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Mach VS Vindi High Sec Gank
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Lt Xevy
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2011-10-18 05:45:06 UTC
Hey guys, a quick question.

If someone wanted to fly in high sec to do WarDecs and only had the option to fly a Mach or a Vindi, what ship would be better to use? ( Mind you both ships must be armor, kinda fail if the vindi was shields -.- )

Just need to understand fully the ups and downs of both ships.

I am aware that the mach has the better RoF and Range and speed, lower tank
Vindi has higher DPS, web speed bonus and tracking. Low speed, higher tank, low range

The fleet would be more of orbiting the target at 10 sort of deal, not attack from 45km away in the Mach.
Orlacc
#2 - 2011-10-18 05:51:20 UTC
Mach is best DPS with shields.

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Lt Xevy
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2011-10-18 05:56:35 UTC
Orlacc wrote:
Mach is best DPS with shields.



True, but has to be armor :(
Leopold Caine
Stillwater Corporation
#4 - 2011-10-18 06:13:25 UTC
Lt Xevy wrote:

The fleet would be more of orbiting the target at 10 sort of deal, not attack from 45km away in the Mach.




In that context, go for the Vindicator. You should have enough range on Neutrons to apply most of your blaster dps and if you're in a fleet, your 90% webs will benefit all of the fleet members.
As a rule of thumb, don't armourfit Machs, rather save some isk and get a Fleet Issue Tempest for that role.
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Lt Xevy
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2011-10-18 06:15:51 UTC
Good point on the armor Mach part. Just at the moment vindis are under 1bill, with the blaster buff i can see them jumping to about 1.2 or 1.3bill.
Headerman
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-10-18 06:23:33 UTC
Try a Meggy/Pest and see what the differences are?

A Pest fleet issue would be awesome with a couple of neuts

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Goose99
#7 - 2011-10-18 15:24:50 UTC
Mach and Vindi both have 7 lows and 5 mids. They are both originally intended as armor boats. Whoever says Mach is not viable for armor has been carebaring too much, as people use them to shoot Angel rats that do exp dmg, and high tracking potential of TC script is not useful pve. Armor Machs have the extra mids for TCs instead of TEs, plus point/scram/ewar.

In any case, how are you going to "use" it? Station hugging? gate camp? Vindi for station games, arty Mach for camp.
Lt Xevy
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2011-10-18 16:22:45 UTC
Goose99 wrote:
Mach and Vindi both have 7 lows and 5 mids. They are both originally intended as armor boats. Whoever says Mach is not viable for armor has been carebaring too much, as people use them to shoot Angel rats that do exp dmg, and high tracking potential of TC script is not useful pve. Armor Machs have the extra mids for TCs instead of TEs, plus point/scram/ewar.

In any case, how are you going to "use" it? Station hugging? gate camp? Vindi for station games, arty Mach for camp.



Mostly catching Auto Pilot stuff, We dont like playing station games =/