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Long Range Guns for pure drone boat Myrmidon
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Snille Blixt
Snusk Inc.
#1 - 2013-04-01 13:21:15 UTC
Hi,
I'm experimenting with a pure drone boat for running anomlies in low sec.
I do the sites with a standard dual rep myrmidon currently and its going quite well, my current ship has a 4 medium railguns.
I hardly ever use the guns as the drones do most of the work. So I made the fit below. Its fully drone focused.

The Microwarp drive and repper and hardener are to be used for the initial damage before I can charge out of range from the rats for those occasions where you warp in at 20-30km range in the site.

The goal is to target and fight at 100km range. I can target at 100km and control the drones at 105km with the fit.
But I need some help with the guns. I thought why not use artillery. I want to be able to tag the rats long range to
keep them from eating my drones. With the setup below I should have an optimal gun range at around 40km.
Is there a better artillery setup for the task? it would be nice to have a 100km gun in it... whats the closest I can get to that range with it?
Mainly blood raider rats atm.

[Statistics - Snille Blixt]

Effective HP: 21'654 (Eve: 15'962)
Tank Ability: 76.86 DPS
Damage Profile - Omni-Damage (EM: 25.00%, Ex: 25.00%, Ki: 25.00%, Th: 25.00%)
Shield Resists - EM: 0.00%, Ex: 50.00%, Ki: 40.00%, Th: 20.00%
Armor Resists - EM: 75.00%, Ex: 10.00%, Ki: 35.00%, Th: 67.50%

Capacitor (Lasts 9m 10s)

Volley Damage: 1'490.26
DPS: 322.72


[Myrmidon, Snille Blixt's pure drones]

Drone Link Augmentor I_2
Drone Link Augmentor I_2
720mm 'Scout' Artillery I_2, Republic Fleet Proton M
720mm 'Scout' Artillery I_2, Republic Fleet Proton M
Drone Link Augmentor I_2

Cap Recharger II_2
Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I_2
F-90 Positional Sensor Subroutines_2, Targeting Range Script
Medium Capacitor Booster II_2, Cap Booster 200
Drone Navigation Computer I_2

Medium Armor Repairer II_2
Prototype Armor Thermic Hardener I_2
Prototype Armor EM Hardener I_2
Drone Damage Amplifier II_2
Drone Damage Amplifier II_2
Drone Damage Amplifier II_2

Medium Processor Overclocking Unit I_2
Medium Drone Speed Augmentor I_2
Medium Projectile Locus Coordinator I_2

Hammerhead II, 5a

Thanks for some advice.
regards
Snille
Kodama Ikari
Thragon
#2 - 2013-04-01 13:35:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Kodama Ikari
if you really want to shoot rats from that far away, I wouldn't even bother with making the guns reach that far. No matter how you cut it the guns will contribute ****-poor dps (long range + only 2 of them) and there's an opportunity cost in fitting them. Save those slots/fittings for something more utility, such as medium or short range guns, or a cloak, nos/neutralizers, etc. I also find it kind of ridiculous that you're using hammerheads from 100km. I would replace the nav computer with an omnilink and use 4 wardens at that range (actually curators since it looks like you're fighting bloods/sansha).


Also why does everything in your fit have "_2" on it?

Some first-hand PI tips
Snille Blixt
Snusk Inc.
#3 - 2013-04-01 14:05:46 UTC
Kodama Ikari wrote:
if you really want to shoot rats from that far away, I wouldn't even bother with making the guns reach that far. No matter how you cut it the guns will contribute ****-poor dps (long range + only 2 of them) and there's an opportunity cost in fitting them. Save those slots/fittings for something more utility, such as medium or short range guns, or a cloak, nos/neutralizers, etc. I also find it kind of ridiculous that you're using hammerheads from 100km. I would replace the nav computer with an omnilink and use 4 wardens at that range (actually curators since it looks like you're fighting bloods/sansha).


Also why does everything in your fit have "_2" on it?


Thanks.
the _2 is copy paste from EVEHQ.

I'm currently not able to use sentries. Will look into this for later.

Maybe I went overboard with the 100km range. removed one link augmentor, 85km is a good safety range too.

I wanted the guns primarly to draw attention to me from the drones not for killing dps. What about small guns for killing frigs that might come into the uncomfort zone? maybe small railguns for frigs in the 10-20km range?
Baggo Hammers
#4 - 2013-04-01 15:36:30 UTC
You will need T2 sentries for this to be practical.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
San Badgeros
Badgeros Holdings
#5 - 2013-04-02 07:34:47 UTC  |  Edited by: San Badgeros
Baggo Hammers wrote:
You will need T2 sentries for this to be practical.


What he said.

At that range, if NPCs decide to give your Hammers some soap-on-a-rope lovin', they wont be making it back to mummy any time soon. Tank your Myrm (one of its bonuses applies to tanking), train T2 sentries (long time but the return more than justifies the investment).

However, if you want to fly like this, once you have the Sentries trained you may as well move up into a Domi, IF you plan on fighting at that range. With the Domi you can field the full flight of 5 Sentries that will return the SOAR lovin'

Regards

SB

SOARin' since '04