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Stealth Bomber Basics -

First things first...bombers are not WTFPWN boats. When applied correctly the damage they do can be quite substantial. If used improperly they won't do jack. Couple things to note for solo bomber pilot.

- Leave the torps at home. They are like a side arm on a solider...a weapon of last resort at best.
- Only fit 1 bomb launcher.
- Fit an offline probe launcher if you are in unfamiliar territory or trying to scan down miners. Bombing jet cans full of ore is a plentiful source of tears.
- Put warp core stabilizers in your low slots. They have saved my ass more times than I can count.
- Find and bookmark jump bridges. If you time your bombs right you can pop many haulers as they try to align or as they warp in.
- Don't bomb frigs. They won't die, they will just lock and pop you.
- Plan plan plan. Make bookmarks in your target system before you start bombing. Warp to your target (gate, jump bridge, etc) at optimal range while cloaked and drop a BM. Make tactical bookmarks 200-300km off gates so you can avoid bubbles. Don't I repeat DON'T bomb flycatchers or HICs you will die in a fire.
- Pick a few active systems (high/low sec borders with null sec are typically great places to hang out as they are often gate camped 24/7). Live in these systems...become very comfortable there.
- Never underestimate the OTHER benefits a bomber can have. Like making miners (real and bots) safe up. They are also great for popping the jet cans the miners leave behind in space as they warp off. If you hang out in some hot zones where big alliances are fighting, a well placed lock breaker bomb can really disrupt the remote rep battleship fleets. None of these will get you kills on your board, but they will help you extract many tears.

I hope this helps!

Hey there.

I'd like to go for this type of ship.
Though I read some wikis, forums, ... but it seems it was re-worked recently and now SB are really different.

So, here are my questions :

- What's the best SB in your opinion, and why ? How would you fit it?
- Can someone still un-cloak you when going near you (2km)?
- Can you warp / MWD while cloaked?
- Skills of a good SB?
- Tips and tricks? other things to know? Maybe a link to a recent guide?

Thanks by advance.

If you have only ONE damp and no friends with you that also are carrying damps, that damp will do far too little so its better off as a target painter.

For a bombing run, you need many friends to make sure you kill stuff, 6400 dmg isn't enough to break much more than a stationary frigate with it's MWD active.

In my experience there are 3 types of bombers.

The bomblauncher bombers, a bomber that drops bombs. No torpedoes are needed. Basically what you need is a cloak a bomblauncher an mwd, nanos and I prefer 1 warpcore stab in the lows. You fly these in gangs of like 20-30 in large scale fleet engagements where you can do tremendous amounts of damage.
It helps a lot if a few people in your gang have a probelauncher installed. Actually, while not needed for the bombing, you want also people with torps to kill people that have disconnected and are floating 1 million km from the battle with 15 min aggression timer.

Then you have the torpedo bombers.
Those really don't need a bomblauncher. Forget about it because not fitting one gives you powergrid and cpu to enhance your torpedo damage and even with good skills use T2 torpedoes. Those will always have at least one and preferable 2 ballistic control systems in the lows.

Those come in 2 flavors,
-the mwd flavor which is great at fighting at range you can easily get 55-60km if not more with the right skills and rigs.
-the afterburner flavor which is extremely good at fighting at hostile jumpbridges. Because of the low sig it takes the pos ages to lock you.

I like to fly both mwd and afterburner with sensor damps in the mids but that's personal preference. But with a few range damps, lowering someones targeting range to less then 15km is actually quite easily doable.

Let it be said that torps on a bomber (while in a mixed fleet) are essential AND deadly. They just add to your bomber cost when going solo. I shall endeavor to drop in to your bomber chat sometime..maybe I can show you fine folks some of the wonders of the warp stab fit bomber. ;D

- What's the best SB in your opinion, and why ? How would you fit it?

- Tips and tricks? other things to know? Maybe a link to a recent guide?

There's another drug, I forget the name at the moment, that will reduce your signature radius.

Hey there.
So, here are my questions :

- What's the best SB in your opinion, and why ? How would you fit it?
- Can someone still un-cloak you when going near you (2km)?
- Can you warp / MWD while cloaked?
- Skills of a good SB?
- Tips and tricks? other things to know? Maybe a link to a recent guide?

Thanks by advance.

You sir are the troll. First I said SOLO bomber. Second warp core stabs are very beneficial as they offer a bomber only pilot no penalty as bombs don't use targeting (they are dumb fire). So you get the benefit of being able to warp off while some punk in an interceptor tries to scram you. (i fly a nemesis so 2 core stabs for me).

And anyone that as EVER flown a bomber as a BOMBER ..knows that torps are **** solo.

You can try all the things I listed and see for yourself. You will swear by them. Trust me.

You sir are the troll. First I said SOLO bomber. Second warp core stabs are very beneficial as they offer a bomber only pilot no penalty as bombs don't use targeting (they are dumb fire). So you get the benefit of being able to warp off while some punk in an interceptor tries to scram you. (i fly a nemesis so 2 core stabs for me).

And anyone that as EVER flown a bomber as a BOMBER ..knows that torps are **** solo.

You can try all the things I listed and see for yourself. You will swear by them. Trust me.

with 2 hounds you want shrapnel bombs and... nova torps, youll get more dmg out as in wh they have flat resists

Hey there.
- What's the best SB in your opinion, and why ? How would you fit it?
- Can someone still un-cloak you when going near you (2km)?
- Can you warp / MWD while cloaked?
- Skills of a good SB?
- Tips and tricks? other things to know? Maybe a link to a recent guide?