Ok, I built a ship with alot of boarding parties...

[Ward]

I didn't explain myself clear enough. I meant that if you are genetically a good soldier with proficiency in hand-to-hand combat(and the percent of ground combat should reflect this) you should also have advantage against weaker foes wherever you choose. Would it be ship, battlegroud, city or anywhere else. Of course you have to recieve a special training but we are talking about boarding parties. These units have surely recieved special training.

[Slick]

Originally posted by QuarianRex:

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Originally posted by Ward:
3. Can you override AI to try to capture enemy ship even when it has self-destruct device? This can be nasty kamikaze tactics.

3. Yes in turn based games. No in simultaneous games.

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Are you positive about this? When I was testing out that racemod of mine I occasionally lost a dreadnought to a lingering SDD. It was very annoying. Granted, I gave all SDD's the doarding defense ability and gave the attackers the a "Boarding Cannon" with 'damage only security station' as a damage type. Perhaps that had something to do with it, perhaps not.

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The only way to be positive is to get word from MM, which I haven't pursued on this issue. However, I was speaking about the unmodded game, so if you modded components, I can't speak for that.

But from personal experience and from several reports from others, I can say that this has been the case and I haven't seen anything to disprove it. It's not really logical to say that "something doesn't happen because I haven't seen it happen".

There are some good AI's out there that use boarding parties. Maybe you could satisfy yourself by testing one of those. Space Vikings is one.

Slick.

[Fyron]

I am fairly certain that boarding ships try not to board ships with SDD in strategic combat. And even if they do, so what? You lost a cheap destroyer, they lost a dreadnought. You come out ahead.