Warfare & Tactics

May have been your ammo but why a warp core tabilizer on a high sec gank ship?

Ok I'll bite

First - if ganking - why are you bothering with any shields - you will be killed regardless so pointless

speaking of pointless (see what I did there) - warp core stabs are of no use Concord pretty much 'ignore' any defence you may try.

Guns - afaik Arty is best enough ammo for 2 maybe 3 shots before you're killed

fill your lows and mediums with anything to assist damage - gyros (on low slots obviously)

stick to t1 or higher meta - cheaper the better

No rigs - wtf may as well donate the isk

Improve chance - scan the ship - see if it's heavily tanked and what the lowest resists are and use correct ammo - then by all means splurge on RF ammo.

BTW - I don't gank and my main missions & mines !!

Thank you for advice. I appreciate. I was not a planned gank. I just went with what was available. Like said, dumb. This advice will help me next time so thank you. I did think shield might let me get off few more shot. Autocannons did fire very fast and well hits.
"Guns - afaik Arty is best enough ammo for 2 maybe 3 shots before you're killed" Sorry I don't understand? Are you saying I should use artillery not autocannon. Sorry

Does this look like will work?

280mm howitzer artillery I x 7
tracking computer I x 2
gyrostabilizer II x 2 (10.5% rate of fire bonus compare to gyro I has 7.5% bonus)
maybe with scanner I or II?

Ok, so a few thing I just thought about:

Some people hinted that you should scan your targets before killing them, intel is decisive in a fight, isn't it ?
Why don't you use a specialized boat for this ? Something along the line of:

[Burst, HS Gank scout]
Inertia Stabilizers II

Passive Targeter II
Ship Scanner II
[empty med slot]

Miner I
Miner I

You warp to belts with this, start mining and take your time to scan down all those miners while thay don't even know that you are targetting them. You can even see if they are aligned with something and place bookmark in front of them to reduce transversal. You can move where you want as you look like a noob who is trying to figure how to mine (not for a long time if they check your name but :effort:).

When all your BM are set, warp to the station as if you were emptying your cargo and jump in your mighty destro ("280mm Prototype Siege Canon" is meta 3 arty, usualy the best isk/bonus ratio).

I finally have the success! Gank retriever in 0.5. Scanner help a lot. I can see he has no protection. I had enough time to leave area after kill. Evaded police for ten minute but finally mess up with only 4 minute left on the global criminal. Thought I was going to get away. Almost.

Used this loadout on retriever:

7 x 280 howitzer artillery I
2 x tracking computer I
2 x gyro II

Going to try this next:

7 x 280 howitzer artillery I
1 x tracking computer I
2 x gyro II
ship scanner I
passive targeter I

Will this kill hulk that has no protection modules?

^what he said. I'm shocked you were even able to warp out after suicide ganking someone.

CONCORD be slippin'.

You seem pretty new to this, so don't forget to overheat the guns before you engage

You fail to realize...... Concord IS God!

I changed the last 2 lines so the fun could continue.