Ships & Modules

It will be quite hard to suicide a TANKED hulk solo, as with two invuls and heat dissipation it will be up to 10k EHP. As above guy said Tornado will be ship of your coice, but im not sure if you can field 5k alpha, and i doubt you will be able to fire a second round in 0.9 because of quick concord interferance.

Probably a skilled Typhoon will do the job, or you think of somthing like smartbombing. As i have no idea about smartbombing, and the Typhoon is a minnie ship, my thoughts might not help much further.

Thoraxes for particularly well-tanked hulks, catalysts for anything else.

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OK mate, here's what you're after :)

Concord response time in a 0.9 is pretty much instant. If you're really lucky you might get two rounds off in a 'rax, but your best bet is alpha damage. For a low-skilled player the best and quickest boat to get into for this is unquestionably the Tornado.

Here's a cheap Tornado fit.

[Tornado, Cheap Suicide Ganker]
Gyrostabilizer I
Gyrostabilizer I
Gyrostabilizer I
Gyrostabilizer I

Tracking Computer I
Sensor Booster I, Scan Resolution
Passive Targeter I
Target Painter I
Warp Disruptor I

1400mm Gallium Cannon, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm Gallium Cannon, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm Gallium Cannon, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm Gallium Cannon, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm Gallium Cannon, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm Gallium Cannon, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm Gallium Cannon, Republic Fleet EMP L
1400mm Gallium Cannon, Republic Fleet EMP L


The midslots are to taste, but I've added the main 5 you will need. The Passive Targeter prevents your target from being redboxed until he's pointed, which is useful if he's aligned but not paying full attention. If your targets really are AFK bots, you can dump the sensor booster/PT for more tracking.


The training plan just to fit & fly this boat is:


Minmatar Frigate IV
Minmatar Cruiser III
Battlecruisers III
Target Painting I
Propulsion Jamming I
Long Range Targeting I
Targeting I
Trajectory Analysis I
Small Projectile Turret III
Medium Projectile Turret III
Large Projectile Turret I
Spaceship Command III
Gunnery V
Engineering V
Electronics II
Weapon Upgrades V
Advanced Weapon Upgrades III

(Science II & Cybernetics I for cheap implants: AX-1, CX-1, LX-1)


This will take around three weeks. But don't even bother trying a gank before you've also done:

Surgical Strike IV
Trajectory Analysis IV
Motion Prediction IV
Sharpshooter IV
Large Projectile Turret III

- which will take another 18-19 days.

You will now have a boat that on paper does 8,500 alpha damage and can put 80-90% of that hurt onto a stationary Hulk.


Assuming you haven't any regard for isk in this matter, 4 (and 3 with better skills) of these will pretty much guarantee to alpha any non-faction fitted Hulk (the best T2 tanked Hulk has about 29k EHP against Republic Fleet EMP ammo, which is what you should use).

Since you won't get any insurance, you're looking at blowing about 62m per Tornado, with perhaps a small return if some of the arties drop (800k each). The faction ammo isnt cheap but you only need 8 rounds per ship per gank :)

Since you're a self-confessed bear, you might want to consider buying BPO's for the Tornado and 1400mm Howitzer Artillery, assuming this is a going to be a long-running project..

Sounds like something perfect to be tested on Sisi.
For bonus points, in ~30minutes you can participate in the Mass Test and earn 2mil SP to be able use a Tornado on there this week. And they only just mirrored the characters from TQ as of a few days ago, so you'll basically have your characters as they are now, rather than as if you'd not been training for the last ~3months.

And yeah, many meta1-4 mods can be found cheaper than meta0, especially with buy orders.