Diplomacy update has given us more options with weapons loadouts!

[Leo]

Xenon M ships; Xenon weapons only, Needler, Impulse Projector, sadly can't use these weapons on the other newer ships.
Astrid: Astrid Turret beams only, (Bummer. Wanted to put some Distortion turrets on mine. Alas. not to be.)
The Envoy/cypher:
- Turrets; Autocanon, Scalar, Distortion.] Boron Turrets; Arc, Ion Pulse, Phase,] Terran Frontier; Electromagnetic
-- Boron M ships, Same Turrets as Envoy/Cypher. (A Distortion Turret on a Dolphin? Now you can get away from those pesky pirates.)
- Can also equip Frontier Shields. And M Frontier Electromagnetic Canon from Odachi.
- Odachi can now equip Boron Weapons, and same Turrets as Envoy. (Finally you can put missiles on the thing.) Can also equip Frontier, or Boron Shields.
--- Small Ships.
- The Frontier Cutlass can now use Boron weapons!
- The Xenon F is stuck with Needler guns. No Needler guns on other ships either, :(
- The Xperimental Fighter can now equip Boron weapons. (But no Missiles, yet it can hold 12?)
--- Lrg ships.
- Nothing new on the Timelines Xenon ships.
-- The Sapporo. (holy crap) This thing can now equip all kinds of Boron equipment, Engines, shields, weapons. (If you add boron tracking turrets you can give it more missile types.)
-- Boron Large Ships, Yep, they can equip Sapporo Frontier equipment. And the Medium Frontier Electromagnetic Turrets.
- I wonder what a Guppy with Frontier EM Turrets can do. :D,
--- XL Ships.
- Boron XL Ships can now equip Frontier M Shields, And M Electromagnetic Turrets.

[zpc]

Aye, life is good

Originally posted by Leo:

- The Frontier Cutlass can now use Boron weapons!

That's the best one - finally a gatling with awesome sounds on my favourite interceptor!

[Saihai]

Don't forget that Boron S ships can now equip Timelines equipment too (alpha hept, terran electromag cannon, shields, engines).

A small boron fleet with full-timelines equipped barracudas and Ms let me clear out all 6 of the xenon sectors for the 'save them from themselves' Yaki ending in just a few hours. Only lost a total of 50ish ships, mostly to inattention when an I and friends joined in while I was not in the room.

[Leo]

Originally posted by Saihai:

Don't forget that Boron S ships can now equip Timelines equipment too (alpha hept, terran electromag cannon, shields, engines).

A small boron fleet with full-timelines equipped barracudas and Ms let me clear out all 6 of the xenon sectors for the 'save them from themselves' Yaki ending in just a few hours. Only lost a total of 50ish ships, mostly to inattention when an I and friends joined in while I was not in the room.

Not a huge fan of the look of the Boron ships, I mean they look nice. Their just not my faction of choice. But I've been pumping out Threshers with a couple Distortion turrets, and couple of autocanons turrets, and the rest in Electromag turrets. And it's tearing up the Xenon. Wicked. I put a couple Gats on the X fighter, couple Electromags, and the two boombooms to even things up and for better heat management. I put all electromags plus one missile turret on my Guppys. Boron ships are sooo good already, Now. gah. It's like having bunch of mini Erlkings.