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Doesn't seem like it'll be an issue here at the mo....

We have one strange mood in progress, which will result in a piece of armor and a legendary armorsmith.

Or unused materials and an insane/going-to-die dwarf, if you're unlucky enough.

Consider whether we can use our thrusters as shield-breakers or thermal weaponry.

That's actually a neat idea, although we'd probably need some sort of a parking brake or tractor beam to keep from flying away as we burn through them with our engines.

Although I'd like to ask, what kind of projectiles do our Assault Gun and Light Machine Gun fire? Lasers? Plasma? Hopefully anything but solid bullets and cannon shells, although those might be able to penetrate the shields, as these types of shields can only deflect energy weapon shots like laser or plasma bolts.

That would make sense; no reason why you couldn't build a generator of some sort into your mobile base, or strap lights onto the outside.

I suppose it would give a more obvious use to the electric motors I've been finding recently. To build a makeshift generator to light your safehouses would be kind of cool, but you'd need plenty of batteries lying around to keep it running for a reasonable amount of time.

Go to full speed and try to stay in parts of the enemy ship where their guns cannot reach; we can easily take them down that way IF we can get past the shields somehow... Do we have any shield-penetration-approved missiles or torpedoes on the ship?

I think the leading cause of death in all of my games has been lightning. It's like.. an inevitable and extremely frustrating conclusion. I'll have a well-stocked safehouse that I'm hiding in to pass the time during a stormy week, and lighting never fails to clap down on top of it and cause it to burn to the ground. So with almost all of my items gone- the first aid, the food, the wood, the books- I make a run for it and try to get into a nearby house. Only to bump into something nasty like a horde of zombies let by a hulk, or a necromancer. I can run and gun (or in my case run and bow) for a while, but the stormy night eventually puts me in the dirt.

Lightning burning your house down? Never had it happen to be. Of course I've only been through one actual "Lightning Storm" and in never zapped my safe house. So it went back to a regular Thunder Storm and I slept through the night without any issues.

Like I said, up the shields, open a channel for communication, and if they're hostile, wait until we're within absolute lethal laser cannon range and then fire everything we've got at 'em.