This roguelite added War Marines...

[@tereninsecundus6084]

The single most absurd run I ever had in Void War to date was the one-man-army boarding tactic. It was never meant to BE that but it developed into one: I played as the Exile, and he starts with the innate translocator. You pick where on the enemy ship he goes and can recall any time. Can be risky but also supremely powerful. I started off by hopping into the command-throne room of the enemy, always a small 1x1 room, and killing the enemy commander right away. Then every other crew that was there was FORCED to come over one by one to fight him to take back control. Early on, this works wonders. Then I found the Hellfire blade early on that made him much, much harder to kill: he was now up to 6 DPS and immune to the fire he started with every kill. I started sending him into medium 2x1 rooms instead to fry systems and kill crew faster. And then... I randomly got the pile of skulls in a drop. Quote: "This 'ship system' will give the commander +10 DPS for 30 seconds at the start of an encounter." 30 seconds with 16 DPS is more than enough. I melted whole ship's worth of crew rather quick, only struggling with the big guys that took a while to kill. I got Siege Armor that made him even more durable and immune to suffocation. I got him the fortress shield that reduced enemy DPS by 1, and gave him 1. I was now at 17 for 30 seconds. And then... I found ANOTHER pile of skulls in a shop. Obviously I had to see if these stack??? Guess what. They do. 27 DPS for 30 seconds from the start of every single encounter. Also, the third ship-modification slot? The one that grants the comamdner 50% movement speed. I don't think I'll ever get that lucky ever again. From this moment onwards, anything I did with my ship, any upgrade, and added crew, any new weapon, it was all for show. The guns were used to finish off possessed ships that the Exile had ravaged from the inside already, or to just nuke heavily damaged ships I did not wish to risk him in - I have lost runs due to commanders being onboard enemy ships when they blow up, before. The first 30 seconds of the boss-fight he depleted the population of the whole ship room by room and triggered the no-crew crisis when a daemon-heart takes it over the ship. He wrecked the shields and got recalled as my full arsenal unloaded to shave a quarter of the ship's HP away each volley. It was the cleanest run I ever had. No-one on my crew ever died or saw personal combat. 28 enemy ships were depopulated, 8 were destroyed. The only run that's got a higher score was the death-barge necromancer run that I got supremely lucky in regarding crew I got. I could share that later on request. TL:DR; Void War has a LOT of cool and absurd builds and runs one can make, a very good mechanical separation from FTL as opposed to just thematic. This game is not 'just a 40K clone of FTL' it's quite a lot deeper than that.

[@camdengoss6326]

When you kill the crew theres no reason to blow up the ship as long as you got the rewards. Simply just warp again at the top of the screen.

[@tereninsecundus6084]

@@camdengoss6326 Exception: With the Hull-reaper, you can spent time eating the empty enemy ship's HP and adding it to your own as free repairs. It's what I do in every run where I get the Hull Reaper and have any HP damage.

[@dodang_9147]

@@tereninsecundus6084 i think hull reaper is going get nerfed. FTL had repair drones and scrap artifact to convert scrap into hp but these had sizable downsides.

[@Arrowthorne]

In regards to Boarding, I can understand why you like it more in this game than FTL; In FTL there's only 3 races that really work for boarding: Human, Mantis, and Rock. Humans are average with middling health and damage, Mantis are powerful but squishy, and Rocks are tanky but so slooooooow. And there's not much you can do about it, sure you can use an Augment slot for Mantis Pheromones or the Human weapons but Augment slots are limited and there is always something more valuable to slot. Sure you can use Mind Control to help with boarding but that's temporary, requires Power, and takes a system slot. Meanwhile in this game, you can customise your boarders with weapons, armour and sometimes equipment. Letting you specialise some boarders into specific roles. Combine this with the ability to select what square they can stand on, without the tile/room dancing in FTL, you can spec one boarder into a close range jugganught with powerful melee and strong Armour. While another can be made into a multi-hitting, long range blaster. Now combine all that with Equipment or Psychic abilities, like that 15 point damage attack from the captain or the Teleport your crew member has, and the ability to PLACE systems yourself, letting you have potentially 4 boarders to a pod, and you end up with a much more involved and comprehensive boarding system.

[@ArthurIdrisov]

You forgot Crystal and Lanis as really good boarders. Crystal are faster than Rock and tougher than Humans, but the best part they have the ability to temporary isolate rooms. Lanis on the other hand can board airless ships or suffocate anybody but their own species. And Rock have something that you forgot to mention, the don't care about fire, and that gives you opportunity to support them with weapons that ignite enemy ships.

