You're right, they don't want you to have the cloak with the Federation Cruiser.

Game balance considerations probably.

I think anti-ship drones are more useful to either thrash some stuff in a hurry for the second or two you have their shields down or to complement a really fast weapon (ex: the ion beam that recharges in like 4 seconds) that constantly batters at their shields rather than do it in a single shot.

But yeah, I'm more partial to the defense or repair drones myself.

Sounds good. I'll have to try that.

Starting with a glaive beam would definitely make the stealth ship more palatable (less dependant on luck to get a decent gun combo for a 3 sloted ship).

The AI has been very stupid that way. They don't often target the medbay prior to an invasion (if they do, it's a random choice I think).

The medbay is the first thing I target before I board and I teleport my team inside the medbay.

Yeah, doing a crew battle in the middle of a ship battle is annoying, but it is so for any races, not just the Zoltan.

When my cloak is charged and I'm in the middle of a crew battle, I tend to hit it ASAP to get me a couple of seconds to resolve the crew fight inside the ship.


Zoltan shield + cloak gives them a lot of delays to board.

First, they need to take down your Zoltan shields before they can board and then, you cloak, buying you an extra 15 seconds.

That gives you enough time to target their weapon systems AND their teleport pad.

If you don't think you'll make it despite that, you can always pre-de-oxygen certain areas of your ship in anticipation.

Also, if their board your engine room, you can always send a patsy or two to keep them occupied while the surrounding area de-oxygens itself.

They don't need to win the battle, just keep them occupied for a few secs for you to set the deathtrap terrain and then bail behind blast reinforced doors.

It does require more micro, but then, it's not a problem with the pause button.

That being said, getting a fight capable crew (ideally rocks or manthises, but even slugs or hummies are an improvement at the beginning) is a priority as it makes handling boarding situation even easier (if you can just overpower them and don't need to de-oxygen anything, it's even better).

Then, you can use the patsies (whoever happens to be working in adjacent rooms really) to hold off the boarding crew until the cavalry arrives :P.

I just found Red Tail and I love it :) It has multiracial crew (more than engi ship A), great design (amaizing venting ability :) ), and easy to start weapons. And i like colors :)
With my first run I ALMOST kill the boss (and I never did it before - even the first part..) !!! :)

Ha! I'm a hidden rebeliant and won almost all of my games (by not deliver important informations, hahha :D ).

By the way, usually I am on the rebels site and in this game, we don't know for sure, why rebels started to fight against federation. Maybe in the future we will know more about it and we find ourselves on the wrong site?

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