Kesper North
Caldari
Epiphyte Mining and Exploration
Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2009.03.31 21:51:00 -
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We are not going to start seeing stealthbombers assaulting cyno jammers directly with this new jump bridge capability. Let's do some back-of-the-envelope calculations on this. A typical cyno jammer assault fleet might be composed of 100-150 remote-repping battleships, and takes 30-45 minutes to take down the cyno jammer. How many stealth bombers would be needed to do the same job? Assuming covert ops 4, a torpedo SB would have 70% of the DPS of an equivalent torp-fitted Raven (with the SB having 3 launchers at 40% bonus to torp damage). So if a 150-ship BS fleet took at best 30 minutes to take down the jammer, a similarly sized SB fleet might take 51 minutes to do the same raw damage. However! This assumes that every pilot does his job perfectly, cloaks before the POS guns can lock, and no ships arrive to defend or repair the jammer. If you take into account:
* Pilots screwing up and getting caught by guns
* Fast-locking interceptors instalocking and pointing SBs before they can recloak, holding them down for the POS guns
* Defending SBs launching bombs
* Smartbombing carriers and battleships repping the jammer
* Titans
You're looking at a dead SB fleet long before the jammer is down.
Next, consider the fact that in order to bridge in that many stealth bombers, you need to either use three blackops or one blackops three times. Four times if you want any recons along. Then there's the fact that if you have 150 SB pilots to throw at the problem, you might as well throw 150 RR BS instead...
No, I don't think it's practical or wise.
Instead, here's my cyno jammer assault black ops vision thing:
1. Black ops cyno equipped covert ops frigate or recon arrives in the target system one or more days ahead of time and logs off.
2. The rest of the black ops fleet stages to an empty system within jump range of the target and logs off.
3. The day of the op comes, the usual RR BS fleet forms up, and it and its support travel to the target system as per normal.
4. The enemy learns of the approaching BS fleet and forms up for home defense, presumably camping the target system gate.
5. The black ops fleet logs in, and the black ops bridges them into the target system. They immediately attack the gatecamp while they have the advantage of suprise. The tactic is focused fire on single targets, hoping to alpha individual defenders then recloak. Bombs may be deployed if the attackers are hugging the gate or otherwise close together. Void bombs might be particularly effective against RR BS gangs.
6. A wing of blackops might also specifically target interdictors and mobile bubbles.
7. The suprise black ops attack having weakened the defenders' strength and strategic position, RR BS jump in with their support and begin the mop-up, then leave the support to secure the gates while they begin the cyno jammer assault proper.
8. The cyno jammer falls, dreads jump in, and the rest, we hope, is history.
Thoughts?
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