Space Combat - Observations and Questions (Aaron/Richard take note)

[Tomgs]

The best way I have found to make this work is put weapons and heavy shields or armor on your boarding ships and let them fight with the rest. Another way used fairly often is have all larger warships carry boarding parties. That way your ships don't run to the corner and let the opponents ship die before they can get to the battle.

[Tampa_Gamer]

I also found that to make boarding ships work for the AI, you must reverse the current "movement types" so that board enemy ship is second. This way, they will attack (like you said) until the shields are down, then board. If you arm it with shield depleters, playtesting has revealed that it works rather nicely. Now if only the new patch will allow the AI to add these ships to their fleets

[Baron Munchausen]

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Originally posted by Tampa_Gamer:
I also found that to make boarding ships work for the AI, you must reverse the current "movement types" so that board enemy ship is second. This way, they will attack (like you said) until the shields are down, then board. If you arm it with shield depleters, playtesting has revealed that it works rather nicely. Now if only the new patch will allow the AI to add these ships to their fleets

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Bingo! Now change the Borg to research ship capture and add boarding ships to their construction queue. Lots of them. You will be assimilated!!! I wonder if they will be smart enough to analyze anything they capture when it has unknown techs...