The easiest pirate battle ever

[Eric]

>Be me, managing a colony decently well
>Pirate raid happens
>Aside from a few useless pirates there's also some VERY dangerous ones that could seriously hurt my colonists
>Their faction leader is one of the raiders
>They wander around for a bit before attacking
>Decide to hit them first
>Send out my pawns to cover behind some hills at the edge of the map
>All of a sudden I noticed there was a boomalope herd in between my troops and the enemy raiders
>lightbulb
>Have my marksman kill off a couple of crappier raiders to force their assault
>The entire force is moving closer to the herd
>Order my marksman to shoot the closest boomalope with the intent of only killing that one
>"Boomalope revenge, other boomalopes have joined in"
>ohshit.jpg
>wait a minute
>the one I selected is attacking the pirates
>go through and select each individual boomalope
>they're all attacking the pirates
>order all my people to hold fire
>hilarity ensues
>explosions and fireballs engulf the hapless pirates
>there were pirates with assault rifles stationed further back, raining bullets into the mess to try and kill the boomalopes
>all they ended up doing was hitting their own men and triggering more boomalope explosions that subsequently killed more of their men
>pirate faction leader burns to death
>after heavy losses the pirates decide to just retreat, a battle won all thanks to a random boomalopes herd

[Shurp]

And this is why raising combat animals would be so awesome if the bonding mechanic were nerfed...

[NinjaDiscoJew]

Never thought to use boomalopes like that.

[213LBC]

THrumbos work even better! I can't tell you how many raids I 've stopped by just shooting them from my base and then just hiding out until they die of blood loss!

[XeoNovaDan]

Very creative

[Greep]

It's pretty abusive when used on sieges.  They'll keep trying to put out the fire rather than firing back at you:

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