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Small cruiser gang - gate fighting?
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Jack Heindel
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-07-02 19:54:26 UTC
Hi all,

I was wondering if it was possible to fight with a small gang of cruisers on a gate?

As far as I remember the gate guns rip cruisers appart, but are there any tricks; or alternatives to this?

cheers
JAF Anders
Adenosine Inhibition
#2 - 2014-07-02 22:41:44 UTC
Just grab a pair of Tech I logistics, be that Augorors, Exequrors, Ospreys, or Scythes to your flavor. The bigger the fleet, the more logistics you're likely to have on-hand, and the less of an overall impact the gate guns will have. It'll be a little bit dicey with a limited pool of hit points and standard resists, but if you throw a reasonable amount of tank on your cruisers, you'll do fine.

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Zero Sum Gain
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#3 - 2014-07-03 01:58:11 UTC
Gate/station guns do 350 dps total. So assuming your target doesn't fight back you can calculate how long you have to kill them and warp off.
Maeltstome
Ten Thousand Days
#4 - 2014-07-03 12:37:08 UTC
The guns will both target the first person to land aggression. Once your target is tackled by multiple people, the person with aggro should warp off-grid and return to reset aggro. Once the guns split DPS between 2 targets, it's a much easier fight for you.

Plated cruisers with some logistics are your best bet.
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#5 - 2014-07-04 06:08:35 UTC
We have a rule on gatecamps with cruisers. Everyone but scouts agresses. Even when out of range, even when they cannot hit. This splits the sentry DPS over the entire fleet evenly.
Christopher Mabata
Northern Accounts and Systems
#6 - 2014-07-07 12:34:51 UTC
Cruisers that are well fit tank guns just fine, ive done it in a thorax and a caracal before, even once in an ashimmu. sure having logi on grid is nice but not always needed.

A neat trick is to have a procurer with you to tackle and tank the guns for a moment until the fleet grabs the target they have ridiculous tanks and scan res so they do this nicely even in null

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