Willuw Everquest wrote:Use the Astero to get tackle instead of the Jag … Astero Sensor Recal Delay vs Warp for tackle? The Confessors were beam fit.
Astero would still have the three-second delay at Cloaking IV, 2.5 at Cloaking V (but it's a long train and not really worth it for just an extra half of a second, so I'd be surprised if many people had it). Personally, I'd go with the Jaguar. It's also worth considering a stealth bomber for the ability to instantly target after decloaking. In these circumstances, however, the human factor is probably the most important consideration. Tactical destroyers have an excellent align time (this being why the Jackdaw is the preferred ship for blitzing FW missions, for example), regardless of how they are fit, so you're not going to have much time to tackle them before they warp off. Most people aren't paying perfect attention, nor do they have perfect reaction time. You'd be getting kills on the Confessors when you do things before the human notices and before the human reacts to noticing, if your side's humans are able to notice and react to things faster than them.
If the person sitting in the chair is watching D-Scan and pressing buttons at the most opportune time, the Confessors are going to get away regardless of what you bring unless it's a stealth bomber tackle (and the bomber is probably going to die immediately). I just checked a doctrine Confessor fit (specifically the one from the solo fight that I had with a Stratios which I mentioned to you because you're the Stratios person) in PYFA to see the align time and in propulsion mode, I have a 4.54s align time and I've seen some fits which get it significantly faster (not quite to the extent of the 1s travel Hecate, though). Consider that instawarp is 2s align time or less. Anything which can get into warp within two seconds of the targeting delay elapsing, so either 4.5s or more likely 5s, can get away before the Astero tackles it if both players are doing everything perfectly. A Confessor can easily avoid a tackle attempt from an Astero for that reason unless you catch it in the middle of the cooldown between changing modes so it's stuck at the 6.81s align time that I have for other modes.
Because of that, I would prefer to have a Jaguar warp to a cloaked Astero, rather than the Astero decloaking to tackle if the hole is far enough from the Confessors that it wouldn't show up on D-Scan until it was warping in. And it can start targeting immediately after it arrives on-grid rather than waiting three seconds.
And I'm not quite sure what you thought was noteworthy about the Confessors being fit with beam lasers. Beam fits are vastly more common than pulse fits for Confessors. I have a pulse Confessor among my many Confessors around various places in New Eden (my Confessor stockpile doesn't quite reach what your Stratios stockpile looks like) and I think Spectre's Friday Yarrr fleets are pulse Confessors (and similar ships like blaster Hecate), but it's a weird fit and I don't really understand what the purpose of it is (it was a doctrine fit for a fleet that I went on).
