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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:04 pm
by phreak
Hippo, you have any good hawk loadouts? The only thing they seem good for is my wallet.

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:56 pm
by Hippo
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Setup for a Manticore

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:24 pm
by hypnotic
Hippo,

I need a good setup for a manticore to do some low sec recon and also kill a few rats here and there.

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:28 pm
by phreak
Hi hypnotic, i have a manticore. They're not really NPC ships, but they'll work against cruiser rats if you're careful. I'm posting the common PVP setup, since I don't think anyone uses them to rat. They're just too expensive for that.

Highs:
3x Cruise launchers, named are preferred due to their low CPU. I'm using limos atm.
1x 75mm II. Just in case
1x Improved Cloak.

Meds:
2x F-90 Sensor Boosters (saves on CPU).
2x Named sensor damps (saves on CPU).

Lows:
1x Ballistic control, dunno if T2 will fit.
1x Micro aux power core.

I think the MAPC can be swapped out for a nanofiber if your fitting skills are good. Wrath cruise missiles will hit for around 500 or so. The procedure is to align to something, uncloak, engage your sensor boosters, target, damp the target, fire cruise missiles, recloak once they hit. The damps are there since the manticore is weaker than a normal kestrel. You also can't recloak when locked, so this helps increase your targets locking time and reduces his target range. I don't know if damps work against NPCs though.

If you want to do low-sec recon, i'd suggest you get a Buzzard (not a bustard), with a covert ops cloak. The covops cloaks are a bit more expensive, but you can warp cloaked with them, unlike improved cloaks.

Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:04 pm
by Hippo
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:08 am
by Hammer
Scorpion anyone?

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:32 pm
by Hippo
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:13 pm
by phreak
Night Hammer wrote:Scorpion anyone?
Here's a fleet setup for blobs. Target the battleships and pray you jam.

4x 425 Rails
2x Heavy Nos

2x sensor booster
6x T2 jammers

3x 1600mm Plates
1x RCU

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:30 pm
by Flipside
Anyone got suggestions for Retribution and/or Vengeance?

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:41 pm
by Hippo
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:38 pm
by phreak
vengeance isn't too good

here's a retri setup that a corpie uses

highs:
4 medium pulse IIs
1 small nos

med:
1x 1mn AB II

Lows:

1 MAPC (i think)
1 T2 thermal hardener
2 heat sink IIs.
1 Small Armor rep II

You're going to need Adv Weapon Upgrades for beams.

edit: forgot the small armor rep.

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:18 pm
by Flipside
Yup, I don't have pulsies atm, I'll see what I can do with Beams instead :)

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:33 pm
by ngtm1r
While we're here, if Hippo or Phreak would mind canvassing their corpmates about Lachesis setups...

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:23 am
by Grug
Why has the word canvassing become so popular recently?

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:35 am
by Hippo
they all say its crap