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[Mephansteras]

Build tanks?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2743947189

(I have not tried this mod, no idea how good/balanced it is)

[Great Order]

Advancing under smoke to within the mortar's minimum distance seems like an option from your description.

Like I said, it just means that the mortar can get me because I can't advance fast enough to escape the shrapnel/fire. And with CE's bleedout mechanics I can't just keep my guys walking after they've been shredded to shit.

[Mephansteras]

Are you high enough rank with the Empire to call in some reinforcements on top of them to distract them while you move in?

[Great Order]

Are you high enough rank with the Empire to call in some reinforcements on top of them to distract them while you move in?

Only just made it to janissary squads, I'd forgotten about that. I might have to give them a call when winter's over, it's too cold to actually get to them without several guys getting hypothermia.

[n9103]

Like I said, it just means that the mortar can get me because I can't advance fast enough to escape the shrapnel/fire. And with CE's bleedout mechanics I can't just keep my guys walking after they've been shredded to shit.

Didn't realize your mortars had such a large blast radius.
While it's not leisurely, vanilla mortars were generally able to be outrun, so long as you never stopped advancing.
I'll assume the extra large radius is a CE/Mod thing, and thus my comments are invalid

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[Great Order]

Oh no, the radius is reduced. The issue is the mod adds shrapnel to the shells, as well as grenades, rocket launchers, and pretty much anything that would produce shrapnel.

[MCreeper]

I thought that making a combat-capable ship will finally end the grind, but some crazy balancer decided that non-derelict ships shall not drop more than token amounts of steel, although it is main building material. So player is still forced to vacuum clean every settlement on a map with a shuttle yearly. Why? Cuz fuck you, that's why. From hacked "misterious archotech sphere" i received no steel to speak of, but 13000 gold, which i would gladly exchange for 1300 steel right there. 
And ship is proving to be incredibly frustrating to play in general for no good reason. Pawns walking out into vacuum without space suits. Pawns trying to refuel engines from exhaust side midcombat (there were over 10 reloaded deaths just to this). Cannons outright refusing to fire without apparent cause or errors. Game giving in and spewing errors every single tick (no change in mods was made since start) until reloaded. And since year is approaching 20, loading time is vicious.

[Great Order]

Sounds like you might be running into some issues with mod conflicts. I've always got loads of steel from other ships (This is SoS2 right?)

If the guns aren't firing, the only issues I can think of are insufficient power reserves or they're out of range (Lasers are short range, plasma medium, railgun long, torpedoes long, can't remember for regular kinetic cannons)

For the pawns wandering into space, I either designate an area that most are restricted to that encompasses the whole ship interior, or I give them all suits.

Similarly, restrict them from the exhaust areas to stop them wandering there. You have an access area at the rear of the engines they can use instead right?

[MCreeper]

I'll cheat myself some steel, then.

Similarly, restrict them from the exhaust areas to stop them wandering there. You have an access area at the rear of the engines they can use instead right?

No. But it is still stupid. 

Another stupidity - colonist deciding to hack aforementioned sphere from on top of antigrain mine instead of from perfectly acceptable tile she was in. 
Cannons were set to hold fire. D:

[forsaken1111]

Just a note: Area restrictions do not stop them from PATHING through the forbidden zone, it just stops them from accepting a job in that zone. They could still potentially walk through the engine exhaust while pathing to something beyond it.

To make absolutely sure I usually just don't allow EVA activity at all while moving. Restrict them to an 'inside' zone for example.

[Great Order]

Really? I've found they'll only path through forbidden zones if there's nothing connecting two allowed areas (So for example they're only allowed within areas A and B, they'll path between areas A and B, but if A and B are connected by a thin strip, they'll path through the strip). It's how I keep people under covered walkways when there's toxic fallout.

[forsaken1111]

They prefer allowed zones but it isn't guaranteed. I've had a few incidents

[Mephansteras]

There is a pathing mod that I use that does a good job of keeping them going where you want and away from places you don't want them going.

[Broseph Stalin]

Using PLA steel torrent on a Nomad playthrough with Rimwar and faction control. I have a transport truck and an offroad. I drive to an interesting spot, build a small colony, then send groups of raiders in the off road to plunder trade routes for a season with slaves to keep the camp in order I then load everything up in the truck and hit the road in search of new prey. When I arrive I make war on the local faction and use their loot to pay off the previous faction I pissed off.

I keep finding new mod combinations and falling in love with this game again.

[Shooer]

When I arrive I make war on the local faction and use their loot to pay off the previous faction I pissed off.

Raider Ponzi scheme?