Timeline for How could one board a spaceship during combat?
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| Sep 6, 2017 at 15:01 | comment | added | pojo-guy | @MattBowyer , I beg to differ - boarding is still an area of active naval training (youtube.com/watch?v=3No6Sl1nFZs) and tactical research (tactdb.blogspot.com/2014/03/modern-naval-boarding-tactics.html) . However, the objective must be worth the risk. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 14:33 | comment | added | Matt Bowyer | As stated, it's incredibly dangerous. I'd say that unless you can get on board by stealth or deception, then there's no way you'd try and board a vessel that is defending itself - there's a very good reason why boarding hasn't been part of naval combat for centuries. If you want to board an enemy ship, get them to surrender first. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 11:48 | comment | added | pojo-guy | The idea is to make the ships defences and defenders ineffective for enough time for your crew to get aboard. On terrestrial ships, the defenders will begin anti-personnell operations as soon as the attackers are to close to bring the shop to ship armaments to bear. In a space battle where boarding is expected, you would expect to face the same sort of defence strategy. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 6:16 | comment | added | Braydon | With option three is the idea to also incapacitate the ship somehow? If not it doesn't really ask the question, as fighting on board is not the issue, but rather how to safely get on board. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 2:55 | history | answered | pojo-guy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |