Due to the success of my 'blueprints' series, I have decided to continue in the same vein as my other 'informative' stealth bomber postings. Today I am going to be covering some rather unique bomber fits, as well as taking an in depth look at the MSE AB combo in bombers, and how this build stacks up against other popular solo setups.
To start this off with a bang I am going to first discuss the idea of the 10MN AB bomber. Now this idea may sound crazy, and it is. The brain child of this idea was the 100AB fits common on T3 ships, except this is modified for bomber use. Sadly the only way you can make this really work is with the purifier. All of the other SB can fit the 10ab- however the purifier has the largest cap of the 4, and because of this, can really make this setup shine. So first let me list the fit for you. Be warned, it is VERY SP INTENSIVE you are going to need perfect fitting skills if you hope to squeeze this onto your bomber.
Purifier, 10AB
Arbalest siege missile launcher, Caldari navy mjolnir torpedoes
Arbalest siege missile launcher, Caldari navy mjolnir torpedoes
Arbalest siege missile launcher, Caldari navy mjolnir torpedoes
Covert ops Cloak
Core Probe Launcher
10MN Corelum C type AB
Warp DisruptorII
'Canyon' Shield Extender
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Thukker Micro Aux Power Core
Ballistic Control System II
Small ancillary current router I
Small ancillary current router II
This fit provides the following stats:
DPS: 416
EHP: 3.25K
Cap lasts: 4:44 with everything on
Speed: 1934m/s
Align time / Agility: 21.9s with AB on, 4.78s with AB off
Signature Radius: 41
And there you have it folks, the best 10AB fit. Like the 100AB tengu, don't expect to simply click orbit and expect and easy kill. Your agility is HORRIBLE- therefore you must make your manual piloting turning maneuvers in between AB cycles. Yes this means that you have to CONTINUALLY pulse your AB, and make any navigation changes then. Its curious, becuase if your after burner skill was lower (IE your mod is active for a shorter period of time) you could theoretically be better suited to this fit, although your Cap would suffer a fair bit. However provided you learn how to fly this beast, the damage mitigation that this fit provides is simply astounding. Drakes do a whopping 25dps (provided perfect skills with HML's) and turrets have a very very hard time tracking you with any reliability.
If you can learn how to fly this fit, and learn how to control- and to only navigate when your prop is off, you have a chance, a very good chance at soloing just about anything cruiser and up. Light drones will still be a problem, but other than those you have few enemies. This fit is yet untested, as I don't have all of my fitting skills to 5 yet lol I promise that once I can fly this, I will try it and make a report, until then it's simply a nice idea on paper.
Moving on to more SP realistic fits. The next fit that I am going to talk about again is still in the early stages for me. It requires that you drop some ISK on your faction point. This fit only works with the nemesis, and is all about sensor damps!
Nemesis, Sensor damp
Arbalest Siege Missile Launcher: Caldari Navy Inferno Torpedo
Arbalest Siege Missile Launcher: Caldari Navy Inferno Torpedo
Arbalest Siege Missile Launcher: Caldari Navy Inferno Torpedo
Covert Ops Cloaking Device
Core Probe Launcher
1MN Coreli B type MWD
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor, Targeting Range Dampning
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor, Targeting Range Dampning
Domination Warp Disruptor
Ballistic Control System II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Small Inverted Field Projector I
Small Inverted Field Projector I
Fit Stats:
DPS: 416
EHP: 1.53K
Speed: 2123
Align: 6.88s with MWD on, 5.09s MWD off
Signature: 37 with MWD off, 193 with MWD on
Capacitor: With out MWD 1:20, MWD on 40 seconds
As you can see, this fit is very very cap hungry, and there is no place for a cap booster. The idea is too keep from using your MWD unless you absolutely have to. With your sensor damps, and your faction point you can stay out of targeting range of any ship class (Recons excluded) The idea of this fit is simple: Damp down the target, overheat your torps and pray that you can kill them before your cap dries out. As you can see this fit is very specialized, and again you are still weak to drones. However if you find a ship with out a flight of T2 lights, you can easily win the day- because who needs a tank when you cannot be targeted? You can damp most ships down to 26K, and with your dominion pint- you can orbit at 28/29 and be safe :)
Lastly- I have the most 'realistic' of the three fits that I will be discussing today- the 1AB and MSE combo.
