That’s too much like work. I just warp to 30km in my Kronos, hit the Drifter cruiser with two target painters and pulverize him with blasters.
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Tried that with my usual 800mm Autocannon fit but he was near max falloff the whole time and the guns kept missing. You using 1400mm?
800er T2, hmm, it works fine for me. No tracking enhancer … keep at range 11km with heated MWD. You start hitting hard below 25km. Put some heat on the guns.
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hmm tried it solo but was very long, I was afraid it would leave .
Also I use a grappler +web to keep him at 1000m and 2 ogres.
Keeping at 11km is the thing I didn’t do. I was trying to catch up to him to web and grapple but never got close enough. I was thinking more along the lines of ‘catch and stop’ than ‘follow and shoot’.
I was concerned about Cap and burning out the MWD as my Mach isn’t fitted for prolonged MWD use. Might give it another go with new tactics and a more stable MWD fit.
Thanks Tipa 
Maybe this is the problem. I figured that if I get closer than 10km my guns stop tracking perfectly. Why only 2 Ogres not 5?
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yeah, 4
I did not test the effective DPS, semmes to me it keeps going in a straight line with me on its back. just… very slowly ^^
He’s probably using a Rattlesnake.
Kronos is out of my reach still. Plus I dont like warping around with battleship.
Ishtar works fine enough for me 
Kill the cruiser just fine and or just keep approach and let the warriors farm the frigs one by one.
I edited original post with my experience.
I think I do it the most efficiently. Maybe a strong BS could blap the cruiser faster than me, but I 'd laugh at him isk/h wise, as I align in under 5 seconds with a 5+ AU/S warp speed.
The fit is in original post!
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the thread
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Has anyone tried pulling the frigates away from the warp in point and then Smart Bomb them with a Rohk?
been doing some site it last night … get some other ship skin and not an Ishtar one. 
Apoc Skin seem to drop plenty huh?
I’m convinced that the event has been designed to kill the frigates to harvest event points from and that the cruiser is merely a distraction.
A lot of the frigates drop both types of boosters and if harvested fast enough can yield a sizeble amount of Sleeper loot and Sleeper salvage.
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Today its raining Apoc’s. Other than that Cerb, Claw, Drake, Executioner, Hyperion, Incursus, Malediction, Omen, Raptor, Tempest, Nado, Vaga, Zealot. Still counting on Ishtar too 
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I have a Mach that i am using, its ■■■■■■■ killing me. I can easily kill the cruiser with 800mm T2 guns with faction ammo while using webbing drones to slow it down from 1700 to abiut 1200 to 1300mps
But i canno for the ■■■■■■■ life of me i cannot hit that stupid battleship with the same guns while its going 1000mps. Its so infuriating. I cant even tell you how annoyed i am with the battleship site. The site has to be broken idk whatelse it could be, tried a carrier on the battleship, that didnt work, tried a cruiser with missiles, that also didnt work. Idk whatelse to do.
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I’m farming battleship sites fine with my Machariel, ran about 30 sites in highsec yesterday, each about 3-4min (true) solo. They are that plentiful like the Cruiser sites.
Don’t let the BS pull range, web it down on entering the site, and it will try burning away in a straight line with 0 transversal. Keep at range 11-12km and DPS it down. You need minimum 1200 DPS AC plus Drones to stay in the time limit.
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Just fit a warp-stabbed, semi-tanky, speedy frigate/cruiser. Steal the loot, wait the 15m suspect timer in station, rinse/wash/repeat.
These events are all the same. You either get to the site first, run it, and have your loot stolen, or you steal the loot.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
meanwhile you do one site in 20 min, how clever.
In a few ships I ran this event with, I noticed that light drones worked very well for farming the frigates. So I took my Skiff out to give it a try. The Skiff has a great tank and gets a drone bonus. For the T2 Hobs, I get about 230dps. The frigates go down fairly quickly, but not instantly.
Since the Skiff worked so well, I fitted a Vexor, and it gets a drone bonus. I don’t even use the turrets.
The Gnosis also works very well.
For all these I used 3 drone damage mods, pith c-type sb, and two invul flds., and other stuff.
I also use a Mobile tractor to bring in the wrecks.
One site there were two Gilas, maybe they were just watching me, I didn’t see many of their wrecks, I don’t know what they were doing.
When I was using the Skiff, I’m sure a guy in a Gila was laughing at me. But I just kept poppin the frigates, until the interruption came. Maybe they were all going for the Cruiser.
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I use a different variant of the vigilant. I haven’t seen a BS site yet.
Seems to work great especially if he manages to run off before you can head his way (seems to happen a lot to me). So if the sites are happening to you like they are me. Try this. Works great. You could even change to blasters if you want. I usually only need 1-3 cycles of the rep per site. All my sites are in 0.0, so maybe a bit harder to run than highsec.
[Vigilant, Vigilant]
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer
Shadow Serpentis Magnetic Field Stabilizer
Shadow Serpentis Magnetic Field Stabilizer
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I
50MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive
Stasis Webifier II
Federation Navy Stasis Webifier
200mm Railgun II
200mm Railgun II
200mm Railgun II
200mm Railgun II
200mm Railgun II
Medium Anti-Explosive Pump II
Medium Engine Thermal Shielding II
Medium Polycarbon Engine Housing II
Infiltrator II x5
Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M x2800
Nanite Repair Paste x192
Navy Cap Booster 800 x17
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