Warfare & Tactics

All you need to gatecamp is logi and dps.. Its not very complicated..

A Hyena also helps against well-tanked ships (bumping is effort).

Well, I'm looking for a composition that is good , if we get hot dropped or get into a fair fight.

Yeah, we forgot the most important part: you need EXTREMELY entertaining people on comms, or as we say in Italy, 'your balls will fall off' (from boredom).

Last time that happened on my other alt the scout got primaried by his own fleet.

It's not that bad; you just need a scout autistic enough to pay attention to the whole time who can call out in comms when it's time to pause your movie and tab back in for a target.

(this is why I never take any position of responsibility in gatecamps).

Anyways, here are some things you want to run a good gatecamp:

1. Scouts. As mentioned above, people are not going to sit there staring at a gate intently waiting for stuff to come through. You need people in the systems around you monitoring traffic for targets and gangs large enough to ruin your day. Ideally, your scout should be unaffiliated from you.
2. An Interdictor. Bubbles are essential for catching covops ships and escape pods and can be very helpful against fast-warping ships in general. Note that Interdictors are expensive, fragile, and important to your ability to keep catching things, so if someone jumps a Brutix into your camp you probably just want to bubble and jump through the gate instead of diving into webs and blasters.
3. Anchorable Bubbles. Put these up in-line with any major lanes of traffic coming to the gate to catch people coming at your camp from the opposite direction. These should be far enough away from the gate that people who get caught won't be able to just crash the gate, but not so far away that they can just turn around and warp away before anyone comes to land tackle on them. These can also save your lives when a gang your scout missed because he was watching porn lands 40km away from you instead of in the middle of your camp.
4. A very fast-locking Interceptor (lock time on a frigate <2 seconds). If this player has fast hands, this will allow you to point anything but a purely travel-fit Interceptor coming through your gate.
5. Fast locking Webs and Scrams. You can lose a lot of kills to nimble targets crashing back to the gate they came through or just overheated their MWDs and walking away from your tackle before they can react. A ship that can lock them quickly and kill their mobility before they get a good head of steam going or cover much ground (bonuses to range or web strength are very helpful) makes it much, much harder for them to get away. A Daredevil receiving remote sensor boosting with skirmish links is not something that most ships can get away from.
6. ECM. Yes, ECM is a ****** mechanic, but you play the game you're given and gatecamps are about murdering idiots. A truly dangerous gatecamp relies on ships that are expensive and fragile, and the best way to keep them alive is to make sure the enemy doesn't get to shoot at them. You are going to feel like idiots when someone jumps through in a T1 fit Caracal worth 10mil and blaps your Daredevil before going down.

The rest of your camp can be whatever your pilots have around and feel like flying (don't limit yourself by racial composition). It helps if your ships complement each other in general (same tanks, similar fighting styles, etc) and having a competent gang (with logistics) put together for your camp with let you take fights that come your way instead of having to warp off over a couple of T1 cruisers, but don't go into this expecting some sort of tightly disciplined doctrine. Just be wary of people bringing obviously expensive ships to the camps, because someone parking a Pirate Battleship or a T3 off a well-traveled gate is going to attract the wrong kind of attention.

Gate Camping: You're doing it right.

As much as I like a well-planned camp for the off chance that a decent fight pops up or good loot gets dropped, drunken comedy fratricide ranks high on my list of success criteria as well.

1 Large Rep exequeror with quad resebo
1 Daredevil with fed navy web and max tank
X Cloaky ishtar 100km away with tracking scripted bouncers

Corps also sometimes hotdrop things that are irritating them. If you instalock gatecamps in legions someone is liable to go "You know what.. **** those guys, lets kill them"

99% of gatecamps are blissfully unaware of the existence of links. As such, they are always surprised when a solo battleship noscopes their camp.