Warfare & Tactics

no killmails, but it's fun winning battles.

I was doing logistics (the moving stuff one) for a medium sized pirate corp I used to be part of for a while - to my surprise, It felt quite rewarding, too - always made me feel a little like Santa.

But yeah, flying logistics is way more fun than just DPS dealing - I don't care about killmails anyway. Also flying Triage Carriers were pretty much the only Situations in which I had fun with capital ships.

I've had several months where I got on more kms in a Logi than any other ship.
Toss out 1 (so you have spares when it dies) Warrior 2 and slave it to a DPS ship for Basi/Guardian in big fleets.
Put a small gun in your spare High for Scimis (in smaller gangs, it can even be worth fitting a point. Never not tackle.)

I have flown PvE and PvP fleet logistics, most recently for some large PvP fleets.

It’s a critical element of our fleets but is not always perceived as as sexy a role as the pew-pew ships. As a combat fleet logi you can be very, very busy, spreading your love to those in need. You also get primaried by the enemy fleet all-too-often which, at least, shows they fully appreciate the importance of logi support.

You can, and do get onto KMs, usually via your drones (EC Hornets or Warrior IIs) but sometimes via a smartbomb. In one fleet I managed to get onto more blue than enemy kills, thru accidental activation of my SB and having my drones set to aggressive. I pulsed all nearby with the SB, and then my drones wandered around afterwards, automatically adding their own damage to those I had already ‘attacked’. It was very humiliating to see those KMs afterwards.
To improve your KB showing, and keep the click factor down and focussed on your primary role, it’s easiest to allocate your drones to one of the DPS guys … then your drones automatically head off and inflict their little bit of hurt on whatever is the current fleet primary.

Relatively, PvE logistics is a walk-in-the-park unless you have a logi-pilot in your fleet who has exaggerated his skills, fitting, or competence to get into the fleet. When an incursion logi fails things can unravel very quickly and very messily. The most common misrepresentation, at least when I used to run incursions, was to have the logi V skill trained … when, in fact, is was in training. You’d setup your logi wing based on each needing one cap-feed to permarun, only to find that is not how things worked out. Like I said, messy.