So I'm diving back in the game, warming up in normal difficulty to get back the handle on all ships.

I've had no problem winning immediatly or often with Kestrel A, Fed A, Engi A and Zoltan A.

But now, I'm stuck on the Steath A. I never win against Phase 2 or 3 of the Flagship. Most of the time I get there though, but facing the flagship I always get overwelmed by boarding, supershield, stray missiles or surges.

I keep notes of previous victories, and last times I won with Stealth A, I had Flak II x 2 or Flak II Glaive. Wich are more or less the loadouts the Stealth A is meant for.

But since I've restarted to play Stealth A, I quite never find two "big guns" like Flaks II or Glaive. I've always had to settle with smaller guns, sometimes keeping the mini beam and dual laser up to the endgame with a mere BL2 or charge laser at the most to complete them. I lost badly a good run with Halberd, dual laser and charge laser, but I feel that's on me.

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TLDR: I never find an optimal loadout for the stealth A. I have bad luck in stores and loot.

So my question is, how and when do you build a suboptimal or less classic loadout with this ship so as to win despite bad luck ?

Do you have in mind some recorded runs where the player never got Flak II nor Glaive or more than one BL2 and still won ?

What is your strategy to deal with bad RNG with this ship ?