The slaves actually found themselves in my armory together at the old base and grabbed a bunch of bows, show the toes off a few of my boys. As per the religion as my guide, they were beaten but servitude to pay off their debts is more fitting than death.
Been over a half year here. 1.5 ingame years in the campaign. We dug in, but it's still completely open to either side. The only thing I walled off was the cave and river up top of the first pic, and a small exit/entrance in one corner.
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lot of traders came in the first season - way more than I could handle and probably way more than anyone needs. Like 1 a day for a whole season. We had a couple of raids, 3 I can think of off top. Tribals are mostly jokes on open fields. Sure some have bows, but guns, esp massed fire, easily tops that. One group did a nighttime raid on meand headshot my best hunter with a pilum. A spear chucked, went right into the brain. Dead on contact.
And some bandits demanded tribuite and drop podded in when I refused. Rude, did it all over the map, even in my base. This group headshot my second and last 'great' shooter. She lived with severe brain damage. She gimps around the map at a staggering 1.8 tiles a second. I set here to lowest priority hunting and will assign any stray animals that get to close to her. she has a sniper rifle, so at least she can hang back and support us that way.
I planted a guarlenun tree and assigned it 1 days before the raid, and Im irritated by the mechanic that says I cannot couple her to it, since I dont want her dead and she pretty useless as a full time hunter now. A lot of my luxery came from the food security those two hunters brought me, and Im feeling it now. I have a fleet of domestic animals, which I can fry up in a pinch, but Ive never done a 'ranching' colony. idk how many muffalo or horses or whatever I need to sustain myself. I have quite a few slaves now too...
Speaking of; most of the slaves I brought with me are dead, one remains. The rest rose up constantly until I could get some better storage of my weapons and more skulls up and online. No tears over them, but youd think they would get tired of running away or smoking all my pot, or heaven forbid trying to kill my melee champion.
Im a little concerned about my food situation, at least until the new crops I planted in response to the loss of my hunters come in, but I have soooo much kibble and animals. Plus a lot of my new slaves are at least passable farmers and I have my original farmer who got quite good.
I *did* take nature supremacy as a new meme for a giggle, and fuck me. -20 mood right off the rip and its not going away until ... at least 30 more days. The financee of one of the meleers was the dead hunter and he flips his shit every third day. Last time he delimbed a poor slave in a tantrum, so now he doesnt get to have weapons on him.
Self-imposed misery and the loss of food aside, we're slowly cranking the research back out again, now that Im not constantly try to tend to slave revolts and beserk 15 melee axmen.