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A series of fortunate events

here's an overview, of course this probably won't help anyone else since there really no way to replicate with the lovely randomness of this game

Using Engi circle ship, manage to get 3 mantis crew combined with remote healing made dealing with boarders very easy.

didn't do so well on weapons laser beam I (2 x 1dmg) 2power and II (3x1dmg) 2 power and a Hull Bomb (3dmg plus high breech) 2 power.

was very conservative with missles and drones until I got augment drone arm and then I used drones heavily ending up with 2 anti-ship drone I, and 1 defender drone I.

went into sector 10 with around 30 missles and 28 drones and 15 fuel
cloak 3
teleport 1
engines 5
shield 6
heal 2
O2 2
drones 6
sensors 2
helm 1
doors 1

basically cloak, wait for breech bomb, throw 2 drones and breech bomb at shields, let the bomb go off followup with 5 shots from the two lasers, then another laser volley and hopefully shields 1 or below so drones start picking it apart, breech bomb to take out the triple missle or kill a bunch of crew in shield room.

round 2
same plan, got lucky the drone swarm was nearly 100% beam drones and couldn't crack my shield which went down just before they vanished *phew*. breech went on drone system after shields were low

round 3
NO cloak, send out 2 drones to take out that hard shield, 1 volley from lasers and then breech bomb the shield and then more lasers and breech on shield. super weapon goes off CLOAK ! MISSsssssssss smiles all round. keep hitting shields getting the upper hand going to win ... oh no super weapon again, cloak still in cooldown 2 only 11 hull left , plz plz plz goes off I breech bomb last remaining weapon port , my hull is shredded but holds (3 hull left) fires everywhere BUT BOOM down she goes ,

Score 4108 ,

not bad for a run through trying to unlock mantis cruiser which can't for the life of me do

Congrats! Almost got him on easy, with Mark I defense- and offense drones, lvl 3 shields and lvl 3 cloak. Sadly, i only had the standard laser, a Mark I Heavy laser and a Large missilethingy (3 energy cost). During the drone phase i got owned, as my only usable weapon was the missile, and he had a defense drone

Wow! Well done. Heart must have been pounding at the end! If you are interested in the mantis thief cruiser, check out this post. And add your two cents about what you have tried. WARNING SPOILERS ABOUND!

http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=426

I just made it to stage three of that fight... Never had so many missiles miss! Left him with two hull and ran out of missiles!!! Couldn't believe it! Very intense and I'm kind of frustrated I couldnt get 1 more stupid missile to land! Oh well, I'm sure eventually I will get another run that good

Just beat the damn thing myself.

First round I pretty much owned it, taking minimal damage. Second round I got beat down to around 30% and had to make a beeline for repairs. Third round took about 50% damage.

Had the improved plating, reloader, and ion improvements.

Yeah, I found that the second phase was a lot harder than the third. Those damn drones!

Just gonna get on the bragging train, I also beat the boss on normal the second time I got to him :] Of course, I was very, very lucky.

I had a very good run and was able to stay fueled up enough through drops and shops that I could stay just ahead of the rebel fleet and get as many encounters as possible. Also got a scrap recovery arm by sector 3 or so, which helped immensely (IMO, if you see it in a shop and you don't have the scrap it's worth getting some encounters and backtracking to the shop to pick it up if you have the time). Weapons of choice were burst lasers (picked up another mk2 for free) and heavy lasers (had to buy a mk2).

My build:







!!!HEAVY SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!!!







What TenLetters said in this message (http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic. ... t=10#p2051) is right, the most important thing is to take out the missiles regardless what phase the boss is in. If you can't, then cloaking is the next best thing especially in phase three with the burst of teleporting heavy lasers.


Eat that, rebellion scum!


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lasers and bombs , lasers and missles I'm sensing a theme here

actually my next challenge is taking out the boss with at least 1 beam weapon