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[Darkmere]

So I've been fooling around with ships I hate and remembering why I hate them (usually blandness or poor starting conditions), when I picked up a Fire Bomb on Lanius A. The next sector was Mantis vs Rock... I'd never actually thought of exploiting mantis' pitiful fire extinguishing rate to take them down. Also had an explosives replicator... that was frighteningly effective as long as they had no engi slaves. Flagship kicked my ass twice, though.

[vagel7]

After clocking 41 hours with this game, I finally beat the boss on easy with Lanius B. I had a flak II, Pegasus missile and ion charge I believe and of course 2 lanius for boarding. Damn this was satisfying.

[penguinofhonor]

I've played this twice and lost. The first time I made it into the third sector I think, and the second time I made it into the fifth. I will overcome.

[Darkmere]

I've played this twice and lost. The first time I made it into the third sector I think, and the second time I made it into the fifth. I will overcome.

It may help to play non-advanced for a while. Without all the extra stuff you can actually have a decent run unless the RNG specifically decides to kill you early. With advanced, you're basically screwed unless the RNG specifically decides to hand you a win.

[penguinofhonor]

I haven't been playing Advanced.

[Leafsnail]

I think Advanced might actually be easier once you get good at it.  There are more things being sold in shops, and it's easier to get a viable build together due to hacking and flak.

[EnigmaticHat]

So, you guys ever have those runs where you lose when you really deserved to win?  Well, I just had the opposite.

I'm in sector 8 on hard mode, go to rebel stronghold because a certain battle most of us know about is a goldmine of scrap (as well as being one of the more awesome events).  I get to said encounter, only to discover that my door controls are destroyed from a previous battle.  Still won the game, but... wow, WTF me.  It actually hurt too, I only had five crew, no MC, and one of those windup builds that kills anything but can't disable quickly.

[penguinofhonor]

I beat the game on easy! The federation cruiser is like double easy mode. I love that laser.

[Arx]

I beat the game on easy! The federation cruiser is like double easy mode. I love that laser.

+1

I just did too! 

51% evade and Lvl 4 shields made up for the fact that I didn't have a cloak. Took no damage from either of the boss's supers. For the first time, I had a bomb weapon, which allowed me to send crew scurrying with my two mantis boarders and then use careful bomb deployment to blast them on their way to the medbay. The phalluslaser was quite handy for the second stage, which I just wanted to kill ASAP (due to aforementioned lack of cloak).

I also saw a three projectile pile-up thanks to a Defense I and a trigger-happy enemy. The Defense drone sniped the enemy's missile at the same time as a heavy laser, also from the enemy. I saw a flash and couldn't work out where the salvo had gone until I put one, one and one together.

[penguinofhonor]

The secret to victory for me was pausing and thinking out my actions frequently. I always lost to the flagship because I couldn't juggle the fifteen things going on at once.

[Trapezohedron]

I swear Phalluslaser + Cloak LVL 3 + Shields LVL4 + Engines MAXED = easymodo

Even without good weapons, you can crush your foes with your beam alone.

[Rolan7]

General opinion is that maxing engines is very scrap inefficient, because the later upgrades are super expensive for not much more benefit.  Particularly with a cloak, which makes more than 40% (?) evade mostly pointless.

But the general opinion is that the siege laser sucks, which I can't agree with at all 
It might be too slow for optimal play, I dunno, but it's really fun once in a while.  I use it on normal all the time.

[Trapezohedron]

True. In most cases, I just leave engines at six, and usually buy enough power for 4-5 bars, boosting it to six whenever necessary.

[Jim Groovester]

The Artillery Beam is good in the late game but horrible in the early game, since it's so expensive to upgrade and slow and does unreliable damage. Also, AE added in a bunch of additional enemy ship layouts that aren't quite as favorable to the random targeting the Artillery Beam does.

[Arx]

General opinion is that maxing engines is very scrap inefficient, because the later upgrades are super expensive for not much more benefit.  Particularly with a cloak, which makes more than 40% (?) evade mostly pointless.

I only had so much evasion because I picked up two Scrap Recovery arms early game. It was amazing.