I think in general, but this month I actually triggered none? Almost disappointing, but I'll take it.
And I know the images aren't in (FIXED), but I want to get this posted before I grab some food, I'll plug them in tonight probably.
Sorry for taking the whole week like that!
Ching Shih 2 has 6 lokk'narr and 1 gal out of sickbay, thanks to recent "training". Even though some of them may be well enough for emergency base defence, I'll certain feel better with... 10 dogs! Much better than 0 dogs.
Queen Teuta has no dogs either?? Oops I forgot about blood hounds, but 2 is insufficient!
Six Academy drones are stealing doggo beds, so I assign some brainers to figure out how to disassemble them. Much as we're disassembling the captive zombies, eww.
Mary Read Docks is a bit short on supply space, but there's room for 5 blood hounds, 8 sudoku blades, and a boat anchor! And 8 new warriors. The crew size of Terror Of Ta Deep, and also the capacity of the upcoming dojo. Between them and the blood hounds, it should be secure enough for now.
July 2:
That's a lot of... friends we haven't met yet! Also pew-pew, and cameras.
Are we writing the pillow books, or are they writing us? What? I like this one, but it seems kinda sad.
July 3:
A govt ordinator flew over Queen Teuta, but they didn't want any trouble either.
Pretty good find in this data disc. These are needed for some of the really fun guns...
At last! Yeah it's expensive, but it's so worth it. I think I'll time it and the surgery so that they finish after the first of the month, to dodge the maintenance. Guess that means the 11th? 12th to be safe. We also started designing a luxury spa, though we certainly won't have it this month.
If there's a better use for ship engines, I certainly don't know of one
Money money money, and laser pew pew. Apparently unlocked the idea of a study room, too.
July 4:
I think this brainer took "pillow book" literally and fell asleep on the keyboard here
Oh no, Lokk'naar under attack! But it's nighttime and ninjas are scary...
I juggle it with the Deliverator and Scarab until morning. Curse their speed, this is why motorcycles rule! Would have used the Terror Of Ta Deep but there's, ya know, no crew at Mary Read to pilot it.
Noticing a weee problem with putting basic recruits in chainmail, here.
I'm also a little skeptical about laspistols reliability against Sky Ninjas, but everyone has batons too. Or better yet these newly minted slaver canes, and some electric lassos. And a Kustom Handcannon aw ya.
Not sure about this layout, though. A skyranger with a basement? And seems like it has a lot of windows... er, somewhere. Even with only the laspistol Olivia is whining a lot, but she should bulk up after she lands a hit or two. Which she does, firing out the gate. Doing no damage and taking a faceful of buckshot for the trouble, but also taking no damage. Good spar.
Deadly MCreeper jogs behind the ninja and puts her to sleep with a baton, while a distant ninja unloads her shotgun into a fence like a dummy.
Lokk'Naar what is WITH you and fences, I am absolutely kinkshaming y'all I don't even care this is stupid.
MOTHERF-
Egan_BW pulls off a sick move, stunning a Lokk'Naar who was blocking this doorway in order to get a shot.
And hits twice... But the ninja somehow stays up and returns fire, of course. Egan_BW and Moist Andromeda are a bit scratched now, but nothing serious. Walks up and canes her.
Pretty nice score for an easy mission, not to mention the apples of course. And 6 hostages because why not? I give myself and EuchreJill a promotion woot
Also some disruptive transmissions, we just shoot the satellite down of course. We do have some Lokk'Naar and human spacesuits, though... Maybe with some laser weapons, taking out a deathbot isn't out of the question next time?
July 5:
Mutant Alliance warns us about the dark... Yeah we fight demons, we know.
Huh, we research two pillow books at the same time via different bases! I was honestly wondering if that was possible. Pretty boring advice though.
July 6:
A bandit tank was joyriding across Siberia, I finally got annoyed and had the scarab shoot it up. Did significant damage back, but nothing critical.
July 7:
Figured out how to take apart those dang drones, and even use the pieces afterward! That'll clear up some space in the den.
July 8:
Proper future-armor designed! The lack of vision is a shame, but the helmet increases piercing resist and gives all-around-more. Particularly against choking.
Wow, hope we never run into one of these.
The new warriors arrive at Mary Read, and seven out of the 8 area ready for gladiator training... So I do. The base lacks proper medical care though (like the Onsen) so I've shipped them to Queen Teuta to recover. This leaves Mary Read defended by the decently skilled but physically meek Lemon Audrey, 5 blood hounds, and Evil Rolan who picked up a boat anchor and volunteered to assist for mysterious reasons.
July 9:
More wisdom from the Ninja gals. I'm not sure if I'm being sarcastic.
And this from a data disc. They look fun, but require both hands, and are particularly ineffective vs armor... pass.
These are fun too, but it's essentially going into battle naked. Flying, but naked. Even has a melee penalty due to the awkward wiring, I guess.
