great way to defeat any ship in slopes or frigets is to get behind the navy/EITC ships and then slowly edge the way to the side and blast the cannons of then make a dead stop turning to there other side and repeat by the time your behind them again the opposit set of cannons will have recharged, this works best with faster ships since you will expose yourself for a few secons to there cannons depending on there placement but most of the time you can get XP and loot without even presenting a target