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[Fyron]

You can fill the saved space with Security Stations, but that's all MCs will help againt boarding parties.

I think he was refering to Boarding Parties and/or Allegience Subverters. It should say "use MCs if the enemy is using Allegience subverters" and not just "use MCs".

[Stone Mill]

No... That section is just for boarding parties. If MCs don't stop boarding parties, Ruatha is right, it should be deleted.

I didn't think that they do, but at the time was writing this, I seemed to remember in an older thread that they may... but I guess I was tired.

I will delete it.

[Slick]

Actually, having a MC is worse than without, since Crew Quarters count toward defense against boarding parties while MC's do not.

Slick.

[tesco samoa]

Hi Stone Mill...

For the Religous Types...

I have found that point blank / ram with target nearest / nearest / nearest / nearest works the best. And Send in your best DF ships.

Tested in Games against Talisman fleets.

Cause if you hang back and cannot hit him. His fleets sit back and destroy your fleet and gain experience at the same time. A lose lose situation.

Ed had mentioned it earlier. I wished to follow it up.

[Fyron]

The boarding defense of CQ is not very much. 2 boarding party Is can take over all but the largest of ships. 3 BPs can take over any ship unless the ship has extra CQs on it. Or maybe it is 4, I don't remember exactly.

[Slick]

The numbers are already in the FAQ:

6.4.5 Each crew quarter’s component counts as 16 defense against Boarding Parties.
6.4.6 Each boarding party is worth 25% guys if used as a defender.

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6.4.9 Boarding Party 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 = 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 guys respectively. Security Station 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 = 60, 100, 140, 180, 220 turrets respectively. Any BP or SS takes up 20kt space. Boarding is successful if the boarding parties are greater than the effective number of defenders (Security Stations turrets + 25% of boarding parties on the defending ship used as defenders + 16 for every undestroyed Crew Quarters)

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The MC counts as zero defense against boarding.

Slick.

[Krsqk]

Remember, also, that the actual ability value numbers are 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 for BP I-V. They just multiply them by 4 in the description. So, a single CQ has a built-in boarding defense value of 4. IIRC, explicitly assigning a Boarding Defense ability to it stacks with the built-in ability.