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> I've had raids employ artillery and air drops against my walled compounds. Not only that, but the only defense against artillery is to build in a mountain. T

> I've had raids employ artillery and air drops against my walled compounds. Not only that, but the only defense against artillery is to build in a mountain. There isn't otherwise a defense against artillery except to go kill the artillery before it starts pounding you. And good luck doing that when you're outnumbered ten to one...

ender341341 4y ago
Artillery is the defense against artillery. By endgame I usually have at least 10 mortars and it's are for them to get 1 built before I've wiped out enough stuff that they just launch an attack instead of using artillery.
philipov 4y ago
If you build inside a mountain, however, then the bug infestations can target you, and they're even worse. It just seems that the only story the game is good at generating is the one where you die, and that gets boring. There isn't any clever emergent behavior happening there.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  Feels a little harsh tbh. I think you get at least 100 hours in to the game before you start to have exhausted all the scenarios. That's well over the amount of gameplay you get out of most games.
- stefs 4y ago
  > It just seems that the only story the game is good at generating is the one where you die but ... that's dwarf fortress' motto too! (even if it's not 100% accurate)
  - philipov 4y ago
    What Dwarf Fortress has going for it is that the simulation is so much deeper than Rimworld that it has a much more expressive range of emergent behavior that allows it to tell other stories, too.
Arrath 4y ago
Mods! You can have mods that warn you of incoming raids. Mods that add point defense laser turrets, suck it enemy artillery! Mods that add magic, so you can send your fire mage out to huck a fireball the enemy siege outpost and cook off their ammo, or call down a firestorm and watch the chaos. Mods that make tamed animals rideable so you can root out their artillerymen with a cavalry charge. Mods that add drop ships and bombing runs so you can counterbattery them before they even get set up, and so on and so forth.
sliken 4y ago
Follow the Ukraine model, when out numbered 10-1 attack supply lines and attack artillery with drones or HMMRS.
- realLatinx 4y ago
- hoseja 4y ago
  There are no supply lines! Raiders are defying thermodynamics, throwing more bodies at you than the depopulated desolate planet with the nearest settlement days of caravaning away ever had. You can't destroy them where they live, you can't make regions safe, you can't see their raiding parties coming. They just spawn out of thin air because you made a nice statue.
kllrnohj 4y ago
Just shoot them with artillery before they shoot you with artillery. The best defense is a good offense.
rjbwork 4y ago
My defense against artillery is to take my 200+% movespeed sanguophage royal to meet them with an aerodrone salvo, then longjump back to base, suit up, and prepare to man the doors in the killbox, while my other colonists unload excessive amounts of minigun fire at the raiders. There are plenty of ways to solve each challenge the game throws at you.

ender341341 4y ago

Artillery is the defense against artillery. By endgame I usually have at least 10 mortars and it's are for them to get 1 built before I've wiped out enough stuff that they just launch an attack instead of using artillery.

philipov 4y ago

If you build inside a mountain, however, then the bug infestations can target you, and they're even worse. It just seems that the only story the game is good at generating is the one where you die, and that gets boring. There isn't any clever emergent behavior happening there.

Gigachad 4y ago
Feels a little harsh tbh. I think you get at least 100 hours in to the game before you start to have exhausted all the scenarios. That's well over the amount of gameplay you get out of most games.
stefs 4y ago
> It just seems that the only story the game is good at generating is the one where you die but ... that's dwarf fortress' motto too! (even if it's not 100% accurate)
- philipov 4y ago
  What Dwarf Fortress has going for it is that the simulation is so much deeper than Rimworld that it has a much more expressive range of emergent behavior that allows it to tell other stories, too.

Arrath 4y ago

Mods! You can have mods that warn you of incoming raids. Mods that add point defense laser turrets, suck it enemy artillery! Mods that add magic, so you can send your fire mage out to huck a fireball the enemy siege outpost and cook off their ammo, or call down a firestorm and watch the chaos. Mods that make tamed animals rideable so you can root out their artillerymen with a cavalry charge. Mods that add drop ships and bombing runs so you can counterbattery them before they even get set up, and so on and so forth.

sliken 4y ago

Follow the Ukraine model, when out numbered 10-1 attack supply lines and attack artillery with drones or HMMRS.

realLatinx 4y ago
hoseja 4y ago
There are no supply lines! Raiders are defying thermodynamics, throwing more bodies at you than the depopulated desolate planet with the nearest settlement days of caravaning away ever had. You can't destroy them where they live, you can't make regions safe, you can't see their raiding parties coming. They just spawn out of thin air because you made a nice statue.

kllrnohj 4y ago

Just shoot them with artillery before they shoot you with artillery. The best defense is a good offense.

rjbwork 4y ago

My defense against artillery is to take my 200+% movespeed sanguophage royal to meet them with an aerodrone salvo, then longjump back to base, suit up, and prepare to man the doors in the killbox, while my other colonists unload excessive amounts of minigun fire at the raiders. There are plenty of ways to solve each challenge the game throws at you.