Smacking Dirk

Well, I trained the skills for the destroyer fitting I was recommended for Hulkageddon. At that point, I was over a week until the event so I started training up my electronic skills I figure I would need for solo ganking, as well as some engineering skills to allow more stuff on my ships.

But I’ve come to a bit of a crossroads. I want to utilize the 50% training time to knock out some of the ship skills I’ll need to fly more advanced ships. I’m nearly sure I want to go the Caldari route because I like missiles. The Flycather, an interdictor, would seem logical. But I have no idea how well that would do in PvP. It seems like it would eat up frigates with the six missile hardpoints. On the way there, I could fly the Crow, and interceptor with three missile hardpoints.

The other route I’m thinking about is training to heavy interdictors. Battlecruisers would be the stop in between and the Caldari have no shortage of missile opportunities there. The Onyx seems just plain nasty. I’d be able to exercise my missile fetish bigtime with the bonuses to heavy assalt and heavy missiles. But can I see myself in a Drake while I wait on the proper skills? It just doesn’t strike me as very pirate-y.

So, I have some big questions and I need help answering them:

1. How well does the Flycather kite? Intercepters seem like natural kiters, but very light. Can interdictors kite well in 1v1?

2. Smaller ships seem too quick for a lot of the 1-3 ship gate camps I’ve encountered. How’s the battlecruiser survival rate in those situations? I’ll be roaming a lot in low sec, will the larger ships be a huge isk drain?

3. Are heavy interdictors that much more durable while operating in small gangs than interdictors?

4. Do small gangs even use interdiction spheres? I actually need this explained to me. I’m assuming that it’s only allowed in 0.0, correct?

The answer to these question, plus any other advice would be appreciated. Going inderdictor would require Caldari Frigate V, Destroyers V, Evasive Maneuvering V, and Interceptor IV. That’s a considerable amount of sidetracking compared to if I just wanted to go straight towards heavy interdictors.  However, my Hulkageddon performance may be that much better if I have destroyers trained up along with small hybrid turrets, which would add to an interdictor’s firepower.

Thoughts?