If you're being real stingy with your Lanius HP, you can shield bait, punch down the O2, and wait for suffocation. It's a bit time-consuming.
I think 20th for the Rock B is pretty low (worse than the Fed B?), but I wasn't particularly taking issue with the rankings. It's interesting that non-accidental crew kills just aren't part of anyone's strategy in this (ancient) thread and Sullla's (ancient) tier list. I came late to the game, so I have no idea when people figured that out.
(And if the Slug C is 10th without crew kill strats, how high does it get if you're using it right?)
One thing that doesn't seem to get talked about in tier lists (Sulla mentions it intermittently) is starting with crap to sell. For any of the Rock ships, one ship fight and a store and you've got your second shield bubble. That's huge! I keep having these desperate poverty runs in the Kestrel A because you don't have anything to sell off (and you have to buy all the systems). That first 25-40 bucks can mean quite a bit.
And the Slug C - you've got 30 bucks in repair gel PLUS 155 scrap worth of systems you were going to buy anyway. I'm going to ignore all the times I got a fire in the weapons room before I got to shoot in sector 1 and put it in my top five.
I think 20th for the Rock B is pretty low (worse than the Fed B?), but I wasn't particularly taking issue with the rankings. It's interesting that non-accidental crew kills just aren't part of anyone's strategy in this (ancient) thread and Sullla's (ancient) tier list. I came late to the game, so I have no idea when people figured that out.
(And if the Slug C is 10th without crew kill strats, how high does it get if you're using it right?)
One thing that doesn't seem to get talked about in tier lists (Sulla mentions it intermittently) is starting with crap to sell. For any of the Rock ships, one ship fight and a store and you've got your second shield bubble. That's huge! I keep having these desperate poverty runs in the Kestrel A because you don't have anything to sell off (and you have to buy all the systems). That first 25-40 bucks can mean quite a bit.
And the Slug C - you've got 30 bucks in repair gel PLUS 155 scrap worth of systems you were going to buy anyway. I'm going to ignore all the times I got a fire in the weapons room before I got to shoot in sector 1 and put it in my top five.