I'm sure dreads will have an exceedingly difficult time tracking stationary battleships which cannot receive reps.

Then you cant really welcome them as overlords if its pve your talking about..

Chitsa or James, can you guys ask if it still can jump holes while in bastion mode?
It would make them more used in w-space if they can in my opinion(collapsing hicks less needed).
Maybe even have a negative bastion mode where it become much lighter so they can jump in light.

Or add a jump drive script wich instead of making it jump, just make the battleship lighter(like a battlecruiser) so it has more agility and less mass. With the disadvantage of only being able to do that the cycle of the jump drive(and make it unable to diable before the end of the cycle).It should make BS as mobile as 100mn tengu's.

Ah the WH elite again.

There are more WH's below C5. Many of which people have been saying for years are far to safe. Largely because of the annoyance of trying to siege a POS without dreads. Maybe this will bring more pew to the lower class WH's

Also could be fun to see the effect on high sec POS operations.

They probably won't. Would be the same as a dread in siege in terms of mobility.

I highly recommend every one use bastion mode marauders for wh PVE so that I can get free ganks. er, I mean for making lots of isk!

While you could probably solo one of these Kronoses with a Proteus, you definitely can't do it in sixty seconds.

Aren't those half dreadproof? As I understood, you could take up a little transversal prior to sieging and glide around the dread while shooting things. And nothing they could do to stop your ways... It just reads a little as if those things were meant to enter bastion WHILE moving, since BS guns still have a little tracking.

In nonapital space, those could be a fine tip, espeially given that mass limitations would just stop them from using wormholes in c4 and down with bastion up.

Though I highly doubt they'll see overwhelming usage in wh-pew, just soooo many downsides to just bringing bhaals/vindicators for that amount of mass.

Guys you got it all Wrong......
This Ship in wormhole space can only work in one Fleet Doctrine....

You need 2 of them and a HULL TANKED Orca . so you can combat refit ...

So why would you combat refit, so you can better tank the omni damage coming from sleepers, regen your cap under heavy neut pressure in highclass wormholes aaaaand have a GTFO refit ready if you are stuck in a HICTOR BUBBLE with Scram / Webs and disruptors...

Also FUDGE THE ORCA.....

and to the guy who had that brainfart of saying that theeese ships would be awesome to do "lowclass" sieges with ...
If you shall ever drop like 10-20 1b Battleships .... i have one request and 2 arguements.....

Request: ******* invite me because i want to see you hilariously fail and record it...

1st Arguement: NEUTS
2nd Arguement: Large Pos Defense guns and 0m/s Velocity

Thank you thank you thank you....

And yes you will see these badboys in wormhole space... and yes they will be restricted to c4s

That will be an excellent use, lolbait.

This whole change to Marauders feels like it should belong on a separate set of hulls. Shoehorning mini dread mode on to a
Billion plus hull makes me think... Why not just bring a dread?


This change is just going to pigeonhole marauders further into the pve role than they already are. If ccp wants to see more mjd sniping going on nerf ongrid combat scanning so sniping at extend ranges is an actual viable tactic.
This just feels like they are trying to make a hammer do a screwdrivers job.

With the bastion nerf, rep nerf, etc... You will only see these things in Highsec mission running{and even that is iffy}.