So, I have become involved in a POS defence vs Wingspan. They are sieging out a 4 meatbod corp of Germans who are rather newb at the whole thing. So really all that Wingspan has going for it is numbers and a keenness to spend hours and hours of their evenings plinking away inefficiently at structures.
This really drives home the fact that you need to prepare ahead of time for these eventualities. Whilst it is fun to buy and own all the toys and stuff your hangars full of ships, if you don't have your defence strategy as equally well-stocked, you may as well SD your ships now, and save an alliance like Wingspan the effort.
The key is preparation.
Besides having a well prepared POS (you know, one that deters mostly all attacks anyway) you have to be prepared for the siege. This means having spare POS guns for when your original set are incapped, as you can anchor them and online them even at a reinforced POS.
The problem is you can't store them in your CHA. You instead need a strategic reserve of iterons or whatever, loaded with POS guns and ammo, sitting in your SMA, ready to go. That way you can extract the hauler from the SMA, launch and anchor the guns, and voila, instant new POS defence.
Get on it, small corp people, or you too will suffer much strife.
Good advice!
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree with your comments. But laying waste to a 4 man corp. Really tough stuff or maybe boredom set it or alternatively having trouble finding a decent opposition.
ReplyDeleteI think Wingspan have got to the size where they lack content and haven't actually done this shit much before. So they now have a 1/4 competent "FC" who has 60 autists at his beck and call, versus bittervet wormholer types who are so over structure grinds it's not funny. So they go do evictions for content, or to wrongheadedly try to get cap kills via sieges (next step, cap kills via bait or troll POS once their strategic thinking evolves beyond vestigial levels), and their membership doesn't just say "go fuck yourself".
DeleteGive it time. Plus, obviously, they haven't run up against a corp big enough of connected enough (or in US TZ) to mount an on-TZ defence. There's a reason they picked on Germans, and that's the timer thing. Old Values didn't even understand how to fiddle stront, or it'd have been a large difference (we'd have angled for an AU TZ reinforce).
Small pos = attacked soon
ReplyDeleteMedium = attacked a little later.
Large with far too many guns (and spares still to be anchored) means that thete are easier pickings for a flyby attack.
You can still be attacked for personal reasons, but a large t1 fit over defended pos in a c1 - c3 discourages most
It wasn't the worst POS I've seen. It didn't have 80 sensor damps, mind you. But it wasn't the worst.
DeleteIt wasn't the worst POS I've seen. It didn't have 80 sensor damps, mind you. But it wasn't the worst.
DeleteThat is a lot of work. It's easier to think "It won't be me".
ReplyDeleteWell....it is, and it isn't. Even in a C4 it's 10 minutes work to buy a hauler, cargo expanders, fill it with POS guns, undock and use your instawarp, and drive it 3 jumps to your chain. You'll get an exit 3j from a hub every couple of days, unless you don't play much. It's also cheap - at even 6M per ECM battery, you can get prepped for a siege within 2 hours of farming.
DeleteWell....it is, and it isn't. Even in a C4 it's 10 minutes work to buy a hauler, cargo expanders, fill it with POS guns, undock and use your instawarp, and drive it 3 jumps to your chain. You'll get an exit 3j from a hub every couple of days, unless you don't play much. It's also cheap - at even 6M per ECM battery, you can get prepped for a siege within 2 hours of farming.
DeleteDefinitely. Carebear corps shouldn't be surprised when they drop a big bag of shiny in a wormhole that someone else drops by to take it. In addition to making the mistake of taking a hole that was above your ability to defend, I'm guessing you also made the mistake of keeping too much of your shiny around.
ReplyDeleteHopefully what you learned this time will help you to be more prepared next time.
Considering that I am solo I prefer the dullstar setup, since I assume that I won't be able to defend my POS to begin with. Gives me plenty of time to move stuff out and I know that any attacker will hate themselves for having to shoot that shit into RF.
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