Possible spoilers if you've never been to sector 8: Don't forget that you can pause the game with the space bar, so if you think getting your crew back on board is going to be a close call, pausing and unpausing to slow the game down may help you slice the timing razor-thin. On the other hand, getting into an engagement and realizing they have no medbay pretty much means I've got a win locked down.Īs you've noticed, Rock and Mantis crewmembers are the best to send as boarders. If they've got significant crew, especially a lot of mantises, I may give up trying to win by wiping them out. Some ships are particularly bad for trying to board, however. Trying to get the timing right for lasers (to reduce shields) + beams (to do damage) is also kind of tricky if you're also monitoring a boarding party.Īlso, it helps if you've got a couple of teams of boarders - while you're healing the first squad, send the second squad in to keep the pressure up. I do believe that firing on the rooms where your boarders are will hurt them as well as the enemy, so I tend to avoid this. Fire bombs and subsystem bombs are the best for this sort of attack. That way, I can finish off heavily wounded crewmembers while disabling their ability to heal. Once I've hurt one or more of their crewmembers, I'll target the medbay with missiles or bombs. Meanwhile, I'll target whatever critical system I choose (usually weapons, shields, drones, or engines) with my laser weaponry. If they don't respond, then I've pretty much sealed their death quickly. When boarding, I tend to aim for the Oxygen subsystem room - it's typically small, and critical enough that I will quickly attract attention.
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