Warfare & Tactics

You have gunners, right? Guns (and other defenses) on a POS are little more than a nuisance if they're not manned; they won't focus fire and a BS fleet will incap everything threatening before the Dread(s) show up.

As far as numbers go, I don't know but I'm sure someone who does will be along shortly.

I have killed large death star POSes with about 5 ravens before.

Defend it or lose it.

What class wormhole will you be living in?

Anything from C3 down you have nothing to worry about from dreads because they won't fit in your hole. Only dreads that are built there can be fielded so if you are dumb enough to let them pos up for a month to build a dread you deserve to lose your whole.

Solo dreads can be killed by MANNED pos guns. Doesnt take much to nuet out a sieged dread and ill a solo dread. And dread without a support fleet, once again, deserves to die.

Bak to what you expect to face in c3 and less, is mostly going to be small battleship, or BIG bomber fleets, in fact bombers are going to be your main problems in a c3 due to their small mass meaning your enemy can get a bunch in and out without collapsing their entrance.

With this in mind Large guns are uneeded. small/meds/nuets/webs/scrams/ecm. Lost of all, as the enemy fleet kills one, online the next, also offline everything you can ie refining arrays, anything superfluous that is not essential to defence should be offlined to bring on more hardners/guns/ewar. An unmanned pos is a dead pos.

make sure if you are in the pos, and it is going down hard, you manage your stront BEFORE the pos shields hit 25%, you want to make sure you time your stront to a time that is beneficil to you, i.e you can have max amount of people defending, OR if there is no chance of that, that it is 12 hours out of enemies peak tz, or for easy reference, 12 hours past when when you got the first notification. If you are going to lose the pos, make sure they have to alarm clock to do it :P

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edit: Wormhole effects only effect capsuleer piloted vessels, not pos or sleepers

Thanks, wasn't sure about c4's hence I only stated the wh's I was 100% certain about :)

a small 10 person corp probably shouldn't be trying to set up in a c5/c6 where you can run dreads into anyway.. at least unless all 10 people log in every single day.

you should probably start in a c2 or c3 to get a feel for it, no one can jump dreads into those holes.
if you look on the market forums you might even be able to buy a hole that comes with essentially a free dread/carrier or two since you can't even take them out of the hole

It is worth mentioning that there are really only 4 reasons people will take the time and effort to shoot a POS in a WH:

1. they think they'll get loot from it. eg: a single POS with 4 floating capitals in it.
2. they get paid to do it by someone who doesnt like you.
3. you **** them off in some way. eg: not honouring ransoms against AHARM is a great way to get stomped on, just ask firebird squadron :P
4. they want your specific WH. this is easily avoided by picking a standard WH that is not obviously better than any other WH.

if you stick something like 10 guns, 24 ECM, few neuts and tackle on a POS and don't leave expensive ships floating, it is unlikely anyone will attack it without reason.
as a note, i would highly recommend filling any spare slots on your corp's accounts with noob alts and having them all join corp.
no it won't help you in an actual fight, but if you have 15 people in your corp with 1 toon each, everyone can see that you're a 15 man corp which most likely can't defend itself.
fill those slots up and your corp is now a 45 man corp which might be able to.

finally, always use a large POS.
i know several people who will automatically drop a dread on a small/med POS in a c5-6 out of principle.

2-3 get the job done in short order, but they will need escort.

IMHO, definitely the way to go. We learned in a C2, then moved up to a C4. The lack of a HS static in the C4 is great, the downside is that you will often have K162s (randoms) appear in your w-space that come from C5/C6. Most of the time, you will simply be on the route from the C5/C6 to HS; however, if they (or someone else) decides to take you out, there are several ways to make that more painful:
1. During 'normal' operations, there are two main options:
- EWAR out the nose (like, 20 or 30) to make it a pain in the ass to take down with a sub-cap fleet; or
- Load up on guns, so that small fleets will still be discomfited by the DPS.

Neither of those options will save you POS against a determined fleet; however, it may slow them down while you get your forces together to defend, and if it is not a determined fleet, they will go elsewhere.

2. During siege (after you have come under attack), you have lots of options:
- Have lots of extra defense arrays (neuts, webs, damps, scrams, guns, ECM, etc) anchored, even though you do not have near enough grid to use them all. When you see what you are up against, you can vary the arrays online/offline to fit the aggressors force.
- Use the POS ECM to form an EWAR cloud for a defense fleet. If you put 40 or so ECM mods online (even w/o POS gunners), your defense fleet will be near invulnerable to anything but a massive assault fleet. You can pretty much take out a single T3 or BS and fly around their attack fleet shooting them up while they can't do crap (except for their drones and/or bombers).
- If you have several gunners online (3 or 4 preferably), you can screw up logistic support and pick off ships one by one.


Just some notes - the new online/offline times are awesome for re-configuring your POS defense.

You CAN build carriers in C4s, they just will live/die there.