Mercy! I beg of you!

[xargon666]

Just encountered a 4 man boarding party... of Zoltan. I was flying Rock Cruiser B

I guess the game isn't all bad luck! What's the easiest encounter you've ever had?

[agigabyte]

Using my fed strike corvette, I um... Well, any encounter I won with my fed strike corvette, as you either take them out with one volley, or die.

[5thHorseman]

I was recently boarded by 2 engi. I had L2 scanners so I watched them run to the teleporter and then come over. I laughed out loud.

[Kieve]

A recent run with the Zoltan A netted me two Halberd beams, a Burst II, and a Pre-igniter (plus cloaking).

Pretty much every battle after sector 4 went as follows:

1. Burst-L 2 drops shields
2. Halberds carve ship into tiny bits.
3. Not dead? Cloak III and wait for all weapons to charge, while enemy crew pisses themselves in fear.
4. Cloak ends: repeat Step 1-2. Watch the pretty pretty explosions.

...The flagship lasted marginally longer, due to switching out one of the Halberds for a second pew-pew gun. By that time, a single Burst 2 wasn't cutting it.

[leopardenthusiast]

In a run with the Red-Tail, which I am still doing but have saved because I needed a break, I got my grubby little hands on a Fire Beam. After running around to get enough scrap to buy it, and then running around to get enough scrap to power it, I have simply been taking down shields with one or two of my Basic Lasers and setting everything on fire. This is hilariously effective and has taken down every ship I've encountered since without destroying it.

update: I later got a Burst Laser I and Heavy Laser II, alongside two Automated Re-Loaders. Using these, I breezed my way to the flagship, incinerating everything in my way, took down its first stage, and promptly died horribly to its drone swarm.

[LawGiver]

In a run with the Kestrel (remember that old thing), I picked up a few mantis and put them in my oxygen room. I then encountered a ship with 3 zoltans, a human, and a two person teleporter. A human and a zoltan teleported onto my ship... in the oxygen room. Let's just say they did not have a fun time.

[wolfboyft]

Let's just say they did not have a fun time.

Brrr......

[leopardenthusiast]

I recently saw a single Mantis boarder teleport into the room containing my Mantis Anti-Boarding Team (two Mantises).

This room was the Medbay.

He did not teleport back out.

[obliviondoll]

Random boarding event.

2 Zoltan appeared in the airlock.

I had doors 3.

[Gecimen]

I suffered the same pain with OP, only with crystal B instead.