I put some cannons on the Deliverator and had it and the Scarab both engage a small patrol car... Bit overkill it turned out, they barely got a shot off.
I am a master tactician (wow, chainmail is pretty great against plasma huh)
It went fiiine! Nobody wounded, all four wolfmen in custody~ Along with their nice plasma bitz.
(Also I finally found the door on the Deliverator, I really thought hopping out the back was the only way)
And a Humanist safehouse located! Now I'm excited
As far as press-ganging allies goes, I am much less conflicted when they're Humanists.
5 volunteers rounded up, easy-XP. They even had a prepper box, how nice!
July 10:
...Ew. Smells funky too.
Pillow Book research told of shiny metal crowns, worth a lot apparently.
Also, what if swimsuits - but less? why did we research this
As much as I love dakka, I've never really figured out the best use of this. Sounds badass though.
July 11:
No research, but the runts did a lot of cool extractions and bounty-redemption.
July 12:
...Why are we publishing pornographic comic books again? Eh, the goverments seem to appreciate our "cultural pursuits".
OH I almost forgot to start the 20-day large barracks construction! Just in time to dodge the maintenance fee.
Oh, oops. Forgot that building-over reduces the construction time. meh no big deal. Just need a library now, but will wait 4 days for Ching Shih to finish the Large Prison and relieve Queen Teuta a bit.
I love gambling~ And there was still room for this stuff despite replacing one of the vaults. Well, with some housecleaning (be gone, fruit and vegetables!)
Commwave was intercepted - it's Spartans! Should be okay... They have explosives, but aren't heavily armored, IIRC.
I think this room was full of explosives, it kept blowing up for a while!
Someone threw a grenade halfway across the dang map! Thankfully it missed, but we better get to better cover.
Found him~ Deadly McCreeper shot straight up the ladder after a tough sprint, with deadly accuracy. Four floors up, jeez.
okay chainmail is awesome i'm sorry for doubting it. And its under-armor is relatively weak! Heck I think this was just good luck.
Euchrejack tries to prod this brave soul out of the way, but it ain't happening this time.
This dumbass lieutenant fired a cannon into the shrub as I approached, nearly killing both of us. Fricken ow.
Oh hey it doesn't hurt anymore, weird
Stay with us!
And then this ass comes down the stairs and fires a flame grenade as we're applying first aid to civilians! well, I guess they are literally terrorists after all. Moist Andromeda finishes him off with her charger laser, though looks like someone had already roughed him up.
And with a distant scream from another apartment, it's finally over. Bloody business.
Managed to capture a lot of them though, since stun batons work just fine. More would have made it if they weren't suicidally loyal. Looks like their intended victims took out more than a couple as well, which is inspiring.
It's just like, 4 days before the large prison opens! Bah. They don't have any research value anyway, except the heavy trooper, so I guess they get off with a fine this time. At least the Young'un pulled through.
(We've got 6 advanced medkits now, presumably through gambling. They restock for free, and have both stims and decent heals, which I feel makes them well worth their maintenance fee).
Farewell sister, hello sister.
The wounds aren't otherwise as bad as I feared (ignoring the swabbies with training injuries), though we'll be underpowered for a bit.
June 13:
That crazy apocalypse cultist finally managed to do himself in, but left a "warning" scrawled in blood about invisible demons. ya idiot, we know.
I'm not sure the ninja gals are any less crazy, but they know better stories. When they get bored enough they tell them us, or in this case just brag about why their insanity is "smart actually".
June 14:
Really? You're being serious right now? Fine, but I'm sure as heck not wearing it.
Project Pillowbook continues to provide truly amazing dividends.
June 15:
We've finally perfected techniques for proper interrogation. Turns out that just hitting them a bunch doesn't work (LIKE I SAID). But with patience and attention, anyone can be won over. After all, we're in the right.
also I can't show you the page because censoring it around the text would be impossible sorry
Can share one of the better pillow books, though.
June 16:
While I continue to insist that the governments are our friends, and we should continue to work with them... I wouldn't say I trust them, or they us. So we've developed tools for hacking government files. If we get some good info on a high ranking general, in particular, I think we can form a more... reliable relationship. Where they know better than to betray us.
...Pureblood magazines are weird.
Large Prison Secure berths are done! Finally moving the, ahem, operation to Ching Shih 2. I was going to replace one of the Queen Teuta prisons with something... a study? But there's no option for that right now, weird. Once the Large Barracks finishes there'll be plenty of barracks to replace, so I'll just leave the prisons alone. The extra capacity is nice. A power station would be nice too, but we don't have enough engines yet anyway.
June 17:
This voodoo is all geek to me, but I'd like to know more.
This is what we need those government files for. And more mentions of our mysterious benefactors!
I spotted a Guild ship, I forget what kind... a cutter? Escort? I had both ships track it to Antarctica, where it outran the Scarab but was gunned down by the Deliverator. I was hoping for an industrial scanner but uh, I'm pretty sure this is the wrong ship. Besides it being a smoking wreck. Eheh.
