Originally by: Alowishus

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Let me summarize BE's tactics.

The Ganks
This is where they jump into a system that has someone NPCing/Mining. This person is probably a n00b and hasn't mastered the art of keeping one eye on local and putting asshats in his address book (ie. you see green squares and you go to a safe). BE jumps in, does a quick scan or maybe just tries to get lucky and warps to the belt. The n00b probably can't even take ONE PvP fitted BS, let alone multipe. He gets scrambled and goes down quickly, hopefully learning a lesson.

The Fleet Hit and Fade
BE will use a lot of Ravens and/or other long range ships with tacklers. They will choose a target in the opposing fleet and tackle him (or hope he is just slow to warp) and pound away at him. Meanwhile, if the opposing force can even hit them at all, they will simply warp out one by one as they take damage. Since BE uses WCS heavily, even if you do get a small, speedy tackler out to their location, they will still get away.

How to fight BE
There is no real way to fight BE and get easy kills unless you have Scorps or Blackbirds with a full rack of scrambling gear and the luck to be in range. The other option is to use a Minmatar Inty with 1MWD and 3x Scramblers. Since Minmatar Inty pilots are rare, this is probably unlikely.

Your only real options are to use these two ships:

Damp Scorp with 4+ WCS
Snipe Geddon with 4+ WCS

If you start taking damage, warp out. In this case, whoever holds the battlefield at the end would be the winner. The only way to fight cowards is to also be a coward. Most battles will end in stalemate with no kills. It's unfortunate that this type of worthless fighting was discovered and that the only counter is to adopt similar tactics. BE tactics can be analogized like this: retarded midgets on rollerskates who roll up to a bunch of giants, throw some rocks, and then quickly skate away. It may be fun but it's also very sad.

Always be prepared for much whining and at the same time, claims of l337ness, by BE.

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