Warfare & Tactics

I am tryin to throw together a good wolfpack to deal with bigger ships. Drones are obviously an issue for frigates, in particular drone heavy boats. I know that with my 6 mill sp in gunnery skills i can instapop most light drones with a single blast from a set of rails.... My idea was that the wolfpack warps in, tackles and fights the ship or ships we are targeting, them cormorant warps in, sets a good 25 or 35 km out an pops the fast movin drones while the rest of the ships use E-war and DPS to bring them down... maybe 2 cormies...

Its just an idea... have not even tested it.... What do yall think?

Bad idea uses too many people. That and caldari destroyers are just awful useless peaces of crap. I batter plan and more fun is a wolf pack 5 wolf assult ships on 5 thrashers. If you want to keep with the range idea use arty thrashers. Perhaps drone whore them with the gali assult ships.

I think do this after the winter expansion when dessies get a buff.

Alpha Thrasher gangs are where it is at, no tank all gank...its a beautiful thing

It actually works well if you us 150mm II's with spike on the Cormorant. Just make sure you sit waaaaaaaaaaaay off the fight and be aligned for a fast escape if anything gets too close.

The Catalyst also works well for this but I would suggest using a pair of sniping destroyers to kill the drones quicker.

Arty Thrashers are ok for this but they don't really have the range of the Cormorant or Catalyst and will pop if, as already mentioned, the target looks at them too hard.

Sniping Harpy is also a good choice as it doesn't pop as easily as the destroyers would and can snipe from 100km away.

Hope this helps.

10MN AB CATALYST

Killing drones depends on your gang's size. If you are in a largish (15+) wolfpack or hornet fleet, killing drones is usually a waste of time. Under such circumstances, you want the person with drone aggro to power away from the fight and draw the drones far from the battle. Basically, they should tank the drones as long as possible while getting safish, allowing the majority of the gang to melt the target. Sometimes this is not feasible, at which killing the drones might save the pilot's ship.

In smaller gangs (5ish), it takes some time to kill your target.. and declawing them is important. Using sniping dessies would work, but your sacrificing a lot of dps for range. The range allows you to warp away if you need to, and stay generally safe. Longer range weapons will hit you very well at range, and might alpha you. Be carefull of lazors and BS weapons. Its typically viewed as more desireable to have close range dessies. The output much more dps, are easier to fit, but have lower overall survivability. Its hard for dessies to get under the tracking of medium guns, although the dessie changes should help significantly with that.