THE JUMPGATE DEFINITIVE GUIDE - Tripod

Stingray
Stingray: C-16 C-17 C-18
Bounty: 38,000 39,000 40,000
Experience: 6000 6250 6500
Speed: 678 692 707
Shield/Armor: 12100k/9800k 12100k/9800k 12100k/9800k
Gun #/dmg/rng: 2/420k/4400m 2/540k/2200m 2/780k/3000m
Barrak = 450k/4400m; Thorn = 635k/1800m; FeatherFire = 810k/2400m; Haven = 15400k
General
The Stingray, although it has a wide variety of good aspects, is clearly built (or grown) to do one thing: go extraordinarily fast. With
the fastest type cruising at v707, it can run down any TRI ship, artifacts or not, eventually. When fighting a Stingray, you need to
be able to deal with it without running away very far, because you simply won’t be able to. Engage a Stingray only with extreme
caution, because even with liberal flashfiring, it is very hard to disengage.
Advantages
Extraordinary top speed
Excellent accuracy (Moderate for c18)
Excellent weapons range (Moderate for c16)
Very good acceleration
Very good armor and shields
Thin profile
Disadvantages
Wide profile
Moderate firepower
Tactics
Lasers: Like with most other of the new flux, lasers are your safest bet for engaging a Stingray. As always, if you slip up you can
always just turn immediately and still be able to engage it. Avoid this, however, because stingray are very fast and have a very thin
profile to hit, so circling a laser or feather variant can be risky if your aim is not excellent. Multiple Stingray can be engaged with
lasers successfully, if the pilot is good, by either hitting both Stingray in one joust or alternating fire while moving slowly.
Ammo: Ammunition-based guns work fine when engaging Stingray largely because they are so fast they do not tend to drift a great
deal, even if you miss them on a joust. Be prepared to use a large amount of ammo, though, because a Stingray can dodge
effectively but can still absorb a decent amount of punishment.
Novas: As mentioned in the ammo section, Stingray tend to engage at flat angles, so missing with novas is not fatal. However, due
to the Sting’s good ability to dodge, and powerful shields, it takes a fair amount of time to kill one with novas, because you usually
only get in one shot per joust, but as long as you makes the jousts as long as you can, you will be able to get the shot in fairly easily.
For more on how to joust, drift joust, turret, and circle fight effectively, read Ammo vs Lasers: The Duelist.
Fighting multiple stingray is possible, but very difficult. See Multiple Targets for more info.
Missile Usage
Outruns all classes of missiles, although dive-bombing is possible.
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