Originally by: Herko Kerghans

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Edited by: Herko Kerghans on 29/12/2005 08:46:17


Hoooooooooooold it right there my friend. Dont get them mixed up: although both are under the "covert op" ships, there is a difference between a 'real' covert ops and a stealth bomber.

The 'real' covert ops (like the buzzard here) is the one with a "Covert Ops Skill Bonus: -92% to -100% reduction in Cloaking Device CPU use per level".

This is the frig that can use the covert ops cloaking device, the only device with which you can warp while cloaked.

Covert ops frigs are:
-awesome for traveling around unseen and for busting safespots;
-not very good for solo combat (they are very fragile, dont have much firepower),
-VERY useful for any gang for scouting and providing warp-in points (and some extra EW if you are ballsy/crazy enough! ).
-They are worthless for NPCing (see 'solo combat')

Now, the stealth bomber (like the Manticore here) is the one that can launch cruise missiles, but it CANNOT warp while cloaked. It is one hell of a fun ship:
-useful for some nasty solo PvP tactics against other frigs (can kill t1 frigs and intys if you setup your mid slots with EW)
-very useful for team PvP
-not very useful for NPCing; it is a fragile ship and you cannot recloak if targeted, so if NPCs get you locked you are gonna go down fast. That being said, you can snipe the big NPC BSes from far away and bring them down (but it would usually be faster and safer to use other type of ships for that matter)


Both fun ships overall; they do require a bit more skillpoints that the other t1 frigs (inties and assault) but if sneaky is your way, can't go wrong with these babies.

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