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If heat is not a problem then jackets, they are faster to make, cheaper to produce, better vs bullets and won't slow down your pawns as much as dusters.

Similiarly brawlers should not lose their mind carrying pistol, yet they do.

Better crap than nothing, you get dead man debuff now tho, so theyre probably skipped even more in favor of power helmets.

Difficulty affects mostly storyteller interactions with you. I mean, seriously? You expect some hungry wild animal ignore walking sack of meat? 

Even without passion she will get to 10 and its pretty decent, above that she will lose xp but 11 shooting can still be enough.

Someone counted worthless pawns made by players and like half of them was like that, so its not that rare. 

Do they have needs in drop pods? That'd be the perfect replacement for the cryochamber. Combat ready on drop!

Deep strikin 

How fast yayo pawn will feel urge to have next dose? Can flake be used instead to get mood buffs during withdrawal or it will be treated same due to same ingredient?

Medicine rare XP? Just abuse some big/medium animal with weak attacks, treat it and euthanise, you will get top docs and gunners in no time.

Unfortunately, power armor on torso is inferior to vest + good duster, though the helmet is the best head option in battle.  Hard to pass up on power armor when going for SPARTAN program though.

This is not really true, while armor vest have better % it covers less body parts and have less hp, this makes jacket/duster first line of defense that is more likely to soften damage to limbs than to stop it like vest or armor. This results in our beloved 10% debuffs in lost fingers and toes or simply unarmed or legless colonists.

Power armor though will give you better overall protection to limbs and body and thanks to high hp it is basically giving your pawns at least 200+ hp if they have really good quality armor.

According to the offical fiction primer found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pIZyKif0bFbBWten4drrm7kfSSfvBoJPgG9-ywfN8j8/pub the mechanoids are " Autonomous intelligent robots built for domestic, industrial or military purposes. Only available to advanced cultures because such complex AI is needed to control them."

So they are not a hive and so wouldn't have a "mother". I think they would more likely be controlled by a man behind the curtain or an organization who bought them to enforce intergalactic military or government goals. Which opens up the idea that maybe you could purchase mechanoids to do your bidding which would be awesome and very expensive!

Now your scenario would be good against the bug hives, except that you would have to go under the planet exploring various cave systems to find the mother bug. This would also be awesome. I can also see where your going with this because it feels very much like XCOM.

When you are raided storytellers mention that mechanoids come from a hive though.

From title I expected buying passage and helping transporting goods to one of visitors towns/villages together with player caravan...

You just got URBed man.

Just open it from max range and let others do the job, it will be treated as raid. Or prepare brawler with shield to wreck them.

Definitely

Vegeterian: -5 to melee, sorrow when eating meat, sorrow when others eat meat, sorrow when animals eat meat, -50 to carry capacity

-20 to shooting cuz true vege can't hunt, instant mental break when non-manhunter/predator gets killed by him.

half of your issues can be fixed by properly setting up your production benches......

2/13 =/  half.

It is smaller half.