Marauder Stuff From the Field

[Imelda Virpio 179]

A thread to drop stuff that you've figured out about marauders. The guides aren't bad, but they can't know everything; new stuff keeps turning up, and we should share the knowledge a bit.

[Imelda Virpio 179]

Me in particular, I've been Kronos'ing, and a few items: 1) daaaang, melting a Yulai by yourself in 15 seconds is fun. Okay, that's not useful exactly, but still... y'all want to train for these.

A few general things:

"Sniper" or "DPS" no longer exist. All of the marauders have the range to effectively hit anything on the field. If you need to spend a wave or two murdering stuff at 80km, fine, do that.

In related news, we have a billion locks. Feel free to lock stuff up that MIGHT be interesting. Maybe you won't need to kill that Vylade, but you can look.

A Yulai is twenty seconds without heat, a Deltole about 45, an Ostingele 70, an Intaki close to 90. You can do better with big abyssals or big Pyrolancea. Nikifleet runs fast enough that DB5 is profitable, just sayin'.

When a new wave spawns, it's faster to look at the frigates and make sure you aren't getting aggro before hitting bastion, than it is to wait until somebody ELSE broadcasts. It's also safer, because the switch happens in *exactly* two bastion cycles... soonest in, soonest out.

Nothing is sadder than losing five seconds of bastion time to an ammo switch.

You can drift about 10km if you hit bastion while at full speed. Wheee!

NRF stuff:

Common "last man standing" targets in teach wave: first wave, Vylades. Second wave, Antems. Third, Antems again.

You can anchor a few kilometers toward the *next* anchor point. 10 west of the first anchor, 10 north-northeast of the second. This saves you a bit of time getting to the next wave, you're still in optimal, and that bit of extra distance reduces traversal.

TPPH stuff:

You can clear the Ostingeles in the first two rooms fast enough that Vindicators have time to pay more attention to frigates. On the flip side, you suck at frigates because you have no webs. Go ahead, beg for frigate help early. I can see DDD being less of a thing once we get used to this, because the ten or so vindi's can all shoot frigates after the high-threat targets go down all through this site.

TCRC stuff:

If you're not being contested, It's practical to help clear Deltoles for a bastion cycle or so once they get close-ish, and bastion is safer once they're gone.

[niki lasvegas 537]

Depends on a lot of things obviously (fleetcomp, fleet quality, spawn size), but in a common NRF setup usually Paladins and Vargurs have to shoot Antems and Yulais to make sure that they are dying fast enough and the site goes quickly. Otherwise probably Snipers gonna fall behind.