Ship capture

[Arkcon]

I've had some good luck with carriers with a couple of boarding parties, loaded with fighters armed with shield depleters. But it only really works if you suprise someone who hasn't massed the point defence.

If you've got the time, you might try space stations at warp points, with shield depleters and tractor beams, just in case the ship appears too far away.

But basically, anyone will just put a self-destruct device on their talisman-equiped dreadnought. If your capture ship is cheap enough for you to not care about losing it, its likely to be disabled before it reaches the enemy. And if you heavily armed capture ship breaks though and gets blown up, you haven't really gained a benefit. If that's your goal, you might as well just mine their space.