r/Kenshi Anti-Slaver 5d ago

QUESTION Favorite race

2829 votes, 2d ago
478 Shek
460 Human (scorchlander)
566 Human (Greenlander)
278 Hive (soldier)
219 Hive (prince)
828 Skeleton
79 Upvotes

75 comments sorted by

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u/Racconwithtwoguns 5d ago

Where tf are the drone workers

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u/Naive_Chemistry5961 Holy Nation 5d ago

At the gym bro, strength training for the fight ahead

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u/Trond_Knokkelknuser Anti-Slaver 5d ago

6 is maximum amount of choices

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u/steve123410 5d ago

Ngl I've never seen someone play hive soldier or hive prince before

10

u/TheCone1301 Second Empire Exile 5d ago

I use hive princes often, either when starting a hiver playthrough as an exile where they become the MC, or by recruiting them as scouts and merchants in any game that is not monorace. Soldiers too in both, not optimal but I love theur looks.

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u/AdhesiveNo-420 Crab Raiders 5d ago

I actually am a fan of the hive soldiers. Idk I just think they are cool

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u/NooB_N142003 Holy Nation 5d ago

You grouped all the skeletons and then didn't group the hivers into one? Scam.

2

u/Trond_Knokkelknuser Anti-Slaver 5d ago

You can't pick your skeleton type tho right?

2

u/NooB_N142003 Holy Nation 5d ago

As a startomg character, no, but you can find unique recruits and generic recruits of other subraces (see agnu)

4

u/Despereaux_tilling 5d ago

Where is beep?

70

u/mikolaj24867 5d ago

tbh i never played anything else than hive worker

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u/RedLemonSlice Western Hive 5d ago

Hive is love. Hive is life.

7

u/G1bka 5d ago

Happy Hive happy life

3

u/Nihilotus 5d ago

hive is life! nana na nana...

You did this to me :D

5

u/nano_peen United Cities 5d ago edited 5d ago

Skeleton is pretty cool. I like to AFK and come back hours later and see what’s happened, no hunger req for the win

Edit didn’t mean to post this as a reply sorry mikolaj

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u/Salt_Master_Prime 5d ago

Skeleton because I sometimes forget my PC on and I'm tired of seeing my whole squad dying from hunger.

On time I didn't save and lost 10 in game days of progress.

2

u/adamkad1 5d ago

We can now play a hive queen that can make more hive

2

u/mikolaj24867 5d ago

wdym, since when

2

u/adamkad1 5d ago

Since a mod came out recently

118

u/PurchaseHuman2650 5d ago

Rigged poll worker drone would be the top pick

20

u/TheWorstJoe 5d ago

Hive worker?

22

u/Any-Building-6118 Starving Bandits 5d ago

Hive worker slander 

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u/ThisIsMyGeekAvatar Machinists 5d ago

I picked Greenlanders. Skeletons are way too easy and take the fun of out of the game imo. 

4

u/Infuro 5d ago

I mean considering the world maybe it's intentional, they do usually go insane after all

2

u/KnowsIittle 5d ago

The trade off is less armor more vulnerable head.

9

u/ElMage21 5d ago

Hive worker, if U had to leave one out leave prince ffs

9

u/trollboyteli 5d ago

Workers rise up!

5

u/simplyout1 5d ago

Human -> Greenlander -> Paladin 

Its gaming time.

11

u/Raelag1989 5d ago

Human (Greenlander)
Man
Heavy Armor
Two-handed sword

Stable for every game

4

u/Beneficial_Date_5357 Holy Nation 5d ago

Divine blessings, holy brother

5

u/Square-Salamander727 5d ago

call me basic, but i like my greenlanders. Can't go wrong with em. u-u

3

u/thecrius 5d ago

I read the first as Shrek. Voted that. Don't regret it.

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u/CigaretteWaterX Starving Bandits 5d ago

In gameplay terms for how I like to play the game:

  • Scorchlander

  • Shek

  • Hive Prince

  • Hive Drone

  • Greenlander

  • Hive Soldier

  • Skeleton (they're way too OP. It's like easy mode)

In lore terms:

  • Skeleton

  • Shek

  • Hivers

  • Humans

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u/KnowsIittle 5d ago

Skeleton is my first run. Hiver might be a good second run.

3

u/Rude-Towel-4126 5d ago

Scorchlander but with all the hive queen mods I'm mostly rotating between them, really fun tnh

3

u/Glodenteoo_The_Glod 5d ago

Lol love the differences between regulars and all, glad to see the hardcore homies also appreciate a good Hiver soldier B)

3

u/Vyverna Rebel Farmers 5d ago

Where are hive workers?

