Warfare & Tactics

Cheers mate. I have that fit already saved in my database for use of later. Do you think you would have faired better in you had a neut instead of the Hvy Ass missile v that gang of frigs?

The stabber and the fleet stabber are both horrible ships for solo. I will never and have never flown them. Both ships are using a horrible weapon system and frankly can't kite worth a damn.

The scythe fleet, used to be amazing and I flew it extensively. However the RLM nerf happened and I have not really liked the ship afterwards. Like the stabber / fleet stabber it uses auto cannons, however it doesn't have any projection or tracking bonus so really As a ugh ship it's a complete waste. HMLs and HAMs are both complete **** unless the ship using them has an innate velocity / application bonus. Since the scythe fleet also doesn't have that- those two weapon systems are no go. The other option I tried was an lml version. I hated it. Even though I could make silly 100mn + 10mn prop fits, it just had not dpi- but some nice utility though.

If I had to pick a cruiser that is unlinked for solo... Honestly I have no idea. As it stands now, any cruisers going to die to a handful of intys and you are not going to be able to do much about it. Throw in an EAF and you are truly ******. Missile ships are clearly superior for the current high speed into meta, so if I was forced to choose something it would probably be a HAM sprey or HAM CNI. With out links, I would stay away from turret ships because you are not going to have the speed + overheated WMD too burn out and push down transversal and blap frigs. Obviously if you are flying with any missiles, have standard or strong crash with you at all times. It's a life saver.

Best ship for solo / small gang ATM is the heretic- hands down.

A properly fit LML Heretic could finish a Comet, or any T1/Faction frig for that matter, before it gets into scram range.

Cheers for your thoughts on the stabber and fleet stabber Chessur.

It is still the only cruiser to get on my top 15 most used ships on my KB. Interestingly enough though I did a bit of digging and while the numbers are not high I do not have a single loss of a stabber to a frig/gang of frigs. All my stabber losses have involved cruisers or above often way outclassed by HACs, BC or pirate cruisers.

I think I'll probably still use it for a while unless it proves to be completely useless (Then I'll probably end up flying it even more )

I have also been doing some Fitter warrior'ing with the Fleet scythe and tbh it doesn't look to bad. I can get to just under 3km/s cold with a 4.7s align time (faster & more agile than AF) it also puts out over 400 dps with arties cold, only has about 17k ehp though but tanks over 200dps with booster running and is cap stable with a small cap booster.

While this is pure fitter warrior these figures would indicate that it it at least feasible to use this in combat as I've success with ships that have way less in the stat department. vOv worth a shot anyways.

It must be my TZ or something because I haven't seen the proliferation of inties roaming around that is being suggested

I'm actually pretty curious where you're flying to be confident that you can find other cruisers to solo, IME the odds of being set upon by a gang of frigs is so high that it just makes more sense to counter those

I haven't roamed around in Curse for a while so I can't say much about that region. However, on the numerous occasions where I have roamed in Providence (usually been 1hr +/- downtime) in my Frigates, they always had at least 2 Crows or Maledictions on the Field fleeted with Sabres, Thrashers etc..

I have noticed a tendency for the Provi guys to ship up from Frigates once they see anything larger then a destroyer enter their region.

I will have to give them credit though, it's amazing how much effort they put into shutting down 1 solo pilot. On multiple occasions they have set up gate camps of about 20 pilots just for me.... \o/.

I think this is just the typical behavior to be expected when roaming around in Sov Null due to jump bridge mechanics though.

IME after a few hours roaming around in NPC Null or Low Sec, I would consider myself the luckiest pilot in Tranquility if I didn't see several Crows and Maledictions around.

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