Slug Cruiser

Explore the Slug Cruiser in FTL: Faster Than Light. Details on Type A (Man of War), Type B (The Stormwalker), and Type C (Ariolimax) ships, including loadouts, unlocks, and strategies.

The Slug Cruiser in FTL: Faster Than Light offers unique playstyles across its three types: Man of War (Type A), The Stormwalker (Type B), and Ariolimax (Type C). Each ship comes with distinct starting features, loadouts, and unlock requirements, providing varied challenges and strategic options for players.

Achievements

• We're in position! — Using the Slug crew, board the enemy ship and use their vision abilities to see every room of the ship at one time.
• Home Sweet Home — Visit 30 nebula beacons before reaching sector 8.
• Disintegration Ray — Kill 3 enemy crew members with one pass of the Anti-Bio Beam.

Type A (Man of War)

This is a well-rounded ship, capable of breaching the hull, knocking down layers of Shields, and even destroying the enemy crew without damaging the ship (the Anti-Bio Beam allows for crew destruction, all from the safety of your own ship). Add onto that any breaches in your hull being auto-repaired, and you have a pretty nice ship. It can use some more attacking punch to damage and destroy other ships, but it has enough components and avenues of attack early on that you can get the Scrap necessary to make any changes that you happen upon. It also suffers from a crew shortage, but careful Anti-Bio Beam attacks will give you excellent opportunities to find new ones (intact ships yield more crew than blown apart ones).

Unlock — In the Slug Home Nebula sector, get a Slug ship to surrender, refuse the weapon and get info, and have a slug crew/level 2 sensors to fight the interceptor ship OR defeat The Rebel Flagship with the Zoltan Cruiser.

Type B (The Stormwalker)

This may well be the WORST ship in the game (if not that, the second worst, easily). It is a ship that has one offensive weapon (Artemis Missile) and one supportive weapon (Healing Burst), but both share the same pool of ammo, so that is a drain on Resources. What makes it even worse is that the ship comes with NO MEDBAY/CLONEBAY, meaning the Healing Burst is your only recourse to regain lost health, so your Missile supply is going to be shrinking constantly, particularly since you will have to do a lot of boarding to make any real Scrap. This is a ship that requires a fair amount of lucky finds and/or buying at the store, meaning that it will struggle to get upgraded in a timely manner as well, so you will have to be very diligent in your efforts to balance it all out (also, lots and lots of luck to get stuff to sell to make money, or just find weapons and such you can use). Not for the faint of heart, or people who wish to keep their hair in their head (due to wanting to rip it out).

Unlock — Obtain any 2 of the 3 Slug Cruiser ship Achievements.

Type C (Ariolimax)

This ship is one that also gets a lot of different scenarios it can chase (like the Type A Slug Cruiser), it comes with good on board defenses (level 2 Doors), Mind Control to mess with the enemy, hacking to further mess with the enemy, a Clonebay to recover lost crewmembers, and a Chain laser, great for firing a lot of shots, once it is warmed up. If you add a Teleport to the mix, this ship can be a terror, as it can be if you add some more Weaponry. Tough to unlock (see the Slug Cruiser Type B write up as to why), it is a very nice ship that rewards you for getting it out of dry dock.

Unlock — Reach Sector 8 (The Last Stand) with the Slug Cruiser (Type B).