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Can confirm, they'll appear pretty much everywhere that's not a wall. Had them falling indoors, inside of mountains, and basically all over my colony as well.

Actually, winning against sieges with mortars is somewhat expensive. Tactical play (commonly with snipers) is needed to best most sieges. Exchanging mortar fire typically leads to extensive damage to colonies. Even though enemy mortars tend not to kill colonists, buildings are burnt down, stockpiles and power generators ruined, things like that. Mortars are safe bets, but unreliable compared to actual colonists firing on raiders.

Tactical play worked well for the first 100 or so days of my colony for dealing with sieges, but when you get this many pawns, there's literally no hope without shooting mortars back at them. Even then, you're just hoping to hit & destroy their food and their morale rather than actually killing them.

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I'd greatly appreciate if mortar teams required on mortars for their long range damage instead of having 60 sniper pawns. I like sending two or three of my colonists as a sniper team and picking them off before I go for full-on assaults.

1) Windows 7, 64 bit in dual boot with Windows 8.1
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