
Some types of artillery have the potential to be as useful as the Vindicator Beam, but might deal damage differently or provide other tactical benefits.

With the exception of the Federation Cruisers, all ships can purchase a ship-specific artillery system at a shop. You can repeat this as often as you like, but remember to always use caution when manipulating such files or you could lose progress unexpectedly.Captain's Edition adds Artillery systems to each ship, similar to the original Open Artillery mod. Then if you play the game and lose your ship, you can simply copy that spare file to your game folder and try again. To get around that restriction, you can find the game folder in Windows and make a copy of the continue.sav file on your desktop or some other handy location. Normally, the game will delete your autosave and stop you from continuing if your ship is destroyed. If, however, it goes through your shield it may hit another, less crucial system (or even an empty room) and your shields will be undamaged. If it hits the ship while your shields are up they will be reduced in power for a few seconds. If your enemy is attacking with an ion weapon, consider letting your shields down. Submitted by: ign_cheats Avoid Ion Shield Damage On average you can max your shield crewman in 10 minutes. Every asteroid strike that hits your shield will give your crew manning the shield 1 experience point.

So long as your timing is good you won't take damage but the crew member manning shields will receive a small boost.

