Which ships are viable for AX combat ?

[zipline]

You’ll need 4x class 3 shard cannons, and a very quick trigger finger. It helps to set two of the cannons to primary fire and two to secondary fire so you don’t have to wait for all four to reload simultaneously. Best time to fire is right when it gets close to scan you. The closer the better.

Basically, what it does is overwhelm the Cyclops’ ability to heal itself via hearts, so it dies without having to go through all the steps you normally have to take to kill them. As far as I know it doesn’t work on the more powerful interceptors, though.

The drawback is, if you don’t kill it right away, you might as well just jump away, because doing the fight normally with only shard cannons kinda sucks.

Thanks cmdr, I'm gonna try it in my Krait II so will have 3 C3 shards and 2 C2 shards, worth a go.

 

[Vandaahl]

I got a AX DakaDaka Krait MKII with around 3500 yada of armour, using decontamination limpets to de-goob it. Works great.

 

[baudelier]

Depending on what your targeting any ship can be used to take out Thargoids.

This commander, for example, soloed a Cyclops in a Hauler. Yeah, I'm not jealous, much.

Source: https://youtu.be/B6fJmsJ1Nuo

 

[Das Boot]

For anti xeno fighting the Hydra wins hands down. Get yourself one of those and watch the Anacondas melt.

 

[Dirtbird]

I use a FAS with two class 3 shards and 2 class 2 gauss. I lead the swarm on a merry chase and work hard to dodge as much of their fire as possible as I am a terrible shot with the flak gun. I have killed many cyclopes, but I have not yet been successful against a basilisk (3/5 hearts is my best run to date). Mostly due to the larger swarm. On the other hand, never died against the basilisk yet either.