Stealth Ship B... timing is everything!!!

[MoidSki]

I believe Stealth B to be a difficult but powerfully rewarding ship.

I've made it to sector 8 and took zero hull damage from the first round of the boss fight (and then only couldn't beat the boss the second time because I ran out of missiles leaving only my glaive) on about try 5 with this ship. It defiantly requires a strong first few sectors.

I first got my stealth to 3 power giving me 15 seconds of cloak. I only cloaked after the first volley was fired (prior to hitting. in the case of beam weapons I tried waiting about 10 seconds then turning on the cloak) by the enemy ship giving his first shots a miss and allowing the glaive to charge all the way up. I then tried to target the glaive across as many of the rooms as I could making sure I hit the shields first to get the following rooms to maximize damage.

I spent my jumps conserving scrap looking for 2 items from the stores. Shields and non beam weapons. I got heavy laser 2 and a hull laser 1 by about sector 2 and the shields in late sector 3.

first I made sure I was only cloaking when I needed to. Then I charged all my weapons firing the lowest damage lasers to do shield hits and following my other lasers into the shields and either when shields were down completely or the last hit indicated its miss/hit I fired the glaive. I had auto fire on but I made sure to deselect my targets after the fired. A good habit with any ship.

During the boss fight the plan was and still is to use the cloak to avoid the power surge weapon and use the shields to fend off all the normal fire.

This ship is all about timing. I know that in future runs I'll leave off on switching only to a missile/beam weapon combos. I also know I want more shots fired then I care about damage from the non glaive weapons. Will Do another run here and let you know how it goes

[jamotide]

So get extra weapons before shields, makes sense,I'll try that.

[Redfoot]

Like all ships what you buy/upgrade early on makes all the difference.. some are more forgiving than others.

The breakthrough for me with the stealth ships was forgoing the shield for a small bomb or 1 point missile launcher. That 150 entry fee on the shield puts you way behind in terms of firepower, a 1 point shield won't save you in sector 2-3 fights. You want to exit cloak and shut down their weapon systems in a single round.

For that reason I don't like getting Cloak 3 too soon either, 2 is the sweet spot as it 'pre-ignites' most weapons.

Also pay attention to the enemy ship screen - if prefight you see a dronebay or zoltan shield, just accept the bribe or leave.. don't just attack everything and lemming yourself to a quick defeat..

And making good use of the long range scanner is important too, if you're taking a beating just aim for empty beacons, these often have events that can yield rewards just as good as dukin' it out with a drone wielding zoltan shielder of doooom~~

[nfiea2]

I figured out how to deal with finding an enemy with a zoltan shield and a beam weapon
just press Esc then restart

[Redfoot]

lol ^^

My worst one so far was a sector 2 Zoltan encounter - boarded by 4(!) at the start of the fight, he also had a beam drone and of course the lovely shields. I went 100% hull to 0% before my FTL reached 50% charge.

[jamotide]

lool redfoot, thats probably a worst case scenario for this ship. But Your tipps above sound very good, they make alot of sense, I will try it with cloak level 2 and extra weapons.
Do you upgrade engines? Because if you don't, you only have around 75% evasion, so you could get hit if you cloak right when they fire.

[Fredchuckdave]

Pro Strat: Either never play with the Stealth ships or restart until you get weapon pre-igniter in sector one, victory. Of course the Carnelian being excluded, love that monster.

[Gorlom]

Pro Strat: Either never play with the Stealth ships or restart until you get weapon pre-igniter in sector one, victory. Of course the Carnelian being excluded, love that monster.

How is that pro strat? isn't that the strategy for those that doesn't figure out most of the strategies in this game?