What ships does your caping fleet consist of and what weapons do you use?

[ogamerdg]

I been caping for awhile but never did it with any support so ill try it next time and was wondering what you guys use? Some M3 with ID and just spam the ship?

Thanks

[Targ Collective]

Target-dependent.

In theory an M7M is fully capable of solo-capping any ship in the game. Corvettes or Fighters against M2s suffer high attrition rates.
Frigates are easy targets.

TLs, especially unarmed TLs, are easy to cap. This is however an act of war.

[brucewarren]

Do you mean causing small ships to bail or do you mean boarding big ships?
There are two distinct variants of capping.

For forcing M3 and smaller to bail, I have an advanced medusa with PBEs
up front, Plenty shield damage, minimal hull dmage, You just keep firing
and hope he bails. If he doesn't, which for most of the time they won't,
pick another target and try again. ATF small ships never bail.

For boarding - tm,m6,m7,m7m,m1,m2, I am currently using a cobra
with flails, hammers and fighter drones. Delrays guide might be slightly out
of date now that patch 2.5 is out, but still well worth reading

For capping M6 ,tp and TL, I use fighter drones in preference to flails
because, with smaller shields, there is too much risk of miscalculating
and blowing the the target to pieces. If you are brave enough to get in
close, you can also try keeping the shields down by the careful use of
ramming or your rear guns. I have PBEs on the back of my Cobra for this.

Eventually, when the teams are trained up I am going to use a Sirokos with
plenty of Mk2 fighter drones to try to take some Xenon, but this is not
recommended unless you are prepared for the losses because it's been
made worse by the latest patch. In 2.1 it was possible to take a Q with
20 marines. In 2.5 you now need 40 and can expect at least half to die.
I'm not actually sure if Xenon ships are worth capping except for brag
value, they don't really seem all that hot.

[maphys]

Skate Prototype or any other M3+ with IREs in the turrets to deal with missiles, PRGs or PBEs in one group to nail the shields and tickle the hull, HEPTs and EBCs to finish the job when they decide not to bail.

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[ogamerdg]

Just wondering dose anyone use ID's? Never used them presonaly.

[Deadbeat_Spinn]

Currently I have a pair of Threshers outfitted for capping duty (armed with nothing but IPG's for the main and ID's for turrets) but the ships haven't seen action just yet.......the third ship of the group (a Cobra) is being outfitted ATM, it just needs missiles and troops.

[maphys]

[brucewarren]

Deep fried marines anyone?

[Antarus]

I usually only use whatever M6 i'm currently flying, unless it's a special case. To cap a PX I recently had to fry away all its weapons with IonDs (I used a Carrack for that) and than jump into my M6 to drop the marines.

I also made the second and probably last attempt to use boarding pods, but with MARS it's just hopeless. The PX has no weapons and doesn't even move, but those damn goblins still shoot down all pods before they can make contact, even if I'm nearly touching that PX before launching the pods.

[redjay]

I just unlocked the OTAS HCF(Heavy Capture Frigate)(Sirokos) so I loaded up that baby with boarding pods and marines and grabbed my Kraken(also loaded with marines) and used the Kraken to strip shields and ordered my Sirokos to board my target

[Burzumoza]

what annoys me a gazzillion times is that now, after 2.5, they completly nerfed the springy, for the way i used it :/ a 5 man master cap squad is no longer a go, so not realy a point in flying around doing normal combat in a springy anymore (i only used it cauze of what other players in here refeer to as "bull riding" but on any class ship tho.) im struggeling alot with motivation to keep on after 2.5, and i cant reroll to 2.1 cauze of steam. and i think my savegame would been boreked by it anyways. but enough rambling we wer suposed to talk combat fleets.


My plan for my new battle squad, (im still a pirate and i wil never stop beeing one)

4 titans with PPC and/or flaks (not realy sure for this duty now, most likley PPC)
2 Boreas
6 heavy centaur prototpe (asigned to defend the difrent destroyers)
3 m7m (i use squid and teladi ones, as i had those from 2.1)
1 mammot loaded to the brink with pods and flails/hammers at a 3/3/1 ratio)
3 x Argon carriers (in case everything goes to hell in a handbasket) al carrying flaks and fighters (not cheaaaaap)
5 x tigers with IBL
5 x Agamenenom loaded with PSG and flaks
5 x Deimos loaded with PSG and flaks


Personaly il be flying a springy

let me say that this is what i intend to go **** up some xenon sectors with, and basicly is the prime of my combat fleet after lots of pirating in 2.1. sombodey might call this a complete overkill for taking over 1 ship. i do not care however, if he dosent give up he wil die, i wil scour the universe for marines and keep throwing em at stuff along with my base of 40 5 star marines. it should do the trick. why u ask me? cauze im feed up........

Edit : point of it al is to send in 20 noobs to die on as they breeach it and have ur elites stand waiting in the hall, kinda like chess where pawns go first


Evily yours

Burzum

[Mr. Reeves]

I like to flail the **** out of the escorts and nuke everything else including trasport ships, stations, anything that moves, and the nearby planet if i could.

Then I send in a few fighter drones and wear the enemy down to no energy reserves. Then I send in my falcon shield squad armed with 4 PRG and 4 EBC. They have IRE in their turrent for missle defence. I give them mosquitoes and wasp for turrent spoofing. I set the missle fire probability to 20%

Then I get far away in my M7M and create a flail tunnel. The piracy command in 2.5 launches all the neccecery pods at once so this is good.

I have my trusty M6 OTAS issue following me rigged with 8 PRG and EBC in the turrents so he shoots down enemy fighters that are survivors of my initial devastating assult.

away pods! swich flails and spoof turrents. A little hull damage is ok as long as I capture it. After the pods hit I start packing up the fleet. Jumping out my prize first then my carrier with fighters. Then myself with my M6 set to follow.

I want a battleship to follow me becase I would feel better but I have to catch one first. Not wanting to settle for secound best I am eventually going to cap an Oddy M2. And I would like to buy a boreas becase it has great stats.

[oceanmist667]

xenon droppings psp ppc faa gc cig pbe maml cfa empc ire etc
i don t buy weapons......very often

[Apollo303]

For capping i use the following ships and equipment ;-

Red Wing (shield suppression) :

6x Nova Vanguards - Ion Disrupters (main guns), IRE`s (turrets), fully tuned and rudderised.

2x Scabbard`s - EMP`s (turret), 10x 5* marines.

Agamemnon (personal ship) - HEPT`s (main guns), FAA`s & FBL`s (turrets), 5x 5* marines plus boarding pod.

Nova`s keep the shields down, scabbard`s run the guys in and in failing those i can personally fire off a pod with some guys in just for added support and/or plugging the gaps.

[Mr. Reeves]

Why not use a Nova Raider from Omecron Lyree? It is faster, equally well shielded and less expensive than the Nova Vanguard. Also I have dared not to use anything other than the Eclipse or the Falcon after hearing stories of sudden death caused by auto pilok. Albeit i havn't had any problem besides the ocational freighter trying to go through my mammoth out of the gate and exploding. Also had something big hit me today and took my hull down to 40%. Anyways back on topic. What are the advantages in your opinon of the Nova over the Falcon? What made you chose that ship for shield clobbering?