(July 12th, 2018, 13:30)TheMeInTeam Wrote: - For win consistency on hard, Lanius B is seriously a top tier ship. It isn't just the lanius boarders, it's that it starts with two systems and the most power-efficient weapon in the game. It has no bad early matchups, consistently pulls crew kills, scales up its weapons easily despite starting with 1 bar (getting 2nd weapon online is still cheaper than many ships), and needs very little beyond what it starts with to win outright. I'd still put Crystal B higher - cloak, 4 man TP, and crystal lockdown need even less help to win...but this is a top 5 ship easily.The Lanius B was underrated in this thread because people weren't using the mind control correctly. You teleport your Laniuses into shields. When an enemy arrives, you pause, MC the enemy, and send your boarders elsewhere. Since the AI prioritizes shields over anything else, they'll fight their own guy while your team can go bang on the weapons or medbay.
In general I don't think people were thinking enough about non-boarding crew kills. I rate the Slug A and C pretty high because they can almost always get biokills right from the start, and those early drops can really help you snowball.
Sullla's tier list faults the Rock B for being a boarding ship without a teleporter - that's not the only way to kill crew!