Warfare & Tactics

Do you plan doing fleets? If your long term goal is a carrier then there's no better choice than the Archon currently. Archons, Guardians and Abaddons are almost mainstays IMO. Can't go wrong with those.

Amarr is just flat out better than gallente at this point, more damage, stronger tank, better T2 ships. Abbadon, Zealot, and guardian are pretty much the mainstay of armor tanked PvP ships currently.

And lets face it, Amarr have fricking lazors man.

I prefer Gallente ships in general, but that is because drones are nice, then again the arbitrator/curse/pilgrim and Gila are all also very nice and not Gallente, however no one has a real equivalent for the myrmidon or ishkur. Blasters also do great damage.

However, I would have to recommend Amarr over Gallente, while I love my active tank bonuses, generally speaking a passive tank will win more fights, tracking disruption is far more effective than sensor dampening in most situations, and I feel the t2 lineup amarr has is just better. While the Ishtar is great the demios isn't something I am fond of and the ishtar seems to not nearly have enough CPU. The Sac may be slow, and the Zealot may not have drones, but in their respective roles I think they are better ships. Also Gallente commandships, while high on the DPS front don't really compare to Amarr commandships, that and everyone likes an armor bonus.

That being said, train amarr then cross train Gallente, you want gunnery, armor, and drone skills for both, so why not? Only thing you might "waste" is missile skills which Gallente really doesn't make much use of, while Amarr has several missile ships.

Train up neuts and drones, then just fly both

with amarr you can 0.0 blob, nanofaggotry and regular lowsec roams/piracy so it's your best option after minmatar, with gallente you're good too, but you effectively cut your options to lowsec

if you want to combine PvP and PvE then you should go with Gallente, especially for exploration, arbi/pilgrim are nice, but they deal very low dps, other ships can't choose damage exept for missile boats so with amarr ships you've got proper resistances vs angels but you deal em damage, you end up with either very low tank or very low DPS

for gallente pve ships, they can kite with drones and can always get close with blasters to take down heavily tanked ships, the proteus configures very well for covops exploration, it has great tank, can run a mwd easily, can field 5 drones where other ships can't and breaks stuff easily with blasters, vs a tengu, it has to get close but deals more dps overall, is alot faster and tanks more

hmm. can anyone say Archon?

You did mention that you wanted to get into a carrier eventually.

Also, there isn't any reason that you can't do both races, or perhaps amarr and minmatar. Every good BS pilot should be well trained in two if not 3 races. Its long term, i know. Go with amarr and down the road train gallente or minmatar as well.

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If you're really into drone boats, I'd go for Gallente first - Arbitrators and its T2 variants are good drone boats, but you're lacking drone frigs, drone BCs and drone BSs - so after having the Arbi-line skilled out, you're facing a gap until you fly an Archon (and it's not that much used in pvp as a carrier in the literal sense - more as a logistics ship).

amarr ftw we get hoods \o/

Is it bad that i thought of something else first? facepalm.....................