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Kara Books
Deal with IT.
#21 - 2012-12-21 22:55:05 UTC
decaneos wrote:
Nad'x Hapax wrote:

Unlike some have said, I say never use heavies on frigates. Sometimes u need to get them of your back asap and heavies aint good for that. The only time u should use heavies is when u have close orbiting BSs (up to 6ish km) and when u are ready to take them on, theres NEVER enough DPS towards u, so 5 mediums for that should be more that enough (in a Domi perspective ofc).


Ive noticed myself that my heavys tend to kill frigs in the same time if not quicker that lights for a couple of reasons, first of, bigger range, this means as they fly to the frig with low transverse rate most of the time they pop the frig before they even get to it. Second, instead of orbiting like mad bugs round a flame, they sit behind the target and again have low transverse rate meaing there lack of tracking is not a issue. Finally, the firgs wont switch to attack the heavy drones that i send after it unlike the light drones so you kill the frigs quicker cause your drones aint dead.

Yes i use a couple of omnis but then i use a navy domi so why not.


Which ones are you using?
Mini large drones by chance?
Nad'x Hapax
Hapaxa
#22 - 2012-12-21 23:21:19 UTC
decaneos wrote:
Nad'x Hapax wrote:

Unlike some have said, I say never use heavies on frigates. Sometimes u need to get them of your back asap and heavies aint good for that. The only time u should use heavies is when u have close orbiting BSs (up to 6ish km) and when u are ready to take them on, theres NEVER enough DPS towards u, so 5 mediums for that should be more that enough (in a Domi perspective ofc).


Ive noticed myself that my heavys tend to kill frigs in the same time if not quicker that lights for a couple of reasons, first of, bigger range, this means as they fly to the frig with low transverse rate most of the time they pop the frig before they even get to it. Second, instead of orbiting like mad bugs round a flame, they sit behind the target and again have low transverse rate meaing there lack of tracking is not a issue. Finally, the firgs wont switch to attack the heavy drones that i send after it unlike the light drones so you kill the frigs quicker cause your drones aint dead.

Yes i use a couple of omnis but then i use a navy domi so why not.



Yeah Im tempted to agree but that means that you are limited to engage frigates at 3kish km. If u have a swarm of frigates coming your way at <15km, Gardes will have a hard time with them. Sure, best case scenario they are apon u in 10s but I still like the option. Long time ago now but there has been occasions that I saved my ship from certain doom by seconds so if I can engage potential scrams early Im happy. Also, in those cases a TP is the difference between dead drones and deadly drones.

Besides, Ive tried Gardes at 3-5km orbiting Angels BSs a lot since my last post and they work like charm thus making heavies a big nono for me
decaneos
Casalt Corp
CAStabouts
#23 - 2012-12-22 14:17:33 UTC
Kara Books wrote:
decaneos wrote:
Nad'x Hapax wrote:

Unlike some have said, I say never use heavies on frigates. Sometimes u need to get them of your back asap and heavies aint good for that. The only time u should use heavies is when u have close orbiting BSs (up to 6ish km) and when u are ready to take them on, theres NEVER enough DPS towards u, so 5 mediums for that should be more that enough (in a Domi perspective ofc).


Ive noticed myself that my heavys tend to kill frigs in the same time if not quicker that lights for a couple of reasons, first of, bigger range, this means as they fly to the frig with low transverse rate most of the time they pop the frig before they even get to it. Second, instead of orbiting like mad bugs round a flame, they sit behind the target and again have low transverse rate meaing there lack of tracking is not a issue. Finally, the firgs wont switch to attack the heavy drones that i send after it unlike the light drones so you kill the frigs quicker cause your drones aint dead.

Yes i use a couple of omnis but then i use a navy domi so why not.


Which ones are you using?
Mini large drones by chance?


HEAVY drones, im sure i mentioned that, heres a example 14:15:10 Combat 1125 to Arch Gistii Hijacker - Berserker II - Wrecks
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