Warfare & Tactics

Firstly, it's worth noting that the navy caracal is crap as it hasn't been rebalanced. Even a regular caracal is likely to be better. Regardless...

You want a frigate that's going to kill a cruiser that has dedicated itself to killing frigates. Not going to happen.

Any fast cruiser (Thorax, Caracal, Rupture, Omen, even a tanky Stabber) will, however, have a great chance. The only problem is that because of the low fitting cost of RLMLs, he can be pretty tanky.

If you can catch him in any tanky cruiser you'll kill him. A nano'd cruiser (something fast like an Omen) could probably kill him but it's a bit closer depending on skills, fittings, and how much damage he gets on you before you get in range.

You will not kill such a fit with any single frigate. Even if you manage to get in scram range, RLML caracals are tanky and will be doing at least as much damage to you as you are to him.

Scramweb it, jam it and poo in its eye.

Not that much different from any other ship tbh

I don't think there is any frig/dessie that will kill a rLML caracal 1v1

I'd go for a cruiser.

Well, there are ways to kill it solo in a frig, but I don't think they are available to you.

I'd go with at least 2 frigs or one cruiser.

Yes, don't failfit your Vengeance.

AARs still eat cap. That fit caps itself out in 20s with everything running.



Even a single-web Caracal will be doing basically full damage even with your AB on.

Skarp, firstly, don't engage that guy alone.

Secondly, the fit is much more likely to look something like this.

Thirdly, a RLML Caracal will be utterly terrible against any cruiser that's fit to fight things its own size. Before you joined the corporation, we ran into a guy called Jurik McMoney who flew literally nothing but RLML Caracals. And I do mean literally nothing else - even if he couldn't get into a plex, he'd show up in one and just sit on the gate (even if he knew no-one else was coming into the plex). The problem, as he soon discovered, is that the only advantage the RLML Caracal has over other cruisers is its ability to kite. If it loses that, it dies horribly in a fire, because any properly-buffered high-DPS cruiser will eat through the shield tank with its larger weaponry while the Caracal's light missiles go plink-plink-plink and do basically nothing. Additionally, Jurik was smart enough to carry missiles with various damage types, but if a Caracal uses anything other than Scourge its damage drops noticeably since it stops getting its kinetic damage bonus.

As with many kiting ships, the RLML Caracal can be thwarted by sitting on the warp-in point of the plex and scramming it as soon as it enters. You have to be very vigilant in case it tries to get out of your scram range (which is why having a friend with you helps, obviously) and be ready to punch your microwarpdrive and scram the second they come back online. Judiciously overheating your scram and possibly your MWD (although be very, very careful of overheating your MWD as it'll burn out FAST) can help prevent him from getting away. If the Caracal has a web in addition to a scram it cannot possibly have more than two shield extenders (unless it dropped the propulsion module, which on a cruiser is a fitting tactic more commonly known as "suicide") which means that its buffer certainly won't outlast the buffer of a cruiser fit for killing cruisers if it remains in optimal range.

In all likelihood if a RLML Caracal sees two cruisers sitting inside a plex it won't enter it without calling for backup, but that's fine too.

Ugh, totally forgot that. Don't fly them, you see.

You don't run everything.

Silly man.



I still don't think the veng will win unless it has links though.

My word, old chap. You forgot to tell me you have written a blog post about it: Magic Nullification: Countering Kiting (I accidentally a link)

Well done!