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so whats the role of the new BCs

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Richard Hammond II
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-04-09 16:54:03 UTC
I keep hearing they are purpose built ganking ships, as they have BS sized weapons but no tank.

Are they just for ganking and supposed to be expendable use and throw away type ships or is there a use for them other than that?

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ChYph3r
A Murder Of Crows.
Homicidal Tendencies.
#2 - 2012-04-09 16:55:11 UTC
they are exactly that "pocket battleships"

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Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#3 - 2012-04-09 16:56:37 UTC
They are great for cheapish fire support in lvl 5s.

Great for killing Customs Offices in C1s.

Intended for small gang pvp (no experience there).

Great at station games, if you play them right.
Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#4 - 2012-04-09 16:57:28 UTC
From help chat one night:

"Besides ganking, what else do people use the tornado for?"
"Ripping through Oklahoma"

Dry humor aside, ya pretty much just PVP; use their high speed and low sig radius to your advantage. Never let them get webbed or neuted and they shine against ships bigger than them. The oracle also makes a damn good high sec POS basher (or any other sec POS basher if you can't fly a dread)

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Luba Cibre
Global Song Setup
#5 - 2012-04-09 16:58:33 UTC
Tier 3 Sniper Fleets are the new Sniper HACs.

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Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#6 - 2012-04-09 16:59:42 UTC
http://killboard.nullisecunda.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=83037

Looks like they have their uses....


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stoicfaux
#7 - 2012-04-09 17:00:09 UTC
They're also sexy to look at.

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Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#8 - 2012-04-09 17:05:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Ranger 1
stoicfaux wrote:
They're also sexy to look at.



Agreed.

Perhaps CCP will take note of the approval their redesign of Stealth bomber hulls has received and will consider devoting time to redesigning all T2, and possibly Navy and Pirate hulls, to be visually distinct from their base hull.

Paint and an occasional extra thruster bolted on don't really do it for most people.

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MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#9 - 2012-04-09 17:06:53 UTC
They are handy for added fire support with playing with others through missions. I ran an active shield/speed tanked Tornado to help out of guy with some levels 4 missions. The only real snag is hitting the small stuff and not having drones. Otherwise you have the firepower of a Machariel for a tenth of the price. Have a Drake or Domi aggro and tank a room and have the Tornadoes shoot everything to pieces.

The are team/fleet/group ships, solo they are just gank boats.

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Oxylan
Blood Fanatics
#10 - 2012-04-09 17:13:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Oxylan
I use them on my two alts as support dps ships on mission, cheap ships with a lot firepower and awesome speed and agility, nagas with rails 720dps ftw, pulse oracle 1080 dps for mission like pirate invasion etc.

If it bleed we can kill it.
Nutbolt
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-04-09 17:25:44 UTC
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#12 - 2012-04-09 17:28:36 UTC
They're sex on thrusters. Though if your opponent flies a lot of cruiser class and smaller ships the sex ain't so great. Remember folks, size matters.

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Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#13 - 2012-04-09 17:29:54 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
They're sex on thrusters. Though if your opponent flies a lot of cruiser class and smaller ships the sex ain't so great. Remember folks, size matters.

If solo and facing a frig, you better do it with small guns (in which case the frig dies really fast).
Liang Nuren
No Salvation
Divine Damnation
#14 - 2012-04-09 17:38:53 UTC
I use them to engage when I'm massively outnumbered. The combination of battleship weapon range with cruiser mobility is just unparalleled for the price point. The Zealot is almost good at this - if it had just a bit stronger optimal bonus I'd be in heaven. :)

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Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#15 - 2012-04-09 17:39:19 UTC
Small fleet of these tier 3s can cause alot of pain in a short amount of time, they're fast and agile enough to avoid getting locked on. I do say this is the best interation of a sniper fleet Ive seen in a long time. By the time you pop your warp bubble off they're already back in sniper range again taking shots and mowing though your fleet.

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Katja Faith
Doomheim
#16 - 2012-04-09 18:09:14 UTC
High-sec ganking. Period.
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#17 - 2012-04-09 18:10:22 UTC
Corina Jarr wrote:
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
They're sex on thrusters. Though if your opponent flies a lot of cruiser class and smaller ships the sex ain't so great. Remember folks, size matters.

If solo and facing a frig, you better do it with small guns (in which case the frig dies really fast).



I just fall back to one of the older T1's if my opponent is flying multiple small ships. They may be older, but that just makes them cougars.

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Rath Kelbore
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#18 - 2012-04-09 18:15:24 UTC
Katja Faith wrote:
High-sec ganking. Period.


Really?

Their purpose seems obvious. A mobile platform for battleship sized weapons.

An example:

Naga

around 1500 ish m/s
700 dps @ 70km with antimatter
Switch to spike and hit out to max lock range
No tank but you're not spose to get shot at anyways.

Hard to hit frigs but w/e.

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Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#19 - 2012-04-09 18:22:58 UTC
Rath Kelbore wrote:
Katja Faith wrote:
High-sec ganking. Period.


Really?

Their purpose seems obvious. A mobile platform for battleship sized weapons.

An example:

Naga

around 1500 ish m/s
700 dps @ 70km with antimatter
Switch to spike and hit out to max lock range
No tank but you're not spose to get shot at anyways.

Hard to hit frigs but w/e.



pfft.

Naga

8x Nuetron II's
1200 dps void

1900 m/s mwd + web + scramble

34K EHP

62/63/72/77 resist

Let them shoot at me.

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Stellar Vix
State War Academy
Caldari State
#20 - 2012-04-09 18:36:33 UTC
/me Writes down performance to reverse engineer later.

This brawler is relevant to my interests would like to stay with the fleet instead of sniping without any escorts for 50kms makes you feel a bit nekkid.

-Vix

SWA Instructor, Commander Select Currently being blamed as SWA's CEO SWA PVP Program
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