Reconstructive teleport and shield bypass augment can really make your boarding crew your ultimate weapon. Bomb are a nice addition to suppress weapon or med bay that can cause trouble, have a least some weapon that can takes care of the zoltan shield and to finish those AI ship without sending a boarding drone. Mid-Late game: You should rise your engine and piloting, grab some decent crew, mantis and rock for the teleporter and other to man your ship. For Zoltan sheild you really need to get weapon to remove the shield or use a zoltan shield bypass augment. AI system will slowly repair and your drone will takes them down and give the final blow. Repeat until the ship has one bar and send the boarding drone then.
However you can get the teleport level 2 and jump your crew on the ship, the teleporter should recharge before your crew health is down to 0. Taking AI ship them on with boarding drones are impractical and not worth it early on, unless it is the AI variant with doors linking the 5 rooms. The main issues are AI ship and zoltan-shielded ship. It’s unlikely that many enemies early on will be able to pierce your shield and you can always pop a defense drone vs a ship with missiles weapon. once you get enough member you can board a whole ship with 4 crew.Įarly game : This ship start with 2 shields and a defense drone, but has no weapon, the piloting and engines only have one bar. This ship start with something really awesome, a four man crew teleporter. Unlock Earning two of the three Mantis Cruiser achievements will unlock Layout B. Mind control can be cool too, adding an extra crew fighting for you, hacking can be useful too, disable weapon or hack the med bay which will reverse the effect of the medbay. Drone can be a great add too to minimize damage to your ship via defense drone or to send boarding drone with your boarding crew. You can good offensive weapon in case you’re face with rebel trying to run away, AI ship with too much shield. Most bombs are great addition to this ship, ion weapon too to take down annoying subsystem. In other case weapon are a great target since it will prevent the enemies from damaging you. The small bomb can be quite useful to take out the med bay, clonebay or piloting if they are trying to run. AI ship can be take out with a small bomb on the shield and basic laser to finish the job, Zoltan supershield can be taken down by the basic laser and then precede has normal. This ship is quite a force to recon with, 3 mantis with a teleporter at the beginnings make taking out most ship with boarding easy for the first few sector, giving you extra scrap to later buy weapon to compliment this ship strength. You can buy a Sensor system in a store or try to grab a slug crew since they detect life form that are on the other ship. The Mantis Cruiser layout An is one of the few ships that have no starting Sensors on board, which can be annoying when boarding since you don’t see what is in the other ship.
Slots: 3 Weapon, 2 Drone (requires system).Alternatively, defeat The Rebel Flagship with the Zoltan Cruiser.
Unlock See Legendary Thief KazaaakplethKilik random event. Unmanned ship might be a problem, but remember that with a level 2 teleport the teleport will be up just in time before your border die of asphyxia. The Mantis Cruiser follow the same theme has the race that designed it, an efficient boarding ship (specially the layout B and C with 4 boarder teleport) that tend to lack fire power at the beginning.
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