What's your favorite ship in the game?

[Fregi]

Mine is the Fregatide (fed C).

Because it starts with a mantis, a crazy minded zoltan, a teleporter, and a clone bay, you can have fun getting 9427858923475834586 scrap with...

wait for it....

wait for it.........

SUICUIDE BOARDING!

Because you have a clone bay, losing your crew to normal things, You can send your crew with NO WORRYS!
(Does not include the stoopid dilapidated spacestation, enemy jumping away with your crew, and the mining virus event)

Because zoltan explode on death, you get to have fun litterally dropping bombs in the enemy!

It starts with the Flak Artillery, which is a MONSTER of a weapon if the enemy shields and helm are down.

About its downside.......

It has no weapons other than artillery.

No, im not kidding. It only has one weapon power bar, and no weapon to use it. It might become useful if you get rockmen and a firebomb, but you need to build up to that.

In the right hands, this ship could be a monster. If you know how to board, you could maybe get reliable winrate, provided you dont play dumb, and dont get absolutley horrible luck.

TL;DR
I like the federation cruiser type C

[m'boy are you fat]

Fed C is such a terrible ship, but yeah, it's pretty fun.

My favorite is definitely Stealth A/B. Not particularly good, but fun to play as.

[Rosy the Rascal]

You're a daring soul, Squid Kid, but I'm much the same way with the Stealth-C.

[Landor]

hmm, i dunno about favorite, but i do have a few i like.

the stealths are neat, i like the A and B, and while i havent had any luck with the C, i like the idea.

the zoltan crusiers are nice, they each have their quirks, but they all start with the zoltan shield, a really useful augement all the way through.

the engi C is cool because i do enjoy hacking, which IS my favorite system added by the advanced edition.

and currently, my favorite boarding ship has got to be the mantis B, starts with a quad teleporter, a defence drone, and double shields. it can have a rough start, but once its going, its really good.

[Skinny Pete]

I'm very fond of Stealth B and with an early Pre-Igniter it's a total monster. It can be absolutely excruciating to have to decide between one and shields (the right choice is usually shields but up yours RNG for making it necessary).

I also really love Slug C. Hacking AND Mind Control and upgraded doors and a layout that lets you kill most boarding crews without even fighting them. Too bad about that crappy Chain Laser as its only weapon, but nothing's perfect.

[Danny]

I like Stealth B if I can get shields in the first or early 2nd sector.
Also like Kestrel B and Zoltan B. ^^

[DarkExcalibur42]

I really like the Kestrel B, Federation Cruiser A, and Stealth B. Not necessarily in that order.

[anarcher]

Med/clonebayless Slug B. I don't need to heal my guys that often when I can just hack, MC and cloak all day long while my drones do their thing.

[mkzzz12]

Originally posted by anarcher:

Med/clonebayless Slug B. I don't need to heal my guys that often when I can just hack, MC and cloak all day long while my drones do their thing.

No, you can't, because you're stuck with the teleporter and can only have 3 other extra systems.

@edit@topic
These days mostly Cerenkov. Fun with ions, power management, stuff like that. Once upon a time, Ariolimax, and I do always come back to it eventually.

[mkzzz12]

Originally posted by Fusion:

Originally posted by mekloz:

No, you can't, because you're stuck with the teleporter and can only have 3 other extra systems.

@edit@topic
These days mostly Cerenkov. Fun with ions, power management, stuff like that. Once upon a time, Ariolimax, and I do always come back to it eventually.

Banana Slug is overpowered. It's the anti-fun.

I feel similar about several ships, but mind control with hacking is just so fun. And anyway, it's not that overpowered, just really strong.

[anarcher]

Originally posted by mekloz:

Originally posted by anarcher:

Med/clonebayless Slug B. I don't need to heal my guys that often when I can just hack, MC and cloak all day long while my drones do their thing.

No, you can't, because you're stuck with the teleporter and can only have 3 other extra systems.

@edit@topic
These days mostly Cerenkov. Fun with ions, power management, stuff like that. Once upon a time, Ariolimax, and I do always come back to it eventually.

Well not all at once, but it's pretty great to have that extra system in place of the med/clonebay.

[mkzzz12]

Originally posted by anarcher:

Originally posted by mekloz:

No, you can't, because you're stuck with the teleporter and can only have 3 other extra systems.

@edit@topic
These days mostly Cerenkov. Fun with ions, power management, stuff like that. Once upon a time, Ariolimax, and I do always come back to it eventually.

Well not all at once, but it's pretty great to have that extra system in place of the med/clonebay.

Well, you should keep using the teleporter or it's like just having 3 systems, and that's not the easiest with only the bomb (because missiles, mostly). The reconstructive teleport makes it
pretty amazing.

[anarcher]

Of course I keep using the teleporter, assuming there's a reasonable way for me to win without constantly spamming heal bombs. Also, even one bomb miss and I have to pull the crew back, so that sucks big time.

[Antorius]

I absolutely adore Slug-B.

































































































Just kidding -.-

In all seriousness, the most fun I've had playing this game so far is Stealth A. But I haven't actually played any of the C hulls yet!

[Meneluma]

Slug-A(Man of War) is fun, especially if you picture the slug on the helm laughing as the enemy crew gets disintegrated. Kestrel-B(Red-Tail) is very good, as most likely you'll go all out lasers on it. Stealth-B(DA-SR 12) might be the worst ship ever, but I had a blast playing with it, it provides an interesting challenge.
I have lots of trouble playing with Lanius-A(Kruos) while also going for the ship achievements so that's definitely not going on the list.

[Revolver Rez]

As much as I adore Crystal B for being the most overpowered boarding ship in the game (cloaking, a four man teleporter and three crew who can individually lock down rooms right from the start is insane) I still prefer using the basic Kestrel. Lovely starting weaponry that is still handy against the Flagship, has enough room space to make it versatile for different play styles, and you have it from the very beginning.

The downside is the purely human crew, but their ability to master skills faster is still something.