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Some people tell me not to bother with large guns for a high-sec POS as they cannot hit anything; others say that large guns can insta-pop battleships. Are large guns any use in a high-sec POS defence scenario?

Keep in mind that small guns fit with DPS ammo (e.g. EMP/Phased Plasma, Multifreq, or Antimatter) generally won't reach outside the bubble... which is 30 KM for a large tower.

Now, Amarr and Minmatar get a range bonus to the guns, which helps ... but even there you're probably going to be using artillery/beam so you can reach out a little further than "10k from the shields".

Quite interesting disparity that I did not know about before. Proves you can learn something new every day...

POSes have so many things semi-broken or wacky that it needs a total overhaul... maybe in a year or two.

POSes are designed for EvE around 2004-2005ish before the introduction of rigs when Cap ships had about 1/3 or less of their current EHP. Back in those days guns went inside the FF and a dread unlucky enough to get hit by a couple arties could die to the alpha.

Hello.

As far as large POS guns, they can only be useful in high sec if they are with the right setup and absolutely require other modules to be effective. Yes they were designed to kill dreadnaughts but I found a setup that will work well.

Requirements:

A starbase defense manager with the skill at level 4 or 5 ( 5 is obviosly better )

Modules: Stasis webification batteries and tracking arrrays plus the large turrets and (optional) warp scrambling battery

Knowledge of the target.


The way that the large guns can be effective is to assume control of 2 stasis web batteries, the warp scrambling batter and either 1 or two of the large guns. The tracking arrays will help with all of the turrets tracking speeds and atleat 2 are necessary. The gunner then needs to concentrate the fire on a single ship. the way that I normally do it is to throw the webs and warp scrambler on the ship first and let him slow down ( as webs take time to take effect ) and have velocity on the overview. When the velocity has been reduced to a manageable rate, then fir the two large turrets. These turrets should have high damage ammo in them Faction ammo if you can afford it. With this strategy, I have been able to hit an armor tanked megathron orbiting the POS for pretty good damage. The more gunners you have the better. The best use of the pos is to have 2-3 gunners operating the modules and concentrating fire to take out logisitcs first then high damage ships. Another good choice of a POS module is white noise generators to try to jam enemy logistics as well. And like others have said, a mixture of small and medium guns are a must. btw I hope you have deathstarred your POS ( put all unnecessary industry/labs offline and onlined all defenses ).

Have fun and test out these methods on corp members in expendable ships if you want. just make sure they are expendable.

I don't get it.
You have 2 webs and 1 large gun.

10 guys are attacking your pos.

There is still a (tiny) chance that the 3 mods will shoot on the same guy for 1/2mn (I'm not saying that using a large gun is a good idea, just pointing that it could hit something hard).

EDIT : and some faction modules have a 400m sig resolution btw, which is very awesome.

Hum maybe 10webs-5 guns. Not going to help much with large gangs, but I'm not sure anything is really going to help much with large gangs.

No (I already said that large guns are a bad idea).

But 1 domination large artillery battery with faction ammos... Well they will think of it twice (11k alpha).