Soldarius
Deadman W0nderland
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Posted - 2013.11.22 22:03:00 -
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I read your blog entry twice to make sure I had everything right.
If I were you, I would have taken that second engagement. Despite having more dps and 50% more reps, they were in armor fleet. C4 Pulsar is +68% sigRad and -27% armor resists. Armor fleets rely on small sigRad and generally higher resists to reduce incoming damage. Your pulsar would have significantly reduced both of those advantages, and buffed your own fleets total EHP by 68%
The usually larger sigRad of shields is mitigated by +67% shield HP, and the fact that once the signature radius of a target exceeds the signature resolution (or explosion radius in the case of missiles) of a weapon, that weapon will see no further increase in applied damage.
tl;dr: Your shield tanked ships would likely already have been taking the maximum damage before the signature radius bloom of the Pulsar. But the armor tanked ships would take much more damage than normal. Shields got a boost to EHP while armor got a double nerf.
Another effect is the reduced efficacy of remote reps when the ship they are repping has reduced resists.
The only cause for concern was whether or not your 2 Basilisks could have dealt with the incoming dps. The Proteus and Loki both put out a lot of dps.
You were right to want to engage on your side of the wormhole. Brawler ships at 0, reps+Falcon at range. If they don't jump in their Guardians quickly, they would lose badly. If they do, their reps at at point-blank range in a gimped tank. Blap them.
The combination of an Astarte (armor and info links) and 2x Lokis and Proteii indicates that their T3s were likely fitted with EWAR subsystems rather than Dissolution Sequencers for the long range points and webs. No telling how the Legion was fit. They would have been relatively easy to jam for a well-skilled Falcon pilot.
Instead, you chose the neut Pilgrim? Neut range on a Pilgrim is what, 5km? It would have been insta-popped, and as the opposing FC, it would have been my first primary. TD would also have been useless. Arazu damps would have been pretty much useless as well. A Huginn or Rapier would have been decent for its webs. Falcon best. Jam things, even up the odds.
My top priority for targeting would be the guardians because they will have to jump in to you to even participate. So you can just grab them and rip them apart. You also reduce their possible reps by 1/3 because a guardian cannot rep itself. Focusing logi in small gangs snowballs rather quickly once they start to pop.
Otherwise, primaries would be Astarte (kill their links, possibly headshot the FC, and because it has literally no buffer bonuses), armor Tengu (could possibly have been vollied right off the field), Sacrilege+Prophecy (to reduce dps quickly), then start in on the brick T3s, Lokis first to kill webs.
At some point in this engagement (most likely once their reps get popped), they would likely have tried to jump back through. At this point you can decide if you want dps and hictor to follow and continue to engage, (you will have to wait a bit for your logi to get there), or you can say killboards green, op success, and let them go.
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