Tundra fortress, superstructure with internal growing zones and killbox design; as that has worked best for me against Randy to cope with toxic fallout, volcanic winter, weather, raid sizes, etc.

Only my third run. Doing increasingly harder biomes. First was temperate forest, then desert, now this. Second pic is defensive positions and typical gear loadout. Devilstrand outerwear, muffalo wool shirt, flak vest, cataphract helmet, and charge rifle. Vaguely 40K Mechanicus themed. Recluse mechanitor start, transhuman ideology baseliners with no xenohumans (except an actually pretty useful trader/warden/cook/builder/emergency medic highmate trophy husband for my og pawn). No Biotech xenogerms, but full bionic replacement with base and Royalty bionics.

Based on real-world fortresses I saw travelling in Anatolia and Northern India, of a long winding path (typically up a hill) leading to an open area where there were towers for archers and places for melee fighters in front. Complete with a guard dog kennel at the entrance, as I have seen even on fortified modern-day places in West and South Asia. So don't feel a serpentine tunnel and causing collision with the animal room at the entrance to it is cheesing the mechanics, as this is exactly how every single old-world historic fortress/city I have seen was laid out in real life.

No intention of building the ship or doing the archonexus ending for RP reasons. Currently working through getting og mechanitor to mechlord gear, clearing out local ancient complexes, and trying to get some archotech bionics for each pawn, which lines up with what figure the 40K mechanicus would be doing.

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Only my third run. Doing increasingly harder biomes. First was temperate forest, then desert, now this. Second pic is defensive positions and typical gear loadout. Devilstrand outerwear, muffalo wool shirt, flak vest, cataphract helmet, and charge rifle. Vaguely 40K Mechanicus themed. Recluse mechanitor start, transhuman ideology baseliners with no xenohumans (except an actually pretty useful trader/warden/cook/builder/emergency medic highmate trophy husband for my og pawn). No Biotech xenogerms, but full bionic replacement with base and Royalty bionics.
Based on real-world fortresses I saw travelling in Anatolia and Northern India, of a long winding path (typically up a hill) leading to an open area where there were towers for archers and places for melee fighters in front. Complete with a guard dog kennel at the entrance, as I have seen even on fortified modern-day places in West and South Asia. So don't feel a serpentine tunnel and causing collision with the animal room at the entrance to it is cheesing the mechanics, as this is exactly how every single old-world historic fortress/city I have seen was laid out in real life.
No intention of building the ship or doing the archonexus ending for RP reasons. Currently working through getting og mechanitor to mechlord gear, clearing out local ancient complexes, and trying to get some archotech bionics for each pawn, which lines up with what figure the 40K mechanicus would be doing.
- I like the idea of going for harder biomes step by step. I usually play temperate forest because I don't really like having to worry about food, especially for large colonies. But the other biomes are fun for solo runs and small colonies