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| *Get locked by an enemy and tell yourself "I'm good for another salvo." | | *Get locked by an enemy and tell yourself "I'm good for another salvo." |
| *Escape through a gatecamp with warp bubbles, alone too late, after the fleet has escaped. The stargate will be occupied on both sides with warp bubbles, making escape impossible alone. | | *Escape through a gatecamp with warp bubbles, alone too late, after the fleet has escaped. The stargate will be occupied on both sides with warp bubbles, making escape impossible alone. |
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| === Targets ===
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| *Good targets for bombers: Battlecruiser, battleship signatures. Stealth bomber torpedoes are most effective against larger targets like battlecruisers and battleships. At no point should a bomber ever consider engaging any cruiser or frigate alone.
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| Cynabals and Dramiels are bomber eating machines.
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| *Medium targets for bombers: cruiser-size signatures, any medium ship with an active microwarpdrive. Target painters will help bloom cruiser signatures, but what you really want is for them to activate their MWD.
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| *Bad targets for bombers: Frigates. Frigate signatures are smaller than torpedo explosion radius, and faster than torpedo explosion velocity, can shrug off a lot of torpedo damage. You can whore on the mail if you really must, but if you haven't yet uncloaked and there's some intel value in not revealing your presence to anything in d-scan range, you may want to consider holding off.<br />
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| The torpedo explosion radius will be too large to apply full damage to the frigate's small signature radius, unless:
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| -the target frigate is locked (no warp, no velocity) and still(not moving) in space
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| -the target frigate is affected by four or more target painters
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| -A fleet booster is activated that will increase the target signature
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| -your stealth bomber pilot has rigs and drugs that shrink torpedo explosion radius and explosion velocity, and increase torpedo damage
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| -find bonuses that shrink your torpedo explosion radius down to 40m to match the target frigate's signature radius (no way possible), but even under the above conditions, the target frigate will absorb only a fraction of the torpedo damage.
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| *cheaper torpedoes may be used against frigate signatures, but expensive torpedoes apply a smaller bonus damage-use them as you see fit.
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| <big>If you have an abundance of torpedoes and don't care about wasting them, send any and all of your targets some love.</big>
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| == Bombing techniques == | | == Bombing techniques == |
