Warfare & Tactics

So I have almost maxed out my skills for gallente t1 frigs and kind of brainstorming where to go from here. I want to stay in FW and I can't really see any reason why I should jump up to a cruiser. I had been thinknig about a VNI but honestly I have amassed a small fortune just flying Tristans.

As far as I can tell jumping up to a cruiser, you gain alot more tank and firepower but you lose alot in the way of tracking and hitting smaller targets. Not to mention the jump in costs of a cruiser vs a frigate.

So I guess I am wondering given what I just said, if anyone can convince me why I should go with a cruiser in FW vs a frigate.

because you can! The only real reason to do anything in eve!

always depends on what to you want to do , achieve

if you want lp/money stay in frigs, if you want to do more things just fly whatever you want whenever you want.

So much of this, this is how I became a Battleship pilot! :D

I think one thing to remember is Frigate fights are really brutal and normally decided by one mistake! the high damage ones can have about 40-65% the damage of a cruiser, with about 15% of the EHP.



Example: slide into plex on comet, web him and pull range, oh **** he is rail scram kite not blasters, that fight just got very hard already.

The tank on cruisers sometimes allows you to recover from a small mistake, example a RLML Caracal VS Caracal it would normally take a full reload of the weapon system to down a an enemy one. or you might get blobbed but have time to call in your own backup, frigates that get blobbed and tackled get erased.

My favorite fight is probably cruisers, but it is pretty hard to get a 1v1 in them. and medium plexes can allways have a recon in them :)



PS - i pulled them numbers out my **** but i think that is about right
when saying cruiser DPS is about 550 in a balanced setup and up around 800 in gank, and comet can have over 300 in a gank setup.

u should get at least some cruiser training if you fly with fleets. if you dont then dont worry about it. your militia loves flying cruiser fleets so you could be very useful to them. i trained up for a cerberus just in case my miltia needs me in fleet with one but i am primarily training frigs.
i would just look at ships that look like fun that use the same guns for what skills you have trained. maybe even go for a pirate frig or something to add a little bit more excitement in your fights. t3 dessies are also really strong right now.

Hecate is about same price as vexor navy issue and you do not need to skill medium guns.

What you fly depends entirely on you and your Corp And not just being in faction warfare. I almost never fly frigs unless it's a role specific thing or I'm intentionally plexing.

Vni t3d and all sorts of ships are fun to fly. Do what you want and train accordingly. You don't lose skill points so you can't really waste training time.

Why fly bigger than frigs?

I do it because it's awesome fun to derp a cruiser into a small kitchen sink frig fleet and come out alive to start looting.

Same principle applies for BCs as well.

You can use HACs as well and it's a riot to wreck sol mixed fleets or fight up and go for BC and BS kills.

You engagement envelope increases significantly once you get past frigs.

Wow. I typed in frigs for my last post and my iPad spell checker changed it to frogs. Even the Apple iPad hates the galls. Who knew????