Ships & Modules

I like to get in close and smash my enemy's face in.
I love frigates.
Solo gets my blood pumping like nothing else.

My question is, what currently are the best ships for doing this and how do I fit them?

Yes, I expect to die alot.

The plan is basically the death of 100 Frigates until I figure out how to do solo PvP right.
I do realize it might take 1,000 and that is ok too.

I like the optimal, 1k to 3k.

Thanks for the fit, I will try it and let you know how it works out.

thats my most loved one

[Breacher, pew]

3x Rocket Launcher II (Inferno Rage Rocket)

1MN Afterburner II
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator
Medium Ancillary Shield Booster (Navy Cap Booster 50)
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I

Ballistic Control System II
Pseudoelectron Containment Field I
Small Ancillary Armor Repairer (Nanite Repair Paste)

Small Anti-Thermal Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Explosive Pump I

2x Warrior II

More than that...


Anyways. To answer OP's question. Give 'em the D

Low sec is pretty busy these days, especially in FW zones. If you want to learn to solo then take kite fits so you can peel off when the gang shows up.

Then again, I have happily lost about 200 of these:

[Atron, hero tank]
Damage Control II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

Limited 1MN Afterburner I
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator

Light Neutron Blaster II, Void S
Light Neutron Blaster II, Void S
Light Neutron Blaster II, Void S
[empty high slot]

Small Transverse Bulkhead I
Small Transverse Bulkhead I
Small Processor Overclocking Unit I

Edit: with my skills, just over 3k ehp, 250ish dps out to 1.6k, and over 1600m/s, cap stable.

If you drop down to ions you can fit a neut. The dps only drops to around 230 and cap still lasts for more than 2 min.

Hull tank ftw

I would also add that the dual tank breacher fit someone posted above me is bad ass

Arty Firetail, GO!

High:
2x 280mm Howitzer Artillery II, Republic Fleet Fusion (Phased Plasma/EMP)
Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Mjolnir Rocket

Mids:
1MN Afterburner II
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
2x X5 Prototype Engine Enervator

Lows:
Damage Control II
Small Ancillary Armor Repairer
Gyrostabilizer II

Rigs:
Small Anti-Explosive Pump I
Small Anti-Kinetic Pump I
Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I

Notes: I often use an anti-thermic rig in place of the anti-kinetic rig because a lot of the time you'll be taking some drone damage and if it's not coming from warriors chances are high you'll be taking thermal damage. So I feel it's justifiable even if EFT tells you otherwise. Also anything that is going to be firing kinetic damage that will be threatening to you is likely using light missiles and should be avoided. If you do get kited by a Condor or something carry a little Republic Fleet Depleted Uranium or something similar and try to get his transversal down and fire manually when you get a decent shot. Most LML kiters are thin and won't hold up well if you can land a few hits, sometimes they will even panic when they take a big hit and let you tackle them. Railguns are about the only threat where kinetic is probably preferable but they still deal healthy amounts of thermal damage as well.

One of the really nice things about this fit is the alpha strike is intense even if the dps isn't great. You often break frigates with active tanks very easily through the simple use of extreme force. The dual webs and tracking bonus plus your optimal means your volleys have no trouble landing on target and as long as you select your damage type correctly you can often punch clean through their rep tank and into the buffers below them. Dual rep Incursus pilots get very sad when your shot goes through all their armor and still takes a chomp out of their structure on top of it.

Against active reps you'll need to gauge how much damage your target is able to project out to hit you. If it's low or even none then often times it can be a good idea to use the rocket launcher to kill any drones so you have all day. Linked dual rep Incursus fights can take a while as you wait for enough hits over 700 damage to finish off his structure since you have to get through his armor again each time, you don't want his drone plinking away at you while you wait for RNG to come up roses. 17k damage to solo an Incursus anyone?

Your dual webs will allow you to dictate range against almost anything while you will easily hit anything in web range, if it starts going badly or you're up against an unexpected fit you should be able to disengage easily enough. The Firetail is an excellent scram kiter.

This is exactly why I use Arties, Rails and Pulses, instead of blasters and autocannons. Rockets over Light missiles is a little more dependent on situation and use. On frigates these guns still track quite well especially if you have a web (you have a web, right?) and they project damage at least out to scram range.

The problem with MWD and blasters/ACs particularly, is that with so many opponents fitting AB and scrams it becomes very hard to stay in close, you get scrammed and webbed and the AB easily pulls range then holds where you can't project damage making your window to 100% to 0% the enemy very short. Your only hope is to fit an AB making you vulnerable to being kited by MWD fits or simply being too far behind by the time you're in range to melt face. The fact that you can do all your fighting inside FW plexes where getting a fight to start at 0m is easier than anywhere else in the game helps immensely if you are AB and blaster/AC fit. So fit an AB and you risk getting kited to death by MWDs, fit an MWD and you risk getting AB, scram kited to death, if both of you are AB and facemelt then you just have to win the dps race and if you're both face melt guns and you have a MWD while your enemy has an AB, you just nerfed your cap and bloomed your signature to get right in where your enemy wants you, not off to a great start. So the question of AB or MWD on FW point blank frigates becomes and infinite question of "Do they know that I know that I know that they know?" sort of repeating loop that never ends in a complete answer. None of these options are particularly appealing to me so I chose to find another option entirely.

The solution to this problem seemed obvious enough to me, fit guns that reach anywhere within scram range losing very little to none of their damage to falloff (ACs may hit @ 8-9 km but their damage is very poor at that range), at the same time fit an AB with scram and web to keep face melters back and to allow your guns to track extremely well, if you do get kited by a long range MWD ship you still have the ability to fit long range ammo and project damage out to long point range as well allowing you to survive even if you can't get a kill in many situations. Very practical solution really.

I guess you don't fly much in fw space. When the engagement starts at 0... and they often do... You need the ab to keep yourself in the envelope.

[Hawk, 2 asb]
Co-Processor II
Ballistic Control System II

Medium Ancillary Shield Booster, Navy Cap Booster 50
Medium Ancillary Shield Booster, Navy Cap Booster 50
Experimental 1MN Afterburner I
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator

Rocket Launcher II, Scourge Rage Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Scourge Rage Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Scourge Rage Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Scourge Rage Rocket
[empty high slot]

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer II
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer II


Works well. That said I lose loads of them so either it may suck or I do. (I suck).