Thing is the Deliverator was a bit understaffed. But surely four heavy-chainmailed gals would be enough to handle whatever poor wretches crawled from that trash fire?
So we lost one of the newer unblooded squaddies, Dextrous Anaconda. The Marsec Operative fired like 8 rounds at point blank despite being double-flanked (and I think they even had energy).
On the bright side, we now know it's a runabout!
...We uh, already knew that, but... now we can sell this documentation I guess?
i'm not good at interceptions
June 18:
Narlock gods almost seem nice sometimes, but they've all got that duality going on.
June 20:
Lokk'naar too.
These aren't fish D:
It's fine, we got all four of them! They were surprised too.
shiiiiiit.
Well that wasn't at all worth 8 glamour, 160 points, and 25 hellerium. We can butcher the corpses though...? Sorry ):
Oh and an obsidian credit chip, that's weird. And the chainmail dropped? I didn't know it did that. Oh probably because it was auto-unequipped due to the mission type.
RIP Rince, got winded underwater. i'm bad at speeches and also everything
June 21:
Hooooboy I forgot how expensive these are, not to mention the space. At least we have the volunteers more than covered. Something to look forward to I suppose.
An unremarkable traitor roundup, though Witty Stardust did get an impressive reaction shot through a window across two screens, and it was a KO to boot! Recommending her for a new name.
And a Guild commtower goes down, landing us another 2 engineers! Which makes four, heh. Still holding off on interrogating them for now. Kinda telling how the Guild doesn't get angry if their engineers die, or are enslaved, only if they we get them to spill Guild secrets.
June 22:
$$$
Uneventful Warehouse Wars, looks like a load of soylent and vodka. Damn that sounds good right now.
June 24:
Praise the Omnissarah?
Interesting fusion.
June 25:
...Yum?
did I complain about the manufacturing screen being busy before? i'm sorry
June 26:
Large Barracks complete, the possibilities are endless now! Like, overhwelmingly so, hrm. Idunno mentioned that it's important to have barracks near the access lift too, which is very true. But some of them could be cleared now, if we had things to build in their place. Which I guess we don't just yet.
These are dumb but important for learning chemistry, apparently.
June 28:
Could this be related to the Green codex somehow?
Easy shambler hunt - captured one, killed its mate I guess.
June 29:
People are starting to take notice of us, and not all bad. Some wandering heroines of legend turned out to be very real, and willing to join our cause - for appropriately outrageous amounts of dosh. Something to consider as our economy spins up, anyway.
This seems like a fantastically bad idea, but I have to wonder.
DO NOT LICK
Also ordered two more brainers for the surgery room - they should arrive on the first or second I think, so they don't cheekily demand a month's pay.
June 30:
See, see?! They're very professional and treasured allies and godsdammit this requires the luxury spa, right...
These are useful, better protection than a mere vest even, though not as much as a proper armor set. Not the greatest options for heavy dakka weapons since you can't kneel in midair. Fun for dropping 8 hellerium grenades on something that absolutely has to die.
June 31:
We already know more than they do about heavy weapons. Though I concur with the brainer about more, um, research.
Sorry Rince Winded ;_;
What rubbish is this? Bookish, handsome men with muscles? Everyone knows you have to pick 2.
And end:
CLOAKER!!
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Oh wow, I totally forgot about this thing. Could come in real handy for the *crazy* heavy weapons like vulcan cannons, if one doesn't want to go full exosuit.
Huh that's a relief, I was honestly a little worried about score. Probably due to all the bases draining it in my sim.
Well uh... Sorry for the delay everyone, but at least it's done before Saturday!
Strategy wise um, I kinda forgot to develop Mary Read Docks. I set it up with a basic garrison, sorta, but I should have been setting up extractors. Or at least plantations and hangars. I wasn't totally sure what it was for, I guess, and the odd location of the hangar gave me cognitive dissonance.
But we never had "definitely expand" levels of cash anyway, floating between 2-4 million. We got surgery in Teuta and Ching Shih, plenty of prison space 4 evar, and enough barracks space in Teuta to have breathing room to rearrange things.
Research: I got distracted with the lore-items, which explains the high score. Maybe should have rationed them, but meh. I mostly regret forgetting the study room, if that's necessary for something (not graduation, looks like). I also should have gotten Refineries researched, but made it a low priority - it's very close now, and is really great for infinite cash grinding.
And industrial scanner would have been loverly, but I think I only saw one escort which got away. Is it escorts that carry them? Whatever. Mostly saw bandits and some Academy hoppers, and an annoying amount of government ordinators and fighters.
Didn't really progress in Warship Hull or Improved Fighter Construction either, but they were on 0 when I got here
Sorry.
Oh and sorry for getting Rincewind killed ):
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=14552Edit: Images added, stupid Python doing exactly what I say instead of what I intend.
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