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atrophocy
Rionnag Alba
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.01.11 12:33:00 -
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it most certainly does. but it also does very little else. The taranis can be a viable tackler while still doing some decent damage. in small gangs you want tacklers that pack a punch, not a disruptor with an mwd.  besides, taranis looks cooler
Can i be a Paper Panther? same as a Paper Tiger but with alliteration to boot
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Sedai Hara
The Forsakened Companions
Pure.
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Posted - 2008.01.11 14:50:00 -
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You can pull of suprisingly hard things in a taranis, and 2-3 of them in packs are just totally overkill.
Webb is there just to hold the enemy down, to use rails and stay out far might sound like a good idea, but wont grant you those very nice Battlecruiser solo kills :D instead go in hard with ions and a trimark HP tank or gank-style and you got yourself a real killer, way outclassing all the other inties at killing bigger ships without having to use 10 of them.
Hell i got some friends i use to fly with that have soloed battleships in a taranis, and in packs of 2-3+ battleships are a piece of cake, though we have spend the past 1.5 years in taranises atleast, and the best got 15 mil + SP in gunnery alone. So it will require skills on pilot and character side. But it is indeed possible, though hard 
To get it to work like a charm add ECM drones and a well coordinated team that you trust and know what they are doing, and your set.
Also: torp-raven dmg on a tarans at 500m = PATHETIC
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 Originally by: Ozzie Asrail
A mega without 3 magstabs fitted is like kladdkaka without chocolate. 
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Sean Faust
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Posted - 2008.01.11 17:36:00 -
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Edited by: Sean Faust on 11/01/2008 17:44:33
Getting a crow webbed in a taranis is not hard if he does what crow pilots typically do, which is to orbit you from outside web range and pelt you with missiles. Don't set an orbit or try to approach them, just try and calculate where they will be at a specific point in their orbit and meet them there manually =). Its a trick that a corp mate of mine who flies blaster fitted taranises almost exclusively taught me and it works. I haven't had much success with it myself yet but thats because I haven't had a lot of practice, but it works for him almost 100% of the time and he seldom, if ever, loses to crows 1v1 in his taranis.
One thing you have to bear in mind when engaging a crow in a taranis is that almost every crow you engage will be faction fitted, and it is the only ceptor that people really fit like that. So you will probably far outgeared by most crows you engage, but that doesn't change the fact that almost all use the same highly predictable strategy.
As far as non-crow opponents go =P, your best friend if you don't know other races' ships well is these forums. Learn about common fittings for all ships, and which ships do and dont fit webs. Learn the taranis's weaknesses and learn what ships are commonly fitted in ways that exploit those weaknesses.
And don't ever try to engage a gallente drone ship in a taranis =P or any pvp fitted gallente ship at all really (with a few exceptions of course). I can't count how many times I went into lowsec with a cheaply fitted vexor (my level 2 mission ship) and ate some poor inty pilot alive who tried to screw with me.
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SL Helper
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Posted - 2008.01.11 17:43:00 -
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Originally by: Sean Faust
One thing you have to bear in mind when engaging a crow in a taranis is that almost every crow you engage will be faction fitted
Not even remotely true.
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Sean Faust
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Posted - 2008.01.11 17:49:00 -
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Originally by: SL Helper
Originally by: Sean Faust
One thing you have to bear in mind when engaging a crow in a taranis is that almost every crow you engage will be faction fitted
Not even remotely true.
It seems like it anyway when your main source of pvp comes from merc corps hired to dec your own =P
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Liang Nuren
The Avalon Foundation
Knights Of Syndicate
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Posted - 2008.01.11 18:20:00 -
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Originally by: Sedai Hara
Edit: See you talked about "Taranis getting a sabre into half shields"
Not to long ago i had a sabre into 20-30% structure before he popped me. Sure i died, but was a fun fight (one more volley of my neutrons or my drones to deploy and the end might have been different)
TBH, either his gunnery skills sucked or he didn't fit a MSE. You simply can't deal enough damage to take a dual web/MSE Sabre to structure before it pops you. Also, the dual web really does give him a significant advantage of range if he wants it.
All of that said: the Taranis is dangerous - and if underestimated, it very well might kill you. I harmlessly learned my lesson. ;-)
-Liang
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Originally by: "QProQ"
When they said to put 'stabs on your 'cane, they meant GYROSTABS!
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