# Shuttle is the new go to scout. Is this reasonable?

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**Category:** Warfare & Tactics\
**Created:** [October 7, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/shuttle-is-the-new-go-to-scout-is-this-reasonable/331171 "2021-10-07T14:08:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/shuttle-is-the-new-go-to-scout-is-this-reasonable/331171/30 "2021-10-07T16:54:41Z")

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> [@Cpt\_WhiteEye](#):
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> The video shows you combat probing an afk shuttle with ur probes already on grid at 0.5 AU. You didnt even go as far to have offgrid probes scanning on the target. And thus failed at everything else. Just this tells more than you think about some one. You think this is the way to kill shuttles. And when you say “These kills were made while they were warping around” you clearly lie. Anyone with combat probe experience would tell you the same.

There seems to be a misunderstanding here, I was talking about shuttles warping around _on grid_:

> [@Gerard\_Amatin](#):
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> I even manage to kill shuttles that keep bouncing **between bookmarks on grid.**

This means I can see them, align to them and warp to them when I have my combat probes on 0.5 AU.

_‘Anyone with combat probe experience would tell you the same.’_

> [@Cpt\_WhiteEye](#):
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> From this and other comments you made on scouting and shuttles you made it clear you have never done it/or had to actively try to stop it.

As you base this conclusion on the previous misconception I don’t think I have to debunk this.

> [@Cpt\_WhiteEye](#):
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> You will think-\> But hey i combat probed and killed multiple shuttles in T5Z.

Correct, as the zkillboard links have shown.

> [@Cpt\_WhiteEye](#):
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> While this is true i can tell you how you done it with 100% accuracy. The main of the shuttle was in an active engagement and let the shuttle die as focusing on an active fight took his attention.

Sorry, could you elaborate? I don’t quite follow what you’re saying here.

> [@Cpt\_WhiteEye](#):
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> You merely probed down afk shuttles.

As I mentioned before, unlike the instructional video, the kills I linked were moving shuttles that were actively warping from bookmark to bookmark. _On grid._

The trick is to combat probe them the moment they warp to a new position on grid, align to their new position, warp to them and smartbomb them before they had a chance of giving a new warp order.

As shuttles have very limited warp speed (unlike interceptor scouts or combat probing smartbomb T3Cs that can move over 10AU/s) it’s not hard to arrive right after they land.

> [@Cpt\_WhiteEye](#):
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> This all derives to the last point. Ur limited knowledge.

There was one point I did not quite follow, but I think the rest of the points you were pretty wrong. Could you elaborate on the point I didn’t follow?

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