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Sisters of Eve: Burning Down the Hive tactics
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Mathror Almaari
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-10-17 06:36:22 UTC
Hey,

I was just about to start the Burning Down the Hive mission for the Sisters of Eve Epic arc but decided to do a bit of research first. It's starting to sound like I'll need to think about my ship and fitting a bit more than I was going to.

That article seems to suggest that the best way to do it would be to send Drones to attack while kiting the enemies. ATM, I can jump into the: Atron, Navitas, Imicus, Tristan and Catalyst.

What would be best the best tactic for a risk-averse, ISK-conscious, noob:
- Fly the Catalyst as fast as possible, and use the one drone to kill?
- Use the Atron to kite at maximum Railgun range (no drones)?
- Fly the tinfoil Imicus to get 3 Drones and kite?
- Buy an Incursus?
- Buy a Vexor?

I'm also hoping that whatever tactic I use for this will apply to more difficult missions as time goes on...

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Hazen Koraka
HK Enterprises
#2 - 2012-10-17 07:23:28 UTC
If you wanna fit a rail something, make it fast, at stay at least 30km away from the scrammers. There are 3 and you want to MWD away from them as soon as you warp in (2nd gate) then blow the crap out of them before they can close within 20km. If you can manage to keep them off, should be easy. They web and scram at 20km so be careful! :)

That said, just did this again for 2nd time in a harpy and was easy as pie :) (no surprise there).

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Risien Drogonne
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-10-17 20:29:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Risien Drogonne
I did it in an ishkur and they never even got through my shields so it was pretty effortless. But since that's beyond your skills, just buy a vexor and you should have nothing to worry about at all. Your drones will make short work of the frigs. Vexors are cheap and you'll use it later for level 2s anyway.
Risien Drogonne
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-10-17 20:30:03 UTC
Oops, double post
Mathror Almaari
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-10-17 23:21:51 UTC
Thanks for the tips.

I ended up flying an Atron with:
- 3 125 Railguns w/ Iridium charges that got me an Optimal Range of 12km
- Afterburner
- Overdrive Injector and Armour Repairer

Once I got the kiting down, it was an easy, if slow, process to destroy all the drones. I thought I'd stuffed it up as I left a group of drones in the second room and activated the acceleration gate - and the mission objectives say to clear all drones from the area. It didn't matter. To complete the mission it seems I only had to kill everything in the last room.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human aspirations ~ CS