Warfare & Tactics

Zealot is interesting for killing small targets.

You can also use it for anti-drones job: 2 salvo = 1 drone dead.

Now we're talking. Lets say I like fast moving mean attack frigates, and I like killing things. Where is my place in a fleet for a major corp?

Last time I brought this up people shot this concept down real fast, but as I've been lurking the last few months I keep seeing people talking about frig groups so I know I'm not crazy.

If you get hotdropped by a group of bombers, the least of your worries is the falcon. That's just icing on the cake.

OP, Caracal (NI) is a good choice. Fit 5x AMLs on it and it will eat frigates like scooby snacks. Even better, you can get into a Cerberus and do it from 100+km. Plus the HAC skills will benefit you if you have other racial cruisers trained to 5. You can also branch out into a Falcon or Rook if you prefer Caldari and/or ECM. Permajamming enemy tacklers makes you lots of friends on the blue side, and lots of enemies on the red side.

The "ship thing" is secondary to organisation.

Your role in your corp.
- Find other small ship enthuasists
- Organise an Channel for coordination
- Learn
After a while your performance as an group should improve and your FCs will recognise this. A ceptor wing benefits greatly from a handful of players who are not switching to damage/logi department and giving experience and routine. We organised up to 30 Ceptors with just 4x dedicated players and as a whole I would say we were arround ten dedidcated ceptor pilots in the alliance.

A big Problem is, Interceptors are among the first T2 ship people can fly. So a lot of low skill players with low battle experience doing a rather demanding job.
Let's see the BS job....
1. Align and warp on command
2. target primary
3. press F1
4. broadcast early
5. overheat hardner when you get primaried.
Doing this perfectly and you become a 95% perfect bs pilot.

Your "role".
Ceptors take a lot of roles and often perform duties without consulting the fc, instead coordinating with each others. Self reliance, independant thinking. It takes a lot of pvp expericence to do this. You can't bother the fc with all those micro managment.

- Scouting, Warp ins/ping spots, Gate blockade
- Tackling
- Combatjobs, killing enemy ceptors and support, protecting cyno sips, hunting down stragglers and scouts

The less ceptors are in group, the more you have to perform the first part. For more numbers you delegate. Be allways ready to sacrifice your glory for the boring jobs that benefits the fleet (means, make warp ins). And nether listen to te nonsense of sacrificing for tackles. There are very few targets worth sacrifiing, since an depeleted ceptor command means the whole fleet becomes immobile. I only sacrificed myself once for an enemy fc tackle demanded by our fc.

I will also plug in for a Caracal (NI) with AMLs as a very effective frig killer, especially if you use Precisions vs ceptors. You will probably get popped by opportunitst snipers, or just alphaed by the enemy DPS every now and then but if you keep your sig low (AB fit) you can keep the enemy ceptors at range fairly efficiently.

ECMing them works well - remember that frigs have a low base sensor strength to start with so it doesn't take much to jam them. This brings the Kitsune in as an option, or a BB.

I would also say you can try a Flycatcher, few people fit it for DPS but it can pack a considerable punch. Same with a Sabre.

In terms of webbing, your best option is a Huginn. Multiple, long range webs and TP's, and fit AMLs/ACs. I've also seen Cynabals do very well against frigs/ceptors due to their over the top tracking and ceptor-like speed.

Caracal NI is surprisingly touch boat with 2 x lse, invul and rigs. If you fly in 0.0 fleet which tend to have dedicated tacklers like Lachesis, then you can drop the usual warp disruptor and fit more hardeners or even some fleet support ewar to one mid-slot. Also, did they actually chance precision missiles in Crucible? If not, i'd stick to faction ammo since the speed off-set is not worth the small damage increase you might get IMO (damage increase usually only applies against heavily pimped inties and faction boats which have full link set helping them).

A rupture with tracking computers will kill frigates pretty effectively, as will the aforementioned assault launcher caracal.