Again this fit works best with Two bomber hulls- the Hound.
Hound, 1MN AB, MSE
Arbalest Siege Missile Launcher: Caldari Navy Bane Torpedoes
Arbalest Siege Missile Launcher: Caldari Navy Bane Torpedoes
Arbalest Siege Missile Launcher: Caldari Navy Bane Torpedoes
Covert Cloaking device
Core Probe Launcher
Warp Disruptor II
'Canyon' Med. Shield Extender
1mn Coreli B type MWD
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Ballistic Control System II
Small Polycarbon Engine Housing II
Small Bay Loading Accelerator I
Fit Stats:
Speed: 1105
DPS: 456
Signature 38
Agility: 4.85 With AB on, 3.56 With AB off
EHP: 3.11K
Cap: Stable @ 47.4% with everything running
And The Purifer:
Arbalest siege missile launcher, Caldari navy mjolnir torpedoes
Arbalest siege missile launcher, Caldari navy mjolnir torpedoes
Arbalest siege missile launcher, Caldari navy mjolnir torpedoes
Covert ops Cloak
Core Probe Launcher
Medium Shield Extender II
Warp Disruptor II
1mn Coreli B type AB
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Ballistic Control System II
Small Polycarbon Engine Housing II
Small Bay Loading Accelerator I
Stats:
Speed: 1011m/s
Align: AB on 5.25, AB off 3.87
Signature: 44
EHP: 3.41K
Cap: Stable with all running @ 56.5%
As you can see the hound and the purifier are somewhat similar. The hound trades EHP + Cargo Capacity for increased agility, speed, and signature bonus. Really the fits are almost the same. the purifiers increased EHP makes up for it's slightly slower speed / sig tank, while the hound increased speed / agility and decreased Sig, make up for its small drop in EHP. At the end of the day, these fits are mostly the same.
Against Drakes- you can last for quite some time, as the DPS fired against you will be mitigated. really what it will come down to (provided the drake does not have warrior 2) is simply SP. There are situations where you could 'solo' a drake, but you must make sure that you know what you are getting into. Check the pilots fit on BC, check character age ext. Of course the more the merrier, and 2 SB's running this fit should be able to drop a drake- provided your hitting in a nice damage hole/
Against Canes / Harbis- If they are running a PVE fit you have a chance. If it's a PvP cane / harbi that is shield fit, I would keep my distance, as they will be faster than you. Otherwise your goal here is to get under the guns. If auto cannon / pulse, get in around 15K and orbit there. You are going to need to keep transversal up. ideally you would engage an arty pve cane- as getting under the guns is much much easier.
Against BS ships, again you should have no problem. Get close, and orbit tight.
When fighting ANY ship you have to realize your weakness:
Webs- stay out of web range, and overheated web range. Speed is your life.
Scrams- Again you should really not be this close, but a scram isn't going to hinder your AB in any way
Neuts: Med neuts have a 12 K range, and Heavy neuts are 25k. Because you don't have a cap booster, you can get into trouble quickly if you are neuted, and can't warp off.
Small drones: Warrior 2 drones, if you see them run. You will get your shit rocked by them.
I enjoy this fit in many ways. If you take the time and go into EveGeek.com and check their tracking calculator, it's pretty amazing how well you can evade gunfire from BC class ships- even with 2 tracking mods- your sig and speed tank can work some wonders. Auto cannons for example can get out tracked around 15K ish- while artillery- the closer the better :)
I really don't want to get into tons of calculations, and specific scenarios- but if your interested I trust that you are smart enough to figure that out on your own. I hope that you enjoyed your trip into my fitting madness. See you next week!
