Ships & Modules

thats quite the logical jump.

If that's the only losing scenario you could think of wrt to Alara's fit, then I'll consider that a win for the Electron Thorax.

This is ridiculous. Learn to fly in small gangs. Active armor bonuses are quite useful. The problem is that you're trying to tank them like they're Amarr ships in the first place.

Amarr and Caldari for prolonged slugfests. Minmatar and Gallente for Skirmishing.

Let me break this down. Minmatar and Gallente fleets are not designed to go toe to toe against Caldari and Amarr fleets. The resist bonuses on Caldari/Amarr boats give their fleets a serious advantage when it comes to sustaining damage over long periods of time, as happens in large fleet battles or during missions/incursions. However, the boats that do have those bonuses are also seriously gimped in viable speed (armor plates/rigs) or damage (missiles take the longest by far to apply their damage.) This is where Gallente and Minmatar ships really shine.

Gallente active armor rep bonus is a godsend when roaming in small gangs with only one or maybe two Onieros for logi. Such a fleet can roam around, with a combat probe capable scout, gank targets of opportunity, get out of dodge, and rep up if they've taken any scratches. Try doing that with a caldari/amarr fleet and you'll see a very noticeable loss of efficiency. Getting a basi/guardian logi chain going removes valuable dps from your gang, and the ships will be much slower (and in the case of the caldari, waiting for missiles to hit means that you're giving your enemy's friends/alts that much more time to show up.) Even your average minmatar small gang is boned if they take some armor damage. Assuming the gang is all minmatar, they've got shield logi (Scimitar) and will most likely all be flying shield tanked ships (Jag, Vaga, Cyclone/Sleip/Claymore, etc.) No way to rep armor damage there without docking up.

Just gotta learn the style of gameplay that Gallente ships present. It's not for everyone. No single race is. I will give you this, though: armor rigs need a different penalty.

I would submit that most ships will hit their panic button when facing a bhaalgorn. I would also submit that these instances are hardly common and not worth discussing in regards to balance

Sure, why not! Would be cool to read some battle reports.

The second one is not really interesting, anything would have died to that Oracle/Tornado blob, but please post a report of the first engagement.

I would be very interested in some of your fittings and general way of using Gallente. My Char is now about half a year old and I am still struggling with some of the Gallente Armour tactics.

I say Gallente are fine and its pretty much all I fly. In my current corp I've got a 89% efficiency rating and 300 solo/small gang kills in AUS/NZ TZ since about Dec first.

-Liang

I haven't made use of T3 gang links or HG implants recently.

/shrug

-Liang

Ed: FWIW, my ship usage looks like this:
Harpy 128
Talos 41
Taranis 28
Brutix 18
Manticore 17
Crusader 8
Hurricane 7

The Talos, Taranis, Brutix, Crusader, and Hurricane generally don't feature HG implants or booster alts. The Harpy generally has one or the other (sometimes both).

I think you linked the wrong report, sure you got some sweet t1 fit cruiser kills while station/gate camping, but you kind of lost on the isk efficiency on this one.


I'm shocked that a bunch of tier kiting 3 bc's can kill a few t1 cruisers.

Gallente is fine, at least as much as any other race. I don't really want to get off on a rant about active tanking vs buffer, so I'll leave it simple, if you want the resistance bonuses fly amarr or caldari.