Ships & Modules

if your armour tanking you can use halos to drop your sig radius faily dramatically, just dont go ruining it and then fitting a mwd, youl need to keep it afterburner.

great way to help keep the incoming dps manageable.

for reference, an iskur/enyo/vengance with high(even mid)grade halos + links will have about the same sig as a light drone

Ditto with the Halos. If you add in links and drugs you can actually get a frigate's sig radius down to smaller than that of a light drone. Combined with an afterburner and a tight orbit you can actually see your opponents foaming at the mouth through the cockpit window.

That's a great argument over the Snakes. Plus, I just ran the numbers through Pyfa; even a set of MG Halos brings an MSE setup back down to reasonable frigate levels.

Off to Jita.

I say Snakes. The reason being is that while Halo might be better for damage mitigation, Snakes allow you to do that by having control over the fight. For example you're in a Halo'd MSE firetail (has a tiny sig radius) and you're fighting a Snaked blaster comet, you won't be able to keep him at range since he's faster, and once he gets on top of you although he may not be hitting as hard as he usually will, the Comet will get enough damage off to easily kill you, and even if his tank is breaking and you're managing to avoid the dps, he can burn out of scram range and warp away. So basically snakes allow you far more range control of a fight either in a brawl or kite setup, which can allow you as much damage mitigation as Halos do (depending on the situation) and most importantly, the ability to GTFO when **** hits the fan.

Slaves add buffer. Snakes and Halos increase damage mitigation. In some way, shape, or form, all three help you live longer. But only Snakes give you better ability to dictate range or GTFO.

I agree with Ralph: Slaves on a frigate are somewhat underwhelming because of the low starting pool. But on cruisers and up, they really start to shine.

If you prefer to fly kiting fits, I'd chose Snakes, hands down. When your fit is dependent on dictating range, speed trumps all else. Halos would reduce incoming damage nicely, but if someone gets you tackled you're toast and Halos won't help prevent that.

For brawling fits it's a tossup depending on what you fit and how you fly, but either Snakes or Halos would be useful. If I were brawling with Halos, I'd make sure my tackle was as strong as possible (scram/web, or scram/dual web if I could manage it).

Depends what you are flying against. If a larger target, Halo. If same class, Snakes. I find the ability to catch the opponent (or escape) to be worth more than the decreased sig radius.