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by Alan Phipps » Mon, 5. Dec 22, 20:30
What I have found is that if you get your attacking fleet ships to an area a bit outside their weapon range to the station, and only then give the attack order when they are in place, they tend to stop as soon as their main guns and long-range capital-attack turrets are in range to target. Make sure that all shorter-range turrets are set to attack fighters or else the ships will try to close to get those lesser turrets in range too.
The next danger comes when the module they are attacking is gone and they have to target another module further away. Sometimes they will cross right past the station to align onto the new module target. To help avoid that, I spread my attacking fleet around the station so that many modules are under attack at the same time such that they get weakened in parallel.
Further, I try to destroy the drone-launch modules early on (for stations with many defence drones) as a fleet of attacking drones can distract your attacking capitals and cause them to manoeuvre and blunder into range of the station turrets (IS only).
I make sure that my attack fleets are of ships with similar capabilities, captain experience, and load-outs as then you don't tend to get too many individual ships acting differently and attracting all the attention of the defences.
Using these guidelines, I am usually confident enough to let my attack fleets wear away enemy stations without too much micro-management once engaged, both IS and OOS.
By the way, GCU Grey Area is a master of such tactics and has given hints and tips in many similar threads. It is well worth searching out his posts.
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