Ships & Modules

Neuts are super effective against Winmatar ships since you can shut off their tank much easier due to Minmatar ships typically having poor capacitors.

Targeting Dampeners are super effective against Caldari since they tend to be oriented towards sniping. Damp their range, force them to come closer, placing the Gallente at the advantage by forcing the enemy into blaster range. Well, that's the ideal, as opposed to the practice.

Target Painters and Webs are incredibly powerful in amplifying the damage caused by long range artillery or short range auto cannons.

So the racial EWAR is quite intuitive, from a certain point of view.

In my opinion they actually have one that counters themselves, and one that counter their main opponent, caldari being the exception.

Minmatar have TP, which against the armor tanking amarr helps damage projection a fair bit, while the webs aren't as useful because of how slow the ships are. Webs on the other hand, are THE ewar to use against minny

Amarr have TD and neuts. TD means that the amarr can outrange their minny opponents handily, and if they come in close, they can level the playing field as far as tracking is concerned. Neuts on the other hand, shut down all amarrian firepower that has good projection.

Gallente have damps, which shut down the extended range of the caldari, while the scram stops a gallente ship in it's tracks.

ECM is overpowered, but that's not what the thread is about.

It is true that it is strange Amarr EWAR is weak against Minnie ships.
Even beyond that, Amarr frigs are bad against Minnie frigates due to the high EM resists.
However, if you gave the Minnie race cap warfare instead of the Amarr, Minnie would be even more OP than it is now.

Good thing no one runs RP fleet comps or this would be an actual problem!



They do not anymore.

Racial ewar are not aimed at countering the opposing race, but emphasize on the strength of their race

Amarr have capacitor supremacy, their weapon use it because they have it, and the neut ensure them they keep the cap supremacy
Their weapons are highly versatile grace to their insta ammo switch, TD ensure them to have range advantage or no tracking disadvantage

Minmatar have the mobility superiority, their EWAR emphasize this even more : web give them even more relative speed,and TP allow them to better track their target for their autocanon which need to be very close from it, or with their arty which don't track very well ; in brief, TP allow them to use their speed more effectively

Gallente have the close range superiority, and their EWAR force the ennemy to close the range and stay in it : dampener force you to come close, and long point pin you in place at blaster range

Caldari, well, they sitting brick and don't have piloting skills (their ship are sitting bricks, and they either use missiles which pilote for them or very long range gun with no need to pilote or anything), so the only thing they can do to help them is shutting the ennemy electronic down to prevent him to fire... More seriously, their ewar emphasize their "caldari are superior" school of thought (they tend to come, stand still while firing without taking care of the ennemy position, and relying on their shield to survive)

About the minmatar and neut, they used to have weapons which use capacitor, and I think they should never have been changed in this regards

Infact, all ewar can be very usefull on any ship, so seeking for the best ewar for a race is irrelevant I think, and that should be analyzed according to war doctrine and school of thought of each race.

All races' T2 ships have a resist bonus to the T2 ammo of their opposing faction. Amarr ships are particularly good against explosive damage, which is dealt T2 projectile ammo.

Actually, the Minmatar DO have neuts to drain the cap of cap hungry Lasers.
Hurricane: Almost standard to use TWO medium neuts in the utility slots.
Typhoon: Almost always has a Heavy Neut or 3.
Vagabond: Standard to have a Neut to handle frigates or a Nos to power the MWD.

Compare to Amarr:
Harbinger: At the most, one neut as only one utility slot. And that neut competes with laser cap usage.
Harbinger with 1 neut vs Hurricane with 2 neuts = neuted Harbinger and easy victory for Hurricane.
Armageddon: Neuts compete with laser cap usage. If the enemy has neuts too you are in trouble.
Zealot: No slots for neuts.

In fact, it would not be at all incorrect to say that Minmatar is the Neut race, as it has more ships than Amarr that can fit neuts without affecting weapon use!
Sure Amarr has the bonused Pilgrim and Curse. But outside Pilgrim and Curse, fitting neuts on laser ships is asking for trouble.
Whereas Minmatar can and do stick neuts on so very many of their ships since they have the utility slots and capless weapons.