My favorite thing about Kenshi is when you are in an area that is way to hard for you, and you just get slaughtered over and over. Then one day you start winning those fights, and they become easy. Then you think you are invincible, and you go somewhere else, and get destroyed again. :)
This was fun to watch :) I attempted a challenge of making friends with the Shrieking Forest Bandits (50 relations), and make a farm of hivers and skeletons in my Gaia Cult series. The first tower I tried to build was immediately swarmed by 50 shriekers, which showed that you can make a building (blueprint) as a magnet for invading troops while building your main base. The raids go to the first building (and if you don't have a gate, just a wall, then they only go there). Complete cheese, but the multiple raids fighting each other is priceless lol. Note: Making friends with Shrieking Forest Bandits failed (I didn't have enough patience to heal 2500 of them).
I once played a crusader playthru. Made a fortress in the Holy Nation and was their supporter in full. I took my main squad of 24 uber elite all masterwork crusader gear and went exploring and saw a battle between berzerkers and SFB. They beat me with attrition, like hundreds died but still there were more i barely escaped because i was cocky.