yeah I died.
What are some good ways to get strong early other than training ?
You don´t need train t all to make the full run of Master of Raana.
My MCs, all of them, have a pathological adversion to physical training. Starts with only 35 Ranged. Strengh? Muscle can be hired. Dextery? I´m not in a hurry. Melee? Who cares. I´m a gentleman, and training and jumping and all the sweating and fatigue it´s good for monkeys, but not for proper gentry, one who is one of the best brains of Ikaanos. It´s bad enough that the half brained morons that I have in my pay roll are unable to follow simple instructions as "go to Stoke hill and clean the fort" and you must grab them by the hand and guide him like 5 years old. The only physical training I have had it´s stamina to keep my initial stat of 70 (after all, I´m Glotonus. and love of chocolate cakes, with a filling of chocolate and sprinkles of chocolate on top, and a proper Gentleman can not have a plebs beer belly).
Just buy fine gear. The money, in the field and not in the bank. My A Team it´s Cassius (and really it´s the only mandatory one) with Hulk, Ayden, Clea and Aria (first with Wega and lately also with hulk) Two implants for all and a proper medicine knowledge to use Combat Healing and nobody goes down unless a really bad dice strike.
I have not trained Melee and Combat a single day in my run and Cassius its 150 M/91R, Aiden 147 M /98R, Clea 121M/118R and Aria 100M/91 R for my team A. In my Team B Bud had 122M/88 R, Sophia 88M/81R, the Monk 133 melee. You dont need more to defeat all of Ikaanos Enemies. And my MC, with 89 R and his bionic Eye (and his loved minigun) holds perfectly his own in any combat.
Training it´s for sissies. Do the real thing. Combat.
637 combats are the count at this moment.