Asgard "liberation" request.

[darrund]

Anyone has seen any of these frequently flying somewhere,?
I am kind of bored building ships and prefer hmm borrowing them.
Honestly I really miss M7m boarding action and I always managed to cap my targets at 100% hull integrity and I also miss my all trained to 5* marines.

[jlehtone]

TER Intervention Corps seem to regularly sail out.
One such fleet has Tokyo and 30+ fighters. The other has about Asgard, 2 Osaka, 12 Falx, 24 fighters.

Where do they sail? Towards Xenon.
* South (Getsu, Void, Edge, Atiya)
* East (... Second, Argon Prime ... Tharka, 97B)
* SE (... Second, True, Holy, ?)

Can you imagine two Asgards side by side, like sailing ships in Pirates of Caribbean movies?
I almost expected hooks to fly and Marines to swing over.
Alas, the captain* of Asgard does a move that is not in my book and pods launch from longer distance.

This was a good board; TER Asgard had 267 crew. 70 of them were Veteran Marines (and then some recruits).
Lost 3 Elites, over 90 Veterans and 30+ noobs (of the force of 360 Marines, including 15 Elites).

Yes, I tend to intervene interventions ...

* To be fair the poor former engineer was given the post and one seminar just couple hours earlier.

[al_dude]

Yeah, I see TER Intervention Corps with an Asgard all the time in outer regions. I think I've seen more than 10 in numerous locations.

[darrund]

Thanks guys later today I will get (hopefully) my 1st Asgard I only have 5 elite and around 120 veterans so the rest will have to be recruits.
On another note it seems that after 4.0 hiring became harder and I find less than average new pilots and marines. Is it just my idea or you are also experiencing the same?

[jlehtone]

Thanks guys later today I will get (hopefully) my 1st Asgard I only have 5 elite and around 120 veterans so the rest will have to be recruits.
On another note it seems that after 4.0 hiring became harder and I find less than average new pilots and marines. Is it just my idea or you are also experiencing the same?

I don't like going to stations. Skilled staff was rare even before and does tend to max at two stars. Haven't noticed quantifiable change.

Pre-4.0 characters on stations were usually anything but the race of the station. On 4.0 they seem to be mainly of the race of the station. Not sure if even that change is real or just random.

With marines, I just upgrade a ship with marines and dock/yard. Hiring 360 marines to Asgard from Split did yield tens of (barely) Veterans. I take the Veterans and sell the Recruits back. Then I can hire an another big batch ... until the yard runs out of staff. It is lottery, but faster than the running around lottery.

[soladept]

if you havent get Sat survelliance up on every gate and accellerator, then set up an alert to get notifications when your assets spot an XL fighting TER ship, customise the sector selections to remove everything in Sol, PIO space and Getsu Fune, this will give you alerts on the roaming Tokyos and Asgards. this can be done in the global alerts menu in your personal information menu

[JodMcJod]

On a new save with no mods I saw an Asgard in Tharkas Cascade chewing on Xenon def and solar stations and another one near the Yaki base as soon as I arrived to their sector. No idea how they got there, had to destroy the one near the Yaki because it was uncomfortably close to their base and I had no marines at the time(got no rep penalty because Yaki cover was active on the Geo Owl). So my advice - do not initiate the Yaki plot until you have enough marines to cap an Asgard if you want to capture one.

[visi]

In my game they are never alone.
At least 5 Ships (L and M) are always with them.
Is there a way to get them separated without destroying them?

[Nagittchi]

If you want to liberate it easily, just fire off the marines and don't shoot.

Its squadmates wont fire at you and give it about an hour and you'll take it.

if you fail, fire more marines for the next boarding run

[visi]

Oh - ok.
Sounds boring.
But maybe getting an asgard is worth it.

So you keep 25 Boas at a gate and wait for the big momemt?

..asking for a friend

[jlehtone]

In my game they are never alone.
At least 5 Ships (L and M) are always with them.
Is there a way to get them separated without destroying them?

Look at the NPC fleet. Osaka escorts Asgard. Falx escorts Osaka, Kukri escorts Falx. All the escorts run 'Defend'. In principle only the Osaka will target you when you shoot at Asgard. If you start by shooting at Osaka, then Osaka and Falx should focus on you. If that helps to draw them away from Asgard, then you have a small window of opportunity.

So you keep 25 Boas at a gate and wait for the big momemt?

Boas are small. Too much micro. With Cobras you can deliver bit more. However, take some L freighter; there are 200+ crew models?

Once you get the first Asgard you have a ship that can deliver 360 marines. Alas, it is slow to move to launch position.

Its squadmates wont fire at you and give it about an hour and you'll take it.

Where is the fun in that? I've got my TER repo from initial -15 to -29 by killing surface elements and escorts. There is a lot of elements to kill, if you personally disarm Asgard, Osaka, and Tokyo simultaneously; they keep repairing before you are done.

[visi]

Just managed to get one.
With an balaur and those PAR surface Element Lasers (don't know their eng. name) and 15 BOAS

Disabled all Weapons on the defending Osaka as soon as the Osaka and the Asgard had a little distance.
3 BOAS for the Osaka
Then moved on to the Asgard-same with 12 BOAs
Then i switched between both and kept their engines shut Down.

A few minutes later the Asgard and Osaka are mine