[TC] How to board with two TP's

[dbrowdy]

The strength of the Ion-d is the incredibly low hull damage. Every 'hit' once the shields are depleted has a chance of damaging weapons and/or components. Ion-d lets you 'hit' the hull many more times without significantly damaging it. Nobody likes to sit for ages repairing stuff. And of course if you use stronger weapons you may kill the target before removing what you need to...

Right, I just wasn't sure if the bigger "Ion" weapons did the same thing but faster. So I managed to track down two (only two) IonD's for my Skiron, my Cobra is off picking up my marines and I'm looking for a Hyp Vanguard, but can't seem to find any. Found two Agamemnons. Where do they hang out, in that area with the Aggies, right?

[Gruber1232002]

....So I managed to track down two (only two) IonD's for my Skiron, ..... I'm looking for a Hyp Vanguard, but can't seem to find any. Found two Agamemnons. Where do they hang out, in that area with the Aggies, right?

I used 6 Ion-d's on a Q once, and the only difference seems to be that the hull melted a lot faster. It took around the same amount of time to remove components. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that simultaneous 'hits' count as one event, therefore 1 Ion-d will take the same amount of time to remove components as 6 Ion-d's but do 1/6 of the hull damage. 1 should be enough.

I grabbed my first one in Empire's Edge and my second in Pontifex' Seclusion, followed shortly by my Aggy...

If the Hyperion has no on-board marines or sentry lasers don't bother frying it. The first one almost ripped my Cerberus a new one doing that. The second one only had 3 crappy marines on it so I just stole it as is. Much easier.

[dbrowdy]

Found one in Preacher's Refuge, captured it with 4 4* marines and 2 3* marines launched from my shiny new cobra. That was REALLY easy, did it on my first try.

Now I know how easy it is, I'm gonna be stealing ships left and right! Hooray for M7M!

EDIT - And hooray for you guys for helping me figure this whole thing out! Thanks so much!

[gamer993]

I tried boarding a TL with 2 TPs using the Launch all and Board ship commands. It took me 3 reloads to have them all launch at once. What I ended up doing was putting both of the TPs on Piracy-> Board ship till they got to about 700m from the TL. Then telling them to launch all marines. They were trained no lower than 3* except for fighting which they were about 2-3* in fighting with 3-5 higher/lower guys in the mix. I ended up taking it with no losses and capped the ore mine I was after. (I am role playing as a pirate and can't buy any upgrades (tho I HAD to make an exception for the bio scanner as they aren't in the wild), ships, or stations)