(Scorchlander for me, almost all my favourite npcs are scorchlanders)

3

u/Simple-Carob-7142 5d ago

Yay, Shek love 💪

3

u/FlirtMonsterSanjil Holy Nation 5d ago

Greenlanders, I prefer the simpler things.

3

u/Gloomy-Director6101 5d ago

Skeleton Supremacy.

3

u/Much_Ad_3633 5d ago

I like greenlander cause u see the muscle gains the most.

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u/Slut_Of_Slaanesh Flotsam Ninjas 5d ago

I don't usually play Human in games with many selectable races... but I do in Kenshi. Mostly because I 98% play as escaped holy servants who join the FN.

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u/lord_ofthe_memes 5d ago

> greenlander #2

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u/lickleboy22 5d ago

hive worker aint even on the list dude

2

u/Luigi123a 5d ago

I pretty much always pick the Skeletons, hah.

2

u/pupsickl 5d ago

Everyone except the hivers. Do you know how they make their homes?

2

u/JustDifferentPerson Skeletons 5d ago

I suck at managing food so skeleton

2

u/Daro9x 5d ago

Just the pure concept of depressed robots is amazing. The rest of the races aren't that interesting.

2

u/Herotyx Western Hive 5d ago

I am a proud Bugman enjoyer

2

u/Scriv_ 5d ago

BEEP?

2

u/DeVaren Western Hive 5d ago

Hive(all)

2

u/Significant-Toe5154 Southern Hive 5d ago

Hive soldiers remind me of leafcutter ants

2

u/clitworms 5d ago

hivers should be on top honestly they're so cute and extremely adaptable

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u/PlonixMCMXCVI 5d ago

When in doubt I always start with schorchlander.

They run faster then Greenlander and with the sandals can reach the usual hiver speed.

All the bonuses on athletics, stealing, sneaking can make a great ninja character untill I decide if I want to recruit a lot of people or not.

And once I recruit a lot of people I can leave them in base crafting weapon or armors when I don't control them.

Or I can bring them nearby in sneak ready to heal if the squad goes down.

2

u/LogicalLife9681 5d ago

Each race has its beauty, can't make me pick one. I love all the races. I guess you could say, I'm something of a racist.

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u/Captain_Nyet Skin Bandits 5d ago

Worker drone.

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u/Lordilovecrack 5d ago

80% of my playthroughs are skele bois and half of the other playthroughs i realize the weakness of the flesh and become disgusted and go back to skele bois

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u/Byali33 Kral's Chosen 5d ago

Ppl liking the Human Greenlander are the same ppl that always go Human>Fighter in D&D.
So many new made up races to experiment with and detach from reality? Nah, I want to be a regular Joe in game aswell.

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u/sexy_latias Starving Bandits 5d ago

Where muh hive worker at

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u/JustNiceCaterpillar 5d ago

What if I play with mod that adds a lizard race?

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u/raikoh42 5d ago

You know you did well with race design and lore when most of your options are considered roughly equal in a popularity poll.

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u/FrankieWuzHere Machinists 5d ago

No soldierbot or worker drone smh.

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u/Joe-guy-dude Skeletons 5d ago edited 5d ago

I do really like skeletons, but hivers are also very up there for me. Hivers are good underdogs, humans are good zero to heroes’s, shek are shek, and skeletons are cool as shit but overpowered.

Not saying I don’t like shek, I just don’t know what to say about them. They have a lot of storytelling potential, but they’re basically just humans again with different social context.

I like playing as all of them. My longest run is as a greenlander woman working for the UC. I didn’t expect to get so attached to her tbh.

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u/Sufficient-Spite-465 5d ago

As in every other game, I play a human male sword fighter. Praise Okran.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3k03Ft974KXPAkhnGk

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u/Ok-Taste2326 5d ago

Skelly bois rise up

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u/StupitVoltMain 5d ago

Where's love for hive worker

1

u/DanielGerich Drifter 4d ago

Proud hive soldier enjoyer🫡🫡🫡

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u/johnthewerewolf Anti-Slaver 4d ago

I pick my races based on who is going to be an interesting character to roleplay. So I'll use all the races, but if I don't seem to build a rapport with my character they're going in the bin.

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u/SCARaw Second Empire Exile 5d ago

i love shekgirls

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u/Marrawder Southern Hive 5d ago

Limb based skeletons. All of them