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Klingon recruit piloting a Romulan Warbird with Battle Cloak question

vieth1vieth1 Member Posts: 61 Arc User
edited August 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Since I'm a 65 Klingon recruit, can I fly a Romulan Warbird with a Battle Cloak to get Ambush Kills? The battle cloak will allow me more cloaks per fight and thus should give me more ambush kills.
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  • tagentagen Member Posts: 545 Arc User
    So far I have only been using the M'chla Refit that my recruit got from the transponder objectives (it has Enhanced Battle Cloak now that they fixed it), but I don't see why another ship would not work. As long as the weapon tooltips make note of the Ambush state, I'd think it should count.
  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    That's actually a good question, and I'm afraid I'm a bit too deep in to reasonably test it. While I imagine they'd probably include stuff like romulan and disc offensive cloaks, I'm now curious if it also includes Voth Cloak(which has a defensive buff instead of the regular offensive one).
  • dirlettiadirlettia Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    As far as we know you only need to be able to ambush kill with whatever you use so a romulan warbird should be fine. My own recruit went from post tutorial to 65 in a Kor Bird of prey so you are certainly not restricted to having to use the M'chla.
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  • vieth1vieth1 Member Posts: 61 Arc User
    In space, I do see the tooltips on my weapons when flying the Romulan ship. I'll keep an eye on it to see if it progressing - I'm in that space between 100 and 500 ambush kills, so it might be a few days before I know.

    Thanks for replies.
  • dkdrachedkdrache Member Posts: 32 Arc User
    vieth1 wrote: »
    Since I'm a 65 Klingon recruit, can I fly a Romulan Warbird with a Battle Cloak to get Ambush Kills? The battle cloak will allow me more cloaks per fight and thus should give me more ambush kills.

    The wife and I are both using a T6 Rom Morrigu to level and gain our Ambush kills with. I'm only level 25 (time issues) with over 500 Ambush kills thus far.

    So yes, works just fine.
  • guljarolguljarol Member Posts: 980 Arc User
    vieth1 wrote: »
    Since I'm a 65 Klingon recruit, can I fly a Romulan Warbird with a Battle Cloak to get Ambush Kills? The battle cloak will allow me more cloaks per fight and thus should give me more ambush kills.

    I fly Malem with Rom cloak, and it works fine.
  • foppotee#4552 foppotee
    foppotee#4552
         Member Posts: 1,704 Arc User
    dkdrache wrote: »
    vieth1 wrote: »
    Since I'm a 65 Klingon recruit, can I fly a Romulan Warbird with a Battle Cloak to get Ambush Kills? The battle cloak will allow me more cloaks per fight and thus should give me more ambush kills.

    The wife and I are both using a T6 Rom Morrigu to level and gain our Ambush kills with. I'm only level 25 (time issues) with over 500 Ambush kills thus far.

    So yes, works just fine.

    Wow, well done, you're certainly making those Ambush kills count.
  • foxrockssocksfoxrockssocks Member Posts: 2,482 Arc User
    Even the Sovereign console set battle cloak works for ambush kills, and the description doesn't even suggest it gets a damage bonus after decloaking (but it does seem to.)
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,577 Community Moderator
    The way I see it... any ship with a cloak is usable. I've been using the Qugh Miracle Worker Battlecruiser with a beam build to smack all the things with BFAW myself. Hell... I've been cloaking more often because of this objective.
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  • foxrockssocksfoxrockssocks Member Posts: 2,482 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    The way I see it... any ship with a cloak is usable. I've been using the Qugh Miracle Worker Battlecruiser with a beam build to smack all the things with BFAW myself. Hell... I've been cloaking more often because of this objective.

    Yeah, Qugh is a great choice for this goal as a Miracle Worker ship with a battle cloak. There is some great damage potential there!
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