Ok so some background information here.
Currently I'm trying to spacewalk board a Xenon Q. I'm using wing of 23 Ns to keep the shield down. I can easily fly both my Hyperion and my Phantom in the underside blindspot. Here's where the trouble happens:
Whenever I deploy the marines, either by command or manually, they always get eviserated when they slam into the hull. I can get maybe 16 marines onboard, but the rest are killed mid transit or drooling around in space.
I've tried slowing the damn thing down with hull damage (marines have max in all skills, so hull won't deplete from boarding).
The majority of the problem seems to come from the turning, which is explicitly what I'm using to get the Q stationary so the marine cloud can reach it. As soon as they do they slam into the front or back and explode.
Any tips?
Other than use boarding pods that is...
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If you eject them with either of the 2 commands they shouldn't be a subject to collision damage with target ship... At least not in my experience, I tend to just eject space ninjas right in the targets face, sort of slinghshot them right into the hull and spare myself the traveling time(also main guns tend to be the easiest to avoid and time properly).
Which is why I find your scenario... odd. Got any mods that do anything with marines or boarding? Tried it on a different ship? Different sector?
Which is why I find your scenario... odd. Got any mods that do anything with marines or boarding? Tried it on a different ship? Different sector?
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Doing it in xenon sector 347 after clearing out any nearby hostiles.
No mods, pure vanilla.
I finally managed to get all 21 of them on board at the same time, a combination of sheer luck, slowing it down to 45m/s by hull damage, and using my own hyperion as a shield/distraction to prevent the gun from targeting them.
Now all that remains is to roll the dice several billions of times and pray to the RNG...
No mods, pure vanilla.
I finally managed to get all 21 of them on board at the same time, a combination of sheer luck, slowing it down to 45m/s by hull damage, and using my own hyperion as a shield/distraction to prevent the gun from targeting them.
Now all that remains is to roll the dice several billions of times and pray to the RNG...
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I, too, would not expect collisions to kill marines. But a Q turns pretty fast, and it is going to *shoot* your marines if it can get a turret facing them.
Spacewalking a Q... that's not going to be easy. Especially in a vanilla game.
Xenon capital ships are the toughest in the game to capture. It is hard enough to do with a 30-marine Sirokos and boarding pods, let alone trying to spacewalk from a TP.
You can have 40 marines on that TP. You're gonna need most of them if they are spacewalking rather than using fast-moving boarding pods.
Of course, if you are trying to challenge yourself, then go for it.
Spacewalking a Q... that's not going to be easy. Especially in a vanilla game.
Xenon capital ships are the toughest in the game to capture. It is hard enough to do with a 30-marine Sirokos and boarding pods, let alone trying to spacewalk from a TP.
You can have 40 marines on that TP. You're gonna need most of them if they are spacewalking rather than using fast-moving boarding pods.
Of course, if you are trying to challenge yourself, then go for it.
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Is it at all possible to capture a xenon capital keeping 21 marines start to finish, or is it a certanty that I'll lose some during boarding? I'm willing to re-roll the dice as many times as it takes, but only if actually possible.
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Possible but extremely unlikely.Nehlis wrote: only if actually possible.
Better you than me.Nehlis wrote: I'm willing to re-roll the dice as many times as it takes
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So ive managed to cap the damn thing losing 5 marines in the process. Is it worth it or should I just reroll?
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In my experience, five is on the low end of average. So I would call that a "win" and move on. Nice job.
But it's your game.
But it's your game.
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Sounds like sagely advice I'll take it.DrBullwinkle wrote:In my experience, five is on the low end of average. So I would call that a "win" and move on. Nice job.
But it's your game.
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