The Chronicles of a lone stealth bomber pilot.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
B B B B BattleShipes (Faction or otherwise) For Breakfast
Ahh my dream of getting a solo battle ship kill. Sadly this week I still do not have a 'solo' kill, but hey screw that. When you take on 2 battleships and an SB in nothing but a pilgirm and a purifier- I don't care how I got the kills. Let me set the stage for you-
A friend of mine wanted to come and join Peek a boo in our latest camping situation inside a worm hole. I had scanned down a chain or wormholes that eventually lead into high sec. While I was traversing these holes to go and pick our firend up, I came upon a hole that was quite active. There were many BS class ships moving around, and it seemd that they were moving some material in and out of the Low sec static hole. So me and the pilgrim pilot took up position on the hole and waited. It didn't take long for our first victem to arrive.
A badger made the mistake of warping about 10K away from the worm hole. Because I can insta pop badgers- his slow flight inot the 5K radious of the hole, was all I needed. I uncloaked, and shot a single volley of torps at him. B A N G. and becuase he refused to drop anything of value- I took his pod down as well. During this entire time our friend in a pilgrim had decided to stay cloaked. We didn't want to reveal our full presence yet. After pocking the hornets nest- they responded with gusto. I flew back to the POS and watched as one of their corp members jumped into a hound. (Time for a bomber dog fight!) I watched as he warped to the hole, and cloaked up. So i followed and tried to get him to engage. I tried everything I could to make it look like I was a retard in a steath bomber.
Actions like uncloaking and slowbating to the hole, or accedentially decloaking myself on the badger wreck ext. Luckily my efforts were not in vain- and the hound decided to engage me after 10 min of my retarted antics. He uncloaked within my long point range, and hit me with a TP. I knew things were going to go poorly for him when I noticed that he was shooting EM torps at me...... For those of you that don't know each bomber has a racial damage type- where they get HUGE bonuses to their damage. For the hound it's Bane explosive dmg torps- I was loling. We were fighting and I had him down to about 50% armor. WHile he had yet to scratch my paint- when all of a sudden a CNR and Scorpion landed. I decided to switch targets, and shot a volley at the incoming scorp- HOLY FUCK MY TORPS HIT FOR 7210 DMG. The scorp had his shields gone with a single shot.
Sadly for me, He was out of point range and I was jammed quickly. So i cloaked up and warped off, to rep my armor back up, and reload my torps. The hound recloaked, and by the time I flew back to the hole there was nothing but a CNR sitting about 30K off the static Low sec. Now dear reader you have to remember that during this entire time our pilgrim pilot had been sitting in the wings watching and waiting. We decided that the CNR might be a funny choice to try and take down. The scorp was back in his POS licking wounds, and the hound was really no threat to either me or the pilgrim.
So we made the call- lets do this! The pilgrim decloaked close off the CNR's flank and pounced. All the neuts on with web and scram. I held my cloak, and waited for the CNRS hardeners to turn off. As i was waiting and slamming my D scan, I noticed that the scorpion was moving from the POS and most likely coming to the rescue of his CNR companion. Once the scorpion landed I was ready for him. I decloaked and flew at him. I overheated my torps, and watched as I started to down the Scorp. The first torp again mealted all of it's shields- the second brought him down to 25% armor, and just as the third volley screemed out of the tubes- I was jammed.
BUT! Luckily for me my torps were on thier deadly path.... I watched with bated breath as they collided with his hull, and the mighty scorpion went from 25% armor to POP! Once he was down, I turned my attention to the CNR. By this time our pilgrim companion Liku had enough time (with recon lv 5) to suck that faction battlehsip dry. I overheated my torps again and began to gouge huge chunks of shield and armor from the ailing battlehip. Just as we were entering armor- the hound shows up again. I lock and start to fire on him again, but I made a huge mistake- I didn't move my point from the CNR onto the hound. Becuase of this- the hound was able to escape in low HP from the combined assult of my torps and the pilgrims angry warrior 2 drones.
I was quite sad, as this was my mistake and it would have been a nice kill. After the hound had left, I again turned my attention back to the CNR and proceeded to finish my work. The CNR dropped quickly. As the mighty battle ship shattered into a million pieces, I thought to myself damn a single pilgrim and a bomber can cause quite a bit of damage. I was very happy with my self, and I would like to thank Liku for his hero pilgim use.
