Freighter - ultimate HTT defense?

[theTroy]

Just played game, xPhoenix vs Champy. Dreg EXP/SY ---- BIOS EXP. on hihigher.

3 frigs leave nuclear waste on the place where BIOS garr and EXP was, but BIOS managed to cap Dreg garr with a TT/BBR (yes, the team did not really want to defend at all). Then while frigs were walking back to kill garr, another BBR/TT combo headed to our EXP. I for the lulz of it was in a freighter, and did not have time to get back to SY, so I decided just to block the green door of our EXP.

Which worked perfectly well!. TT rammed me 2 times, trying to dock, but could not. BIOS had to AB/mini me down, before TT could cap the EXP *(my single freighter and Sheff on defense, rest of the team is eslewhere).

That can be classified as a force cap *(ints/bbrs/figs). But take this case without the supporting fighters, and only a single stealthy HTT with nan escort. If freighter blocks green door, only sliding away to allow miners/cons and friendlies to dock, HTTs are nearlly rendered useless against that techbase. (except SY large green door).

The only drawback is that you basically wasting 1 player in that freighter, but in 20 vs 20, fearing that your exp will be capped while you are scraping for frigs, it can pay off /cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="cool.gif" />

(Especially useful for : IC (1 green door per techbase), Belts (huge freighters, 1 green door per techbase), GT (green doors are close to each other and small), Rix)

[champy]

Well - if u loucnh 3 Frigs - while u mined all map and our earlie game went stupid ofcourse u had the cash for all the tools.

i Guess one corv had prevented that cap better than ur frighter.

[blackrob]

If you have a freighter means you have a SY.

You might want to find a way to defend that SY against cap too.

Thus, back to the normal way of defending against HTT for SY, as freighter aint big enough to block SY's door.

But a corv sitting on the green door of a tech base must suck for HTTer, indeed.

[Psychosis]

one time, virulence went SY, and refused to give us destroyers until we got a kill in a freightor

[blackrob]

How did that work out for ya?

[Adam4]

Heh, I remember the time Me & Wiz camped an IC garrison with frighters.

Ok, so it was the PK v world game /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

[Kltplzyxm]

It works well until the HTT enters via another door. /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roll:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

[theTroy]

But if there is no such "another" door? IC EXP for example? /rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roll:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

[ImmortalZ]

You cannot completely block off an IC door with a freighter. You can... worm into it.

This will block the belter green doors and the BIOS Exp door. Any thin door really.

[Dorjan]

how about block THEIR red door with a frieghter for lulz

xD