Crime & Punishment

If you could pick any 4 ships in the game to pirate with as a roaming gang, what would you choose?

I am honestly struggling with this question and have no idea.

A group of force recons might be pretty cool, like two falcons, one arazu and a rapier? But then perhaps you should have a dedicated scanner like a buzzard for catching mission runners? Also, those 4 I suggested would struggle for dps.

On the other hand I can see how one interceptor combined with 3 stealth bombers could bring a BS to its knees, but it's very situational.

I would say you will need:

- Heavy Tacker: Covops Loki - It's usually my role.
- Scout ,Warpin, Prober, ECM - Falcon
- DPS Core: Proteus with 24km range Scram and Machariel ( 1500 DPS with 50km will end most fights within the heartbeat )

We use that setup for a while and it works very good.

3 canes and a drake. Send the drake in as bait, if no-one takes it, kill the drake for being awful. Op success ^_^

On a more serious note, 4 "somethings" that can tank gate guns for some time will give you the widest target selection, else youll be relying on catching people in deadspace or belts which limits your opportunities by comparison. Not to mention the ballache of having to sit on your hands for 15 mins if you daren't or can't risk moving systems under gcc in your ship. If you are roaming you want to be able to roam.

As for the ships themselves that's entirely dependent on how you and your gang fly (brawler, kiter, guerilla etc), what you have the skills to fly well, your budget, targets, and your modus operandi. Do you want to sit at range and poke people, kiting them away if they aggro back? Or do you aim to warp to 0 on something and have a good ol' rumble? So on and so on. It's kind of impossible to suggest something until it's known what you plan to do with it. No gang is a fit-for-all, they are all situational.

Battlecruisers are a good starting area to find what kind of tactic works for you at low cost, they have a wide engagement profile and are pretty disposable, then you can start swapping shinys like recons and t3s into the mix once you have confidence working as a small group and understand your strengths and weaknesses.

1. Falcon
2. Arazu
3. Rapier
4. Pilgrim / Curse

---

5. Guy in mining barge / industrial ship

Meh.

Too easy.

The answer is 4 Tengu's, of course.

At least, until the next patch, anyway.

Thorax
Deimos
Vigilant
Phobos

Name each one after the four horseman and profit.

Cause logic.

Taranis
Taranis
Taranis
Velator

Sabre
Falcon
Rapier
Vaga/Cyna

Do you mean cruiser recons? or is this just a silly post?

1 cargo/module-scanning frigate -- Hookbill

1 loot-scooper -- Prorator

2 gank battlecruisers -- Hurricane or Tornado

(and it's a roaming gang because we moved 3 jumps to a different gate)