Warfare & Tactics

if you really want to completely demolish a frigate, the tool of choice is generally a destroyer.

Double rep nano incursus. Still a tough fight.

Incursus is terrible to fight tristans, double rep even more so because it lacks the range control, not having a web. Tristans will just sit at 7kms and pummel you. Worst. Suggestion. Ever.

There's plenty of viable options to kill a non kite tristan really (if he's kite, even easier, just need something that can shoot far or something faster than him, really, or even just as fast and slingshot)

You just need more dps than him, his tank ain't nothing to write about.

Tormentor works great, if beam fit it simply murders it, pulses you get less dps (still more than him) but more tank. I'd say you simply can't lose to a tristan in it. Executioner works well as well, albeit a bit light on tank, might be a coin toss.

Atron works too, load void (watch for transversal), OH, approach, GG. Again, light tank so coin toss, also vulnerable if he's neut fit, but can disengage fast.

Merlin, double web to be sure you can get into optimal and pummel with void, again might be vulnerable if he's neut fit, but you can disengage easy. Kestrel, plate and 2 webs, rage rockets, orbit at 7kms and gg

Breacher, dual masb or masb + saar and rockets, tristan can't break that tank.

I won't even go into faction ships because it ain't even funny.

I had the impression he mentioned kite tristans. Incursuses do work.

But Atrons melt to tristans. Kite or not.

Navy Slicers.

Can't really suggest anything else cause it's been a while since I've flown anything else.

Pull range, manually pilot and when he drops drones shoot them down.

Worst case scenario is that you can't keep point and he warps because you just killed all his dps.

Worst thing about the Tristan is having a killable weapon system.

If he's flying a neut fit you better watch your range or you'll be a dead slicer.

Tristan will just leave... because web

go with the hybrid tank, it has *a chance* but dual masb will just mean the tristan leaves when it isn't winning (not sure why anyone would suggest anything brawler/scram kite without a web.

BTW sympathize with the whole not wanting to give up and just fly a tristan like everyone else, I was the same a couple of weeks back and I indeed gave up and jumped on the band wagon.

That suggestion of a 2web gank merlin could work if you wait in a plex for them to warp to you as you can get quite a DPS head start while they are still faffing about launching drones, the gank will bleed heavily into the hull tank (the real tank on the tristan) before they even get toomuch on you... well if it goes according to plan... it could work.

Not entirely accurate. I said that anything fast and can kite can will a tristan. Yes I used two faction frigates as examples but they are not the only ships that are fast and can kite. Also, I mentioned an incurses(sp?)

Condors would be one yes. I mostly fly blaster fit. The few times I used rails on a tristan though I have been killed by a condor.

I've had plenty of luck using MWD LML Kestrel.