Rep Drone Tanking
Contents
Overview
Relying on a large personal tank in typical pvp engagements is often a losing proposition.
Using speed, range, or electronic warfare scales better against larger forces.
Giving up on tanking completely though is a mistake. While a personal tank works well in small gangs and fails in large ones, remote repairing is actually the opposite.
Drone Love is almost the same concept as Spider Tanking except in the place of using Large remote repair modules the gang will use armor maintenence drones to do the repairing.
The advantages of using logistic drones
Repair drones have a 45km+ range compared to the 9km of Large remote modules alowing the gang to use propulsion mods and short range weapons, plus the gang can jump through a gate into the enemy gang without its ships being too spread out they cant rep each other.
Also 5 Heavy armor maintenece bots rep for around the same as a tech two Large armor repairer yet they use no cap, this removes the dependance of the gang on cap boosters allowing it to last longer engagements and roam for longer or deeper into nullsec.
Resistance to ECM, once you have your drones on the friendly target they will continue to repair even if you become jammed, making ECM a less effective method of breaking your repping power.
Finally it frees up high slots which can be used for extra weapon systems or energy neutralisers to assit in breaking your opponents tank.
Disadvantages
Heavy drones are very slow and will take time to move to the intended target, the further away the longer it will take, this increases the chance of the target popping before he recives enough reps to tank the incoming dps.
Drones can be destroyed, multiple bombs, smartbombs or light ships weapons could easily destroy the gangs repping ability.
Using logistics drones greatly reduces the gangs damage output, 5 Heavy combat drones put out alot of dps.
Drone Love Battleship Tanking
Basics
After testing this tactic it became apparent that it would be best used instead of Spider when engaging capital ships such as Carriers, capital ships commonly fit smartbombs which will destroy combat drones used against them therefore using Logistics drones is much more appealing.
Also its easier to break capital ship tanks with alot of energy neutralisers, the Drone Love gang has plenty of spare high slots and extra capacitor to support this.
Alternatively Logistics drones can be used in addition to other remote repair tactics like Spider Tanking, Dual Guardian Gang and Dual Basilisk Gang(Using shield mainenace bots) to create a much stronger tank.
