Would the AI recognize a self-destruct device?

[geoschmo]

I haven't tried it myself so I can't say for sure, but from what I have read here, people have the best luck with putting regular weapons on the boarding ships too. That keeps them close enough to get to the ship when the shields go down.

Also, I don't think the ai is smart enough to avoid ships with self destruct. I say this from experience playing the ai when they were trying to board my ships that had SDD's.

Geoschmo