Warfare & Tactics

The Parisi brothel is now accepting Gallente workers in order to help the Gallente increase their wallets. Work a few nights, you will be able to buy your own Tristan!

Upon further review, this is a brilliant plan. We will have our Ship Fitting Gurus get in touch with yours and we can work out the details of this fleet setup.

I'm bored so I'll bite...

Have a long range kite fleet, say Condor's with missile range rigs and sebo's to boost their engagement range upwards to 50km. You could also use Kestrel's but they would be a bit slower while having more range and dps to work with. Sprinkle them at random points around the ball at ranges between 30-40km so that the drones don't have a big blob of ships they can easily move between. The Tristan's themselves are short range fit, if the fit in OP is still the standard, so they would be no threat to the kiters. The drone swarm would easily kill any ship it catches, but since the kiters are spread out the drones have to spend more time in transit and less time doing dps so the kite fleet has more time to alpha the individual fatcats further reducing overall damage output.

Basically it's the old divide and conquer tactic.

Some additional annoyances for the fatcat fleet could be additional dps wings that warp in on the kite ships that are on the opposite side of the ball as the drone swarm, effectively doubling the distant the swarm would have to travel if it wanted to engage the new ships. The time involved in shifting the drones that far would allow the alpha fleet to target at least a couple of ships before warping off while at the same time reducing the swarm damage to zero since it's in transit. You could have smartbomb fit ships intercept the drones while they are transitioning thus eliminating the issue of the bombs hitting friendlies. The kite ships would also be fit with sensor damps to harass the tristan fc's when they are identified.

jeez that was more of a wall of text than I though

TL:DR

Kite better, blob less and use drone travel time against them.

...heh kind of ironic that the delayed damage of missile would actually be used to an advantage against the delayed damage of drones.

Sadly, we have been spending too much time trying to counter this Fat-Cat doctrine to farm anything lately. We're starving!

Kiting missile boats are for the Caldari pubbies anyways. I say the best way to combat this Fat-Cat doctrine is to fight it with its own juice. Copy the fits, enact it as militia policy, and hope that you can stop the tides from turning by creating your own minimal resource doctrine. Then again, since Khan started this first, it means that no matter what the Gallente do they'll go broke first.

Sad times in Black Rise.

Takes too much time to counter it, so you use it?

I have a questions about assigning drones.

After the drones are assigned to the fc will they keep attacking as long as the fc is alive or will they stop attacking if you kill the ship that assigned them?

Could the fc use a merlin or punisher?

I'm assuming the drones used the skill bonuses and ship/module bonuses of the person assigning them and not the fc and the fc's ship.

I hope this is a question for Kahn. I, personally, don't feel like helping them improve an already terrifying fleet setup by answering your questions.

So, bottom-line it for me: is this a sad, bored-on-Sunday troll, or are you actually asking something?

I love how I keep seeing EVERYWHERE members of OMG bashing Khan. Maybe if you spent even half the time you put in talking crap and awoking other FW members into contributing and working together with FW members things would be different


Perhaps not the most interesting of fleet doctrines to fly in out there but certainly is thinking outside the box as opposed to the flavor of the month/cookie cutter fleets