I tried Cass Intense, Rich Explorer, Permadeath plus Combat Extended for the first time...

It so did not go well I tell you.

Firstly I had no idea how embrasures work. My starting colonist was this amazing lady who was pretty much good at everything. Recruited the first pirate. Then it all went downhill from there.

Beavers event. Sent that sole man out to clobber some beavers with his shiv. Got swarmed by the beavers. Managed to play door dodge with my lady back home and killed all of them. Rescued him.

Then I got hit with some nonsense 2 raids in 3 days.

To make matters worse, on the 2nd raid, my lady had to have food poisoning and my recruit had to have a mental breakdown right before the raid. Oh goody goody...