Ships & Modules

New pirate faction cruisers are out, and they breathed some new energy into the best looking cruiser i know
Two fits, depending on your preferance, mine is the second lol
What do the grand members of the Ships & Modules think... critisism welcome....

[Ashimmu, Small Gang DPS]
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Damage Control II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Medium Capacitor Booster II, Navy Cap Booster 400
Stasis Webifier II
Faint Warp Disruptor I

Medium Unstable Power Fluctuator I
True Sansha Medium Nosferatu
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Scorch M
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M

Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I

Hammerhead II x3
Hobgoblin II x2

Dps has always been... lacking... on the ashimmu, but now with 400-470dps, a full set of bonused tackle, and the ability to shut off hardeners and reps... things have certainly changed for the better

[Ashimmu, Fleet Full Neut]
Damage Control II
Armor Explosive Hardener II
Shadow Serpentis Armor Kinetic Hardener
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Stasis Webifier II
Warp Disruptor II
Stasis Webifier II

Medium Diminishing Power System Drain I
Medium Unstable Power Fluctuator I
True Sansha Medium Nosferatu
Medium Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Medium Diminishing Power System Drain I

Medium Anti-EM Pump II
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II

Hammerhead II x3
Hobgoblin II x2

[Edited thanks to this thread ]

This has unbonused drone damage for dps, which is enough to pwn a frig or 2 (double webbed and so heavily neuted you could turn your point off). But thats off topic, this is an awesome addition to a small to medium gang. Expect to be primaried, but with the new changes this little cruiser is hard to get rid of (6 slot tank )

Bring lots of nanite paste

You should reiterate on the second fit. An ashimmu with 3 c-type NOS and 2 neuts should land at 108k EHP with links. (126 with hardeners OH). So, plate, 3 hardeners, eanm, dcu and three trimark IIs. The anti-em pump is a waste.

Would be interested to see this fit.... i can get 108k OH'ed with the tank you suggested (not 126) and thats with a 1% CPU, and not including the more CPU intensive c-type nos's???

I also like resists more than an already inflated buffer... (im not going into an alpha fleet situation lol)

Or atleast the 10hrs re-train for rangefinding V...

Once you cap out yourself and cap out your target, Neuts become useless. Nos cycle faster and are better for killing cap boosted setups that Neuts are.

Nos, nos, more nos.

neuts and nos work better than just nos as Roses says, you dont need to run the neuts once theyre cap is out for a start, and you can always move onto another target if theyre in range The idea is to cap out the target asap and keep them there, one or 2 nos's can keep them there (unless cap boosted) the rest is gravy. If you cap yourself out your doing it wrong.

The problem with nos wasn't only that it caps your target out but that you can sustain mad activetanks with that cap at the same time. No active tanks here in that thread tho...

I haven't had the time to test the Ashimmu as much as the Cruor, but going all nos does give you the ability to hold down more targets at the same without having cap issues because some of the targets require a neut. Unless you're facing a huge buffer tanked ship with capless weapons nos will do just fine in shutting down a critical part of their ships, be it the tank or the guns, or both if lucky.

Even after this huge change with nos you still need to actually consider what to engage which should make a lot of the issues moot in my opinion.

You're still overlooking that, no matter how much special effects and nifty magic involved, a neut still drains a capacitor at 250% the speed of a Nos. Is NOS good and viable? Yes. Are neuts vastly superior ? Yes.

So, having only gangs of 10 people max, do you want the fit with the special effects or the one that is vastly more proficient at its job?

Ed: in the case of that ashimmu fit I linked above, it got neuts and NOS in a mix so that your hardeners don't go out and you can ditch the cap chain. Also, more free mids for second web. I would use more neuts, but 3-2 is rock solid, comparably carefree and 2 neuts already instacap a proteus mid-fight.

Your logic is backwards. The smaller the gang, the more versatile each member has to be. You'd be better running 3 nos and 2 energy transfers to pump cap into other ships with neuts in utility highs.

Or better yet, slap some Guns onto it and burn peoples cap by doing damage. It's also infinitely better against a brick ship who doesn't use cap; At least then you can kill them.

I use 2x webs, but you can easily swap one for a shield booster just to hammer through capacitor and increase tank.