Surviving Mars: Marsgate

[aleksp]

So Marsgate mistery.
Surrounded by drones armed with ICBMs and only defense is rocket turret.
Ok, joke aside drones clearly have range greater than range of missile turret, and their missiles can't be shot down.
Rover launches missiles and takes out my 2 rovers and turret close to itself.
So to clarify it, it was in range of missile turret ( almost next to edge of it ) and my rovers whose were pretty far outside missile turret range were in its range (there was only 1 enemy rover so they weren't destroyed by any other).
Moreover it took 6 or more hits before it was destroyed (only because it aimed at my rovers first) and turret was blown up with just one missile.
So issues here are rover range and missile turret health. If rover bears 6 hits and turret 1 then defending from more than 1 at a time is disaster.

No mods used, checked wiki and other sites and they say that turret has greater range than rover and that it should easily deal with rovers.
Nope, not correct in my playthrough.
How was your experience with this?

 

[aleksp]

After bunch of tries here is how things went.
Rover range is around length of map square (block), and they prioritize my rovers, so significantly longer than missile turrets.
To counter them I pulled my rovers 3 blocks back and ensured that only accessible way is covered with missile turrets.
First wave arrived and enemy rovers went exactly as predicted into turret range and got taken care of.
It took 10+ hits to destroy single rover, and since they were coming 1 by 1 no damage on my side.

In second wave I got chance to repair and turn to my side few destroyed rovers giving me weapons with longer range.
Again enemy rovers ignored everything mowing after my rovers and went into kill zone.
One decided to change tactic and started attacking dome that was in its range.
Since turrets couldn't hit it reclaimed rovers had to move out to deal with it.

All enemies destroyed, result one dome with 12 fractures and 60 polymer repair bill.
Abandoned that dome and torn down everything and dome in end. Repair was more expensive than building everything new.
Received Micro Fusion tech on mystery completion. I hoped for Project Mohole as it is in robotics branch.

How did you fare with this mystery people?