Warfare & Tactics

When I was in FW, I was always curious as to how he could gank the squids in hisec Caldari space and what sort of setup he needed. But I don't have a definitive answer and hope others can help chime in here.

Does he have an alt scout not in FW and looks for squids to gank. If so, then he's dualboxing . But the problem becomes that his main, Loren Gallen, has to tank the Caldari police force while he's still taking damage from the gankee. I don't think he can survive long enough to take damage from both gankee and the police force. Admittedly, most gankees never see it coming so he's really only concerned about the police force.

Or is he tri-boxing? He has an alt scout, his main (the DPS), and a logi alt (in FW) that will rep him while he's taking damage?

I know there are some kills where he just waits for the victim to take alot of damage (during their missioning) and he just comes in for the kill. So that can be dualboxing with a scout. But it doesn't explain other kills which requires a more sophisticated setup.

Thoughts? Inquiring minds want to know.

Good day, Deen:

How are you doing?

My guess from what I've seen in and out of FW is neutral alt to scout. The neutral alt may also be a boosting Loki / Tengu.

Neutral RR wouldn't be out of the picture either.

Of course, all of this is speculation.

Thank you.

Easily, since Caldari FW unfortunately has too many people flying bling bling PvE boats while being in a militia and thus being wardecced /o\

Thanks Mara- Yeah, at this point, it's still speculation so not sure how he's done it. Looks like none of the above can figure it out either Hope others can shed some light. Glad to see you gone pirate!

Faction Navies (Navies not Police) are very tankable in .5-.8 systems. 1 neut / militia scout+1 well tanked ship (Rokh or Hyperion work well). Scan...warp in...neut the pve ship in 2 cycles...shoot the resistance hole while the npcs shoot him too...warp out...neut alt picks Up loot. All done in under 1min.


Or just pick a fast aligning ship and roam around high sec popping badgers on autopilot. Faction Navies are slow and NEVER point.

Neutral boosting/probing t3 is always good to have - 5 links + bonused probes, scan mission, warp gank bs in, pop carebear.
Or just scout agent station and wait carebear on gate next door.
Or use neut mach to bump him off station when hes trying to dock/when hes undocking and finish him with bhaal as hes slowboating to docking range.

Anyway, it takes alot of waiting + planning and "pvp" you get isnt very interesting. You warp in, apply neut and dps, tax avoider is going wtf, tax avoider goes boom. If enemy militia tries to chase you, you dock and go watch porn for a while.

E: also guy named Jalmon from minnie militia used to do this long time ago - but like a real man in t2 fit phoon with t1 torps.
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Loren Gallen is an expert pvp'er. I've had the pleasure to fight with and against him and do know his setup for high-sec ganking. Some of it is fairly straight forward, some not so much. There is no neutral logistics involved, but a t3 boosting/probing alt is a must.

Loren Gallen is not the only one who does it, but he is the best at it. Jalmon and Bobamelius Two are two other prolific hunters. All 3 of them have gotten some incredible kills and there is an eve-vid out there by Bob. You can search all 3 of them on the killboards and see that the ships suited for this kind of work range from Typhoons to Paladins and Bhaalgorns, and they all have 3 key factors in common, which you need to figure out by yourself ;)

I've been out on some of these hunts, and contrary to what most people think it's not a high paced gankaton. Spending 5 hours only to catch 1 t2 fit dominix is normal for these guys and in my opinion not really worth it. I still have a typhoon collecting dust in Cat, maybe one day I'll return. It's not all waiting in vain for dominixes, they do hit the big kill now and then, and reap the isk and accolades when they do. Much like big-game hunting in the real world I'd assume.

Holy ****!




But in all seriousness Loren is the Chuck Norris of Eve.

I've spent quite a lot of time studying Lorren and trying to figure out how I can do the same, and this is what I've come up with:

1. He has a loki boost (very important for catching targets and boosting tank)
2. He uses expensive ships, like the Machariel (Machs have great range, great dps, high speed to burn to victoms, and decent tanks)
3. He uses blue pills (Blue pills boost his active shield boost amount by a LOT, allowing him to stay in the fight way longer)
4. He uses at LEAST one cap injector to prevent his ship from capping out during the fight, while allowing his booster to stay on.
5. Unconfirmed, but he may have yet another character in the Caldari militia itself acting as spy and feeding him intel. A lot of his kills seem to be pre-scouted it seems. He also pounces on people very quickly and runs away when engaging on gates before backup can arrive.

He's really good at what he does, and has it down to a science. Even so, he still manages to lose his ships (though even if he does lose his ship, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the isk he makes off dropped mods).