EVE General Discussion

If you want to fight frigates with a larger ship you need an anti-frigate fit. Cruisers and up aren't really designed for fighting frigates, they are designed for fighting cruisers and up. The obvious answer is neuts+webs+light drones, but you can even get gimmicky with it and fit light guns or missiles. Or try a cruiser like a Stabber, for example, which is known for being well equipped to draw frigates away from their fleet and kill them.

As with anything, fit your ship to be a specialized counter to the targets you plan to engage, then choose your fights accordingly. If you are fit for fighting battleships don't let frigates engage you.

Ya man, cuz I totes didn't know all that. Whats a web? Light drones, oh those things that pump out 90 dps unbonused!? Why didn't I think of that!!!??

F**king idiots

You asked how to do it and I told you. What's your problem?

Frankly if you want to know how to kill frigates with a cruiser, you should start by trying to kill cruisers with frigates, and pay attention to how you die when you die. You seem to have gone straight from frigate vs frigate PvP directly to 500 million isk faction cruiser vs 10 man frigate/destroyer gang PvP without anything in between. Those were gangs that you never should have attempted to engage without first accepting the inevitable loss of your ship. I humbly suggest you try and kill some solo cruisers before you try to fly them.

To let you know, you sound like a ****, pretty simple.

It will fit just fine if you drop a gun.

So you now have 2 threads in gd blaming your pvp short comings on eve's "bad tracking mechanics" . Will you start another when you inevitably get told it is your bad fits and tactics not eve that is the problem ?

Actually deploying your 5 bling hobgoblins you had in your navy Ex.
You know how small drones, particularly the bling ones eat frigates alive.

Good job keeping them in your drone bay.

Muat be bad game mechanics huh? Drones should auto deploy from the bay to defend you huh?
Damn broken game mevhanics that caused me to keep my only 5 frigate killing drones in the bay....



LOL god you are not good huh?

I have a Gall Fw alt. Ima awox the hell out of you if i see you htw

So before checking your own killmail, you raged on the forums?

If you're the kind of pilot who doesn't take the time to analyze their own killmails before getting salty about "bad mechanics" on the forums, how likely is it that you will even listen to anyone here?

Every killmail should leave you with the question, "What did I do wrong here?"

Yeah me too. I've been hit by Santo, Piir8 and a couple of others on different characters, being lazy and warping straight up gate in my pod. That's why I included that in my post.

Santo and the Copycats are a hazard in Black Rise and Essence in particular.

Aside from that though, losing a pod isn't a "very, very likely" event.

Looking at your killboard, one other thing I'd add to my earlier posts about giving your self the best advantage is move away from the Old Man Star -> Tama pipe and don't take Battleships to Kinakka solo (home of Waffles).

When I first started pvp I stupidly moved into Siseide (as a 6 day old character) and when that was too hot after about 3 weeks I thought I'd move closer to my Corp and so moved into Heydieles (was exclusively solo pvping at the time so I could get some experience and feel like I could join them in fleet ops).

That whole pipe from Heydieles up to Tama, whether you go via Abune or via Fliet, is a small gang Mecca. Vox, Soul Takers, Galmil, Calmil, Shadow Cartel to a degree, roaming gangs etc..

As a solo pilot flying large, slow, brawling ships; it's just about the most difficult area I could think to move into. You can fly cruiser sized kiting ships (eg. Cerberus) successfully in that area because they give you more 'gtfo' ability and their speed helps, but flying brawling navy exeqs is always going to be difficult.

I'd suggest moving to a different area, to find systems where you'll be able to find more 1v1 situations and/or gangs of pilots with less skill than Vox, SC, Spaceship Bebop, Villore Accords, etc.

The pipe from Agoze to Vlillirier for example (although Snuffed Out are now in Vey and a couple of groups have moved into Eugales, it's still a better pipe for solo fights). From Melmaniel through to Hevrice can also be ok for solo pvp, though it often contains FW plexing alts. You could move further north though with Brave moving into Kehjari and Horde being in W-4NUU/Okagaiken there's a lot of gangs moving through there too now. Essentially, just about anywhere would be better than OMS -> Tama for the type of pvp you want to concentrate on.

Just my 0.02c having soloed in that area for a long time too. Loss is going to happen more than wins if you persist with large slow brawling ships in the current meta. In something like a Exeq Navy, a small ship can easily hold you down while their backup arrives.

I'd also suggest, if you want to be able to chase off light tackle, switch out the 'augmented' hobgoblins for T2 Warriors or Acolytes. The hobs have the higher DPS, but the speed of the Warriors in particular will give them an easier time against a tackle frigate if you are trying to get it off you.