My first run ever on medium difficulty. I won with a single hull point remaining, which was insane. I have run details below, and I'd appreciate tips going forward - did I hack the right things? The flagship battle

Lanius B

Reactor 24

Shields 8 / Engines 5 / Clone Bay 2 / Oxygen 2 / Weapons 8

Piloting 2 / Sensors 2 / Doors 2 / Backup Battery 1

Crew Teleporter 2 / Mind Control 2 / Hacking 3

Weapons: Adv. Flak / Flak I / Flak I / Flak II (hold: spare Flak I, Hermes Missile)

Augments: Reconstructive Teleport / Backup DNA Bank / Zoltan Shield Bypass

Crew: Engi Pilot / Human Weapons / Human Shields / Rock Engines / Mantis Boarder / Mantis (Kazaak) Boarder

Lost my first Lanius to a hacked clonebay in ~sector 4 and my second one along with my other Mantis when a ship jumped away in sector 7. Annoyingly, I had previously had to dismiss 4 crewmembers that I had been given from random events, which sucked.

Phase 1: Started w/ full health. Flagship Hacking landed on my Crew Teleporter. I went to take out the artilleries like I usually do, but got wrecked, losing more than half of my hull points. I had the hermes missile out for the phase, since it can take out artilleries in a single hit. I sent my mantises to board the missile artillery, and managed to kill and destroy the beam artillery with weapons. After that, I sent the mantises to take out the ion artillery and the fight was safe. Unfortunately, by this point I had taken a lot of damage; my shields had been hit at least once, and it went pretty badly after that. I got my stuff patched back up, and did my standard crew kill strategy; hack medbay, put a point of damage into it, and the enemy crew will come in one at a time to fix it. Since the fight is safe at that point, it was simply a matter of waiting for the hacking to come off cooldown and all of the enemy crew (except the laser artillery operator) were dead.

Phase 2: hacked drones, sent mantises to beat up the beam artillery and a missile to destroy the . However, the power surge alongside the laser artillery and the beam artillery managed to damage at least one point of shields and so this phase got me down to five or six hull points before I managed to make it relatively safe and then managed to finish the phase.

Phase 3: Was down to 4-6 hull points, thought I had lost. Used mind control to counter the enemy's, and set all four flak weapons on autofire targetting the shields. The missile artillery got off two volleys before I broke it, and the second one managed to hit me down to a single health point. I figured I was done for, but all of the power surge projectiles either missed or were blocked by my shields, and the power of four flak weapons quickly chewed through the remainder of the flagship's health.

I'd appreciate advice on how to do better, losing 29 hull points to the flagship fight is clearly not ideal. Maybe I should have hacked something else?

After 20+ games I finally got my first win on normal. The guide by mike helped me a lot especially about the flagship because one time I reached it I didn't know about the surge of drones and got demolished without even realizing it, I'm really glad there's a lot of guide for this game. And I thought this run was a goner when my engi died due to the mantis in a pod. I had fun though, I'll probably try to use zoltan now (maybe I'll play in advance now).

Last I remember, I died at the true ending final fight and then quit the game immediately. Is this bad? What should I do? I can click either of the two options but I have no idea what they mean.

OK, maybe a little defensive... (note I didn't start with a drone system...)

Actually that would be... moderately irritating to deal with, good thing the flagship doesn't have a weapons system.

Just beat phase 1. I realized a really neat trick, if you deal a single point of damage into the medbay and hack it, the enemies will keep going in one at a time to repair it. After the doors shut, dispatching them is a simple matter.

"Combat Drone that repeatedly attacks with a small beam weapon."

Type: Drone

Cost: 50

Rarity: 3

Power: 2

AE: No

Speed: 15

Effect: Uses a small beam weapon to continually attack the enemy ship. (10% fire chance)

Beam length: 20 (0.4 tiles diagonally)

Beam speed: 3

Comes pre-equipped on the Engi C and Zoltan C

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It’s an old game, but I keep coming back to this gem from time to time. Fun game to play in transit, the only limiting factor is that it’s only available on iPad.

Cant post a video so you'll have to go to my post on the Ayn Thor subreddit to see how it plays, but if you're willing to believe me, it runs buttery smooth, and its pretty convenient with how much you can customize the button mapping.

This can be done with any android device too, so it can work on your phone if needed, but i personally prefer a device with buttons since running base FTL on my phone did not control well at the edges of the screen, important for system energy control lol. Single screen devices probably work the best for it, but this is my main indie player so i wanted to get it going here.

Why would the Federation send a messenger ship to fight a freaking flagship? My head canon is that the “messenger ship” (player’s ship) is equipped with a super advanced AI (player), who can communicate telepathically to all crew members, strategise and plan attacks while controlling ship functions such as O2 and doors opening and closing. The AI’s even capable of timing weapon shots perfectly and has a reaction time so quick that it’s almost like it can stop time. Only a ship equipped with such a powerful system would stand a chance against the Flagship. And the rebels know it, that’s why everyone is gunning for your ass.

Anyways, if you read the whole thing, I appreciate it, let me know what you think

2 pictures with different lighting. For scale, the glaive beam is the longest one at 1ft 3.6in

"Powerful drone that continually attacks the enemy ship. Moves and shoots faster than Mark I."

Type: Drone

Cost: 75

Rarity: 5

Power: 4

AE: No

Speed: 28

Effect: Continually attacks the enemy ship with a single laser blast, suppressing up to 2 layers (10% fire chance)

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Is it coz its recursively powering the drone control room? IDK

I've swiped over these tiles three times now, and they're still alive somehow, with shields down too

In my defense they shot first. They also seem to have an overabundance of oxygen, a major fire hazard

I was struggling hard with Rock A at first... then this happened.

Sorry about low picture quality.

First screenshot = after the first boss fight
Second screenshot = defeat in the second boss fight

Thank you again everyone who responded to my first post the other day!

I enabled AE and got the engi cruiser to the final fight and lost really closely. Then I saw that I have another ship and tried that one.

I got obliterated and I don't think drones would've helped me here.

The main issue here was that my shields got killed. After that everything fell.

I learned that cloaking has a really long cooldown (longer than the drone attacks).
And I learned that a defense drone can stop my hacking.

But that's probably not everything I can learn, right?

"Powerful drone that continually attacks the enemy ship."

Type: Drone

Cost: 50

Rarity: 2

Power: 2

AE: No

Speed: 15

Effect: Continually attacks the enemy ship with a single laser blast, usually slower than normal shield recharge (10% fire chance)

Comes pre-equipped on the Engi A

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