Originally by: Atandros

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Edited by: Atandros on 03/05/2005 05:39:44
This thread makes baby Jesus cry.

This is my Megathron setup (same for every mission, except for hardeners); it has worked flawlessly so far and makes light work of pretty much anything. The tactic is to engage at 30km (or 40, if you're facing really fast opposition. You inflict noticeably, though not too significantly, less damage at 40, but you have a lot of extra time to shoot. Sometimes worth the tradeoff, f.ex. if you're facing Angel close-range battleships, sometimes not, f.ex. if you're facing Serpentis railgun Dominixes), start moving away with the AB and use the rails to splat the fastest, biggest thing moving towards you, then splat other things in order of their speed and size, while your missiles and drones kill the frigs.

7*Dread Guristas 350mm with AM (use T2 if you can; I can't, so I use these. Mind, vanilla T1s are pretty weak and it'll take you noticeably longer to kill stuff with them, plus the range is awful. Not recommended at all.), 1*Domination Siege Launcher (some kind of named launcher is a must because of the tight CPU; this setup barely squeezes even with weapon upgrades 5 and a -3% turret need implant)
1*AB II, 3*Cap Recharger II
2*Medium Armor Repairers II (yep, this is enough. And it's very cap-light to boot), 3*appropriate hardeners, 2*Shadow Serpentis mag stabs (T2 will do fine here).

With my skills and implants (lvl4 everything except lvl5 rapid firing, and a +3% dmg implant), the rails do 375~ damage per sec at ranges from 25-50 (a Raven with Arbalest launchers, BS4 and torps 4 would do 306; even if you factor in the usual BCU or two, still noticeably less); the sweet spot for hitting would be around 30-35 km, and you can hit usually well from 15 to 45.
Use it as outlined above and it'll serve you well.

However, ultimately I'd still recommend a Raven, simply because it has no problems with tracking or range or target size (this Mega takes a while to kill off frigs). But there are very few alternatives better than this.

Addendum: Vengeance, like almost anything else, is a cakewalk. Some bits of Angel Extravaganza are the only difficult thing I can think of.

EDIT: lvl *4* everything except rapid firing lvl5.

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