Missions & Complexes

With T2 Pulses and no Minmatar Battleships I would probably go for Abaddon or Navy Geddon.

I can't afford the navy geddon without spending all my cash unfortunately.

The only problem I see with the geddon over the abaddon is that it has one less mid, and from what I've been reading shield tanks are mandatory for incursions?

Please dont. If you are dead set on going shields I would go Maelstrom, but seeing as you have good laser skills, why dont you give the Armor Incursion fleets a try?

btw Nighmare should solve all your problems, but the price is rather steep for your needs

Must be one of these r3tards. "Shield pwns armor!" and vice versa.

Both are viable. Shield do better in hqs where there are more large rats (TEs), armor do better in vgs and assults where there are more small rats (tracking scripted TCs). There are more shield ppl because most carebears are shield. In the early days, shields and BS in general were not considered viable due to sig, and ppl flew armor hacs. But we've gone a long way. Incursions run like clockwork nowdays.

Rokhs don't get in the good fleets, rails still suck, especially without dmg bonus. Mael is the way to go for cheap shield. On the cheap end, armor is the way to go, as cheap laserboats like geddon perform far better in incursions than shield counterparts of similar price.

Either way, prepare to idle for quite a bit before fleets runs out of pimpboats to invite.

Realistically most BS are viable, most fleet would rather not have missile and/or drone boats due to flight/travel times, ofc sentries don't need to move but alot of the time you do.

Get rid of cap mods. You will not be shooting continuously outside of mom site. Rat waves die fast, then you lock new rats, etc. There's no local armor rep to consume cap, only guns.

Swap exp membrange for 3rd hs. It's mandatory if you want to get into decent fleets. Swap discharge elutrations for exp/kin rigs.

Abaddon has resist bonus, but one fewer low, it weights out. Also, +25% dmg bonus is just +25% dps, -25% rof bonus is +33% dps. If you're disappointed by Abaddon's dps, don't be.

I used to run incursion with a small community and generally we accepted all turret T1 BSs. That said, we used shield (settled on that to avoid splitting said community, historical reasons I guess) and even though, as I said, we accepted almost anything, it was easy to see that T1 Amarr BSs are pretty bad for shield fleets. You can fit tank, but then you don't have SeBo, web and the like. You can figure out how bad is that for VGs we used to do. Low-SP players also had capp issues with things like Abaddon (either that, or really bad DPS combined with low tracking of lasers couples with abscence of TCs - pretty bad).

Other races fare pretty well in shield fleets. Caldari has Rokh which is actually fine, Gallente can use Hyperion, Minmatar are fine as well (Phoon isn't probably your choice, others are fine).

In armor fleets Caldari make no sense, others races feel good. Though I have only done one weekend worth of armour incursions, so I don't have much experience.

Oh, and T2 guns weren't a requirement, but they don't hurt.

Note on cap: 6 minutes of cap isn't really much. You'll be fine, but if your FC and fleetmates aren't slowpokes and travel from site to site in timely manner, you will find yourself in bad position after a few sites. Cap booster will fix that ofc, but keep in mind that slot you use for a cap booster is a slot you don't use for additional web.

Good thing about the Geddon too is that you can get and energy transfer on that extra high and help out the logi, or be another Battleship's cap buddy, which in turn gives you more cap. I dont know if it gives you better cap life than the cap injector but it is a lot more flexible since you can help out other ships instead of just injecting yourself, plus no need to carry cap boosters.

Ahh and btw, with Pulses always use T2 or faction ammo.

Yeah the rate at which T2 and faction crystals are consumed is low enough to be viable almost all the time (maybe carry a set of T1 just in case but they will just be gathering dust. You are better off carrying an extra set of T2 and factions).

Plus, you get your dps numbers up.

good idea. I think I'll do that.