To the Tower of Abuse! (Kenshi ep35)

[@trumplostlol3007]

If you don't want your guys to automatically engage in any fight while you try to run them quickly to safety, you click hold and passive. Then they will just run and not engage. Otherwise, they will also attempt to fight or to block any attack. Edge 2 is something that you can "possibly" make if your weapon smith is above lvl 80 if you have done the edge walker research. You cannot make meitou yourself which is the highest level weapon that you can get in this game. Running around looting is only a small part of the game.

[@HubbaBubba768]

Assign manning a turret to a characters job list and place it at the very bottom of the job list. When you get raided move the turret job to the top and then back down again when the fighting is over. If someone has the job of say cooking and you just manually tell them to get on a turret they will man the turret for a moment then go back to cooking. Making it a job and moving the turret job to the top tells them to go man that turret and stay there.

[@more_shifty]

That's a good tip. I'll definitely start doing that. (You won't see it for a few episodes though, I recorded a bunch already cause I'm on going out of town for two weeks.)

[@trumplostlol3007]

You don't need turret. Instead you can use archers to guard your outpost. Let them hold and range will get them more xbow xp while they are guarding the base. In fact, I don't even use any wall. This way, my archers get more opportunities to sense and shoot at anything around my open base(s).

[@HubbaBubba768]

Sure that would work fine but you'll be manually moving them to the wall and changing them to Hold. Of course in a perfect world you just have skeleton turret dudes 24/7. To each their own of course, if archer only/no walls defense is your bag more power to ya.

[@rubylazer995]

You might be surprised to know, Agnu might be a beautiful lady. And you might want to keep Beep close to Agnu. Also that is a Soldier Bot. If you plan to go into the ashlands, or a part in the deadlands, you might be seeing more of them.

[@more_shifty]

Interesting, I'll keep an eye out for them. Unfortunately Beep already passed away in this playthrough. :(

[@trumplostlol3007]

@@more_shifty Beep and Spade died when 42 of my guys invaded Blister Hill on Day 100. I have recruited 105 (if they didn't die 107) in my 100/100 challenge of recruiting and training 100+ in 100 days. If you want to run around fighting and YET be able to build a good base(s) for good food, high grade weapons, crossbows, armors, ..., you need to recruit at least 30 guys. building a base also allows some of your guys to train athletics, strength, and crossbows AUTOMATICALLY by running around hauling iron and to guard your outpost. I always use the 256 mod, but no other mod to play this game. Running around looting these ancient labs is really boring and time consuming in the long run, unless you want to get AI cores and other research material to make your weapons and stuff. After a while, if you only loot and kill, your game become pretty boring, unless you have some specific goal in mind, say to recruit and train all the special characters in this game. In my next and probably last run, I will create 10 medics to heal all the enemies that I fight against. You will be surprised that you can recruit some of your enemies (bandits) by healing them or releasing them from prison cages. This game is richer than most people realize.