Boomer drones

[Gray Knight]

Anyone else agree that they bloody suck so much ass?

[Akeuila]

They have their uses. Especially with the Kaos class which comes fitted with the module to start patched squadrons at 1/4 health but much quicker to redeploy as well as the upgrade to shorten the cooldown on the squadron slot after a squadron is destroyed. Send boomers out to get surrounded and die, inflicting as much damage as possible and mop up whatever happens to be left. Great for enemies that have commanders that have the skill to inflict damage on squadrons adjacent to their ship. Even half the boomer trait damage on the battleship will chip it away in no time and you don't have to worry about them dying.

[PixiCode]

it sucks to use boomer drones on ships that don't have the upgrade that shortens squad slot lockdown, though. I still find a use for them if I get them, but i'd rather have other ships.

[Gray Knight]

While you both make good points. I'm talking about fighting boomer drones.

[Akeuila]

If I see them then I'll be sure to make use of asteroid fields or send patched squadrons that I don't need at that moment to suicide on them.

[Null Winter]

Honestly, their free damage on detonation did more damage to me and my ships than the entirety of all the enemies in Chapter 2 managed to do with standard dueling and battleship weaponry. It is not good game design in an attrition game to let NPCs have infinite kamikaze units. Every point of damage and destroyed unit for the player might last long into the run, ultimately causing failure; for the computer, it's literally nothing to toss these units out and have them die.

[Remove skull merchant]

Take anti-ship weapons or let a Cruiser tank the damage

[Lord Knightmarez]

Cruiser + stun works well, because it's out of rang of boomer drone's explosion.

[Paradyme]

Originally posted by Gray Knight:

While you both make good points. I'm talking about fighting boomer drones.

That is why Executioner Lasers exist. ;)

[dr_morgul]

fighting against them you can usually corral them to set off a chain reaction also you want to make a screen early destroyers higher inherit hp comes in handy if you can kill the drones before they can attack it alot.

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Fighting them is a pain. I would kill the smaller ships first. Then work on any battleship that has launched drones. You can do enough DPS by simply destroying certain enemy units closer to their ships damaging their units in the process.