Warfare & Tactics

My question is essentially, how difficult is it to catch a T3 traveling through Null, and how effective is it to use a T3 to travel to a quiet space in deep null and switching subsystems for missioning/plexing etc.

If the T3 is fit with CovOps cloak, and an interdiction nullifier, they jump through the gate, assess the situation, wait til everything is away from their cloaked location (or as much as possible), drop jump cloak, apply covops cloak, and warp.

How often do you/can you catch T3s while doing this (the only way I can think of is an interceptor charging at them as soon as they're visible on grid. How would you catch one and would you recommend this for Null Travel.

shuttle...

yeah, first bubble camp you find you're screwed. Cloaky nullified T3s are almost unstoppable for nulsec movement and scouting. Carry your extra subs in your hold or anchorable can. You'll have to use an NPC station to refit unless you've got standings with a player station corp/alliance. Plan accordingly.

Edit: For added insurance, fit warp stabs just in case you find the one remote sebo'd interceptor with drones assigned in all of Eve. T3s aren't exactly the fastest aligners out there. You can get decloaked. 3 Warp stabs should cover it.

Even nullified T3s can die if they run into big enough gatecamp though (there is somebody close enough to break their covops cloak, or they cant activate it after gatecloak drops), or if they experience the gatecloak glitch.

Shuttle in null is not safe. It mostly is in lowsec though.

Yeah. Cost isn't too much of an issue. But having a loss like that still isn't fun or good for kill ratios.

For travel I was thinking of putting on some nano's and warp core stabs (as mentioned above) and going afterburner to make it back to the gate if it comes to that, assuming that if its fast enough to decloak they'll have a scram. Possibly bship ab? But it would destroy the align time.

What do you guys suggest in terms of prop mods? Dual? And use rigs to buff the shield tank?

a t3 is only going to be caught if the pilot makes a mistake or runs out of luck while doing a plex/ratting.

You can get killed even in a nullified-T3, that is IF there's a reactive inty pilot at the gate camp.

When you go from GateCloak to CoOpsCloak there's a very brief time where you DO appear on the overview, a reactive Inty pilot can spam "Approach" and zip right at you, decloaking you in 1-2 seconds, then you're in a pretty bad situation.

Fitting WarpCoreStabs might help, but if you do you basically hurt your align time, as opposed to using Nano's. A Tengu fitted with nano's and nozzle joints / polycarbon rigs can align in about 3.5 seconds, which even with the Inty tactic should get you clear.

going null is a big risk even with cloaking device and nullifier sub.. a good gate camp can beat that ..

however,... haven't u heard about NRDS area where neut players can come to our region (providence mainly) and do PVE without being shot at (unless a red pirate comes along... and we couldnt stop only time)

Providence is mostly under NRDS (not red dont shoot) authority.. its a place where we try to keep it open to neutral players to come and experience 0.0 PVE

Providence 2 years ago was firts experience in 0.0, but you will be systems full of nuetrals
I do not recommend you taking the t3 you will lose it, take a hac if you do try provi. If you still want to go to npc space i recommend curse.

I live in a wormhole with one of my ships being an interdiction nullified T3. I keep it on my scanning Loki because it's pretty easy to run into bubble camps on WHs and while scanning, I'm almost always alone. However, if you're trying to use the T3 for running sites or PvP, I'd pass on the nullifier while in a fleet for a different propulsion subsystem. You drop a low slot to fit that subsystem, which can be more valuable to have either added tank or a damage mod.

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