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T2 assault frigate Vs. Destroyer

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Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#21 - 2014-05-23 23:41:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Sabriz Adoudel wrote:
On Interdictors, which have been mentioned a bit.

These are essential in fleet battles in wormholes and nullsec, but they are often suicide ships, which makes them a lot less fun to fly than ships with a bit more staying power.

If you look up the BR-5 bloodbath stats, the ship class that suffered the most losses (in ships, not in ISK) was Interdictors. Everyone hates you, and you die easily.

I'm not discouraging you from training them, just be aware that flying an Interdictor makes for a lot of flying to the battle, ten seconds of actual combat, then you waking up in your medical clone.

Generally Interdictors (as well as Heavy Interdictors and Logistics) are ships that alliances/corporations offer 100% or better (110% for Logistics isn't as odd as it may seem) for a Ship Replacement Program (SRP).

Most carrier pilots are told to carry these ships into battle, so they are usually easy to replace.

All those lost ships didn't cost the pilots, aside from any medical clones lost.
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#22 - 2014-05-24 06:53:00 UTC
the good and the bad about destroyers and AFs:

Good:
- opens up a dictor at level V
- a cruisers worth of gank with near perfect skills
- cheap enough for suicide ganking miners
- kills frigates with ease
- good for farming lvl 1-2 missions or small complexes


Bads:
- cruiser sized signature radius
- about as slow as an unplated cruiser
- low ehp compared to cruiser
- somewhat small engaging envelope due to frigate sized guns
- often a t1 cruiser is better for all around PvP

Assault ships:
Goods:
- fast (in comparison)
- durable (in context of a frigate)
- high dps (for a frigate)
- low signature radius

Bads:
- it's still only a frigate albeit on steroids
- still not fast or durable enough to burn from the bubble unless gate is near by (then again almost nothing is).
- requires frigate V with a hefty load of support and player skills to really shine. (but this is true for most T2 ships).
- can be hideously expensive if you really try to pimp it out and then you go boom on the destroyer above.
Bastion Arzi
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#23 - 2014-05-29 08:55:03 UTC
Baneken wrote:

- can be hideously expensive if you really try to pimp it out and then you go boom on the destroyer above.


are u saying that a destroyer will beat an assault frigate?

if so which AF and which dessie?
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