Hoist By Their Own Petard

[SSS]

There are image spoilers for those who haven't investigated the cryosleep ruins before.

Anyway, I got a party of pirate siegers recently, and they did something curious: They set up camp inside the cryosleep ruins I had investigated sometime earlier.

I was pretty hyped at first. I've always thought it would be cool to have other factions set up a base on the map, and this siege party is the closest thing I've encountered. To make matters worse, this particular ruin was mostly (95%+) under a mountain, so shelling it had no effect. (I don't know if constructed ruins can be destroyed, but I had hoped shelling the roof might cause it to cave in or rain rubble. I only got a couple of tinks out of it.) It was sizing up to become a very interesting encounter when something amusing happened.

I noticed the blueprint briefly before construction started, and surely enough, the raiders decided to build their mortar right in front of the base, trapping all but one inside, separated from their food and most of their shells. What made it even better was the roof, which was now a blessing: Even if their guys back at home tried to send additional shells or food, the roof would make it so that those trapped inside couldn't reach them. After my colony suffered a small amount of shelling, they would all starve to death.

Amused by their misfortune, I sent out my melee specialist to take down the lone raider outside the coffin-twice-over. It seems my colony's fortune wasn't over yet, however. As soon as my specialist chopped off the raider's leg, money started raining from the sky!

If it couldn't get any better, I noticed that, strangely, my colony still wasn't being shelled despite the lengthy amount of time the enemy's mortar had been manned. Upon closer inspection, I realized what had happened. Since the mortar was what closed up the room, a roof had been constructed over it, neutralizing it and making the raiders sitting starving ducks. They passed out due to exhaustion that second night, and on the third day Mercer fell into a daze.

Later that evening they started dropping like flies, leaving me with a bounty of preserved loot and a stockpile of silver to haul.

I slightly lament that I didn't get to experience taking on an enemy base, but it was still amusing enough to enjoy thoroughly. They were hoist by their own petard.

Edit: Changed title now that this is in the story section.

[Silvador]

Looks like you rolled the opposite end of RNG to what I got. lol

You got all the good luck.

All the bad luck was spent on me. :/

[SSS]

Oh dang. That's pretty bad. xD

I feel you on the planning too. I tend to do quite a bit near the beginning, though not quite to that level. My bases tend to be smaller.