Ships & Modules

I had to take an extensive leave of absence, and while I was gone I decided I would train all the warfare leadership skills to V. (I have been gone long enough to get everything except wing/fleet command to V). I was hoping when I got back that I would be able to help out some friends, or perhaps be a booster for a corp that needs one.

Now that I am back however, I find that while I have trained the skills, I know little about fitting a ship for it. Could anyone point me in the right direction, give advice or perhaps some tricks of the trade? One thing I definitely need to know is do I have to train wing command and fleet command to be useful? Or can I be set as the booster without those skills? Also, I currently am 90% Amarr skills. All subsystems for the legion are V, but do I need to train for a different T3 as well? Same thing with the Command ships. I have Amarr BC V, and I am working on Command ships V, do I need to get a different race BC to V as well to be useful?

Thanks.

What are you trying to do with it? Run as many links as possible and hide, or run 3 links and have offensive capability too? Help a small gang, or a big fleet?

Here's a recent video from a Brave FC that might give you some ideas.

If you don'T want to use a virtue clone to probe an offgrid booster, you can also do this with a helios (w sisters launcher) and a AR-806.

Eve this is, matter honor does not.

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All depends on who your boosting for. A skirmish booster for a major alliance is going to be expected to have WC5, and a Shield/Armor booster is going to be expected to have FC5 (or at least FC4). If your going to be the only booster for a small corp, you just need enough skill for the number of people you will be boosting. 10 people for every rank of WC, and you can technically booster 10 or fewer without rank 1.

As for T3s training, Legion covers Armor and Skirmish, (Covers info too, but few care about that). For shield you will want a Tengu. If you want to avoid multiple link ships, a Loki can cover any type of fleet, but the Tengu and Legion have much more fitting flexibility, allowing probe resistance, 4+ links, and oversized prop mods with much less fitting bling than a Loki running the same gear.
Command ships are generally disfavored in pvp outside highsec, due to headshotting, but if they are used, its generally Amarr or Caldari. But again, a lot depends on the details. Providing a neutral booster in highsec has very different considerations from providing a booster for nullbloc stratops.