[@JPSavage84]

My man's never used an all Zoltan boarding crew with a cloning bay 💥

[@uguuwuu6882]

@@JPSavage84 In Multiverse there's a whole Zoltan subfaction dedicated to that called the Duskbringers

[@dodang_9147]

@@uguuwuu6882 they're awesome. i love zoltan gameplay in mutiverse game. i don't agree that boarding is hard in original FTL. Level 3 mindcontrol+single boarding is very strong. i think larger problem with regular FTL boarding is the COST to board. boarding is super expensive in regular FTL because there is only 3 ways to board The first and most effective way to board is Lanius boarding. the gimmick to summon a rocket at Oxygen or bomb and suffocate everything. this is super strong because every single factrions loses to 0 oxygen in original FTL. It is arguably best form of boarding because it uses boarding as form of mindcontrol aka you can kill captain of ship and make your weapons better BUT you can also easily crew kill to get $ in the game. it is super cost effective boarding which is why Lanius boarding is kinda only good form of boarding in original FTL. The second way to board is fire boarding with 2 rockmen. this is as good as oxygen boarding BUT the problem with it IS SETUP. in regular FTL. you need roll a TORCH beam or fire bomb which is EXTREME rng to get and by the time you can board properly with this setup, you likely already have gunship setup where boarding is irrelevant towards winning. Basically expense here is really high to board. The final way to board is Mantis boarding. Mantis boarding is boarding is best with Drone system and Anti-personal drone. you can use Anti-personal drone +defensive drone with mind control and dominate ship crews very easily. the problem is that first, you need drone system. 2 you need mind control and 3 you need correct drones to do this. original FTL does not have drone retrieve device. you have spend drones part to board so it is not lucrative to board because main advantage of boarding is getting extra money but with all investment into leveling up teleporter, buying drone controls and having mind control, the cost isn't really worth its use. that is why gunship are much easier to play in original FTL because Hacking is really overpowered. Cloaking is insanely strong and mindcontrol is great safety net to counter enemy mindcontrol or you can use drone system to have unlimited offence or you can play federation ship which auto give you an offensive system the setup to gunship in regular FTL is super easy but RNG required to board is super high. that is why a lot of boarding tends to be like... early game focused where you do it in like sector 1, sector 2 and than boarding is kinda after thought unless you play into above 3 strategies. 1/8 factions being good for boarding makes it niche strategy on top of the large gold-sink to board +extra micro skill required to board vs just press 1 2 3 4 on a ship and ship dies. with that being said, this games boarding is obviously very easy.. he's literally pressing boarding on 2 overpowered crew members and deleting every ship. this is also FAIRLY early. like he's region 2 with godlike boarding. something that doesn't happen in original FTL, at least not on hard mode.

[@anonimus370]

small note: while i'm not sure as I haven't played yet but the interface where you load in crew to the boarding "sled" implies that, having the upgraded the system, you can load in more than 2 crew even if your boarding system is in a 2 cell room, as in with a fully upgraded system you can load in two, then more two more into the room and load those 2. At least the way the interface implied in the previous videos I saw, plus the upgrade text from the boarding system.

[@flakstoneforge2200]

Also, you can load 2 people, then have the next guys go into the room to load into the ramshuttle, without needin to time the load

[@Razoredge581]

Death Sled is a cool name for boarding, but ramshuttle is honestly sick

[@flakstoneforge2200]

@@Razoredge581 i forgot what the name was, so i just named it as how i see it

[@theuncalledfor]

@@Razoredge581 Another term is "boarding torpedo".

[@incognitouser8760]

What i wonder is there a possibility to choose who exit first like try to load one after another and see if the queue order is fixed

[@gunnarbloodhowl8845]

Im sure when I looked you can upgrade it and put more people into the Death Sled though I could be wrong

[@Gabriel-hy8be]

The Thirsting blade seems so strong, healing 10 hp on each kill is insane when there are so many low hp enemies in every ship. If placed on one of the knights he would become nigh unkillable. With the hellfire blade, you could probably send the knight to most ships and he would kill everything and get out with full hp.

[@theuncalledfor]

I know, right? Two attacks per turn on a Warlock without multiclassing, it's so good it feels almost like cheating! No, wait, sorry, wrong game, my bad.

[@nightlockraven3587]

For real and he didn’t get that right? God that combo would literally create dead pool

[@lri2x97]

The blood god demands sacrifice

[@amelianyoom9545]

The legally distinct blood god is different to the legally distinct war god and are not in any way associated with James Workshop, that said, blood for the blood god, war for the… war… throne(?)

[@BananaMystic]

The blood guy is someone else. This is the war guy. There's also the death guy and maybe *maybe* another guy? But I haven't met him yet

[@SiberianOldPal]

​@@amelianyoom9545 James Workshop :D

[@achmad980]

haemoglobin for haemoglobin god, cranium for cranium chair

[@Alexandragon1]

14:52 Just take beam systems to counter the Possessed ships! 24:29 yes, and that's why SLOW system exists. 25:04 >_< 31:01 YES, pls! 35:59 o7 to the E4 This build is OP but it could even be more OP, if you took "heal on kill" spear . Thx for the video!

[@anthraxcrab2222]

They need to add some way to reorder the crew list, especially with that many cyborg slaves

[@scottrussell360]

I love the boarding so much in this, cant wait to try a psycher focused boarding run.

[@dodang_9147]

i think armament that he has which slow crew, i believe it is for spellcasting ships because by slowing m/s of enemy ship, your spells are VERY likely to land. i am not sure if you can win the game with just psychic abilities but maybe you can.

