Bleys looked over the guide on datapad. He had wrote it some time ago, or dictated it at the very least. Nothing in it was revolutionary. In fact, most of the guide was age old wisdom many people have known instinctively for years. Still, the pilots of Brave Newbie Inc. had not been around all that long. He had thought they would find the information useful.
For a few minutes Bleys tapped on the datapad here, gave it a little swipe there. Looking over the replies to the guide on the BNI organizational forums. They had picked away at the guide like a bunch of old ladies, both ungrateful and petty. Bleys frowned a bit, and read over the guide again:
- RANGE: You should keep your ship behind your friendly fleet. This requires the enemy to go through a field of hostile ships to reach you, greatly assisting your own survival. Still, remain within the optimal range of your ECM modules and aligned to warp out if heavily threatened.
- FOCUS: Do not focus your ECM on a single target. Activating concurrent ECM modules on a target that has been jammed has no additional effect. If the enemy has four ships on the field, and you have enough modules, they should get one ECM module each. Sometimes the jam will fail, but the enemy will still have to re-target before becoming useful. The disruption in their effectiveness is more damaging then perm-jamming only one enemy ship.
- PRIORITY: Do not just activate all your ECM modules on the primary. Target priority is as follows: Calls for jam targets from the Fleet Commander, any enemy ECM, any enemy logistics ships, enemy high damage ships, and enemy tackling ships.
- DIVERSITY: Do not fit all multi-spectral ECM modules. These modules have considerably shorter range, and range is largely what will keep you alive. Also, you should be fitting a mix of racial ECM modules and putting them on ships of the correct racial type. This also encourages you to spread your ECM over the enemy.
- REPEAT: Turn auto repeat OFF; you should manually apply your ECM modules. Allowing a couple seconds before reapplying the jams can tease an enemy with a chance to start targeting again. Sometimes this "hope" will keep a useless ship on the field when they would otherwise run. If you NEED to permanently jam an enemy ship, say enemy ECM, stagger multiple ECM modules. Try to get a second successful jam just before the current one runs out. Do not just turn the ECM modules all on and leave them on.
True, it was not perfect. In some areas it said to much, and in others it said to little. Still, Bleys felt someone might find it useful. Maybe he would have one of his men work on it further.
