Warfare & Tactics

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I honestly don't see why you are focusing so much on this. Do you also believe that all blond women are stupid, that all men of African heritage are thieves, that all people of Hebrew heritage are frugal, and so on? You are displaying nothing more than a textbook example of prejudicial discrimination. Would you like links to scientific proofs of why prejudicial discrimination, along with all other instances of inductive inference, are logically fallacious?

Lyris isn't a representative of anything goon related. He's just an attention whore who has turned to the eve-o forums seeking that which he cannot find at goonfleet dot com. An audience.

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I'm afraid this wouldn't work on a Rifter as it could only fit a non-covert ops cloak, and suffer a targeting delay penalty.

I didn't read the replies so as not to steal ideas. I fly both SB's and Inty's mostly, so this thread is right in my wheelhouse.

Bubble up common gate warp OUT angles, but not where you think the SB's will actually be coming from- SB's normally attack already aligned to a celestial but still within D-Scan range of the gate. If they try to warp out to their celestial, they'll hit your bubble. This may just force them to use alternate warp outs, but they'll be farther out or less convenient to rejoin the fight from.

Clutter up space around those approaches around the 50-70km mark as much a possible with jet cans to hopefully force a decloak or two. it's random, but 99% of an SB attack is before you hit decloak, and anything that interferes with that process is victory in itself.

Keep a couple Interceptors orbiting at 30km or so off the gate. I like a SeBo with resolution script for near insta-lock speeds. The instant something decloaks you overheat MWD and long point, close distance and get a tackle. Even just getting the lock will prevent recloaking, so any decent SB pilot will be spamming the warp button if he's actually locked- and no longer be an immediate threat. Even without a kill, you've broken up their attack with nothing more than getting a lock.

I make a bare minimum sig radius of utmost importance in an SB, combined with remote damping if possible- the key is to never get locked..ever. So an inty with insta-lock is the SB's mortal enemy. it takes all the options off the table except warp out, and an inty with it's mid's OH- can likely get an SB tackled before it gets off a second volley and SB's are two-shot kills for pretty much anything at that point- the Inty doesn't need backup to kill SB's.

Of course the SB is zero threat to the interceptor in return.

You could use high alpha arty destroyers with fast prop mods and fast lock mods- SB's won't be in control of transversal since they run aligned. But as ships get larger they'll just take longer to achieve that all important lock, which is why I primarily suggest Inty's.

We have newbie tacklers in highsec too. It's just they have disruptors and afterburners instead of MWDs and scrams.

I'm no expert with Minmatar weapons, but if you are having trouble getting into range before they run off, a disrupter in place of the scram would help.

Artillery may or may not be needed, depending on the usefulness of the disrupter (and if you are fast enough, though a nano Rifter should be).

And of course, sebo if the bombers are simply cloaking before you can lock.

Probably to avoid sig bloom.

So you don't die instantly when you inevitably get scrammed by another frigate. It actually dosen't matter very much for tackle, it's just a holdover from general purpose frigate fits that are invariably scram+ab.

Also you don't want to tackle a drake in a MWD fit frig.