I just wanted to say... The storytelling AI is awesome!

[Reve]

Hi! Yesterday I started to play on "Challenge" difficulty for the first time (on Randy). So far I used to play only on "Rought". And I'm really amazed what a fantastic stories AI can make and how much thinking strategy this requires!
This is what happened to me a while ago: (look at screenshot, it will be easier to imagine)
http://i.imgur.com/53S4lCc.jpg

It was an usual day, I was planning my base, calculating what should I do next to survive through winter when I got THAT red message. A raid. None of them are easy for me because all I have to defend myself is a survival rifle, a pistol and a poor bow + one turret  on which I barely found components. So I drafted my colonists, placed them on spots and waited for THEM to come. Surprisingly it was an easy battle, no one got hurt, except that destroyed turret. Again...
Just in that moment when I killed the last raider I saw another message. A siege. Well, I no longer have that mountain base just like in previous saves so I couldn't just wait untill they are bored and leave. So I made a decission, I have to attack them. But!! What I see?! A dead raider left a GOOD sniper rifle for me. So I took my three best shooters (the rest two colonists - doctors - stayed in the base), took that rifle and sent them versus five well-armed guys. Fortunately there were ruins near the siege so I had a perfect sniping spot. But nothing goes easy in rimworld... Nothing... Just when they reached the enemy camp (I am playing on 350x350 map so it took a while...) I got message that a nearbly camel gone mad. I was thinking "shit.. I dont have my turret and my two people in camp are really bad fighters. But I have to try, that camel can't attack my snipers from back... So I let that mad animal go to my camp, and I managed to shoot 2-3 times when I got another message. Muffalo manhunter pack. GREAT... -.-
I was lucky because both camel and muffalos were going from south, my base was in the center of map, and an enemy camp was in the north. So I had to make a decission: come back to my base, defent it (all animals were heading to my base) and let siege kill me, or kill raiders, and let muffalos go into my base and make impossible for me to come back without losing any colonists. But!! I had an idea! I took one of my doctors left in base and forced him to barricade the main enterance to base. Then took second one, and told him to make a hole in my camp's wall, and told my snipers to come back through that hole. It was just in time when I managed to rebuild that hole and make muffalos and a camel to attack enemy camp. I was really proud of myself, I thought that I won. But what is that?!?! Enemy killed almost all hostile animals and there was only one of them downed. Only one muffalo left (it was really slooow) and the raiders continued prepairing mortars. I was really lucky, because that last muffalo killed one of them just before it's own death and right after they ended building things. When that guy died they rushed on my base. But it was all baricaded, there were no enterance. So they picked a wall to destroy. A wall where I had a very little chance to survive because of lack of cover. So I picked my fastest builder and told him to decostruct that wall (barricade) in main enterance so maybe those raiders will change their minds and attack me from that "proper side" And they did. I managed to kill one or two of them so they fled.

I am just amazed that this game can make such an interesting scenarios, which requires tons of thinking, planning and making good decisions. That making a killbox isn't the only way to deal with problems, and you can also fight ina "creative way" If you have read all of this, I really admire you..  

[Nictis]

Haha, yeah the situations you get in in Rimworld and the solutions you make are wonderful here. I think you might like to go to the Stories section of the forum, or take a look at Blitzkriegs let's play.

[Tynan]

Quite a turn of events