I’m mostly using long range weapons and kiting since dps will be hard to compete with early on.
I don’t fly Amarr however but as far as you surprise them with kiting, you just need to outlast them: Minmatar artillery alpha volley (amount of dmg with each hit) shines here as it can hit through reps.
Not sure if alpha volley is good as amarrian but otherwise you should have more dps or application, it’s fairly balanced in my opinion.
Let me just say as a former minnie fw pilot good for you. They need more new blood, badly last I heard. As for fits, I could be incorrect now, but last I heard there was a large group from reddit.com/eve/ doing FW on Amarr side. If you haven’t already, crosspost this there for additional info. Just take it with a hefty grain of salt. When I was doing fw O usually considered them easy kills. Not sure if its because of their appeal to newer pilots or if they actually have bad advice. But definitely run with them if nothing else. At least they’re not Eve-Uni. EU is… well, just terrible at PvP. They’re carebear central. Great wiki though.
FWEDDIT still hanging out with the Amarr? Haven’t flown in FW for a few years now.
I wasn’t sure what faction to pick (unless alpha clones are locked to a side?) but if Amarr are in such dire straights then I’ll jump in with them. Love being the undermanned side