Goumindong
Amarr
Merch Industrial
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2007.11.25 18:28:00 -
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Edited by: Goumindong on 25/11/2007 18:29:12
 Originally by: Stitcher
I think your best bet at this point is to bring forward some more solid combat evidence than just "Command Ship pilots have a better kill/death ratio" to prove your point. It's my experience that command ships are rarely chosen as primary targets, because there's usually something more important and more fragile out there to deal with first.
Command ships have terrible/hood DPS/Hit Point ratios depending on how you look at it.
When calling primaries you want to call ships which have high DPS and low hit points first[and that your entire gang can get to]. So that these ships will die fast and the majoirty of the opponents DPS dies quicker. This means battlecruisers/Cruiesr/HAcs top the list then Battleships, then Command ships.
For instance going up against a gang of
"Thorax, Rupture, Harbinger, Abaddon, Astarte". With a similar sized gang you would want to call the Thorax, Rupture, Harbinger, Abaddon/Astarte in that order.
The thorax will be doing between 350-650 dps and will have between 12,000 and 25,000 hit points.
The Harbinger will be doing between 600-800 dps and will have between 42,000 and 59,000 hit points.
The Rupture will be doing between 300 and 600 dps and will have between 12,000 and 25,000 hit points.
The Astarte will be doing Between 600 and 1000 dps and will have between 50,000 and 70,000 hit points with a strong rep tank.
The Abaddon will have some 1000 dps and 140k hit points.
[All numbers assuming optimal hp/tank setups ingoring repair units and using damage drones]
As such the best way to attack this gang is to ewar the Abaddon, Astarte, Harbinger, Thorax, Rupture, in that order. And primary the Thorax, Rupture, Harbinger, Astarte, Abaddon in that order. Even when the Astarte is very gank oriented it doesnt make sense to primary it in small gangs.
What this means is that as things go lopsided, the ships that are most likely to live are the Abaddon and Astarte... BUT the Abaddon is really slow, and the Astarte is not. Does it make the command ship overpowered? No, it just means that its not a good ship to shoot first in a gang since it is likely to have a lot of hit points and tank relative to its DPS capabilites.
Fleets its a bit different, you have so much DPS the primary thing that keeps you from killing things is locking time and tracking. So you go after the battleships first.
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