X4 Foundations: 7.0 Beta 5: What it takes for a boron fleet to duplicate the Raptor and friends

Hello everybody,

Dispite my Raptor and its "birds" valiant efforts, the xenon invasion was still underway.
So, I thought to give them a breather and test some alternative fleets, this time, the boron one.

Fleet composition:
1 Shark + 64 interceptor Mako
10 Rays on defend
1 Orca + 20 interceptor Tresher + 20 torpedo Hydra on bombard

as an alternative to Raptor + 60 torpedo Chimera + 40 interceptor Chimera, and like you might saw in the last clip, those 100 fighters can be either interceptors or bombers.

Notes:
- I'm not a fan of 7.0 shaky cam
- all gunboats are vulnerable to fighter swarms. Threshers have a bit better survival rate that others, but still, lost 5.
- 7.0 will bring us search and rescue of bailed crews. Good to play on my protective side towards my zero and ones subordinates Egosoft... :P And they really like that time sink elements, don't they? :P
So, sorry for the dead times in combat footage, but I must rescue the poor bastards. :P
Either way, as for what I do with them:
- if they don't have much stars they retire
- rescued crews gain morale, so those with high morale go to group training at my HQ (one of terraforming tasks allow the player to group train pilots up to 4 stars)
- those with high engineering, go to serve as service crew.

So, with this new mechanic, if you start a terraforming project, and start building an aerial maze, you will never be short on trained pilots. Too bad that this did not come with the posibility to mass asign pilots to wings of ships. :( Imagine being able to asign 40 four stars pilots to your newly build interceptor wing. :D Also a mass fire personnel button would not hurt.
For a tip, avoid including marines in the crew of ships that you won't be using for boarding. I did this, because for my builds, I start with high preset, and that include half of the crew as marines, and I was forced to fire them one by one. In fact, I would say, don't buy crew at all, you can use the rescues to fill the service crew slot, and just transfer in bulk to other capital ships when you have a surplus.

So, that's about it with this one, have a good one. :)


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