That's what Cassandra does, she will find a way to destroy you. She doesn't destroy gameplay, but the odds of survival. So you have to hurry and get that ship moving because sticking around getting wealthier means the end of your colony. Randy just leaves it to luck.
And for the record, with late game I mean at least 15 years
It only destroyed one tile, but then some colonists thought it would be a good idea to clean the place while the gang-of-musclemen was assembling to knock it down. So it got to fire once more before being downed.
You learn as you go along 5th repost. Thanks to the admin who helped me sort the mess I made. I'm going to try to find out what exactly caused it (I think I know) and report the issue soon.
1st of Septober, 5507. Day 449. Blood colony battle log.
Event 0
An escape pod crashes. Eva is sent out to capture
Immediately followed by
Event 1
Mechanoid raid, three entry points. NE, SE and SW. Approximately 800 Chickens are scattered all over the place due to a controlled blight sweep in the fertile land near the center of the map, so the mechanoids are slowed down.
Event 2
The colonists head towards SW to attack the first group of mechanoids, operation 'DESTROY'. All mechanoids are destroyed, one of the colonists is now wounded.
Event 3
The colonists head towards the SE to attack the second group of mechanoids, operation 'MANY'. During the battle ...
Event 4
... a second mechanoid raid lands, the operation is renamed to 'TOO MANY'. Shortly after ...
Event 5
... an elephant manhunter pack enters the map in the North. more mechanoids are hidden underneath the elephants Morale went down to 0, however...
Event 6
brings new hope as during their operation 'MECHANOID HAMMER' the third group of mechanoids from the first raid are destroyed by the elephants. Meanwhile ...
Event 7
a field hospital is set up. Three colonists are tended with no medication and some go juice is injected.
Event 8
(Also named event 7 on the map) While the Elephants attack the mechanoids in their 'ELEPHANT SKIN' operation, the colonists hide and flee back to their base and get some sleep. All chickens are retreated to the base as well, which eventually leads the 3 surviving mechanoids to slowly approach the base, but with the now semi-rested colonists they are easily defeated. the drawn route on the map for this part is not accurate.
I have over 7000 hours and still suck at it. This was all new to me, I was like wtf is that red ring so I hit prtscn. I don't usually play at this difficulty level, I prefer gigantic peaceful communities.
I did have one epic battle before though, a fine 10 minutes or so of RimWorld gameplay reddit alert
We were welcomed on the Fediverse when doing our research about where we could migrate from reddit. Nobody seemed bothered about the name. Only after we migrated from Reddit did a few people start about it. We could have changed it had we known. But now it's too late. What we did do is change our server from RimWorldPN.cloud to https://rimworld.gallery to no longer make it appear like it could be NSFW (the name, not the site)
That's what Cassandra does, she will find a way to destroy you. She doesn't destroy gameplay, but the odds of survival. So you have to hurry and get that ship moving because sticking around getting wealthier means the end of your colony. Randy just leaves it to luck.
And for the record, with late game I mean at least 15 years