Favorite ships?

[Magniankh]

I'm curious on everyone's favorite or most successful ships.

The Lone Sentry can certainly be powerful with only 2 crew with the auto turrets doing insane amounts of work after you upgrade them.

A full group of us found success with the CQB after we got a shield turret installed, and plenty of power.

The Broadside is already loaded out how my group likes to play; we have yet to try it, but I think it'll be our ship of choice?

The best strategy we have discovered is loading one side of the ship with all weapons, and circling enemies. The two times I have "won" I didn't have shields at all. Raw DPS seems to be the way to play this game, until you get enough power, then shields can be a luxury.

[Sasha Mason]

For group, I love Energy Boat.
Very power hungry but fun to just gatling your way through enemies.

[Commander_Black]

Definitely energy boat simply because its stupidely overpowered.
If im solo, ill do lone sentry for obvious reasons... getting brains right from the start is a huge help.

[shadain597]

So far, the Energy Boat destroyer is looking like the winner for 4 player groups. Very good guns from the start, and probably the best homunculus ability in the game. I haven't actually tried CQB yet, but broadside is pretty nice in the destroyer. Kinda needs to pick up better guns along the way, and so far the one time my group used it we only got a Beamcaster right before the first boss and zero Shurikens.

For solo play, I think the Lone Sentry is the obvious choice, but the question becomes destroyer or frigate? Both have pros and cons, IMO. I'm also a little curious as to what 2 or 3 player crews gravitate towards. I feel like the Broadside could really benefit them, allowing for one or more brain turrets to really add to the firepower without draining too much power.