Warfare & Tactics

I can only say if u chose to bring those ships out , specially as a newcommer to pvp .. u will A) lose em or B) will not find fights cause no one in theyr right mind will engage either a cynabal or a cerberus solo .. they will bring a gang or a bigger/better ship

Try to use something cheap and preferably somethin people will engage becaue the key thing is not to show people u have the advantage , is to make them think they have the advantage so its worth it for them to engage u , specially if u dual box then surprise surprise !


Join fw , get in a plex with a well tanked frig , w8 for someone to come and engage , web scram then bring ur alt in with a cruiser to get the job done . Thats how some people do it , or just get an off grid booster like ALL are doing lol


As for the pod , just spam warp sun/stargate when u see ur about to die .. easy

Good luck ;)

Learn to PvP in T1 frigs and T1 dessies, if you are crazy space rich perhaps T1 cruisers. You are going to lose a lot of ships when you start out. When you lose 5,6,7,15 ships a night, it gets pretty costly at 300mil per ship. Also learning to PvP in frigs will make you a better PvP'er, it sharpens your skills much better. Someone who learns to PvP in a frig can also fly in cruiser, BC, BS, and capital gangs (assuming they have the SP), but the inverse is not true. Fly your entire carreer in big stuff then come to low-sec and try frig combat and you will get annihilated; just look at all the 0.0 entities that join FW and get curb stomped. Frig combat is fast paced and you have 1/10th of a second to make decisions instead of multiple seconds in bigger ships. Frig combat is also much less forgiving if you make a mistake, a single mistake can be the difference between win or lose. In a frig or dessy you are also much more likely to find solo combatants that are not going to run the second you get on grid.

As for getting your pod out it's pretty easy, there are no bubbles and pods insta warp. Soon as you go down warp to a random celestial, soon as you land warp somewhere else. Do not just warp to your exit gate and expect to immediatly jump out, remember you will probably have a 60sec aggression timer from the fight you just lost. Spend that 60sec warping around the system. If you warp right after ship lost to your exit gate you will be stuck sitting there for 30sec or so waiting for your timer, which is plenty of time for your enemy to show up and pod you.

Dual boxing is for people without friends.

Get ISboxer and fly blaster corms. They are mobile, cheap and damaging. You can lose 100s of them with a 600 mil budget.

Guess?

I believe he speaks from experience.

Or you could just take an ECM ship and turn it into an attack HULL with ECM. See I melded both concepts and you only have to use one character. I AM THE WEAVER! ALL SHALL PAY HOMAGE TO ME!

I've had really good luck with the combination of a prober falcon and a vagabond. Made some spectacular kills in it and had some spectacular bloopers too.

Prober bonus loki with a stabber would be good in low-sec too. Stabber is a good ship because it has a bonus to tracking and in low-sec you'll find a lot of small stuff so tracking is good..... it's actually a more useful ship for PVP than the vagabond, tbh and having a loki up your sleeve isn't a bad idea.

You do need to have your clicky skills with these ships though becuase you can't just F1-and-orbit with these.

"prober" is important. a lot of people in low-sec fly small stuff and they'll high-tail it out of there if they see you in anything too big. Getting a fight in bigger ships sometimes requires a LOT of patience and trying probe out mission runners. What I often did was hang around gangs and try to get in on a 3-way or pick off stragglers.



Once you're sure that nothing you can do is going to change your fate then select a station from the overview and start spamming "dock" . The moment your ship dies you'll warp there and dock up. Normally I do the same but with a celestial so I can make a safe spot if I don't already have one and then warp back to the safe. That way you can't get camped in

Thanks all for replies.... it really helps!

I'm getting the vibe that although it's a bit of a "harsh" play style that the Falcon ECM and DPS Dealer would give the best odds for messing around once in a while....

I'm assuming just have the Falcon Cloaked .... until battle.... or to at least help get away if I totally blow it... which is most likely

I was dicking about with this idea last night actually.

I was thinking a vengeance with an inquistor as backup. RR is always good =P

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The combination of EWAR potential and tank is almost unparallel'd, plus no one* is going to run away from them.

*almost