Boarding Parties

[Possum]

Fer,

hey, bro

Another thing that helps, is to make sure you design the ship as part of the class "Boarding Ship", rather than "Attack Ship"

[Alpha Kodiak]

Ok, I've tried everything I can think of, and I can't get boarding parties to work in strategic combat. According to the earlier Posts in this thread, the secret is to use a normal attack strategy as primary and boarding as secondary.

I've tried point-blank, optimal and maximum range strategies, and in all cases, my ship keeps attacking until the enemy is destroyed. In the simulator, I have tried all of them against both attack ships and colonizers, to no avail.

The only time, I succeeded in capturing a ship was when I had boarding as the primary strategy. My ship went into a corner and the other ship chased it. It just happened to end its move adjacent to my ship, and my ship boarded it.

Has anyone succeeded in getting the boarding to work under SEIV v1.41 with TDM Modpack 1.75? I just want to make sure that boarding didn't stop working under the latest Version before I drive myself completely sane trying to figure this out.

[Suicide Junkie]

Did you put a weapon on your boarding ship?

Use something like a meson bLaster, or the TDB, but it must be able to do damage to the hull of a ship.

PDC, shield depleters, won't work.

[Alpha Kodiak]

I tried a couple of designs. My operational design is a BC with 3x time distortion bursts and 1x tachyon cannon, plus 2x boarding parties. In the simulator, I also tried a simpler approach with a destroyer fitted with one meson bLaster and one boarding party. They are both boarding ships rather than attack ships (although I created a copy of the BC that was an attack ship and tried that in the simulator - same results).

[tesco samoa]

You should attack my ships they attract boarding parties like flies to stuff.

This is a good thread. I am learning about the boarding parties in a very painfull way.

Thanks for all the info

[capnq]

Have you experimented with the other strategy settings besides Movement? I'd imagine Firing, Damage, and Formation could all affect the boarding ship's behavior. I've yet to attempt a ship capture in simultaneous myself, so I don't have any concrete advice, but those are the areas I've experimented with in trying to capture planets.

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[Alpha Kodiak]

I've created a save game from a full tech start with a couple of ship designs, one called Boarder and one called Target. I have tried all kinds of options under strategies to no avail, so I'm wondering if someone could look at what I've got set up and see if they can get the boarding operation to work.

The set up should be pretty straight forward. In the simulator, put the Boarder ship on the human controlled side and the Target ship on the computer controlled side. The let it fly, so to speak.

Somebody please tell me that I'm just missing some stupid detail, because this is driving me totally sane at this point.