Question on Boarding Operations

[Fyron]

Security Stations are quite expensive though, and cost minerals. This will reduce the number of ships the enemy can build, and make it take longer (one of the advantages of organic tech is that resource costs can be balanced between minerals and organics, thus greatly speeding up build times). Self Destruct Devices, on the other hand, are insanely cheap and small... They quite effectively eliminate boarding from being a useful tactic in more than a few isolated circumstances.

[Arkcon]

Of course, a bunch of frigates with boarding parties will overcome a dreadnought's defence, and trigger the auto destruct sequence. A swarm of these sacrafice frigates will inflict some serious carnage on the opposing fleet. IIRC, the latest patch will have boarding ships suicidally board ships with self destruct devices.

[EDIT]

Dang, I'm slow today. But my comment still stands -- research a few levels of boarding parties, put them on your smallest ship, maybe with fighters armed with small shield depleters (shields will start appearing soon), can be a fair tradeoff against big expensive ships.