FTL: Mantis and their Ships 

the name Theseus is probably because of the clone bay replacing the crew

When running boarding strats, special shoutout to Hacking! Does the enemy ship have a Medbay? Are you sick of their crew running in and out, refusing to die? Just send your crew to fight, wait for one or two of the enemy crew to run to the Medbay, then place a Hacking Drone on it and activate. The enemy crew will be trapped inside, have their healing cancelled, and take damage at the same rate they would normally be healed. This usually kills them outright in the Hack duration. Then, even when the Hack is on cooldown, anyone trying to get into the Medbay has to break the doors open first - giving your crew either a comfortable window to finish them off, or to head inside to break the system.

Not every matis ship have boarding, some scouts and interceptor don't have them

This was the run where I learned the bossman didn't need a crew. But what I did find out was that a clone bay lets you mantis drone ships! it just take a while. >:D

Cave Dwelling Pebble Man! See, I paint my ship with your companions! I paint my ship with you!

Love that this game is still getting attention, really brings me back to when i was a kid watching let’s plays during summer break

Mantis ships are always fun, boarding is a fun strat. Usually I prefer Lanius for boarding but you cant go wrong with the classics.

Nice

I really really liked playing as mantis recently, i know it takes so long but doing a boarding strat is so satisfying. And i heavily agree that mantis B can just let you park your ship while feasting on the enemies Now about thesius, that ship is beyond horrible. What dev decided to give such awful starting weapons? I'd much rather have a small bomb or a heal bomb. Playing with that ship is basically venting your mantises to full hp, making sure your lanius doesn't kill your crew. And the single engi praying your dodge the enemy small missile which will CONSTANTLY chip your ship earlygame until A. You find a decent laser weapon B. You get lucky and finally get slavers event and get 3-4 boarding parties. Yesterday as i was playing the ship i would desperately look for shops to trade the starter weapons off. The drone fights without lasers is SOOOOO boring

Mantis ships are really cool, but medbay instead of cloning on A variant is killing me. You need to either rush teleport upgrades to be able to heal your guys or buy cloning, which is cruel

You countered doing less editing with that intro XD I enjoyed this much more though! Thanks for taking in my feedback.

ah, I sssee you are a fellow ssslug enjoyer :) also wait, did you just call the bug people attractive-

Of all the ships I have played, Mantis B, the Basilisk, has been my favorite to play so far

Glad to see im not the obly one who picked up on the fact that a lot of Mantis ships have an engi with them

Slug episode next 😮

totally not klingon

Funny how crystals are better borders then mantis

hot take lanius B is the best boarding ship edit actually i forgot crystal b exists fuck