[@Arzanthemehgamer]

Idk if this counts but recently I did a mass demon/zombie spam build after I found the upgrade that increased demonic DPS by 1. It was a super busted strat.

[@daviddemyer]

Adding a ship with multiple boarding torpedoes would be very nice for the future of this game.

[@zielisawzielony9366]

I was raging rly Hard when you took that +4dps blade from Herald of Ruin just to give him hammer, that might work or not on normal. More lances+bombard to support your inside team.

[@Yacovo]

Leaving a trail of empty and burning vessels in your wake. Thanks for the video

[@legomanford4256]

You got lucky with some of the weapon drops, your boarding is OP this run. Don't worry about the hazard zones (asteroid belts) they aren't as bad at the lower levels of torment. It's so much like FTL; so it's fair to make the comparisons. Keep upping the difficulty, the game gets crazy! Thanks for posting and getting me into the Void.

[@theithuriel8697]

Thanks for the video! So after a few days of watching I decided I'd get the game as well, and I absolutely love it, thanks for that c: Btw, I saw you were scared a missile would hit you after you killed the whole crew. I can't say for 100% sure, but so far all missiles and even a demon heart invasion shot missed me after crew kills, so maybe if you win you can no longer get hurt

[@rolandolopez2442]

Keep dropping these early, I just bought the game because of your vids

[@Martin-ot6kw]

35:04: Char's Counterattack theme plays slowly in the distance

[@peasant8246]

27:55 It was 10 seconds. I agree the enemy crew are too weak right now(or your own is too strong). Anyway, some hefty balancing of boarding in this game is needed.

[@SiberianOldPal]

Does the enemy crew have weapons and armors?

[@DillsyYourDaddy67]

Bear in mind there's 12 difficulty settings and he's playing on the second lowest one. But yah I agree that the enemy crews and ships do seem too weak

[@dodang_9147]

@@SiberianOldPal probably not but i imagine that difficult modifiers may add that to crew. so boarding is definitely insane on low difficulty but it could overall just be super strong.

[@EmoRonin]

MORE SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!!

[@haraberu]

Giving the dual wielders one high-dps weapon and one "attack every enemy in the room" weapon seems like it would be extremely OP.

[@elvisoz1440]

Great series…. Boarding Team is totally wrecking….. be nice to have the boarding module in a Large room. Have to remember that for future. ❤

[@IcoKirov]

since recalling the crew brings them back inside that 2 tile room, my guess is that the game tried to squeeze all of the boarding crew inside that 2 tile room and placed someone in the adjacent space that is technically outside the ship, or something like that.

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

I occurs to me that maybe after getting what you want from shops, you might be able to send your guys over to take over the ship. I don't know enough about the game to know if there's consequence to that or not, but it's an option.

[@Nico42048]

If you choose to trade, you can't attack anymore, so no betrayal and bamboozling, unfortunately (which would honestly be a bit too op)

[@nicolascoton6116]

Estos videos me devuelven 10 años de vida

[@will-ev2143]

I new episode just in time for my lunch let's Gooo 🎉

[@zielisawzielony9366]

Sup, bump before watching.

[@zekel787]

My first run was pretty much all boarding, I had so many summons and I didn't use the barge as some point because I had a good translocator. So I just used my 4 slot room

[@ArthurIdrisov]

I don't like boarding in FTL. But if you like making scrap and stuff you have to do boarding as much as possible. And I don't know but it seems to me that the FTL's hard mode without boarding is probably impossible to get to the last sector. In this game boarding looks kinda fun.

[@ArthurIdrisov]

Damn, you were soooooo close 18:52 to lose all your main boarding force man! 😀

[@theithuriel8697]

Yeah, that really surprised me, I wasn't looking at the ships HP xD

[@Alorand]

Has he learned how to upgrade and double load boarding torpedoes?

[@pr_manager]

Epicccccc!

[@olafbrolaf3968]

quack

[@DerElia]

❤

[@Farodean]

A Comment for the Comment Gods

[@GoodEggGuy]

I would like this more if there were actual ship to ship combat rather than every fight being about the boarding actions. I want boarding to be one of many viable strats, not the GG cheese it clearly is.

[@dodang_9147]

unfortunately FTL and boarding is always either complete cheese GG or completely useless. nothing in between.

[@flakstoneforge2200]

Dude forgot medium rooms are 2 squares, large are 4...

[@emperorscorpion6788]

i still feel like you don't actually read every comment

[@spearmintz1]

@@emperorscorpion6788 I do. I just chose not to act on some

[@XavierGr]

You roflstomp everything dude, it's getting boring. Please play on hardest difficulty, even if you are not experienced and you lose it doesn't matter, it would be more way more entertaining than this.

[@spearmintz1]

@@XavierGr this was literally on the hardest difficulty I have unlocked

[@XavierGr]

@@spearmintz1 They are unlockable? Damn, nevermind me then. The devs should really do something about the difficulty curve though...