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Deadly Amarr tech1 anti frig cruiser
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Denuo Secus
#1 - 2011-11-06 20:05:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Denuo Secus
Hi,

I want to add a well tanked anti frig cruiser to our small PvP gang. If I'd choose Caldari the AML Caracal would be best ofc. But choosing Amarr I'd see two options:

- Armor tanked, drone speed + range boosted Arbitrator
- Armor tanked, small pulse or beam fitted + tracking boosted Maller

The Arbi would be nice against larger targets as well since it can carry medium drones. It's a 60+ km no-go zone for frigs. Also it has tool slots for neuts and small lasers as additional close range tackler defence. Only concern I have is: a competent frig or ceptor pilot should have no problems to kite and destroy my drones. Since I never tried it I'm not sure here.

The Maller would be more relieable I guess. But it lacks range and can be tracking disrupted.

Or is there another option, maybe a nano Omen? What are your experiences?

Thanks!
river Zateki
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2011-11-06 20:41:53 UTC
arbitrator. The neuts+2 medium lasers+hobgobs or warrior IIs will eat frigs alive. Thats like 170 frig-dps right there...and around 290 to a cruiser. at 60km range.
Any Guy
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2011-11-12 00:00:42 UTC
I'd also go Arbiter for a couple of other reasons.

If you shield tank it, you can get better gun DPS with low mods . Without a bonus you might want to use cap-less Minny guns though pulse lasers have good tracking vs frigs.

If you armour tank it you can use it as the ewar platform it excels at. Tracking/sensor ewar is decent but you could use double TP to make it easier to hit those frigates. Or you can use remote sebos on your friendly interceptor who can then instalock anything while your damage bonused Warriors go to fight them.

The highs then fit as desired. Some people pretend it's a cheap curse as it only has 2 turrets. Or you could stick in a couple of remote rep mods for armour and hull when you head out roaming.

The best bit to last: a fairly large drone bay. Although you can only deploy 5 medium as most due to bandwidth, you still have 150 max m3 space so you cna have lots of additional bots.

5 x Warrior 2s
5 x Valkeryies (for DPSin)
5 x Light armour bots
5 x Medium EC-600

That's a pretty decent spread of options to add to your small gang. Going with the anti frigate theme you may want to trade down to 5 light EC-300s and add additional Warriors in case you lose them in warps/damage etc.