The Stone-Burner Fleet

 I have been working on the Stone-Burner Fleet for sometime now. Stone-Burner is a proposed fleet doctrine that I believe would be very successful in small gang the PVP. The core ship that Stone-Burner is the Caldari Falcon. This Tech 2 cruiser with its fast locking speed and ECM can allow a two man gang engage a three to four man gang. The second ship that is needed is the fast heavy hitting Gallente Talos. This ship fitted with shields and Large Neutron Blaster Cannons can deal 750 dps with long range Null ammo. Its fast speed also makes it hard to other ships of it ship class to catch. The last ship in Stone-Burner is a hero Minmatar Scimitar. This is a nibble shield logistic ships that is able to operate with out a partner plus with its 150% to tracking links it also for the Talos to track smaller and faster ships at greater range.

Caldari Falcon ECM Boat

The real key to Stone-Burner is that you overwhelm your targets with E-WAR. If they are able to jam out and prevent your targets from dealing damage, ECM, or heals then you are in the clear to win. So the most important ship is the Falcon. Stone-Burner came out of the fact that in my small corp we rarely had the logistic ships for small gangs but we had a lot Falcon pilots. While E-WAR does not replace logistics, it is a force multiplier in battle. 

Minmatar Scimitar

When I say overwhelm I am not taking it lightly. Stone-Burner should have a 3-2 ratio of DPS to EWAR. Three Talos blaster boats and two Falcons then increase the number of EWAR boats with each increase of DPS ships. The fleet should easily be able to engage fleets of similar size to 2-3 ships larger. The major advantage of this type of fleet it that so much E-WAR is on the field that the targets lose 50-80% of their damage in a battle. The second is the fast rapid damage of the Talos is able to quickly destroy their ships before they are able to get a foot hold in the battle. 

      

           Gallente Talos                                                       Neutron Blaster Cannon

Stone-Burner is no cookie cutter fleet. It needs to be practiced and pilots have to know what the roles of the other pilots are. I would recommend that several training sessions on the TEST Server before running. The Falcon pilots have to know who the other is jamming out to prevent them from jamming out the same target and cause a waste. The fleet also has to be aware of distance of targets. There is little time for an FC to micro-manage this fleet.  But if ran correctly this fleet can be devastating to an enemy.