I want to know which build is recommended for Cautela Titan

[panterm2]

 Nice to meet you. I've been played Star Trader Frontiers(STF) for 2 months, and it was really fun! But I have question in ship build for Cautela Titan

 My character is assassin, difficulty is Demanding. Thanks to "Melee Captain build"(https://startraders.gamepedia.com/Melee_Captain_Playthrough#Template_Creation), My combat crew team wins every crew battle. But in ship combat, My ship and crew suffers too much casualties. Especially fighting against Terrox Xeno ship.

 As I don't want to run away from Xeno ship battle, I want to analyze my ship planned build, and optimizing for fight against Xeno ship Battle. For Terrox Xeno and Jyeeta xeno.

 My Cautela Titan planned build is:

 Large component:

-T4 Bridge

-Warhammer Engine

-Longhaul hyperwarp drive

-Hauler Hold(65 cargo+40 fuel)

-T7 Grav cannon

-T4 Fuel

Medium Component:

-T5 reinforced Barrack

-T7 Lance Array*2

-T2 Fuel Reclaimation*1

-Reinforced Officer suite*2

-Passenger Suite*1

-Combat medical Clinic*1

-Plague Ward*1

-T5 Reinforced Structures*2

-T4 Adc. Mass Dampener*1

Small Components:

-T5 Weapon Locker*1

-Compact Barrack*1

-T7 Autocannon*4

-T4 Mass Dampener*2

-T4 Boarding Assault System*1

-T4 Targeting Matrix*1

-T5 Armored Bulkhead*1

-T4 Defense Pattern Matrix*1

This is my planned build. I've done almost 60%-70% build. My battle plan is:

1. Go close to enemy ship(Range 2-3)

2. Fire Grav cannon+Medium lances, and starts boarding. (Autocannons are shooting against Jyeeta small craft)

3. Chop enemy crews as many as I can; I have 6 gunners and, they have "Boarding Assault" skills. So I have 6 attempts to board enemy ship.

4. Killing enemy captain or killing much enemy crews, enemy ship became just tin can.

This plan works fighting agaist other faction ship.But there are huge problem in fighting agaist Xeno.

1st. Terrox Xeno have good weapon in close range. I think their Grav cannons and lances are more powerful than other faction's guns. When I'm inflicting 200-300 damage to Xeno ship with grav cannon, Xeno ship inflicts over 300 damage with their grav cannon as I remember. So my ship rip apart when fighting in close range.

2nd. To reach range 2-3, I got hit from Xeno ship too much, so much of my ship module shows "Damaged" status. So I cannot fire guns to Xeno ship.

 Could you recommend Titan's ship build? I want to fight agaist Xeno ship. Not retreating or run away from it. But it shows too much phyrric victory or ship got destroyed, my best option is run away from Xeno ship.

 And other question: Are Warhammer class ship or Broadsword class ship is better than Sword Battlecruiser(SBC) or Cautela Titan in ship combat? When almost Faen Family's storyline completed, I used to bought SBC or Titan for combat ship. But both ship have 6 large slots, 12 medium slots. I almost felt "Too few for fighting+doing missions" Then I saw Warhammer class and Broadsword class ship have 7 Large slots. Of course, they have less medium slots. But I think 1 more large slot gives more build choice. I wisht to listen your opinion

[fallen]

In many cases, there isn't a clear "better" in ship hulls -- only which you prefer for your build.

[resistor]

I don't remember exactly how I built it, but I've made a very effective Cautela Titan carrier build, although it was when small craft were new and enemy AI didn't use them yet.

The strategy was to start out with advancing and using Vigillant Scanners while launching 3 bomber crafts, then on turn two hit the enemy with railguns to soften them up while advancing and buffing craft, then on turn 3 buff your ship's crit and open fire with 10RP of ship weaponry and the 3 bombers hit the enemy on the same turn. The result is massive damage that crushes their internal crew and components while inflicting a lot of crippling effects; the enemy has effectively lost after turn 3 because their dice pools are crushed from all the damage and debuffs, so it was easy to mop them up if they survived that long.

[panterm2]

May 15, 2020 0:53:33 GMT -5 resistor said:

I don't remember exactly how I built it, but I've made a very effective Cautela Titan carrier build, although it was when small craft were new and enemy AI didn't use them yet.

The strategy was to start out with advancing and using Vigillant Scanners while launching 3 bomber crafts, then on turn two hit the enemy with railguns to soften them up while advancing and buffing craft, then on turn 3 buff your ship's crit and open fire with 10RP of ship weaponry and the 3 bombers hit the enemy on the same turn. The result is massive damage that crushes their internal crew and components while inflicting a lot of crippling effects; the enemy has effectively lost after turn 3 because their dice pools are crushed from all the damage and debuffs, so it was easy to mop them up if they survived that long.

 I used SBC as an aircraft carrier, used 2 bomber+2 interceptor+1 shuttle. Aircraft bomber was super efficent agaist Xeno, but I thought 'Assassin captain who are strong in crew combat+aircraft shuttle is kind of inefficent. To make boarding assault, I have to assign 1 wing commando to use shuttle. I can launch only 4 aircrafts, and sending 1 shuttle means I have to abandon 1 interceptor or 1 bomber. It's not good. Maybe using boarding assault skill, close combat warship+Assassin captain would be nice.' So I was thinking which combination of warship module is efficient in Xeno ship combat.

 I know aircraft bomber is really good, especially I can kill Xeno ship range at 4-5, not get hit by Xeno Grav cannon nor Xeno lance. Survivability was super good. I'm thinking If I choose merchant captain or diplomat captain later, I would like use Pallas Freighter with 3 Aircraft. But this time, with Assassin captain or Bounty Hunter captain, I would like to use close combat warship. So I was asking which build is good for killing Xeno ship in close combat.