Warfare & Tactics

So, Two groups have relatively even numbers and strength. One is camping a gate and the other is roaming, but wants to kill the campers. To attack them they have to jump into the midst of their camp. What would be some of the best tactics and strategies for doing this?

Though I don't have much pvp experience, one tactic I thought might work would be to Jump several ECM Burst loaded Bombers in. Let them cloak, get in position, burst and try to get away as the rest of the fleet makes an entry. The bombers warp away, then come back to assist.
-Even better is if the bombers are bomb loaded and bomb everyone in the bubble (your fleet having high resists to the bomb type)

Feel free to comment or add strategies of your own.

Jump in, light a cyno, drop supers.

But seriously, there's not really enough information to provide a meaningful answer.

Relatively similar numbers and strength? Numbers are easy enough to gauge, but how are you quantifying strength?

Need comps, at a minimum.

So, two groups of relatively even numbers collide at a gate camp, one FC looks at the other and says "Wait, what part of space are we in?"

You gotta have the better fleet and you have to fly better, just gotta win the fight. And since campers gimp their setup so they can catch people you should win anyways.

Ok this is why you need to be more clear about what you're talking about. When you say "gate campers" we assumed you were talking about gankers, and those are usually small gangs in kitey faction/pirate cruisers that aren't interested in a real fight.

When you're talking about 20-30 cruisers loitering on a gate, that's a cruiser fleet not a gate camp.

Here's what an evenly-matched cruiser brawl looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVfonkyr_jk

And that's sped up, the real fight probably went on for 30+ minutes. For a fight like this you need armor cruisers for DPS, logi cruisers for reps and EWAR cruisers to break the other side's logi. If your logi pilots are inexperienced, you're screwed. If your EWAR pilots are inexperienced, you are less screwed but if you can't break the other side's logi chain because of this then you're still screwed. Anyone inexperienced can fly DPS, that's less important, but the bottom line is a cruiser brawl is about more than just fleet comp it's also about FC experience, whether you can trust your logi team, and whether your fleet has enough discipline in general not to do dumb things like accidentally pop your own tacklers (I wish I were kidding) or talk over the FC when he is calling primaries.