OC2142 wrote:Reconstructive Teleport is pretty damned rare and pricey in a shop. .
But worth it. You want rare, try a Zoltan Shield Bypass for the Basilisk or Carnelian. I swear all those ships who beam intruders onto your Zoltan-shielded ship bought them all up.
Then an L3 medbay needs 4 jumps to heal fully.
Or the destruction of an automated ship.
And extra boarders are hard to come by.
Extra crew is easy to come by. All you need is the two Lanius and Mind Control for boarding. I get two Mantii sometimes. Keep forgetting to swap them out once the Lanius are onboard though.
Seriously though, this cruiser has both one of the roughest starts with a flak that can't hit shit all,
The Advanced Flak is pretty damned accurate actually. You're guaranteed to hit a 4-tile room with it. Even Flak I might miss.
2 laniuses who make inferior boarders to Mantii,
Actually, I think in terms of damage, they're about on par, including the fact that if they get too badly hurt, you beam them away and the crew damage keeps going for a few more seconds. In fact if I had two Mantii on any ship, I'd immediately swap them out for Lanius.
a 2 man teleporter on a 'boarding' ship and a woefully inferior mind control compared to the hacking system.
At least you can counter Mind Control with Mind Control. Hacking uses up a drone and might be shot down.
If anything, the flagship is harder due to the fact you have no hacking system.
Harder? You can steal enemy crew rather than trying to damage their medbay and deal with them that way. I'd say it's a different strategy, not harder. Hacking isn't much of a god if you don't have drone parts. And you'll have plenty of them in the Lanius B because you've been conquering ships rather than trying to spell your name with the Glaive Beam.