Warfare & Tactics

Jam all the drones


using your 12 midslot ship.

You don't think it's odd to use bandwidth as a balancing mechanic when bandwidth is only a measure of how many drones can be used and nothing else?

I mean, you brick tank drone ships as your CPU/PG permits, then bandwidth gives you extra leeway and allows you to put stuff that deals damage practically free of charge. (c) Triple tanking Tristans.

Or fit utility into what is essentially 2-4 utility highs (c) Every Drone ship that just goes with neuts instead of guns.

Or fit oversized modules without thinking too hard about ta... Actually you fit oversized modules and decent tank to boot. (c) 100MN Ishtars.

To further the notion of how missile ships are just for hipsters that refuse to use drones, consider than warriors will go 12km/s (c) drone speed fit nano algos.


Bandwidth and how it's used as a balance mechanic to keep drone ships in check looks like its failing mad. If you insist on insulting someones' capability to bring the "right ship for the right situation", as in bring a similar thing but with better modules, please use something that does not contain "Butthurt" as it is so overly predictable by now.

The whole destructible drones gimmick is failing as well, in cases other than ECM/EWAR drones which have no tank whatsoever. Admittedly I have no clue how easy it is to destroy drones for cruisers, but on frigate level, light drones with their 25m sig radius and almost flawless 600m/s orbit at point blank makes them as hard to hit as when firing Void Neutrons at linked halo slashers - who cares if they have sub 1k EHP when the TTK is still half the time it'd take you to kill the actual bloody ship.

You can't speed tank them unless you simply outrun them - has been demonstrated on the previous page where it was shown that moving away from them is actually worse than standing still. Which is contradictory to the strategy you would take against the actual ship that launched them. Is it not obvious that in this case, drone ships have all flanks covered?

Are we taking turns? Does CCP just roll a dice or something?

Why is it Caldari centric? I'm not RP. Is it because I mentioned missiles? Should I mention turrets lel?

I haven't mentioned a thing about reppers.

I only dared to mention the complete lack of needing half a thousand PG to fit guns allowing effortless cramming of oversized ABs and tank.

Must be some grade A drone bias bullocks in the air messing with your interpretation.

this just shows how to kill a drone boat with 3 times the numbers though

He's either a troll, or really, really stupid...

I'll add that he is a frog. Self serving agenda at it's finest.

1)We killed a great fitted and piloted Worm without any losses. 2)Our ships together don't equal the cost of that Worm. 3)shut up, you weren't there. I pulled initial point on him and solo'd his drones. The rest pretty much whored, with the blaster Comet nearly dying to the rocket fire. On top of that, it is not my only Worm kill, just the most recent. List another frig that does close combat rails better than a Comet to fight this way. gtfo

::edit:: I don't mean to downplay the help of my brothers. Das did not have anything near small enough to fit in the novice, so he fit an Incursus up as fast as he could and managed to come in while I was working on the last 2 hob's. I was 7% structure on a buffer armor fit, and Grahmm would have lost his Comet were it not for the Incursus deeps, even though he lost it later to another Worm pilot 20min later who abandoned augmented hob's as we landed (cynabal, rax). I was gonna contract them over, but I later lost them in the cargo on a scattered messy warp-in. You should not down-play how effective Worm's are now. That is a legit kill won by skill, not a bum rush kill - Worm's are too tanky for that. It was a 5 minute engagement easy.

I love Eve.

This is totally legitimate. Faction ships with high skilled pilots who lose to tech 1 or navy ships can't complain about being outnumbered by a small gang that costs less than the pimp fit shiny.

Navy drone pilots are the salt of the earth in New Eden. Everyone knows it, fools debate it.

You were in the most powerful sub pirate faction frig that coincidentally fields almost a full flight of drones.... And were able to kill a couple of drones in a situation in which you had a massive advantage.

Congradufuckinglations.

Worm was brawl fit and got rekt by a kite fit?
Am I seeing this wrong?

Kite worms, best worms.

I've said in another thread that the Ishtar needs a full heavy flight bay reduction.

The same as when you fight sn Ishtar you fight the Worm. You figure out what they are fielding and what their prop is. A mwd worm will obviously have a smaller tank and possibly no highs. Thank goodness for geno's that make predictions a failure. That being said, it was a blind engagement. I managed to pull range, saw the flight of t2 Hobs, and (through great advice from a better pilot, who convinced me their drones were killable) decided to attempt to hold point while my acolytes hit my target and while I tried to clear drones.

To say I had the paper to scissors with a kite fit shows how much you know about fighting drone ships. Your strategy primarily should be against the drones, secondly against the ship. So, unless I'm wrong (as you seem to believe), drones are often quite faster than an orbiting MWD Comet. This is what I mean by saying force drones to stop and chase. They will mwd to you, hit you once and begin their normal orbit speed and then repeat. This is also why I was in hull.

::edited out pretentious bs::