Arazel Chainfire
Sons Of 0din
Dark Therapy
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Posted - 2012.09.26 15:58:00 -
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sit about 300km away (use a zephyr or something to get the warpin), bring caps in, stop ship, seige (use railguns/beams obviously), and blap them as they come in range. sit a carrier/rorqual next to the dreads so they can refit. Start with an untanked/longrange fit (aka, 1 capital rep, no other mods), blap targets as they mwd in closer to you. Note, while this works, it is generally not as effective as the shortrange fits (and I have no idea if this still works or not - try it with tengu's first to see if they still rubber band) because a dread with longrange guns and shortrange ammo already has its damage cut in half with high damage ammo loaded in both. To then hit at the necessary ranges (100-200km) you need to go ahead and use longer range, reduced damage ammo as well, which reduces site completion time even more.
To give a comparison, a maxed out moros with a 6% damage implant, 3 faction damage mods, and t1 antimatter does 13,674dps. Add a 4th damage mod and it hits 14591dps. This does this damage (with higher tracking than rails I might add) at the ranges that the sleeper battleships orbit at, about 35km. Take this exact same moros, (and moros is better than revelation, even with longrange fits) and switch to rails, and you get 7919dps with 4 damage mods, at somewhere in the range of 80-90km. Switching ammo to hit at 200km, and you have to drop to iridium charges, which cuts the dps to 4620dps. At this point, you need 3 moros's to do the same damage as a single shortrange one. So if you have 3 people (and no frig swatters), you are matching the damage of the shortrange carrier/loki/moros group. Of course, add a 4th person to both teams, and the shortrange fits double their damage, while the longrange fits go up to a mere 20k dps.
In the end, sniping dreads is a cool gimmick, but not really worthwhile isk wise when compared to a proper shortrange fleet. And as far as getting jumped by someone connecting to your hole, you are just as screwed either way, but the shortrange fit does at least offer some hope of taking someone down with you.
-Arazel |