What's a good boarding ship build?

[Cheng Helldiver]

I've been experimenting a bit and I've found the Lanius and the Zoltan ships to make for great boarding ships. The Zoltan for the shield, the Lanius for the 2 metalman that drains O2.
However I have yet to actually defeat the rebel flag ship with boarding focused ship.
What's a good example build that features boarding?

[Terin]

Your teleporter + 2 rock/mantis (or Lanius) covers your offense, so you'll want defense either in terms of cloaking, defense drones, or both. Hacking is also a great supplemental system, since it can restrict enemy movement on their own ship, and turn medbays against them.

That's the best way to clear the flagship without some heavy weaponry, luring 4 people into the medbay by teleporting into it, and hacking it to damage them. If you can clear everyone but the laser gunner on the first phase, you're set.

[Cheng Helldiver]

Originally posted by Terin:

Your teleporter + 2 rock/mantis (or Lanius) covers your offense, so you'll want defense either in terms of cloaking, defense drones, or both. Hacking is also a great supplemental system, since it can restrict enemy movement on their own ship, and turn medbays against them.

That's the best way to clear the flagship without some heavy weaponry, luring 4 people into the medbay by teleporting into it, and hacking it to damage them. If you can clear everyone but the laser gunner on the first phase, you're set.

What's a good amount of firepower to take down the rebel ship?
I've tried a 4 man boarding crew before but a lot of times the rebel flagship just keep spamming hacking and missiles and have either the pilot system disabled or the weapons disabled and I just get missile spammed to death before I can do any substantial damage.

[Terin]

First thing you should do when getting to the flagship is to board the room that controls the missile launcher. On easy/normal, that gunner is isolated from the rest of the ship, so your two boarders can gang up on them and destroy that weapon so it can't be repaired again in that fight.

You can then repeat that for the ion and beam weapons, but you should leave the laser gunner alive (because if you kill every crew member on the flagship, the fight will get harder, and the laser is the safest to keep alive) With just the 3-shot laser left, you're safe to take your time and try to kill the rest of the crew, making the other phases much easier.

[Wasted]

mantis b, and crystal b are the best boarding ships imo as they both have 4 man teleporters.. Personally I like Mantis B the best because mantis kill more quickly.

[leichenteil]

I wouldn't try to make one of the zoltan ships a boarding one.
If you want zoltan boarders try Fed Cruiser C, but zoltans are underwhelming if boarding imo.

Best boarding ships are obviously those with a preinstalled teleporter.
All of them are pretty good.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Hacking + any boarders that aren't Zoltan or Engi

> Send boarders into medbay
> Wait for enemy to go to medbay
> Hack medbay
> Rinse and repeat until you win

Originally posted by Highground Anakin:

What's a good amount of firepower to take down the rebel ship?
I've tried a 4 man boarding crew before but a lot of times the rebel flagship just keep spamming hacking and missiles and have either the pilot system disabled or the weapons disabled and I just get missile spammed to death before I can do any substantial damage.

you need hacking yourself ;)

[Reyggor]

Mantis B is pretty good early option for boarding, 4 man teleporter is great and the early game is arguably the strongest Lvl 2 shield, defense drone for missiles and boarding drone for auto-scouts, all that plus Mantis for boarding means you take very little/no damage saving on scrap and also gain more scrap via killing enemy crew.

[Benzine]

The best ship by far (boarding or otherwise) is the Crystal B. It takes luck and effort to unlock but with 3 crystals you can board and kill all the crew even when the enemy ships have medbays or clone bays. Supplement them with a mantis and you can easily beat hard mode.