Warfare & Tactics

Generally if I'm trying to avoid a fight I do the following:

High- cloak, neuts, cyno*
Mid- Microwarp/MicroJump, ECM, ABS
Low- Warp stabs
Drone- ECM, light damage

* Last ditch for large camps as it scares the hell out of them, sometimes they will run, and you'll live.

But honestly if you can't do the cloak and microwarp trick your dead if they have enough point. If you are packing 3+ stabs anyone able to prevent you from warp won't be foiled by ecm.

If you aren't configured for travel, and are jumped by a small ship a flight of ECM drones can often make the difference between life and death.

As far as ECM only ECM burst just breaks locks everything else prevents you from locking for a time. (Okay and lock breaker bombs..) This works but you need to be aligned, and at speed so you can burst and go right into warp.

I don't think webbing affects the warp condition. Its 75% of your top speed, regardless of whether you are webbed or not.

Ummm. Have you ever played a game called Eve online?

No need to be snippy, he was pointing out that you are wrong. (Unfortunately that's how its done here, deal with it)

You even contradicted yourself in your reply.

Web does effect warp condition as it lowers the speed required to enter warp, so your original statement is incorrect.

When you post erroneous statements you should know you will get flamed. Learn and wear it or GTFO, taking offense means he wins.

OT, ECM seems the only viable "passive aggressive" tactic. You should be aligned and then take your chance of jamming.

The correct strategy would be to take the necessary steps (read:scout ahead) to not get tackled in the first place if actively aggressing is not a viable tactic.

The Cyno tactic would hold some merit if you are in a corp/alliance/coalition known for such tactics but it is a niche situation and seems less likely to be successful when hypothetically generalizing.

Heh, I didn't insult you. If I wanted to insult you I would have linked this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Q93v7hGZA

oh wait...

I dissagre, if you fit a cyno, they first off take the desision to stay or leave, thats a quick 30-60 seconds easy, even less some people will insta warp out, if they where quick they need to desid if they are going to come back. Because maybe your titan missed the jump, someone was AFK and what not, who knows, they could just be waiting on you to come back, if the fleet cares about there roam or camp, or even ships, they'll stay away and wont come back, if they dont and just want to finish with a kill they'll come to kill you.

On the other hand if you tried ECM and Neuts and drop the cyno then they might not even leave and watch the cyno for your noobie carrier to jump in, i would wait for it, i mean someone drops a cyno i dont really care i lost this ships more then 100 times lets see what pops in you are stuck there anyways.

This post nails most of the solutions:

Highs:
Cloaking is the most sure way to avoid a fight, as it forces the opponent to decloak you. If you are far away or better yet, off grid when you cloak, it is highly unlikely they will be able to declaok you.

Cloaking is also used the the MWD-Cloak Trick. Come into a system, align to your outgate, hit cloak, hit your mwd (you have about 2 s to do this after you cloak), wait until your mwd completes its cycle, and then immediately decloak and spam warp. If you use a t2 cloak (not a prototype one), your velocity should exceed the 75% threshold required for warp even after you turn off the cloaking device, allowing you to instantly warp upon decloaking. Granted, if you are in a bubble, this won't work.

If you are in a BS, use the MJD-Cloak Trick. Same thing as above, but you hit the MJD instead of the cloak, and you don't even need to bother decloaking! The MJD will auto-decloak you at the end of its cycle, and shoot you forward 100 km's, aligned out your exit gate. You just warp to the exit point immediately and continue on. Realize you can only activate the MJD once every couple of minutes... so be careful if they give chase. The MJD is not stopped by bubbles, so this is the better option when operating in nullsec.

Nuet: Energy Neutralizers are a decent way to break frigate tackle. They won't work so well on cruisers, BCs, and BSs, or on multiple tacklers, as it takes a while to neut off larger ships, and unless you have multiple nuets, it only works on one ship. Also, cap boosters and Nos's are very effective counters to Neuts:

Cynos: You can light a cyno to bluff your way out of a "I'm dying and going down" situation... but this honestly should never work. If it does, your enemy is incompetent, as you'll be sitting in space, immobile, with a giant warp-to-me beacon, for 10 minutes.

Mids:
MWD might allow you to outrun your enemy if you are in a fast ship... This works well for dramiels and fleet interceptors.

MJD, as long as you aren't scrambled at the time the MJD activates (end of cycle), will jump you forward 100 km's. This often allows you to break tackle and get free. If you are scrammed, try ecm bursting a second or two before you MJD completes its cycle; you may get lucky and break the lock of the scrambler.

ECM Burst: This is a chance based get-out-of-jail-maybe-card. If successful, it will break the lock of every ship tackling you. The more ships, and the bigger their sensor strength, the less likely this is to work. Be aligned, and spam warp after activating this module.

ECM: Unbonused ECM is pretty low success rate, but if you jam off a ship it can't tackle you for 20 seconds. This may be worth it.

Lows:
Warp core stabs are the obvious direct counter to being tackled. Each WCS adds 1 warp core strength to your ship. One will counter a single warp disruptor, and two will counter the you-cannot-warp effect of a single scrambler. Granted, if you are in a bubble, or tackled by a hictor's infinite-pt, these won't help you.

Align speed modules: Nanofibers, Inertia Stabilizers, and corresponding rigs will allow your ship to align faster. On smaller ships, it is possible to improve your align time that most ships simply cannot lock you before you warp. On larger ships, it makes some of the above techniques much more effective.

Note that I'm mostly joking about the cyno. I do fit one for grins every so often as I often have a random collection of them looted off random wrecks around stations. (I have a looting issue...) Most pirates are going to warp off, and come back at a perch 100+ off the gate to see what jumps in, and send in some cheap ships take you out, but if you're already dying it's at least asmusing to scare your attackers for a bit. Only used the cyno once on my FW alt when I fat fingered my cloak, campers warped off, came back, someone else joined the fun, and then I blew up.... (Not sure if the campers or FW fleet won as I barely escaped with my implants intact.)