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Best ship for soloing a Vindicator?

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Brother Papalazaru
Cyberdine Technologies Ltd
#1 - 2016-10-20 20:19:51 UTC
How does one solo kill a Vindicator pilot who is decked out with faction mods? His blasters, webs, scram, neut & armor are all faction. Assuming he has no backup or links, what ship and tactic would defeat him the easiest?
Varrinox
Shadows of the Empire
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#2 - 2016-10-20 21:29:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Varrinox
A bhaalgorn would be easy but its not that simple. A half decent vindi pilot should understand that a bhaalgorns neuts will destroy him and thus not fight one. So what you need is a battleship with enough tank to survive whilst some energy neuts cap him out making his guns worthless. Ideally they want to use mostly drone DPS due to this freeing up highslots.

I recommend either a Dominix or an Armageddon hull. Fit with a large armour buffer tank and energy neuts in the highslots. Mids slots use tackle [obviously] and some cap injectors.

If you are feeling even more meta, any battleship with say 6/7 lowslots and 125m3 of bandwisth would do that job and be even harder for the enemy to anticipate. There are multiple battleships that can do this.
Lucy Callagan
Goryn Clade
#3 - 2016-10-20 23:46:50 UTC
With an atry slasher : kite and tickle him to death.
Brother Papalazaru
Cyberdine Technologies Ltd
#4 - 2016-10-21 00:45:20 UTC
Varrinox wrote:
A bhaalgorn would be easy but its not that simple. A half decent vindi pilot should understand that a bhaalgorns neuts will destroy him and thus not fight one. So what you need is a battleship with enough tank to survive whilst some energy neuts cap him out making his guns worthless. Ideally they want to use mostly drone DPS due to this freeing up highslots.

I recommend either a Dominix or an Armageddon hull. Fit with a large armour buffer tank and energy neuts in the highslots. Mids slots use tackle [obviously] and some cap injectors.

If you are feeling even more meta, any battleship with say 6/7 lowslots and 125m3 of bandwisth would do that job and be even harder for the enemy to anticipate. There are multiple battleships that can do this.



Pretty solid advice. Thanks a lot.
Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2016-10-21 15:15:07 UTC
Brother Papalazaru wrote:
How does one solo kill a Vindicator pilot who is decked out with faction mods? His blasters, webs, scram, neut & armor are all faction. Assuming he has no backup or links, what ship and tactic would defeat him the easiest?












Get a titan and DD him.

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W0lf Crendraven
The Tuskers
The Tuskers Co.
#6 - 2016-10-26 12:53:29 UTC
Carrier.


Otherwise, battery ham tengu is a free win cause you permatank him forever and you will slowly drive him out of cap charges.
Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
#7 - 2016-10-27 03:56:50 UTC
Barghest/orthrus so u can scram him outside web range or anything with good neuts

but what would I know, I'm just a salvager
pushdogg
relocation LLC.
#8 - 2016-10-27 07:50:48 UTC
A friendship. Soloing a ship capable of applying dread level dps to even the smallest ships is not going to be easy, it will take a similar fit.

I would say a dead space fit t3 cruiser would show some promise, but anything that can out and out beat it will be avoided. A well organized group of t1 cruisers could do it, but you need to bait and trap.

You are asking a funny question, because soloing a vindi is going to be hard if you can't get it to engage or commit to the fight. And anything that can easily solo it will not be a fight it will commit to.

The vindi pilot is perfectly aware of most of these variables and it will require a lot more than brute force to get what you want.
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#9 - 2016-10-27 08:04:25 UTC
try a regengu

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Songbird
#10 - 2016-11-01 03:42:41 UTC
energy neuts + drones looks like a good way to get killed - you're applying your 600 dps and the vindi is applying it's 2000 even if it's 1 cap booster at a time - that's like 50 seconds to chew through your 100k buffer tank, keep in mind vindi also has 5 heavies which don't stop just because vindi is ooc.
gnshadowninja
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#11 - 2016-11-01 23:48:32 UTC
Typhoon Fleet Issue, can hit the lowest resist with very high DPS, drones, neuts and a big tank to boot.

This is my standard counter to Vindi's
Skelee VI
Appetite 4 Destruction
#12 - 2016-11-02 15:08:17 UTC
Neut Geddon be decent option. I think he would run from a bhaalgorn or anything he can't kill too fast
1c3crysta1
Silent Majority.
Aspartame.
#13 - 2016-11-18 13:26:23 UTC
gnshadowninja wrote:
Typhoon Fleet Issue, can hit the lowest resist with very high DPS, drones, neuts and a big tank to boot.

This is my standard counter to Vindi's


I'd second this. It juicy enough for a vindi to engage and it has a decent chance of killing one, especially if fitted to counter it.
ISD Max Trix
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ISD Alliance
#14 - 2016-11-19 01:29:59 UTC
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Sweet Adamas
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2016-11-21 20:19:41 UTC
Use A neut Dommi

No one will expect it and it will destroy a Vindy
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#16 - 2016-11-22 05:51:25 UTC
friendship

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