Garramon
Gallente
Sturmgrenadier Inc
R i s e
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Posted - 2006.09.12 14:01:00 -
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Solo: Eos - The drone bay gives you much more options is you get jammed. The extra midslot allows you to fit ECM and the like.
Small Gang: Astarte - One volleying T1 cruisers is so much fun.
Fleet: Megathron - The Astarte and Eos do not have the hitpoint buffer to be worthwhile during fleet engagements. Unless you are running 3-6 gang mods in a SS, you are far better off in a MegaT
That being said, I have lost 3 Astartes. All of them were solo losses. I am not going to give a setup, but attempt to show the Astartes strengths/weaknesses and let you decide.
1.) Ishtar vs Astarte - I got bored looking for PvP after 3 hours and switched to a higher damage setup. Not 5 minutes later I find a neutral Ishtar who decides to attack me for no reason except that he could. I took him to medium armor while my ECM drones jammed him. Then I got jammed and the fight was over. NOS, ECM, scrambled > dead.
2.) 3 Vagabonds vs Astarte - Ok so I had just joined up with Weirda and decided to be an idiot and run to her space with no BMs (Curse?). I was told the pipe was clear. It wasn't. I passed a frigate group of hostiles, but they were headed the wrong way. On the next jump I passed three Vagabonds. Uhoh...
I took one of them to structure and another low in armor, but it was silly. Stabbabonds just warp away.
3.) Eos vs Astarte - Best fight I have ever been in. Boldyn was camping one of our gates with a bubble, so I went after him. It was pretty even for awhile, but then my ECM drones kicked in and started to win. He was down to ~20% structure while I still had armor. Then I made a noob mistake and repaired my armor one too many times. My guns shut off and I couldn't shoot him. His drones took me out.
Some Successes:
1.) Astarte vs Painter Rage Torp Raven - I saw a solo Raven flying away from our space. I got ahead of him and put up a bubble. Orbitting at close range, I laughed all the way to the bank.
2.) Astarte + Friends vs GoonFleet - We were deep in Goon territory in Syndicate. Our Gang was jumped at the gate and we e-warped to a planet, but it was too late. 10 SGHQ vs ~30 Goons. The fight for me consisted of LOCK WEB POP. Repeated 8 times. At one point I got called primary, but they didn't break my shields, and they gave up and switched to another targets. Some of my corpmates weren't so lucky.
3.) Astarte vs Ferox - I undocked right behind a hostile ferox. He though he could warp away before I got to him. It took me 3 rounds ( about 6 seconds ). 
My one fitting suggestion: Always fit a damage control.
For some reason the fact that ~50% of the people replying to the thread fail to read and understand the point of the OP is hilarious. |