Postby Retro » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:28 am
This reminds me of something that happened in the stealth ship type A recently.
Had 4 Mantis board me, I had door systems level 2 and so decided to vent the whole ship except for medbay and the helm (i needed the evasion as I had no shields) As my 2 crewmen pulled back to the med bay, they conducted a kind of fighting retreat against the boarders. Atleast the pilot was safe for now. Then as the Mantis finally get into med bay, disaster strikes. My door system is hit and the 2 crew men are eventually killed. All that remains of the boarders are 2 very badly injured mantis at roughly 10% health.
The ship to ship battle then takes another turn for the worst as my helm is destroyed. What do I do? My weapons are damaged but I still have 2 power. Medbay is currently being dismantled by some very vengeful insects shots are still flying in from badly damaged ship, but fortunately the cloak is still functional. I decide to stop the mantis from destroying medbay.
After a journey through vacuum my pilot is at around 50% health when he reaches the now destroyed med bay. At that moment the cloak is hit and taken offline. A few heart stopping moments later and my pilot emerges victorious, but only just. He immediately starts fixing med bay and by the time he finishes, the killing blow is dealt to the enemy ship. (intact this has just given me an idea about unmanned weapon systems, perhaps you shouldn't be able to change target if they're unmanned)
Right so I'm in a bad way, but hey, the enemy is destroyed and things are looking good right? Now to repairs. Ok best get my door system back online so I can repressurise the rest of the ship... Wrong. I don't have enough health (or so I think by attempting several times and going as far as I dare) to get down there repair the system to lvl 1 and get back to medbay. In the end I opt for repairing the helm and hoping I can somehow get out of this at another beacon.
Wish i'd have taken a screenie of the final dilemma for you to see.