Stitcher
Caldari
DarkStar Armada
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Posted - 2007.06.10 09:13:00 -
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Okay... what are my objectives? what am I trying to achieve? how skilled (in real life) are the players under my command?
If this is a straight "kill as many of the other guy's ships as possible and lose as few of yours as possible" then my choice would be a battleship fleet of epic proportions, supported by carriers that are kitted out to the gills with remote repair systems and preferably triage modules as well.
believe it or not, for preference I'd prefer those battleships to be all Ravens. This probably sounds daft to most experienced FCs, but I reckon that a bunch of power-tanked Ravens fitted with shield transfer modules in their two free highslots and supporting each other would make for a really potent combination. Picture a fleet of ships that are kitted to weather any onslaught of damage long enough for their allies to lock them and boost their tank to hell. provided the ship weathers the initial assault, it gets called as "repair alpha" and within seconds is the target of as many shield transfers as are in range.
The downside to this? I'm laying a lot of onus on my pilots to be careful and infallible with who they repair and who they shoot. If I'm sitting there (and I'll be doing it cloaked and a long way above the battlefield so I don't get primaried and shot out of the fight) calling both a primary target and a repair alpha, I have to be working alongside a fleet of guys who can be trusted not to screw up and accidentally shoot the alpha and rep the primary.
However, the only time in which I would take that setup would be a no-brain slugfest. When it comes to more realistic fleet operations, the setup is perforce flexible - I'd have a different configuration for a gate camp than I would for a roaming gang, and something else entirely for hunting down lone wolf hunters in my alliance's home system.
Covering all the possibilities would not only take forever, it'd also give enemy Fleet Commanders an idea of my own MO as a senior FC, which I'd rather keep them guessing on for now.
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