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Posted - 2011.11.03 09:18:00 -
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Okay I would like to throw in my 2 cents from my experience...
Firstly the ship class you fly for solo has no meaning. To explain, all ships fit for PvP are fit for an engagement situation, for example a plate mega is designed for close engagements best fought on gates or station where the exit option is to deagress. No ship is good in every situation. This is an important point, no hostile ship wants to fight outside of its designed style because it will be disadvantaged. The same is true for you, so the ship class you pick doesn't define how good you will be solo but simply what targets you want to look for. As an example my mach is brilliant vrs BC but useless close range on ffrigs so I avoid close range encounters with frigs. Once you pick a ship the next step is to hunt targets your designed to kill in situations your designed to be in...
Next point always assume it's bait and always assume there is a blob. It's very rare for there not to be. When I find a ship I ask the following question. If I was him why would I be sat there in that ship. If there is no explanation it's bait, if there is its probably still bait. So now how do you fight this, simple you need an exit strategy and theres 3 common strategies. So when it all goes wrong you go straight for plan B.
So the three tactics
1 . Escape normally the tactic of any kite/nano ship is the ability to simply out run you opponent out of his tackle range and then warp off. The same can be achieved for slower ships by employing ecm from a falcon alt or ec drones to provide the ability to warp out.
2 . Out tank the blob, holding a large enough tank to cope with the increased odds. The issue here is when the odds stack to high you tank will fail.
3 . Finish the job before they land, if you can kill the bait and run before back up lands then the back up is irrelevant. This is the.reason why frogs are.so popular solo, frig on frig fights generally end so quickly no backup can land.
This also explains that tenth and why it's.so dam good in the video. With the BS afterburner and faction tank she.can employ both exit strategy 1 & 2. Making her very versatile.
I will.end saying exit.strategies are not about running away, but about exiting a situation not in your favour. A flood PvPer use the exit to generate a new.duration in there favour.. |