DISTANT WORLDS 2 Lizards vs Bugs ~ 02 Dealing with Pirates

[@Gemoron]

I bet Das knows the following tactics, but these help me a lot at the beginning when fighting pirates. Of course, this includes a kind of spoiler in case you want to find your own way you have been warned. When defending against raids of a mining base, it is important to scare the enemy ship away. The raiders will often flee, when their armor got damaged, so putting a weapon with shield penetration in the 360° slot can help often. As shields often have a chance of letting something through, a few concussive missile launchers can do the trick just as well. When engaging pirates with your own ship, I use two good tactics: - if the pirate faction doesn't use ion shields and if the ship has more than one weapon slot, a ion field generator/ion cannon can disable a whole ship for a mooment and keep it from jumping away, enabling a kill. also, a disabled ship doesn't deal any damage. - Pirates love to board things, and I do, too. As it was visible in the video, the pirate only started fleeing after the shields were gone. When going in agressive, the pirate ships can be boarded when they are below 50 shield points. a boarded ship can be dismantled in your shipyard for tech, or used against the previous owner. Dismantling for tech is extremely valuable if starting prewarp.

[@philoponusvienna]

You can stopp the "gift popups" also in the diplomacy screen by telling the game that you want kill the faction.

[@eugeneemerick4359]

How do you keep from crashing?