Warfare & Tactics

Some do, some don't. With the way the game is currently balanced and the emergence of blob culture for a ship to be truly viable it needs an escape mechanism. Sure, killing everything that attacks you is technically one but it's very easy for people to bring more ships than you can handle. The only only larger ships that are considered viable are Battlecrusiers and down (as they're still fairly speedy/agile) and Battleships that nano well (and even those are only really on the absolute cusp of being viable). Machariels, Tempests are the prime examples of this, as they have good range, good damage, and the best-in-class for speed.

Don't get me wrong, the Hyperion and the like are viable solo, but you need to be very careful when engaging. Making sure who you're trying to kill doesn't have friends anywhere close, and if he does making sure that you can engage him and his friends and likely win - information like this is the key to making the ship work. If you can find say a lone Battleship or Battlecruiser then the Hype can almost definitely kill it, as those things are mean 1v1 or even 1v2-3 if your skills are leet and you're using boosters/faction implants/shiny modules.

The real way to make this work is to pick and choose fights very carefully. Don't engage heavy neuting ships, don't engage in a hot system, don't engage someone who can blob you very quickly. Problem is, finding a target than fulfils these requirements is rarer and rarer these days :(.

I would not waste my money buying a hyp when the domi hull is under 50 mil and out preforms it lol. Although i do prefer the mega for fleets.

The domi fit i posted tank was tested last night when i had me friend in a vindy shoot it and he could not break me (03 player with max gunnery skills battleship 5 and 1600dps with drones )

As a gallants bs pilot with perfectly trained skills (even have marauders 5) there is no I win solo fitting especially when flying gallente. Gallente at the moment are situational in fights at best especially when dealing with battleship size hulls. The domi is overall the most versatile and seems to be the choice of many pilots simply due to its variety of fittings it can boast as well as it's ability to adapt in todays eve.

That being said if you want to fly a true solo gallente ship it has to be the mega. Sorry but im biased simply because I love the ship and know how to fly her. I personally fly a dual rep mega with ions or the typical neutron plate mega. However a word of caution again.

These ships are not I win buttons. They are perfect for their roles yet very limited. Of you want a solo ship is advise a bricked ham or heavy missile drake. Their a blast to fly and a ***** to kill.

Echoing what was said above, fitting 425 ac's instead of neutron blasters on Kessah domi lets you add a little damage type selection, has pretty similar damage when considering range and they don't use cap. It also allows you to fit a large smartbomb to kill the always present ecm drone swarm in a few cycles (need to downgrade a cap booster to meta 4 iirc).

So after living in denial about this, I finally plugged the Kessah Dominix into my favorite fitting calculator, and what do I find? Much to my horror the flying space turd is getting within 30ehp/s tank of the highest tanking T2 Hyperion. Even worse it's getting close to the same damage! All this without the range and damage projection issues of blasters (with the majority of your damage being drones).

The horror!

In fairness, any discussion about Gallente battleships would need to include the Dominix, but I expected it to hold ground as a second rate citizen... Now I plead to all Gallente loyalists - redeem our battleship lineup, show me somewhere the Hyperion and Megathron can excel in solo PVP!

The megathron is still a great ship, hybrids still hinder it a bit especially for gang use but the hull is solid, I'd even go so far to say that it is a better solo ship than the hype. Again Forever Pirate Final shows it used to great effect.

The domi is by far my favourite and objectively the most versatile. Good hull + good weapons

The mega is still alright, even despite hybrids being awful (bar smalls) Good hull - bad weapon system

The Hype is hindered by fitting, outclassed by the domi and maelstrom and suffers non-tracking-bonused hybrids - bad hull - bad weapon system - no utility.

Pretty much all the battleships in eve have a unique role, the only one the hyperion does better than the rest is shield gank, which is hugely limited.

Geddon - Best POS bash
Apoc - best sniper / midrange
Baddon - best armour-alpha, best fleet, overall win

Scorp - survivable ECM
Raven - missions, torp boat
rohk - shield fleet neuting platform, sniper it were viable

'Phoon - armour raven with more neuts, solo
Tempest - suicide gank / alpha
Mael - massive active tank / shield alpha

Domi - versatile, RR, solo
Mega - good fleet boat if hybrids worked, excellent 0km ganker
Hype - massive dps shield gank


Sorry for diverging, as for a solo pvp, hybrid ship I would say work from something like this I know 'OMG battleclinic' but its honestly a fair place to start from then you tweak it to do what you want.

You can't really dual rep the mega as you'd need 2 cap boosters and then you lose the web, which blasters really need, you could think about swapping the neut for a nos for longer cap life, but having a heavy neut is almost essential solo.

You'd be better of with a domi / isktar still unless you are fighting under sentry guns.

Use Garmon's Vindi. Bit expensive, sure, but it performs rather well (with boosting alt, extra cap boosters from transport ship alt, falcon alt in case you see neutralizers, etc.). Also, these days, I would suggest 5-8 Nyx alts to counter the 1-4 Nyxs you will have dropped on you by PL.

Alternatively, use above advice and a Kronos, just hope they have no ECM Drones / Falcons / Rooks / Blackbirds / Griffins / Widows / Scorpions / a Gallente Jammer on any ship / any jammer on any ship / a solar flare / EMP ammo / etc.

EDIT: Forgot the alt(s) with cynos.

Rooks & Kings, not surprised about your attitude.

There's actually a fair few solo PvPers in Eve, and PvPP is even better. Just don't complain about getting blobbed.

Again, I recommend the Dominix for a Gallente solo BS - the ECM proof DPS nature of it (drones), as well as it's extra utility will prove invaluable.

It's easy to lol at that in retrospect but before you do you better ask yourself if you would have 1) the balls to give the unconventional order of switching primary from the single BS that is killing your gangmembers to a hauler and 2) have the experience and situational awareness to recognize, in time, that this isn't some random hauler just passing by.

When it comes to implants I would imagine that alot of people would recommend the standard active tanking hardwirings plus an incomplete slave-set. I would personally recommend an incomplete spur-set instead. The reason for this is the frequency of ECM and ECM-drones .

I, too, enjoy soloing with gang boosters, Falcons, logistics, tacklers and a SC blob ready to hotdrop at a moment's notice.


Also, battleships will make solo a bit difficult. Expect to only get fights where the other guy thinks he's going to win. You're not going to get the jump on anyone.