I just wanted to make one suggestion, and I hope CCP hears this and considers it before they finish development and it's too late.
Make the new BC's viable with medium guns as well.

One word:

Snipers.

That's what comes to my mind. Big glass guns using speed, low signature and distance as a defense.

That's actually pretty much what I'm afraid of, I don't want these to JUST be snipers.

First let me say the new BCs sound AWESOME. The Tornado is pure sex, and I'm sure the other ships will look amazing too. And battleship guns?? F'in win.

I just wanted to make one suggestion, and I hope CCP hears this and considers it before they finish development and it's too late.
Make the new BC's viable with medium guns as well.

While the idea of putting oversized guns on your ship sounds awesome, it may be of limited use in the current metagame. They wouldn't be very effective against smaller ships, and you wouldn't be able to field them against standard BS fleets because they're a lot more fragile. I don't want them to end up being that ship that you bought just because it was new and cool, but you rarely undock because it has very little practical use.

When you run into a tier 2 BC nowadays, you have a general idea of what to expect but you can never know for sure. Is that Drake HAM/buffer fit? Or is it HML nano? That Myrm, should I bring neuts to counter its armor reps? But what if it's buffer fit? Hurricane - armor or shield tanked? I want these new ships to be something I can use everyday, something as versatile and effective as the current tier 2 BCs. I want these tier 3 BCs to make the tier 2 BCs as obsolete as the curret tier 1 BCs are. I want these ships to LIVE UP to their current hype!

These are just my thoughts, but I hope they resonate with other members of the community as well, and that CCP at least considers this before they roll out these new ships.

That is all :)

Unfortunately it's pretty obvious what would happen if CCP took your advice

Only good things

Tornado forever!

I once put small guns on a stealth bomber.

Talking bout the guy who wanted to nerf the Drake

WTF are you talking about. No one said they would be Snipers. Torps, Auto's, Megapulse, Blasters all fit too.

If you want medium Guns there are 8 other Ships designed for it.

I am willing to let this only fit the 20 or so roles it has now. Hint not all of them are Sniping, use your imagination.

Oh my god I cannot say ANYTHING on this forum without it being ridiculously construed beyond its original meaning. Unless you're a CCP dev, you and I BOTH have no idea as to the specific stats of these ships or how they will ultimately fit into the metagame. I was just voicing a FEAR, something that I HOPE will not come true.

That's all. Go be ******** in a different thread please.

While the idea of putting oversized guns on your ship sounds awesome, it may be of limited use in the current metagame. They wouldn't be very effective against smaller ships, and you wouldn't be able to field them against standard BS fleets because they're a lot more fragile.

You actually want them to obsolete the Tier 2 hulls.

This is why no-one will ever let you balance a game.... seriously fail.

They are already trying to make the tier 1 hulls viable, why would they then do something to make both tier 1 and 2 obsolete.

Because I want to pown tornado's gallente counterpart with my 800mm AC's from 80km with no fear that one will EVER be able to get in range to spit whatever dmg

I'll even make a thread about it and link the KM with explanation how I did it, well it will be short, "warp at 70, target, boum, bye bye"

How you gonna do that without them just leaving?

You would need a second tackle ship.

You already need to be masochist to fly Galllente so stupid is not that far, no need for tackle because he'll always believe he can do it, remember the "YES WE CAN"??

You already need to be masochist to fly Galllente so stupid is not that far, no need for tackle because he'll always believe he can do it, remember the "YES WE CAN"??
Then after a few losses he'll go straight at the forums enraged like a bull and cry about his ship not being able to do any thing else than kill mackinaws like the tornado, but with 5 shots and on top of it

/tount on
Also, Baltec will come here and explain you why he doesn't need tackle and how he's the Galenteean ubber powner of all eve universe and we all suck at using gallente hulls.

/tount off

One word:

Snipers.

That's what comes to my mind. Big glass guns using speed, low signature and distance as a defense.