EVE New Citizens Q&A

The Vengeance and Sacrilege are Amarrian missile boats, so you might want to look into that further.

Cool beans. Sacrilege with missiles? Sick. Ship looks gorgeous too. :D

Yeah, like I said, I like to be role playing so I'll be sticking with Amarr ships in the long run.

Damnation is very viable, i'd place it only below the Vengeance which is just a pleasure to fly

Missiles have the plus side of never missing a target they can catch up to before they run out of fuel, however when a larger missiles aimed at a small ship its will never do its full damage potential. This is due to the explosions radius of the missile being too big for the signature radius of the target, thus only part of the explosion is in contact with the target as therefore its dmg is reduced. The easiest way to counter this is the use of a target painter to increase your targets sig radius.

One benefit of turrets, as well as their weakness, is that their damage is largely based off of gun tracking speed vs. Targets orbit speed around you. This means that if a target is cable of outrunning the tracking speed of your guns (usually done by orbiting very close and fast) you won't hit them, however if you know how the tracking mechanics work you can set yourself up to have a greatly improve chance of hitting the target and you will often "insta pop" frigate or cruiser when you land a direct hit with a gun such as a tachyon beam laser.

Also as said above there are far less amarr ships that properly support missiles

He's an RP guy, although flying Caldari should be acceptable to an Amarr RP player, they are an allied faction after all.

Depends how long you've been gone, roflkets got buffed a while back & with the new missile trails they look good too (hugs his lol rocket caracal). Light missiles are getting a buff next patch I believe, although I've never flown a Vengeance so I don't know if they're even used on it.

Nope, thats drones, minmatar are going missile. Amarr missiles have so far been reduced (the inquisitor was the only t1 missile boat) while the drones are being increased (new destroyer, new crucifier) and is set to continue (talk of (shudder) drone prophecy and drone apoc). Missiles are very much t2 and up for amarr.

Of cours ethe ones that do exist are awesome, esp sac.

There is one huge inferiority with Amarr missile boats versus every other kind missile ship in the game.

Their missile bonus only applies to short range missiles, that being Rockets on a Vengeance and Assault missiles on a Sacrilege. The Damnation has a proper bonus but that's not really a combat ship.

There are a couple of things that are just not quite right about those two ships, including that the vengeance has some of its bonuses swapped around for no apparent reason and of course that they're the only two ships that I know of in the game that don't get a bonus that applies to both the long and short range versions of the weapons they use.

If they wanted to make it lore-friendly and not have to do much work on new models, CCP could simply add a line-up of serious Khanid Kingdom ships. From what we've seen so far, Khanid ships are basically Amarr hulls but with their bonuses and fittings changed over to missile use instead of lasers. Just keep doing that until it's their fleet is completely fleshed out and there you go.

And call it selfish, but as long as we're doing that I'd also like to see actual Ammatar ships added doing that same idea: Either Amarr hulls modified for projectile use, or Minmatar hulls modified for laser use. Either way would work and still be pretty lore-friendly, and maybe even mix of both would be possible.

Yeah, the Amarr missile ships are amazing, but sadly that play-style is under-supported by CCP, despite it's popularity. As a result, there are no T1 versions of the Khanid ships. This makes them difficult to train for, and expensive to fly.

I'd pay serious ISK for a Punisher that simply had launcher hardpoints instead of turret hardpoints, let alone a well thought out T1 Khanid ship.