Behold! The results of six hours of continuous play, my first fully completed (mostly) self sufficient base. We had some food problems there for a while, due to having 7 elephants and 4 muffalo, along with ten cats that wandered on map uninvited. We've since trimmed down to no muffallo, one ele, one rhino, and eight iguanas. The elephants and muffalo sure served to their fullest, though. Trained the elephants to fight, and went around with two snipers and two miners, releasing the elephants onto my enemies during raids while the snipers pick off anyone dangerous from a distance, and the miners grab all the steel/silver/gold/jade/plasteel they can out of the walls while the battle goes on. Take food from corpses and pirate stores, move onto the next raid, and go until you only have good stuff to come back with. Two of the miners actually had to fight after a while, as we only had two elephants left. Had the snipers give them cover and take out guys as they sprayed with SMGs, though at one point was microing them through and found the enemy armory. Closed the door and loaded them up with LMGs, a nice surprise when they opened the doors.
We actually got power armor helmets and a ton of good weapons like charge rifles and chain shotguns, even an exc minigun that's serving as good tribal crowd control. We've actually spent very little time in the base, just had three guys building and maintining it the whole time while the caravan went on raids. We did lose one miner to a lunatic with a shotgun, blasted his head off... Though in repayment the sniper shot his own head off. We've successfully hunted three thrumbos too, they're not as tough as I thought once you point enough charge rifles at them. Tomorrow I'll go about clearing out the two ancient dangers on the map, sadly both are pretty small but one's sticking out the side of my base like a tumour. I think once these guys die off I'm going to get some mods to try out and play with, hopefully someone adds gems so I can have pretty stuff.
How would you rate my first base /10?