Warfare & Tactics

if you are flying as a group all the time, then fit accordingly. most of the fits i see here are solo. when in a group its not a bad idea to have only one point, then ewar on the rest of the ships. using ewar to compensate for your missing skills and experience will tip the engagement on your favor, and the single point will force anyone who engages to leave someone behind or go all in. no need to point everyone.

We've joined a FW corp and have started doing some plexes in enemy territory. Most of the time though, there are only 2 of us online together. I'm kind of having a hard time picking what type of ship to use for these, would anyone have any suggestions? I have tried a scam kiting setup (Breacher), and it seemed fun bun hard to keep ships at ~8k. When I orbit they always drop out of range and if I come in closer its easy to get to me. I'm wondering what is better for us to be doing.

Something that kites from warp disruptor range seems safe but also seems very low damage, and so it would take a long time to kill plex npcs or players and seems like it would be impossible to kill a cruiser or anything with a decent tank.

An up close brawler seems like it would be pretty good but I haven't tried it yet. Are any of these frigates going to be able to fight a cruiser 2v1 and still be fit to hold their own vs frigates? We have been trying different size plexes from novice to medium in our frigates. I guess what I don't understand is, is this totally rock paper scissors? If I switch to a cruiser fit with rapid light missile launchers to fight frigates will other cruisers destroy me? Then if I fit to fight other cruisers will one frigate that gets in and orbits me be able to kill me?

you can do mwd kite tristan - I don't remember how, sadly :P

But... you fit medium shield extender, warp disruptor and mws in meds, nothing in highs, and then... nanofiber and some other stuff in low slots. It's a popular kiting fit, will work very well in gangs.

As for flying cruisers... You might get caught more often, as cruisers won't hit warp as quickly as a frig does. I'd advise you to just stick to frigate gangs till you start to kill everything in your path.

Scram kite fit: kestrel

Rigs: small anciliary current router, 2x trimark armor pump (don't remember exact names now)

Highs - 4x rocket launcher

meds - 2x werb, j5b warp scram and an afterburner

lows - 400 mm rolled tungen plates, and either ballistic control system od damage control unit.

When someone enters your plex hit approach till you can scram and web them. Then "keep at range 7.5". if they can reliably reach you with good dps (rails, arties etc) hit orbit at 500 m and burn the AB. It will most likely allow you to outpace their tracking. Slicers and missile boats will be difficult for ya if their short range fitted (better dps, same range as you) but I did kill slicers with this fit.

When scram kiting with a breacher I'd probably hit "keep at range 5.0 km" and see what happens then act accordingly. No idea how you fly breacher, or what fit you use, but I'd try to rely on it's superior tank, instead of total range control.

Consider your approach. If you are running the FW plexes and depending on others to bring the fight to you then essentially you are playing by THEIR terms. The concept of fair fights rarely exists in Eve and you should look at it more as getting a 'favourable' engagement.

Now. If you are running the plexes that means you have the opportunity to control the range at which the fight starts since you are in a gated location. So while I said earlier that you are playing be the aggressors terms, in reality you have the opportunity to decide the range at which the engagement starts. When you realise that everyone is aware of this powerful advantage you have you can realise why you might get larger numbers engaging rather than equal numbers.

Putting yourself in their position and actually being the hunter allows you to decide if an engagement is doable or not. More importantly, as you improve you will realise that engaging against larger numbers is often entirely possible as long as you control the grid. Essentially keep away from the majority and try to pick off anyone that pulls away from their blob.

Is there a reason no one seems to use Hail and instead uses the faction t1 ammo? Is it just that Hail can't hit frigates as well?

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