Good ship for CZ

Maymo

Maymo
Last time I ran combat zones was in a G5 Corvette and that was about 10 CMDR’s ago.
I dropped into one yesterday in a standard A rated Viper3 and had a very good time supporting the troops for a few rounds.

Eventually my luck ran out though, a special ops wing dropped in right on top of me and wrecked my ship in seconds.

I play Ironman, so restarted my CMDR with the intention of returning to the same system with extreme violence on my mind.

I’ve spent the day unlocking guardian shield boosters, collecting mats and unlocking the basic engineers in a DBX, but now I have to pick my tool of destruction...

My game plan is to alpha strike as many of the cannon fodder ships as possible before the big boy wave arrives so I then have plenty of undistracted team mates ready to greet them. I don’t think a Vulture is going to have the teeth for this so I’m definitely looking at one of the mid range ships...

Any ideas?

Chieftain is feeling like a good choice right now but I could easily go FDL/Mamba if I throw a mining trip or two in.

I do play ‘dead is dead’ religiously, so I favour shield tanks over hull and need to be able to reliably escape the second I’m out of my depth.

With CZ’s now expiring after a round is an all kinetic setup a good idea? Overcharged multi’s with corrosive/incendiary modifiers?
 

aRJay

aRJay
First thing pick the ship you can handle the best.

Alpha strike with a BSR if needed I would think a Mamba would work nicely, the FdL is almost always good in a CZ.

Chieftain is fun agile and has good convergence but can be a little fragile and might not have the killer punch.
 

Crank Larson

Crank Larson
Chieftain can be nicely hull tanked and with rails and multicannons can take out most NPCs quickly. I run biweaves on mine, and have loads of time when the shields drop to decide if I'm going to hang around or not.
 

Maymo

Maymo
aRJay said:
First thing pick the ship you can handle the best.

Alpha strike with a BSR if needed I would think a Mamba would work nicely, the FdL is almost always good in a CZ.

Chieftain is fun agile and has good convergence but can be a little fragile and might not have the killer punch.
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Yeah, I’ve yet to pilot a Mamba. It may be the right package I’m looking for, huge speed combined with a heavy punch...

Cheers mate! 👍
 

Maymo

Maymo
Crank Larson said:
Chieftain can be nicely hull tanked and with rails and multicannons can take out most NPCs quickly. I run biweaves on mine, and have loads of time when the shields drop to decide if I'm going to hang around or not.
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I adore the Chief!

I always run it as a shield tank though (3-4 guardian boosters) even though it suits hull tanking better. Hull tanks always make me nervous, I just worry for thruster/pd failure...
 
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