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Mumtaz Khan
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#21 - 2012-01-03 20:12:03 UTC
An ashimmu should be perfect for those highsec traps Suddenly Ninjas does. Half the time you go to Jita from another hub there's a wreck with a sebo'd Ashimmu sitting on it waiting for someone to try and loot it. Get some cheap laughs, but then feel dirty because you'll only get cheap kills.
King Rothgar
Deadly Solutions
#22 - 2012-01-04 00:10:26 UTC
The ashimmu is a great little ship. Solo it's probably the single best anti frigate platform in the game if you can get a frigate to actually fight you. In a gang it makes a hell of a tackler between the neuts, solid armor tank and obligatory 90% faction web. It is of course an armor tanker though and nano is currently the favored setup for cruiser/BC gangs. But that's not really a problem with the hull, it's just a phase in eve tactics.

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ElCholo
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2012-01-04 00:17:55 UTC
They can be fun in specific roaming fleets, not just gate camping. We had them in our fleet today since a couple of us weren't trained for the Vigilant yet.

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Orakkus
ImperiaI Federation
Goonswarm Federation
#24 - 2012-01-04 00:24:15 UTC
I'd say the biggest problem with the Ashimmu is speed/acceleration. Although it has some nice bonuses, all of it's advantages require you to be within 10km of your target. That is not an easy thing for an armor ship to maintain and becomes more apparent when the Ashimmu is passively armor tanked. It gets another slap in the face with its warp speed being only 3.0 AU. Because it is that much slower than T2 HACs and Logis, it often falls behind and is the last to land when you do spring a trap.

I wrote up about my experiences here: http://2ndanomalyfromtheleft.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/ashimmu-almost-perfect/

Now, if you do plan on using the Ashimmu in PVP, absolutely use one of the rig slots for a warp speed rig. Not usually the norm, but this will allow you to flow with your gang.. instead of dragging it behind.

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Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#25 - 2012-01-04 01:53:55 UTC
Ashimmu is pretty terrible IMO.
Doesnt do anything well except escorting freighters around hisec due to that web bonus.

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Puss Nectar
Ali Baba and the Forty Cannibals
#26 - 2012-01-05 13:38:10 UTC
Ashimmu is so very terrible that even Blood Raiders don't use it in their cosmic anomalies. Now, why would YOU fly one when even their own faction hates it?
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