Ships & Modules

Cov-ops RR T3's

Not really recomended... wont save bombers, and you should have enough ewar to lock down anything else... bring more dps/ewar.

Proteus and Legion have a defensive subsystem that greatly enhance their resists as well as their remote rep amount (adaptive augmenter), they might be what you are looking for. They tank well and rep like champs.

Also, as ChromeStriker said, forget about repping the bombers, you don't have the rep range and they don't have enough buffer nor resists to be targeted by remote reps. You can bridge them as usual but they will have to fend for themselves: kite, shoot and apply ewar.

Another solution can be to RR-fit your Stratios, and add a couple T3 logis on top, and 2-3 armor recons.

The issue i see is the crapload of fuel you will be using, as well as the usual RR gang issues (pilots being overwhelmed by the numbers of buttons to push and ending up repping the primary and shooting their friends).

Best of luck.

Yeah sorry i meant the fuel for bridging with your black ops battleship. I don't know how many stratios or assorted cruisers you wanna bring, but even if i don't know the exact numbers, i remember that bridging cruisers was a bit costly.

Nowadays you mostly see either lots of bombers being bridged with a couple recons, or just black ops battleships that jump directly to the cyno, making the bridging blops bs' fuel issue non relevant.

The general tactic behind BLOP-dropping (yes, that is what it is called) is to kill quickly and GTFO as soon as you can.
The reason for this is that, barring certain exceptions, most ships capable of using a covert-ops cloak are not terribly tanky/ganky (depending on their fit) and rely more on "tricks" (electronic warfare), target selection, and surprise to be effective.

Basically, covert ships are not really designed to fight "head on" with anyone (besides their intended target). Just hit and run. If you are caught in a situation where you have to fight a straight battle, you have done something terribly wrong and need to think about GTFOing immediately.


It is. It is not a ship you will find roaming the spacelanes often, if at all.


You need Liquid Ozone in the ship lighting the covert cyno... and you will need fuel in the Black-Ops battleships that are doing the bridging. No other fuel is required.

You will gain some Jump Fatigue though.

Thanks again for your input here guys, this for me is turning into a pretty interesting and insightful thread ha-ha!

I agree that by definition this is a CovOps dropping fleet, but not necessarily for profit. Don't get me wrong, loot would be nice but the main aim here is disruption. Dropping siphons on enemy POS, hitting industry and soft military targets to impact income, morale etc etc...

The Etana sounds like a massive target you'd be painting on your back, and tbh I wouldnt like to ask a corp/alliance mate to fly one!

The Stratios are the core of the fleet, 4-6 with a neut, tackle, drone fit and around 59k EHP armour tank meaning they could hold their own and a pack of them in theory should be able to neut and kill anything up to a single T1 BC in under 5 mins if I'm not mistaken. I calculated this based on estimated alphas/pack DPS etc.... (thats not including bombers etc...)

The neuts are a little harder to estimate but I would expect the target cap to drain very quickly once tackled and thus drop resists making the job even quicker.

I have no intention hanging around for an equal fleet fight, this is very much scout, hit, move on.... :)


Pilgrims I'll take a look at.


EDIT:
An interesting look at the Pilgrim (including fleet): https://o.smium.org/loadout/57982

I don't think the repair amount is anywhere near enough what I need, you'd have to focus fire your Logi to make any sort of impact.