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When you're low-tech, anti-tank guns are good against Sentinels. Redesigning/updating your light tanks to use HVCs instead of howitzers would also make them much more effective against bots.

Also: 5 units defected with him? Ouch. I've never had an OHQ CDR get more than 1 to go with him, but then I'm an aggressive people-pleaser.

Underneath soft attacks/to the right of hard attacks. It's the three little triangles.

Are you in an era of bureaucracy?

In case anyone is not yet acquainted with the locals:


Really not looking forward to clearing out Trogs.

That's just the RNG playing favorites, then. My aux towns started off at 60k and 55k, each with a Lvl III private ag asset and a Lvl II private transport hub.

Also 65k, 80k, and 80k free folk in my zones, though that went down ~25% as soon as the 2nd turn rolled around and indies started reclaiming territory far away from my cities.

For the record: I have 6 fronts, and one area where I'm just resigned to indies taking territory w/o resistance. Makes me glad I don't have to worry about water since I'm going to be devoting my resources to addressing personnel shortages even if I (ha!) never have any casualties.

I generated a mess. I'll post basic reports once we decide if anyone is in a clear-lose-on-turn-1 situation. I'm not. I've got some good points and some bad ones. The basic bits for Aqonia IV are that it has perfect Terran agriculture, native cloud forests (of the blandest possible color, sigh), slightly-above-average-gravity coupled with a thick atmosphere (so my starting recon planes are range 10), 12m apex predators coupled with small carnivores and mid-sized herbivores, and mostly scavengers & hunters for remnants. There will be rad belts b/c fallout is the best Dissolution for reducing the 150m pre-fall population.

Anyway, everyone should make sure they're up to v1.11.09, and if you want to do fancy progress gifs eventually, go in before you open your first turn, and make sure screenshots are on under the PREFS tab. I'll send out a mass PM where we can exchange emails and set up turn order.

I'd vote no RC (let's see how it plays with majors this time) and no SS (less minors means less potential to snowball?). But I'm on the fence with the latter.

I'll test to try to be sure, but my understanding is that SS adds more zones w/o adding more population. That'd mean that there's more non-minor zones (nomads, slavers, mutants, etc.) but also the minor regimes would have lower population per zone simply b/c there's by necessity more zones to account for.

I'm also kinda wary b/c one of my hotseat tests had 3 zones per major but apparently the engine couldn't find a spot for one where it could have 3 and gave it 1 instead. I submitted a bug report for that, FWIW. No response as yet. That's the main sort of reasoning I'm using to lean towards 2 instead of 3; it seems like the engine is struggling for room sometimes and that's even before we consider if it can space things out.

Re: critters, it's a crapshoot. The save you requested from me with the rhinos killed me the first time I tried it but the second time I was fine b/c I started with different specific wildlife next to me. I'm honestly more scared of something midsized with a nasty combo of feats than a giant beastie, b/c I'm not sure I've ever seen more than 1 attack on something over 40m, while something 15m with 8 or 16 attacks per round can vaporize battalions in a round or two.

I suppose it's good to pay attention so that you have things like heavy/high-tech industry discovered and built at some point before you actually need to use those.

At a certain moment it might be wise to stop researching new techs until you discover Heavy or High-Tech Industries. I'd say that's most true with Heavy. I ended up doing that with my econ council for several turns last game, but you may need to do it with mil and air as well if the alternative is opening a new tier and potentially indefinitely delaying your getting Heavy Industry.

[Edit: Hmm. I'm growing increasingly convinced that SS is indeed leading to more population rather than just spreading what there is more thinly. Drat.]