Ships & Modules

Go Amarr or Minmatar, Sleip and Abso both rock, Legion rocks, Lasers rock, AC's are meh but better than blasters/rail

You don't really use command ships in eve anymore - fleet command ships are entirely outclassed by T3 cruisers - just park them off grid or hop between saves if you think the enemy has a competent prober.

Field command ships - well - the abso gets used in incursions because it has decent resists, although there's no single reason you wouldn't use a legion over it since it tanks better and has better range.

The Sleipnir gets some use as a pve ship thanks to it's active tanking bonus and relatively good DPS and damage projection. In PvP, it's usually used with an off-grid T3 fleetbooster alt, a HG Crystal set and blue pill.

Edit - oh - and the rest aren't even worth commenting on.

Damn thast one uggly avatar, damn!

How about an off or on grid fleet booster? Usually used for fleet boosting during missioning and or out of corp war dec fleet boosters?

I asked the other day if there is a such thing as a command proteus?

I wish to remain gallente cause my main flys pure gallente, but has zero gun skills. Lots of drone skills for thanny / Nyx.

I want to build a ship that will not provide any DPS at all. None, null, siltch, NADA! Which would be a good option?

Sure. There's absolutely no reason to use it though.

The problem with that, as with the Astarte and Eos, is that they give bonuses to Information Warfare — the most useless of gang links. The reason to use a T3 is to get higher bonuses than a CS, but doing so comes at the cost of making the ship absolute faff — you park it as far away from the battle as possible and hope that no-one can find you (preferably safely inside a POS shield).

So going for a command Proteus means you're giving extra bonuses to a set of rather useless command mods, and no particular bonus to everything else, so you might as well fly pretty much anything else that can fit a warfare link and get the same results (or better, since any other ship will be able to also give bonuses to some actually useful command mod).

This problem cripples all Gallente warfare link ships: they give bonuses to something no-one particularly needs. Sure, you can do it to remain “racially pure”, but realise that you'll want to fit pretty much every other link than the ones you're getting bonuses for. As a result, it doesn't matter what ship you choose.

Right you are. Even less of a reason to use one. Like I said — it's a +1 Brutix at 5× the cost. Meh.

Any ship that lets you fit Command Processors. The best basis for this is either a T3 (which will give you a ship that can do fsck-all except give command bonuses — as in a Mining Barge is now a lethal threat to your ship), or a Fleet CS (it gets three links basis, and has enough fitting space for 3-4 more + the processors to run them).

Note in particular the CPU usage on those things — a Command Processor + [whatever] Warfare Link II combo will consume 205 Tf CPU and 260 MW grid.

and if you're really feeling froggy a nyx can fit 6 of them.

Have fun in low/null.

If you are going armoured or siege warfare, others have covered it.

But don't sell the Claymore short.
Does a command Loki give better boosts? Yes, marginally.
But you can easily fit a 100K plus tank, 500 plus DPS on a Claymore with 3 command links, plus you can actually fly with the PvP fleet as opposed to being an off grid booster.

Trust me. I have flown it in 0.0 and those skirmish links are not "situational". Bonused a/b and MwD speed, plus significantly longer tackle range are key factors in 0.0 PvP.
Tacklers especially love a Claymore pilot who can move with the fleet as opposed to a thin tanked command Loki.

If you want to get into incursions and logistics, it would make sense to train Amarr ships, namely the Guardian for logistics, and the Legion for DPS in incursions.

The Astarte IS a nice ship for PVP but it's not the easiest to use. The EOS is the command link equivalent of it, but as has been cleared up by others, there's no real reason for using one for command links since the strat cruisers do a better job and info warfare links are the least useful. HAVING SAID THAT, the links strats people use are designed to sit in a safespot doing nothing else and as such are run on a secondary account while you actually do something on-grid on your other account.

If you think you would like an astarte, try out the brutix before hand.

Finally, it's not a popular tactic but it's entirely possible to run a command link battlecruiser or command ship and actually be in the fight at the same time, just that it's so easy to place a hard to scan strat in a safespot so people don't do this.

Fair enough and tbh having the link ship with the main fleet has a big mobility advantage since you can change systems on a whim without worrying about your links getting left behind. In this role, nothing beats the damnation. It doesn't pack much punch but it tanks like no other subcap in the game. 400k+ EHP is not difficult to achieve with t2 gear, neither are 80%+ resists. With logi on field, they are basically invulnerable to attack until you have enough guys to actually alpha one. In all honesty, so long as you aren't in one of those null sec super blobs, you should be pretty safe in one.