Capping a Boa?

[Bill Huntington]

I've heard that you can cap a TM in TC now, like Boa or Magnetar. Usually they have high morale. But I came across one with Morale of 5. Usually a target with morale of 5 will drop in one try, or two at the most. I tried 8 reloads on this one, and he did not drop, either at the first bail check or after the necessary delay. I took 8 of them all the way to 0. No bail. I wanted this one, and my Split rep was way down at the moment.

Has anyone capped a TM in TC? Is something special going on?

Thanks.

[pjknibbs]

The only way to capture a TM is using marines--I don't know where you heard that they bail, because they don't.

[Alan Phipps]

Capturing TMs by boarding is also a lot less dangerous to your marines now in X3TC as they have fewer decks than they used to when they first appeared in early DVD versions.

[Joe McCracken]

I've found it isn't worth the trouble of trying to cap a TM. If you lose 1 Marine it is cheaper to buy it. So I don't even try to board 'em. Maybe my Marines weren't trained all the way... I just figured it wasn't worth my trouble and time... M7 and up.... Yeah, worth it.... TM... not so much...

My 2 cents...

Oh... if you have NPC bailing they might bail if the settings are set up for it... That's probably were you heard of them bailing.

[Bill Huntington]

Thanks all!

[Jimmy C]

The only time I capped a TM was a Caravel. It was a target of opportunity in Mercenaries Rift. I was testing out M6 capping with Acinonyx and thought, why not add that Caravel to my blueprint collection? It wasn't something I could just buy at the shipyard (not that I would, with its inferior specs)

[terryokc2]

The only time I capped a TM was a Caravel. It was a target of opportunity in Mercenaries Rift. I was testing out M6 capping with Acinonyx and thought, why not add that Caravel to my blueprint collection? It wasn't something I could just buy at the shipyard (not that I would, with its inferior specs)

I'm thinking I capped two Caravel's in my previous TC game, not boarded. I can remember capping, at most, three of the five fighters before capping the TM.

Will be trying again this time around to add at least one to the collection.

Will also see if my memory serves.

[Alan Phipps]

@ terryokc2: "I'm thinking I capped two Caravel's in my previous TC game, not boarded." - not in vanilla you didn't.

[terryokc2]

@ terryokc2: "I'm thinking I capped two Caravel's in my previous TC game, not boarded." - not in vanilla you didn't.

So I am fuzzy, then I must have had my Cobra handy while I worked on its shields. Sorry, it was some time ago.

[Triaxx2]

Even during return ship missions?

But no, TM's don't bail in Vanilla.

Boarding them in TC is a bit of a pain. 6 marines isn't much to work with, but I believe they only have 3 decks to the 4/5 of bigger ships.