EVE General Discussion

I solo PvP regularly with larger ships, as i was tired of the frigate/small ship meta. Your friend here is transversal, that is how big guns track small targets. You don't have enough of it, An AB cruiser/BS is in some cases not fast enough to leave a frigate behind. Enabling them to orbit you and "outtrack" your guns through signature resolution, not necessarily tracking.

I have killed succubus, worms, just about every AF and T3D with a tornado and other BC's and BS. You MUST be faster than your frigate enemies with an AB, or have a neut to turn off their props so you are faster than them with an AB. The fact you're using ships that can't support a neut is your first issue. Brawling without a neut is risky, and can only be considered if you have the speed to outrun frigates when scrammed/webbed.

For things like a BS, you need MJD. No question. If you really want to solo PvP with BC's and BS, an MJD is pretty much mandatory. Neuts, webs, drones, MJD and sometimes 100mn cruiser/BC fits is the way to escape/kill frigs. Damped down by a maulus/kite gang? MJD out. Garmur got you pointed at 70km? MJD out. You can't just seem to hit that 1 frig that is holding you for friends? MJD out. That 1 frig has a scram? Neut him out while aligned and wait for tackle to drop and warp away.

There are ways to do it, but you need to pick the right ship for the job. Dropping 400m in faction mods on a ship not designed for it and then being agitated on the forums is not the way to do it.

Medium and large projectile tracking is fine. We do not need to go back to the days of battleship solopwnmobiles. If you want to deal with frigates in your battleship then fit accordingly, it's all about tradeoffs and by the sounds of it you traded off in favour of more large target dps numbers.

Large turret ships can barely hit orbitting frigates or destroyers with tracking bonused hulls and webs. If you want to solo in a BS you use a drone boat or an application fit missile boat; or you use undersized weapons.

Large turrets are utterly useless against small targets unless you are in an MJD Vindicator, and even then you will struggle to hit frigates at 500m. The ONLY thing that keeps a turret BS with a proper pvp fit from being solo'd by a frigate is heavy neut, as many frigates can easily tank and blap unbonused drones.

I am not new, I do know what I am talking about.

Sorry but battleships are not meant to be anti frigate ships, it's not a problem that battleships need to fit undersized guns if they want to go looking for frigate gangs to blap, that is WAI. Battleships are not helpless against frigates either, a frigate can be neuted, target painted, double webbed, small droned, ECM droned or just plain tanked until you reach a gate. Sure, not all BS can/do fit neuts, but I would suggest that soloing in a BS would be better in one that can.

That right there shows you know literally zip about prevalent fits in frigate pvp. The reason hookbills so often come with TDs is because of the 4th midslot and strength of unbonused TDs. You should really know this, it's basic stuff.

BTW it's 5 mids, my error and you didn't even pick up on it :) regardless, hookbills even with no bonus to TD, are often fit with TDs, it's quite common place, same with with condors, slashers, none of them bonused for TD

Large turret ships can barely hit orbitting frigates or destroyers with tracking bonused hulls and webs. If you want to solo in a BS you use a drone boat or an application fit missile boat; or you use undersized weapons.

Large turrets are utterly useless against small targets unless you are in an MJD Vindicator, and even then you will struggle to hit frigates at 500m. The ONLY thing that keeps a turret BS with a proper pvp fit from being solo'd by a frigate is heavy neut, as many frigates can easily tank and blap unbonused drones.