My game stared on Boreal, Mountains w/River, Phoebe-Some Challenge
Physically the set up of the map was excellent as opponents could only enter the map from two map edges. I was set up in the top right corner, on the north side of the river. Then below the river was a nice marsh area, perfect for slowing down an attacking enemy and taking the take to snipe them out. Raid wise I never faced anything too challenging, but the heavy turret did one-shot a scyther, which kind of blew my mind.
I remember reading a comment about someone having difficulty finding Uranium. First deep drill I laid down was right on top of Uranium and I ended up having 2500+, which is more uranium than I've ever had in any game. Then my 4th deep drill plot was Plasteel, also miraculous. Suffice to say I was able to make a lot of Power Armour. Steel ended up being the hardest resource to keep on top of until I eventually found some with the deep drill on my 5th deployment of it. 2 and 3 were Chemfuel for those paying attention.
My colony grew steadily over the three years that I was there. We researched all the tech with little difficulty. My population was about 12 people and 20 or so animals 1/3 dogs and 2/3 muffalos. Food seemed to be the primary issue for me. I would have six 14 x 14 growing plots for growing food, mostly rice as that had the fastest turn around. I also had two hydroponics rooms with 12 hydroponic banks. By mid winter we'd be out of food. I probably should've grown hay too, but my pawns had the hardest time keeping up with the sowing demands with what I had. I did use a multi-meal cook mod, but ultimately keeping up with the cooking wasn't the issue I had but keeping up with the growing requirements. Winters were pretty long too as they sometime were mid Apri-May before temperatures dipped out of freezing.
So I decided it was time to get out of dodge. We picked up everything of decent value to weight issue and headed south. With my population though and my entire freezer we still only had food for 6 days and this was with 3000+ pemmican, so clearly I needed to store way more food than I thought I did. Still I had my guys pack up. We headed south for warmer climates.
I traded with two guys. Then raided one camp that went pretty well. Then raided another camp along the way and that went terrible. Lost two guys, thankfully no one important so I just accepted it. Not much extra loot in these camps though, didn't these base's usually have a store room for loot? They at least had fields that I could harvest for food so I did that. Dismantled their tech then continued south. Still couldn't get very far, even sold a few animals at the next trading post, but food consumption was just too high. Eventually I had to settle for a camp on the road. Thankfully lots of wild muffalos for me to hunt to extinction. It was a Temperate zone, but out in the open, still surprising amount of iron available. There were four mining sections of it. It was still winter there, but as Apri-May is coming along the temperatures are starting to increase faster than in my old location so I'll farm and harvest and make as much as pemmican as I can before continuing, hopefully getting south enough to avoid the snow.
Physically the set up of the map was excellent as opponents could only enter the map from two map edges. I was set up in the top right corner, on the north side of the river. Then below the river was a nice marsh area, perfect for slowing down an attacking enemy and taking the take to snipe them out. Raid wise I never faced anything too challenging, but the heavy turret did one-shot a scyther, which kind of blew my mind.
I remember reading a comment about someone having difficulty finding Uranium. First deep drill I laid down was right on top of Uranium and I ended up having 2500+, which is more uranium than I've ever had in any game. Then my 4th deep drill plot was Plasteel, also miraculous. Suffice to say I was able to make a lot of Power Armour. Steel ended up being the hardest resource to keep on top of until I eventually found some with the deep drill on my 5th deployment of it. 2 and 3 were Chemfuel for those paying attention.
My colony grew steadily over the three years that I was there. We researched all the tech with little difficulty. My population was about 12 people and 20 or so animals 1/3 dogs and 2/3 muffalos. Food seemed to be the primary issue for me. I would have six 14 x 14 growing plots for growing food, mostly rice as that had the fastest turn around. I also had two hydroponics rooms with 12 hydroponic banks. By mid winter we'd be out of food. I probably should've grown hay too, but my pawns had the hardest time keeping up with the sowing demands with what I had. I did use a multi-meal cook mod, but ultimately keeping up with the cooking wasn't the issue I had but keeping up with the growing requirements. Winters were pretty long too as they sometime were mid Apri-May before temperatures dipped out of freezing.
So I decided it was time to get out of dodge. We picked up everything of decent value to weight issue and headed south. With my population though and my entire freezer we still only had food for 6 days and this was with 3000+ pemmican, so clearly I needed to store way more food than I thought I did. Still I had my guys pack up. We headed south for warmer climates.
I traded with two guys. Then raided one camp that went pretty well. Then raided another camp along the way and that went terrible. Lost two guys, thankfully no one important so I just accepted it. Not much extra loot in these camps though, didn't these base's usually have a store room for loot? They at least had fields that I could harvest for food so I did that. Dismantled their tech then continued south. Still couldn't get very far, even sold a few animals at the next trading post, but food consumption was just too high. Eventually I had to settle for a camp on the road. Thankfully lots of wild muffalos for me to hunt to extinction. It was a Temperate zone, but out in the open, still surprising amount of iron available. There were four mining sections of it. It was still winter there, but as Apri-May is coming along the temperatures are starting to increase faster than in my old location so I'll farm and harvest and make as much as pemmican as I can before continuing, hopefully getting south enough to avoid the snow.