Mookuh
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve
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Posted - 2006.12.15 12:19:00 -
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This discussion is a bit old, but it got some new fueling:
The changes to the Typhoon BS made it an efficient missile user, WITH the ability to bring a full wing of heavy AND medium drones.
The Nanophoon is hence one of the most popular BS designs I've encountered, it can speed around in it's MWD at insane speeds, harass it's enemies from long ranges with cruise missiles and dive in to kill targets of chance easily.
During a war, we faced some highly skilled Nanophoon pilots. We tried a lot of options against them, which all failed.
A Javelin Torp Raven will hurt it, but it will speed out of scrambler range and be gone quickly.
Tackling it with frigates doesn't work because besides the 4 Missile Launchers, it can field a lot of NOS and can NOS most frigates to death in 1-2 cycles. It's drones and Cruise missiles will kill anything save AFs very quickly, and AFs also won't last long.
Tackling with a larger ship doesn't work, because 1st of all, it won't get within webber range, and if it does, and you slap your webbers on it, it's remaining velocity will "skid" it through your 10km webbing range within seconds.
Using EW against them: They're immune against tracking disruption, and if you slap ECM or sensor damps on it, it will just rush out of the EW range and hit from there, forcing the (usually barely tanked) EW ship to leave.
Webber drones are too slow tokeep up with them, and their speed reduction will only be sufficient when you got a full flight of them, and not every BS can field that.
I think the only way to effectively counter them could be a Huginn with top named/faction webifiers. Offcourse, the Huginn could die quickly, so you will also need either logistics support or an ECM ship which can stick to the Huginn and jam the Nanophoon, rendering it unable to attack... in that case, it would need 10 seconds to change to FoF Cruise missiles, whilst it's drones keep attacking...
Additionally, you'll need at least one damage dealer, a BS or a HAC. It's true, the Nanophoon wouldn't last long against some concentrated fire, but we're talking about a minimum of 3 ships here to counter a single Nanophoon.
Now imagine there are 3 Nanophoons...
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Terry 'Mookuh' Hijakosji
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