So you wanna learn how to beat some monsters, eh? Well I can tell you how I did it and with what ship and strategy, I will provide workshop links to the ships I use.

First things first, the autohammers on these things have infinite scrap, and theres apats so boarding won't go.

We did well with about 6 heavy ships against all the meat things, there were two mine layers that could lay 20 mines each, a magbeam ship that had one fully focused beam and some flaks, a front gunner with blast cannons and 3 lances, a ship with 8 needle turrets, there were other but not sure what armament. But all were heavy ships.

Regular Meat Guardian:
The regular Meat Guardian, this one is armed with drone bays and 3 autoturrets. I used my MAAWS Donut Fort to assist my Marshall87 variant armed with Lances and Breach turrets.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899216089 - Meatboss 87

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899218927 - MAAWSDoughnut Fort

What I did was when I found a meat carcass, I hopped onto a Dragoon and flew to it, leaving my ship near my fort. Then I axed the carcass once and respawned immediately to get into the ships cockpit.

After that it was just circling it and targetting its auto hammers as best I could while my fort was set to target deployables and all its weapon groups on . Every so often I flicked the autohammers on my ship on then turned them off to avoid overdrawing my engines and being momentarily stunned.

I came away from the fight without losing any vital parts on my ship aside from 3 small engines.


Green Meat Guardian:

This one is a pain, its drones are demo drones and they pack a punch, they tore the ship I used for regular meat guardian to pieces. I will update this guide when I beat it.

So I think using my 30k fort and a ship variant I will link in this following configuration and strategy should work.
So what you do is pilot the one ship not spawned at the fort to the fort then set it up in that configuration, You may want to add dragoons to them. Then you set homeship on the fort and summon the meat boss. It should aggro onto the first ship and while it does that get on the fort cannon and aim for autohammers, NOTE THIS IS UNTESTED

(HARDER to get two ships by yourself since forts where changed)

BTW Flick on all weapon groups on all ships, you have wells

Have fun here are the files
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1901419316 the MAAWSHIP the fort one is further up go get it yourself.

So for this tip/trick, I did not use any ship. But Zakdorn made this ship below, and says he used it to defeat the Ghost ship. Since it is a missile ship I reccomend you kite the ghost ship around Harbour and keep the autohammers filled.

If you don't know how to summon it hit the three bells on harbour within three minutes at night/midnight.
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1886667159&searchtext=

Just shoot it, it does not fight back.

But if you want to be able to gather up its loot in one spot, try to sink it as fast as possible or down it over some trees so it gets stuck.

I use my Soleil ship, https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1889036181&searchtext=

I just attack them head on.

Now heres a useful trick:

Try to sink one of the siege ships, then stop shooting it. This will give you infinite time to repair your siege fort and your ship.

For this it does not matter what ship you use.
Just do the isntallation piecemeal. IE don't ove engage.

Try to lure ships away then fight them, deal with the small floating outposts after the ships and before the big fort. Hide and take breaks to repair.

So for this one you can either bring in a bunch of ships or cheese it.

To cheese it:
Gather atleast 6 people, use this ship https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899252044, then have two people ferry the rest onto the mech with boarding charges, and ferry back and forth. You will want to leave the ship in the middle of table, so the mechaladon can't reach you.


Also there are smaller baby mechaladon, not sure how to fight yet, ussualy just avoid them. Heard something about pickaxes but try at your own risk.