Marines?

[A.M.A.Z.O.]

i got a Centaur ship and i recived 5 marines what do i do with them and how do i use them?

[IDDQD]

Marines are used to capture enemy frigates and capital ships. Being in a Corvette, you won't have access to the boarding pods that M7M frigates can use so the Marines will have to space walk / use space suits to get to the ship.

[Benjoseph]

BE careful to always have a cargo life support ... as you will kill the poor jar heads if you forget and load them on a ship without one......

CLS : cargo life support .....

[A.M.A.Z.O.]

i see thanks a lot but i got one more question how will i be able to deploy marines to capture frigates? i just right click on the wanted ship?

[IDDQD]

I haven't tried but I think it's done through the command menu.

You also need to make sure the target's shields are down so the Marines can land and begin cutting through the hull.

Some other things to take into consideration..

Marines have levels. The higher the level the better chance they have to survive and capture a ship.

Use a boarding pod to ensure that your Marines all land in close proximity to each other. The closer they are to each other the better the chance they have to capture the ship.

Dealing damage to the target's hull will destroy some of the internal defenses and make it easier for the Marines to capture the ship but you will also destroy any of the ship's equipment, making it an easy target for the enemy. Ion weapons will also destroy internal defenses and ship equipment without destroying the hull.

[derek.cochrane]

first up if you decide the pirate route of taking ships select your target, then save. then attack it and slowly ( just a bit faster than target) fly out away from all other ships and stations. then attack till sheilds are less than 4%. you can either eject marimes just in front of target and they will try and land on target and attack or on your command option pick pirate board ship. Points to remember save lots of times ie after locating away from everyone else and just before launching marines. marines can only travel at 20 m/s or so fast targets have to be gamaged enough that they can board.

[A.M.A.Z.O.]

thanks for the info. one more thing how will the enemy ship will behave it will continue to attack me or pick the marines as primary target. I m going to get myself a xenon Q.

[derek.cochrane]

ship will target closest thin to it. Turrets will also be set to porotect ship, missile defense etc. Q is very hard to caputure not got one yet for my self and I have M7 with bording pods. I would sugest something down near the bottom of the universe, either one of the dukes ships or a special parinoid ship like the Armagedin

[Troll]

The Q is requires a very special strategy. Basically you need 21 marines to board it from memory, which requires either two M7Ms, or the special one from OTAS (which can hold 30 marines).

A Q is basically the apex of boarding experience.

[A.M.A.Z.O.]

Ahh, damn i guess they need to be trained to max too , and I thought it would be easy to board it since i stay on top of it where it can't attack me. At least i managed to kill one with my thor fighter pretty fast.

[Zloth]

Those Q's are nasty things if you aren't in the same sector with them.

Both the Terran Conflict and Goner plots have some ship capturing to help teach you how it works. (Though, last I heard, the Goner mission was rather buggy.)