Advice on first queen boss please

[TheRonRon]

So I have tried fighting in the room and most of not all the squad go down to face huggers or K.O.'ed by the queen in 2 hits maybe. This seems like the least likely way to take her on. I just tried filling the elevator room with sentries and initiating the boss fight, then running back to the sentries but I seemed to lose her. I were hoping once the fight is started she would hound me regardless but if you lose hunted status it knocks the fight off. Even regaining hunted I could not lure her in. I have Flamers, one smart gun and about 4 or 5 command points. Can anyone recommend a method that has worked for them please? Im trying my best not to lose these marines but if I have to, I could live with sacrificing one or two. Thank you!

Edit: In my cowardice not to face the queen head on with suppressing fire, I seem to have despawned her and now it is impossible to complete the mission. Will try to load an older autosave, but a forewarning to anyone who takes the same approach as me and loses hunted status.

Edit 2: Thanks for the advice marines, I was able to put her down without losing a single squad member!

[PzAbt SilentFear]

Place two Sentry guns ( slightly spread) right before the boss door.
Initiate the intro of the boss. As soon as the intro is done bail backwards out of the room and lets say 5-10 meters down the corridor behind the guns.
Use grenades to stun and interrupt her. Mission done. If you have flamer - that also help when she is pass the door frame - as she takes tons of flame damage.

[RobOda]

I did this regularly with rookies;

Just place a sentry gun down by the door, do the cutscene;

1. Immediate Suppressing fire (duh)
2. Grenade (takes out the facehuggers.)

Walk backwards and she's dead.

The only issues you should have beyond this strategy is anything coming from behind you, so use liberal use of the shotgun, and if you run out of CMD points, use the 2 tools to replenish the CMD points so you can spam the abilities as needed.

It is really as easy at that.

[Posleen Bun Bun]

i didn't use sentries. supressing fire the the general direction of facehuggers. side step her charge. shotgun and flame. If you have the distance grenade us your tools to recharge your command points

[TheRonRon]

Originally posted by PzAbt SilentFear:

Place two Sentry guns ( slightly spread) right before the boss door.
Initiate the intro of the boss. As soon as the intro is done bail backwards out of the room and lets say 5-10 meters down the corridor behind the guns.
Use grenades to stun and interrupt her. Mission done. If you have flamer - that also help when she is pass the door frame - as she takes tons of flame damage.

Great cheers! Im trying too hard it appears xD

[Ardbug]

Originally posted by Posleen Bun Bun:

i didn't use sentries. supressing fire the the general direction of facehuggers. side step her charge. shotgun and flame. If you have the distance grenade us your tools to recharge your command points

^^ this, it is crazy how effective moving to the side is against the queen and the crusher, especially if you have a turret up since they seem to hate turret a lot more than they hate you.

[StoriesBonesTell]

I put my sentry facing away from the door to shoot down the aliens who come rushing in. But all I did to take down the queen was to move diagonally into the (Occasionally activating sprint to get out of an aoe) and spammed shot gun on her. When I ran out of CP I burned supplies to get it back. Goosed like 75% of her HP, then she got into some animation of grabbing a guy and died a few seconds into it

[TheRonRon]

Originally posted by StoriesBonesTell:

I put my sentry facing away from the door to shoot down the aliens who come rushing in. But all I did to take down the queen was to move diagonally into the (Occasionally activating sprint to get out of an aoe) and spammed shot gun on her. When I ran out of CP I burned supplies to get it back. Goosed like 75% of her HP, then she got into some animation of grabbing a guy and died a few seconds into it

Nice I will take some pointers from this ty

[EpimeTheAus]

Turret in the hallway outside the door to ambush/distract her with. Combine flare with suppression then use shotgun on her while walking backwards away from her. Using tools to get full command points is advised for more shotgun rounds.
Only ever use grenades for facehuggers or human enemies.
Should be able to kill her like this without even taking a single hit.

[TheRonRon]

Originally posted by EpimeTheAus:

Turret in the hallway outside the door to ambush/distract her with. Combine flare with suppression then use shotgun on her while walking backwards away from her. Using tools to get full command points is advised for more shotgun rounds.
Only ever use grenades for facehuggers or human enemies.
Should be able to kill her like this without even taking a single hit.

This is indeed how it went down! Happy to have finished that with out her touching my squad once.