helps.

I've also tried upgrading my settlement which in turn just scales the attack. I really don't understand what the point of this is to achieve if you can't successfully fend off or protect settlements. I thought I might have to maintain a settlement in order to simply be a military colony to help defend settlements, but I am not rich enough to start another colony nor upgrade it. And it will just have the same issue of being under attack itself.

I've noticed a disable military actions on the mod options, for now I'll see if that can be a solution, for the few hundred silver that my settlement offers me, I don;t find this very balanced. Unless I've missed something. And on top of my settlement being raided which is just costing me money and losing loyalty, there are all the other events that proc making the situation worse. Please let me know if I'm supposed to be doing something obvious.

Yeah make another colony and just max it out with Military. Will be a silver sink but it's how they balance out really.

I just had this problem happen to me again just now.

First time, my level 1 (Military 2) Settlement was attacked by a lvl5 Raid which destroyed all its buildings. Didn't even exist 6mo.

Second Settlement, level 1 (level 1 military; but 30-lvl1 unarmed T5 Androids), attacked by a lvl6 Raid, with my Caravan on top of it unable to do anything. Happiness 56, Loyalty 76.

So far I've probably lost 4000Silver to this nonsense, while gaining a trifling 42-60silver per tax period.

Where is the balance, wtf is my military of (30)T5 Androids doing?

About the only good thing that's come about having a Settlement, is before my second Settlement was attacked, I traded goods for 2 NeuroMed and 1 NeuroIntellect injectors.

But other than that, this mod just wastes my money and time it seems

yeah; my first settlement keeps getting attacked and all thats happening is losing money. I think at this point the only way is to stockpile silver until you have enough to upgrade it by a fair amount before starting one

Further play into this, I upgraded my Settlement to lvl7 with a lvl7 Military comprised of 8-M7 Mechanised Infantry (Fully armed and armored) and 22-T5 Androids (Naked).

In a years time, they were able to defeat a lvl6, lvl4, and lvl3 invasions before finally succumbing to a lvl9 invasion.

Before the lvl9 invasion, my Settlement enjoyed a bevy of random events that lowered all of its production stats to 1 with a Modifier of ~<=.5. Making the cost of workers massive, which means I've gained 0Silver from this town for a long time.

So far the only use this has had for me is the ability to create a town to trade with.

Yeah I would also love to be able to defend my colonies by sending my units there and fight alongside my colony against the enemy

Here I am again, same Settlement lvl7 but lvl6 Military, just got crushed by a lvl4 Raid by the People of Dato - a Savage Tribe. -23 Faction Happiness.

So you're telling me, my 30 Androids are nothing compared to the might of a Savage Tribe.

Once again, this Settlement is cancer

Having a defense 9 settlement "utterly crushed" by an attack force of 6 while I can do nothing about it is some Fallout 4 settlement mechanics level of shenanigans.