Warfare & Tactics

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As I said ingame, try fitting artillery with a sensor booster and a long point. I'm assuming the bombers are uncloaking at a range of 50km+, so adding an overheated long point plus locking them farther away (and faster too, if you're unscripted), should work. Artillery is optional I suppose, as once you get a lock they won't be cloaking again. Unless they are already aligned you shouldn't have any problem pointing them, which negates the need for range anyways. Once they're tackled, they'll go down fast enough.

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This is what the warp disruptor is meant for. That, or a scripted sebo for scan resolution, of course.

Yeah, basically lock them and shoot before they can warp. Once locked they can't cloak.

The only trouble is, there's little chance you will get more than 1 shot on them and they are likely to survive (unless they are really unlucky) so will need to still get in range to point them.

Would be best if you camp with 2 or 3 arty rifters to instapop them.

I am only 8 jumps from EC- and would be happy to camp the gate with you.

And why are you solo camping EC-? Shouldn't you be preparing your defence of Dek for February?

Vigil. It goes waaaaaay faster. It also has 58km lock range innate.

Also, have your MWD on overheat (but not cycling) and in the F1 position. Soon as nubcakes decloaks and launches his bomb you approach, lock him, and once the bomb goes off, hit F1.

You can use this fit, below, and T1 everything except the MAPCII - you need that PG to make the fit work.

[Vigil, TP 4 UR Bunghole]

125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Barrage S
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Barrage S
Rocket Launcher II, Gremlin Javelin Rocket

Catalyzed Cold-Gas Arcjet Thrusters
Medium Shield Extender II
Warp Disruptor II

Micro Auxiliary Power Core II
Damage Control II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Kinetic Screen Reinforcer I
Small Auxiliary Thrusters I


Warrior II x1

Alternatively if you like active reps you go an armour vigil as below;

[Vigil, Bomberganker]

150mm Light AutoCannon II, EMP S
150mm Light AutoCannon II, EMP S
Rocket Launcher II, Gremlin Javelin Rocket

Catalyzed Cold-Gas Arcjet Thrusters
Remote Sensor Dampener I, Targeting Range Dampening
Warp Disruptor II

Damage Control II
Small Armor Repairer II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II

Small Ancillary Current Router I
Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I


Warrior II x1

This one will go 4300m/s on overheat, same targeting range same scan res (556mm), but you have a better sig tank and a middling active tank. 71 Pyfa DPS cold. Remember you orbit at 500m/s with no prop mod on. The RSD is to squeeze the other bomber's targeting range down so it has to get in closer than 50km to do torps on you...or you could go a scram to turn off their MWD when you get in range, or a web. Whatever suits.

You'll be hard up against it for two bombers. But I reckon you can't go wrong trying a Vigil. I've soloed bombers in Vigils before. I have a Cheetah fit which can always, always win vs a bomber, but it requires a bit different tactics than you want to use.

Just gonna go out on a limb here, but why are you orbiting with MWD on? I'm not an inty pilot, so I might be very wrong here.

Afaik it screws with your mass. And thus effectively wrecking your inertia/align speed. I'd turn of the MWD until you've aligned directly towards where you last saw the bomber and then activate it. A bomber in stealth won't go any faster than about 200-300ms.. so you should be able to guess the distance to knock him from cloak, lock and point. After all, to get a bomb sailing towards you, he'd have to have been aligned directly at you. And will be trying to get into warp as fast as possible after that. And with a bit of luck getting him out of cloak also gets you the possibility to bump him, and that way denying his warp while you lock before getting to optimal again.

Though.. if he's actually a smart bomber.. he'll have warped to a +150km around the gate so you can't do that. Best tactic for that is to actually place a BM right behind you... basically making it like this:

Bookmark...150km...you+gate...30km..BOMB...SBpilot

Like this he can align towards you, while also getting directly in line towards the BM. And just after releasing bomb, warp to BM.

If I recall correctly bombs aren't affected by warp, I don't recall seeing this changed.

Oh.. right, hehe.

this is what i would replace first. You don't need it anyway to catch bomber.
warp disruptor T2 + sensor booster (w/ targeting range or scan resolution).
- warp disruptor (up to 24km of point)
- sensor booster to lock SB so it can't cloak back.

Not sure it will work anyway tho =)

Maybe track warped out SB to detect object it warped too. If pilot is stupid or lazy he can use static object. So you can get him there. Once i caught Sb gang after attack this way. Thanks to my n00bness i killed only 1 of them.... Still wondering if i could kill more....

BTW: SB is carrying only 3-4 bombs and each of bomb is like cruiser by material requirements... They really love you =)

It's a newbee tackle fit, meant for brand new players to get involved in fleet engagements.