Serdanae
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Posted - 2009.02.03 00:10:00 -
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First of all, let me say that I'm coming into this as an experienced 0.0 FC, and I'm looking at this problem as something similar to taking down a cyno jammer. It is a painful experience, and very similar (but actually a lot easier) to what you are trying to do here.
First of all, let's look at the size of the problem. To take a large tower into reinforced, you have to inflict around 34M damage to it. That is BEFORE you even think about resists or passive shield recharge. To put that into perspective, if you have 50 battleships, each doing 250 dps, it is going to take you about 45 minutes to put it into reinforced, even if you ignore the resists/passive recharge.
You may think 250 dps is low, but consider that you have to fit a lot of range mods to get outside of the range of the disruptors (200K+), you have to use long-range ammo, and you have to fit plates to keep from getting insta-gibbed by the guns (and giving yourself a chance to warp off).
You also have to consider the passive regen of the shields. If you have 200 ships hitting it, you can ignore that. But if you have a more realistic fleet, it will add a non-trivial amount of time.
Ok, let's assume you are willing to get 50 battleships together, and are willing to go out there for 45 minutes. IF there are no POS gunners and no tacklers on the opposing side, you probably can do it with minimal losses. It will take you longer than 45 minutes though, since people will have to warp off to repair. And you WILL incur some losses from bad luck, when multiple guns target the same guy.
The problem is when the defender has gunners. Remember that they will have time to offline (at least) their labs, and online more guns. They can have 16 or more medium artillery onlined on that thing, and if they have all those guns manned, they will insta-pop your battleships. It won't matter if you have remote reppers or not, they will get pasted.
If they have gunners, you have to come with a hell of a lot more than 50, and also expect to take a LOT of losses. If you only come with 50, they will kill your entire fleet before you even make a dent in the shields. If you come with more, you may end up killing the POS, but they'll be killing a ship every 30 seconds.
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