Ships & Modules

With the new Tier 3 BCs being glass cannons without much tanking capabilities but large guns and decent speed, I figured that when used in fleets, one of their best uses would be in sniper fleets operating at 100 ± 20 km, fit for DPS and speed and no tanking mods except maybe a DC II.

So I played around with some fittings with the preliminary winter edition EFT and on Sisi (couldn't test Talos and Naga fits myself as I don't have large T2 rails on any of my characters - just blasters).

For now, I'll keep my own conclusions to myself as I want to avoid biasing the discussion in the first post.

So I'm interested in your opinions - which Tier 3 would you use for medium range sniper fleets and why?

Tachy fitted oracles with 180kms of effective range.

Arty Tornado, loaded with anything, will certainly be putting it in your proverbial pipe and smoke it.

Cruise missile Na--

Oh, wait.

Too soon.

im just wonderin...what are HAC's gonna be used for now?

the ONLY role i can think of now is probably medium range AB amour HAC gangs with logi support. there is literally nothing else for these guys to do. going up against a bunch of Tier 3 BC's at 100km is suicide.

Agreed on the alpha.

However, I'd disagree on the oracle being the only other option. At first I was pleasantly surprised to see that an oracle can be fitted with T2 tachs without using ancillary current routers, as opposed to the T2 1400 Tornado.

However, even with that tradeoff, the Tornado still outdamages a comparably fit oracle despite firing in falloff at the specified range, has a vastly larger damage potential at closer ranges, less cap issues, free choice of damage types and 3.5 times the alpha.

To my surprise, with rail changes, the Talos and Naga are on par with the Oracle, however.
Using extreme glass cannon fits with four tracking comps and three mag field stabs, the Naga outperforms both the Talos and Oracle (if they use full damage/range fits), but of couse is no match for the tornado in all regards mentioned above.

Talos. Hands down. I got the winter preview of EFT and holy moley 425mm Rails do some great damage application, seeing as though they work off of optimal AND falloff anything within optimal gets pulverised, especailly with the hybrid buff.

Curious: what does the tracking look like on the new BCs sniper fits? Wonder how applied dps will compare to HACs using medium weapons.

I didn't test it, but they may not be so badly balanced vs HACs. might play around a little later.

Concerning applied DPS: I was trying to keep it simple - admittedly, as soon as transversal is added to the equation, Arties fall back due to their bad tracking (leaving them with all the other advantages mentioned above), but as that's heavily dependent on the target, I left it out.