Newbe questions

[legionof1]

Easist source of energy weapon parts is disassembly of captured energy weapons. Power armor parts are mostly from killing stuff in power armor.

[khade]

Eventually maybe?  I honestly don't remember but I think so.

[Ethereal_Medic]

"Market of Wishes"
Lategame shop allows to instantly buy power-armor parts if needed.
Marsec Bodyguards are prone to "Seduction" and mindcontrol. One way to get captives and easy access to the parts.

Heavy freighters occur frequently once the threshold of patience is reached. Lots of goodies and tank-parts as well.

[LouisdeFuines]

There are 2 ships I don`t seem to be able to get down: The Silver Tower and the Battleship.

I got 6 Brave Whalen und 2 Kraken.

Could someone please look into my save, what I could do better?

And one question about the cyberdisc wreckage:
How can I get one? Whenever I down a cyberdisc, i blows up.

[Zippicus]

There are 2 ships I don`t seem to be able to get down: The Silver Tower and the Battleship.

I got 6 Brave Whalen und 2 Kraken.

Could someone please look into my save, what I could do better?

And one question about the cyberdisc wreckage:
How can I get one? Whenever I down a cyberdisc, i blows up.

For the bigger ships that are heavily shielded you'll need to bring some tesla cannons to the party, the more the better.  If you can mix a couple sabers into the attack with 4 tesla cannons each that will go a long way.  For cyberdiscs avoid using piercing or plasma damage if you want to recover the wreck.

Edit: My bad, I mean barracudas not sabers, sabers have 2 LT and 2 MS, barracudas have 4 LT

[LouisdeFuines]

I use mainly EuroSyndicate Las-Rifles.
Cyberdiscs blow almost always up with these.

[Zippicus]

If you really absolutely have to recover a wreck, the trusty axe will do it, fire would work as well.  Since we're having this discussion I'm guessing you don't have EMP grenades, that would be the easiest and safest method by far.

[LouisdeFuines]

Errr, no. Momentary I don`t have any EMP-nades.
I miss the Nuclear Battery. Where do I get one from?

I checked the tesla cannon. It deals only 15 damage. Do you really thing, that would help me with the 2 biggest ships?

[legionof1]

yes it does x4 damage vs shields. So vs shields the 15 is actually 60 per shot. This x4 isexplicitly mentioned in the pedia entry.

[Zippicus]

I think the nuclear battery requires the siberian base mission, you'll have to research a broken trade guild rep to be able to do that mission.  And yeah Tesla cannons do quad shield damage, for the silver tower especially that's the only way to defeat the high shield regen.

[LouisdeFuines]

But my ships got alreay Medusa rockets. Those deal tripple damage to shields. 3x 60 = 180. That should be better, or did I misunderstand something?

[Zippicus]

Tesla cannons have like 100 shots each, for silver towers you'll need them constantly hammering on the regenerating shields so your damage dealing ship(s) can do damage to the ship not the shield.

[LouisdeFuines]

@Zippicus: Is confirmed.
Tesla is a "light" weapon, so my Brave Whalen can`t equip this weapon.
My tank, the Kraken, has only "heavy" slots.

The tesla hits only in a range of 10 km. So I need another tank for the Silver Towers. Any recommendation?

[Zippicus]

My typical loadout for intercepting bigger ships (which I admittedly don't do very often at all) is a Kraken or Dragon to tank, with the biggest heavy weapons I have, 2 barracudas with 4x Tesla cannons, and 1 more ship outfitted with the most damage potential I have available, like a dragon with 4x plasma beams, a saber with 2x laser cannons and 2x Meteor missles, etc.   Honestly though I hardly ever do ship interceptions unless I have to, like that stupid secure freight or bombers for the tech gates, or the science vessel for the scientist (unless I already got one from campus carnage).  Most ships will land somewhere so I have my transport tail anything that will land and not worry about the other stuff unless I have to as mentioned before.

[LouisdeFuines]

I will try your thoughts out.

One other thing: I wanted to build a cyberdisc, but lack a "craft charger laser". As far as I can seen, I can`t dissamble anything for it. Where do I get this from?