Sneaky Boss [spoiler]

[temporal]

I came SO close to beating the game with the Taurus yesterday.

I had a pretty sexy build:
2 Ions
1 Breach Missile
2 Anti-Ship Drones
1 Defense Drone

Shields upgraded to 3

Shield Recharge upgrade
Drone recovery arm
Weapon reloader

And 7 very experienced crew members


I still wasn't sure if I had enough to kill the boss, so I spent some time flying around the last map gathering supplies, got some sorely needed missiles.

I then intercepted the boss right before he got to the base.

After an epic fight I had him down to one or two hull. His shields were on fire and I was about to hit him with a breach missile...

And he FTL's out! To my base, which was 1 jump away!!!
GAME OVER!

Next time I will be sure to get his engines/cockpit down before going in for the kill. Agh!

[kshh]

This might be a ***SPOILER*** but:
Are you sure you had the boss almost beaten? Was it the third stage? It's hardcoded to teleport away two times before you can finnish it finally, and I don't think taking down the bridge will prevent that from happening.

[kshh]

***SPOILER***
Interesting though that it FTL'ed to your base... since it FTLs away two times for certain, that puts a new perspective on things and makes me realize there's even less time to intercept the boss on the final sector because if you only catch it 2 nodes away you pretty much lost and can go ahead and reroll.

[Gorlom]

After an epic fight I had him down to one or two hull. His shields were on fire and I was about to hit him with a breach missile...

And he FTL's out! To my base, which was 1 jump away!!!
GAME OVER!

Next time I will be sure to get his engines/cockpit down before going in for the kill. Agh!

That won't work.

[spoiler]Its a 3 part fight and the rebel boss ship will always jump away. It didn't have 1 hull left you actually killed it. It will lose its left segment, jump away and gain a new ability. The rebel ship will jump away even if you destroy the engines.[/spoiler]

hmm spoiler tags doesn't work on this forum...

[temporal]

Hmm so I have to engage him sufficiently far out from the base, that is really good to know.

[VladePsyker]

seems the flag ship will use its warpout tog et closer to your base so if you haven't hit it at least 3 jumps from your base then you've already lost , which kinda sucks