Ships & Modules

Ishkur,
active tank,blaster fit with with a neut ,Hobbs and warrior 2's.
set of halos in your head and attack anything bigger than you are .
get in close orbit at 500 , kill their drones with the worriors first, then randsome and/or kill the ship.
see link in Sig, go to losses and role around in the ishkur 's found therein.
note you have to start the engagement on top of them so you're likely going to want a warpin from a Corp mate or alt in a cloaky probing ship.

There are a multitude of Gallente ships that meet your requirements. It depends on what you prefer, where you're going to be flying it and what targets you're planning to fight.

Shield rail rax is strong. Shield blaster rax is also a good choice.

Exeq Navy issue is also a really nice rail or blaster platform.

I would ignore AF's (the suck) and instead check out the tristan if you are interested in frigate pvp

I'm guess agility and speed, but I'm sure Chessur will explain in his traditional patient manner..

The Federation Navy Comet is probably the best frigate in the game.

It's fast, tough, hard hitting and it has ridiculous versatility. You can mwd kite, scram kite, or blaster brawl with equal effectiveness And your enemy has to guess which one until he lands on grid. Oh and it also can field 2 flights of 3 light drones which is an additional 40-60 dps and a decent deterrent to liters. I don't fly the comet much because the slicer is such a sexy looking ship, but in terms of sheer PvP utility the comet is a demon.

I'm going to agree with Chessur on certain points, and disagree politely on a few.

The Tristan is sort of The ultimate multi-role fighter. It can do a great many things very well, from brawling, kiting, neuting, ect. I've killed several Algos and Dragoons with a kitey Tristan, which you wouldn't think should be possible. That's a matter of who kills who's drones faster, and with a shield buffer, warriors just kinda tickle the Tristan.

That being said, the only way that I can see a Tristan winning a 1v1 with an AF is against a Retribution, Enyo, or Harpy with triple Neuts. I've lost an Enyo that way... Sux. Otherwise an AF will just kill all the drones and end in a stalemate.

All things being equal (sp, kite/brawl fit, etc) the Comet is far superior to the Slicer. Slightly faster in base speed, tankier, and much greater damage potential that includes some selection of damage type with drones. Some 50% of my corporations killboard consists of kitey rail comets killing everything in sight. Not to say that the Slicer isn't an awesome ship, it's just way more predictable. I kill Slicers with Atrons on a pretty regular basis.

As for the Assault Frigate lineup, I'd agree the the -Ishkur- is very subpar. Too slow to kite, out damaged by the Enyo, and too many cruisers carry neuts or dual webs. I'd say the Ishkur is the Gallente's designated bait-tanker for small gangs when set up with dual rep.

The Arty Wolf can be ravenous in small gangs, but I'd have to say that the Enyo and the Hawk are the King and Queen, respectively, of scram range frigate combat. Properly flown (mostly to avoid kiters) there are few things that squeeze into FW outposts that they can't kill. Of course, yes, this is where they excel. Much like their HAC siblings, trading speed for a monster tank/dps ratio means you have to be careful of the circumstances under which you engage.

I don't claim to be a good slicer pilot but wtf do you do against people who dscan you and then go undock a TD or even dual TD fit? It is by far my favorite ship but almost every time I fly it people just reship into a hard counter...whereas with a comet they have no way to counter your fit pre-fight really.

Atron is a pretty good gal ship for blasters, you can fit neutron blasters and still shoehorn on a solid SAAR tank and hit out to 9km with Null. It's got great speed so you just need to figure out what orbit mitigates the most incoming damage then load the appropriate ammo and go to town.

Comet is annoyingly popular but with blasters it's going to be food for dual web ships. Since it has a tracking bonus, rails will do you better since you'll be able to hit stuff further out but still whatever's right in your face

A properly fitted railpy is nothing to scoff at, sure the price tag starts gettinga tad high cause you need some deadspace (90ish mils) but it's a very fun ship to fly kite with

But, yeah, not many reasons to fly one over a slicer or a kite comet tbh, or not enough to justify it costing 4 times more probably

How exactly is some guy in an Apoc going to **** on me while i'm orbiting him at 500m in my Ishkur? His guns can't track me, I can tank his drones long enough to kill them off and if I can't break his tank at least I can keep him pointed long enough for the cavalry to arrive. That doesn't exactly constitute "Getting **** on" to me.

1. Mids - Scram, Cap booster, AB - 1km/s (500m/s IF he has a web which I can almost guarantee you he doesn't.) Orbiting at 500m is still nothing to laugh at. Good luck kiting me without MWD, good luck hitting me with such a small sig. Not even gonna bother going into what the sig of the ship actually is with full links/halos/skills but it's in the vicinity of 30m. Thats only a little bigger than a drone.

2. I suggested the Ishkur in the context of HS PVP. I know you're gonna argue that "If both players are competent and PVP - capable then..." Well lets be honest, how many HS residents that find themselves in the middle of a war dec are PVP capable. I think I can count on one hand how many truly competent BS pilots I've come across in my time spent doing HS wars, and the same goes for the "Web/Cap Booster/MWD-PVE BS" that you speak of. On the topic of Cap Boosters - I've seen them on Nightmares, Machs, Abaddons and a few others. Thats about it. One small neut can and has made a difference during fights with the vast majority of PVE ships that don't have them fit.

3. The Ishkur can chew through a lot but if it can't handle what you've got tackled then thats what buddies are for. As usual. That doesn't change the fact that It can still hit above it's weight class.

4. What is this about dual prop. Ishkur doesn't need more speed, it's AB is fine and sig tanking is extremely viable in this context.

5. As stated, the Ishkur is a ship that hits above it's weight class. If I was out hunting specifically for BS's, i'd bring something else. I'm not, however, and because a lot of HS targets are small, the AF is a good ship because it can lock quickly, warp quickly (enough), align quickly, does really good dps considering all of the above and is able to catch most things on a gate. There are always situations where you just can't break someone's tank, but in any of these situations, regardless of the skill of the pilots involved you'd be better off in an Ishkur than an Incursus. Its not just a matter of "Hunting retards in HS so the Ishkur works fine" - It's a matter of the Ishkur simply being a better ship in this role than the Incursus is.

This conversation about killing BS sized targets in a solo Ishkur is stupid to begin with. Nobody should fly an Ishkur to go BS hunting in but the fact remains that if you do happen to get one tackled while out looking for smaller targets, you'd still be better off in an Ishkur than in an Incursus.

I think there are various notable HS entities that would back me up on this.