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My colony only has 4 pawns, and only 2 of them with ranged weapons (starting rifle & pistol). I just got raided by a group of 6 enemies. Admittedly only 1 of them are equipped with a pistol, the rest with knives. Here's what happened:

I have a perimeter of walls & sandbags alternating. I put my 2 ranged guys in the middle 2 walls, with the other 2 melee guys beside them. As the raiders came nearer, my 2 pawns started shooting. None of the 6 raiders got downed before they reached me. Now here's what I'm wondering.. What should I do?

Should I start running back as they come closer (ie not letting them get into melee with me. Side question: if they do get into melee with my shooters, should I tell them to melee back or keep shooting at point blank range?), or stand my ground and let my 2 melee distract while my 2 shooters shoot from near range?

In my other games I also faced the problem of being undergeared when hit by the alien ships. I think I paced my game wrongly since I accumulated wealth without shoring up my defenses. In mid/late game, do people switch in power armor when there's a raid then switch back out? Or do you guys just rambo it wearing duster/t-shirts/cloth hats/etc?

Thanks!

I think I just screwed myself. I've been neglecting weapons because I ran out of components (flat map). My colony of 5 all have either assault rifle or pistol, but now suddenly I'm being raided by 16 guys using pistol. They aren't well geared, but their sheer number simply overwhelmed me, even though I've setup decent kill-zone.

To avoid this in the future, should I stop stockpiling resources? As I understand it the raids scale according to your wealth? For example I have 5k corn, 1k meat (beaver party 2x), 5k wood+steel+materials, etc. Would it have helped if I didn't stockpile resources?

My guys are equipped with pump shotgun, LMG, SMG, etc etc, but when they do hunting, sometimes the animals survive the miss shots and melee them. They melee back even though shooting at melee range would probably be better.

It's just frustrating to have my pawns having to rest for 1d for simply hunting mere squirrels, rats, etc.

Any suggestions?

My map is flat, so I'm building everything out in the open. Any suggestions for a defense layout that's cost effective?

My home area is roughly 50x50, so I can't afford to perimeter the whole area with sandbags and turrets (steel cost, power cost, components cost, etc).

Is it possible to covert unroofed area into outdoor?

I'm making a mountain base and in my refrigerator room, I use the "remove roof" tool to clear the mountain roof to give me 3x3 area. The plan is to use 3 coolers to exhaust the heat in this 3x3 area. However my 3 coolers are operating at high power, even though my refrigerator room is only 12x12 storage area. I'm thinking is this because the 3x3 area is unroofed instead of outdoor?

Thanks!