After they revamped all the bombers and made them into torpedo boats, obviously, the cruise missle stuff is obsolete. In fact, you can’t even fit cruise launchers on a modern bomber. I just found an ancient bomber in a little-visited impounded office hangar of mine, and it still had the cruise launchers fit — but they were permanently offline and I couldn’t undock until I removed them.

ths is a pretty good work you have done there for the Manticore.
I hope we’ll never meet in 0.0 in combat ;o))

Cheers mate and continue for work – would love to read more of your
fitting suggestions.

BR,
Nagoja

STEALTH BOMBER. The name speaks for itself. Be stealthy and bomb them. The whole purpose of a stealth bomber is to deliver an enormous amount of damage before they even knew you were there. And I do mean ENORMOUS damage. I well fitted SB can deliver as much firepower as a Battleship in many cases so do NOT under estimate them. Defense is another issue; they are tougher than most Frigs, but not by much.

The advantage of a Stealth Bomber is in it’s attack. If you can hit your target before they even know you are there, then you gave them a bloddy nose and they are either on the run, getting there senses together just in time for your next volly, or they are destroyed, or if they are skilled enough, they will hit you next. Remember, NEVER dual in a stealth bomber, it’s big advantage is the element of surprise. FYI, long range shots give them a heads up and you lose that element.

I fly the HOUND. It gives me the benefit of 3 Cruise launchers plus 1 gun for the peskys. Advanced Cloak II, a damp, and shield boost (more on that later). The important thing is my ammo. Advanced Precision Paradise Cruise missiles, for frigets and other small craft. These weapons will often hit everytime regardless of dampening, and they are specifically designed for small fast targets. I take on three or four frigs at the same time with 1 launcher on each. 1 to 3 hits, and they are gone. It is this reason that I have a shield booster. I can tank my shields enough to buy me time so I can take out my targets. What if they have jamers and webers etc. etc? Back to my ammo. The paradise missiles have a high yield EMP damage, so it plays havoc with any electronics they may be using. On larger ships I switch to the Advanced Fury Paradise Cruise Missile (High damage). These do not work well against small ships, but Destroyers and Cruisers, they are great, but they are not long range.

MY TACTICS:

I will go into a belt with my Precisions loaded and take out any pirates there. Systems security from 1.0 to 0.0 (Although in 0.0 I am more cautious as pirates come in with multiple cruisers). So I destroy 3 or more pirate ships, then I switch to my High yield Paradise cruise missiles. I position myself in a unlikely position (off plane) but within 10k of the wreks that have cargo. and I remain cloaked. Then it’s just a matter of waiting for someone to come in and steal the cargo, which gives me kill rights. I want to note that I do NOT go after NOOBS. I inform them of what they are doign wrong, and the possible fallout of it, then I let them go. If they do it again, then it’s a duck shoot.

If the thief is a Frig. I decloak and switch out my missiles and use my passive targeting on him so he thinks I’m not after him. Then I let him have all three missiles. Usually they take him out on the first shot, sometimes, it takes two. the nice thing is, I will go toe to toe with a frig anyday without worry.

If the thief is larger like a destroyer, I decloak and use a normal (3 second lock) and fire all three of my high yield weapons. Shields and Armor are usually gone on the first shot so if they are smart, they run. Destroyers can warp out quickly. If not they are usually gone by the second and always by the third.

I have taken out everything from Frigs up to Cruisers more than once. The big advantage of close range is they don’t see the shots comming. They usually dont even know they are targetd until they are hit. The paradise missles causing so much EMP damage that it also serves as a defense against their electronic warfare if they get a chance to use it.

If the thief is in a Battlecruiser, I will decloak, normal 3 second lock, Fire and recloak before they even know I am there. I have not destroyed any Battlecruisers (on my own), but I have chased several away. They get really mad when I keep using the hit and run tactics. and they cant shoot back. I have never had one stick around to fight.

ADVICE:

Cloaking devices, get the best one you can. They automatically decloak when you come close to something, but the more advanced it is, the closer you can get before it decloaks, also raise your cloaking ability to 5.

ALWAYS check the Info on any ship you suspect is going to steal from you BEFORE they do it, so you know basically what you are up against, and also check the info on the Pilot and look at employment history. If he is flying a battlecruiser, but has only been in EVE for a month, its a good bet he spent all his training time to fly bigger ships and almsot nothing on defense or weapons. You can stick around and blow them to bits until they run.

Finally, gang up with other SB pilots and you guys can have a lot of fun.

have fun.

cheers, very good job.