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It finished at the time of that post actually.

As out of context as possible. I got blown up by a vindictive and tired looking Scientist because I didn't leave the trail to get to church in time, while being chased by a Hunter and a Lead Guitarist, while losing my weapon and not being able to find another one for myself, the Serial Killer wearing a Crown, EOD Boots, a Steel Shield, a Pope's Cassock, and a Sniper's scope.

Buffer is the best power against the Awakened One. "Oh, 32x3? TOO BAD! I have 5 stacks of Buffer! YOU ARE DOOMED!"

Probably way too late but I didn't get any real bugs or anything with the argonians when I loaded them so it's probably fine.  I could not select their skincolor properly for some reason, but I couldn't do that with any of the modded races, so that's either a bug with that custom race foundation mod bug or a prepare carefully bug.

That colony I was talking about however was very short lived.  A solar flare took out all the cooling systems in the middle of summer. The avali both died of heatstroke, leaving me just with the nudist argonian and an orassian, one of which was incapable of combat, and the other was merely terrible at it. A raid that I'm assuming was still using the numbers from when I had 4 colonists, wiped them out after.

I have never seen a tornado in the game yet, though I have seen a biome that claims tornados are common there in a mod.  Perhaps I should make that my next embark.

If you disabled Solar Flares, I could see this being a really neat challenge build. Having 3 races that deal with middling temps and the 2 extremes would be the ultimate in base design, including how to handle defence and what happens if one side of the population is in dire straits and needs to be patched up.

I could see having 4 of each to start off the game with a lot of initial steel to make the initial base, and then see what happens from there.

I got an event that wanted me to have the Red Mask relic, or spend all my gold for a random relic. I GOT the Red Mask from the gold. x.x

My notes to self after finally winning a game after 8 losses ish.

WALL AROUND YOUR CC IF YOU THINK THE FIGHT IS GONNA GET THERE! The extra barrier lets armies do mop up if things get to close. If you wanna be fancy, surround a few executioners with walls too.

Get some walls around you tesla's before the final wave hits. So many defences can get knocked out just from the ai hitting those fairly fragile structures. a few walls around them will let your static defences keep up the pressure a little longer.

The second a choke gets to its last wall, delete EVERYTHING behind it to the next choke or the next viable choke. it is fully possible to make more walls and ballistas while the horde hits.

Around day 50 to 65 you'll generally own most of the map. At that point, expand defences to just be jutting wall sections with static defences and towers. You can fill in the taken areas with houses, but just remember to delete them. it can be a pain.

Save gold by DELETING BUILDINGS THE HORDE HAS PASSED! You can actually delete those infested buildings once the enemy is gone. This will save you resources and keep your army from deserting when you finally hit that demolish all button for houses.

And finally, if you want lots of extra gold throughout the game, don't forget to keep building lumber mills! Before day 75 ish, assuming each one is atleast 10 wood and you have all markets up, thats 9 gold every 8 hour tick. 27 per day, so 12 days to pay for itself while still providing you with wood you will be using for stakes and walls. EDIT: Just remembered you sell in 5 not 10. So 6 days to pay back in full, meaning before day 85 is good.

That is all accept to mention one thing.  DON'T PURPOSELY DESTROY A RESEARCH BUILDING!!! You will lose all research from it and have to rebuild and re-research  it all. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Thank you for the game... sorry to Choppy though.