Hope you enjoyed the blog for this week ladies, and remember-
Fly dangerously!
A friend of mine wanted to come and join Peek a boo in our latest camping situation inside a worm hole. I had scanned down a chain or wormholes that eventually lead into high sec. While I was traversing these holes to go and pick our firend up, I came upon a hole that was quite active. There were many BS class ships moving around, and it seemd that they were moving some material in and out of the Low sec static hole. So me and the pilgrim pilot took up position on the hole and waited. It didn't take long for our first victem to arrive.
A badger made the mistake of warping about 10K away from the worm hole. Because I can insta pop badgers- his slow flight inot the 5K radious of the hole, was all I needed. I uncloaked, and shot a single volley of torps at him. B A N G. and becuase he refused to drop anything of value- I took his pod down as well. During this entire time our friend in a pilgrim had decided to stay cloaked. We didn't want to reveal our full presence yet. After pocking the hornets nest- they responded with gusto. I flew back to the POS and watched as one of their corp members jumped into a hound. (Time for a bomber dog fight!) I watched as he warped to the hole, and cloaked up. So i followed and tried to get him to engage. I tried everything I could to make it look like I was a retard in a steath bomber.
Actions like uncloaking and slowbating to the hole, or accedentially decloaking myself on the badger wreck ext. Luckily my efforts were not in vain- and the hound decided to engage me after 10 min of my retarted antics. He uncloaked within my long point range, and hit me with a TP. I knew things were going to go poorly for him when I noticed that he was shooting EM torps at me...... For those of you that don't know each bomber has a racial damage type- where they get HUGE bonuses to their damage. For the hound it's Bane explosive dmg torps- I was loling. We were fighting and I had him down to about 50% armor. WHile he had yet to scratch my paint- when all of a sudden a CNR and Scorpion landed. I decided to switch targets, and shot a volley at the incoming scorp- HOLY FUCK MY TORPS HIT FOR 7210 DMG. The scorp had his shields gone with a single shot.
Sadly for me, He was out of point range and I was jammed quickly. So i cloaked up and warped off, to rep my armor back up, and reload my torps. The hound recloaked, and by the time I flew back to the hole there was nothing but a CNR sitting about 30K off the static Low sec. Now dear reader you have to remember that during this entire time our pilgrim pilot had been sitting in the wings watching and waiting. We decided that the CNR might be a funny choice to try and take down. The scorp was back in his POS licking wounds, and the hound was really no threat to either me or the pilgrim.
So we made the call- lets do this! The pilgrim decloaked close off the CNR's flank and pounced. All the neuts on with web and scram. I held my cloak, and waited for the CNRS hardeners to turn off. As i was waiting and slamming my D scan, I noticed that the scorpion was moving from the POS and most likely coming to the rescue of his CNR companion. Once the scorpion landed I was ready for him. I decloaked and flew at him. I overheated my torps, and watched as I started to down the Scorp. The first torp again mealted all of it's shields- the second brought him down to 25% armor, and just as the third volley screemed out of the tubes- I was jammed.
BUT! Luckily for me my torps were on thier deadly path.... I watched with bated breath as they collided with his hull, and the mighty scorpion went from 25% armor to POP! Once he was down, I turned my attention to the CNR. By this time our pilgrim companion Liku had enough time (with recon lv 5) to suck that faction battlehsip dry. I overheated my torps again and began to gouge huge chunks of shield and armor from the ailing battlehip. Just as we were entering armor- the hound shows up again. I lock and start to fire on him again, but I made a huge mistake- I didn't move my point from the CNR onto the hound. Becuase of this- the hound was able to escape in low HP from the combined assult of my torps and the pilgrims angry warrior 2 drones.
I was quite sad, as this was my mistake and it would have been a nice kill. After the hound had left, I again turned my attention back to the CNR and proceeded to finish my work. The CNR dropped quickly. As the mighty battle ship shattered into a million pieces, I thought to myself damn a single pilgrim and a bomber can cause quite a bit of damage. I was very happy with my self, and I would like to thank Liku for his hero pilgim use.
Hope you enjoyed the blog for this week ladies, and remember-
Fly dangerously!
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