There are different ships in an HQ incursion fleet. Depending on whom you fly with there will be snipers, dps, logi, and the drone bunny. Yes some of them will be pirate hulls (nightmare, mach, vindi) but you can also see the occasional hyperion, rokh, TFI. etc. Unless you are talking multiboxers you are very apt to see a mix of ships and styles and if you wan the best chance of being called up you will have an assortment handy so you can step into any role.

So you bring a couple of BS's and maybe a cruiser or two.

This is why I asked for this ship and why I am trying to follow this thread (aside from the debate societies additions)

So . . . the basic stats. Is it big enough? Does it fullfill the stated role? Is the tank sufficient?

I am NOT asking if it shoudl have jumpdrive, doomsday, hammer4 fittings.

Just is it balanced enough that it is not 'safe against all' nor 'a paper bag with a screen door'.

m

You ask your corp for help moving.

I do not get why this always leads to a massive threadnought.

If you want to move a rigged BS now, you have 2 options:

• destroy the rigs and ship it in a JF/Freighter or have it hauled by a professional trucker

• fly it by yourself

Now you get a third option. Why are you complaining?

In its current state though, it is already on the edge of making option 1 and 2 extremely unattractive, which would cut 2 existing options down to 1. I do not think the game will benefit from taking options away.
So I would rather see this ship at 300ish EHP fully tank fitted (well, there is no other option to fit it anyway). That forces you to chose time vs. money vs. risk.

Which is good in my opinion.

And for Null, it might add content as interfering with enemy logistic lines based on those ships will be a strategic option. We might see large battles around 25 escorted bowheads.

Which would be good as well.

Same reason why most use freighters over deep space transports.

Apologies for being unprecise. My post was intended to refer to a situation in that more than one ship has to be moved. Which is obvious from the content but the wording was bad. I have edited it now.

Lrn 2 Orca.

Why is that? That's exactly the same argument carebears use about the Catalyst to try and get ganking nerfed.

Try not skipping over the first paragraph.

So dont use it. Meanwhile there is a large number of people who will have a use for this ship.

Its faster than manually flying the three battleships and gankers cannot blow it up and make a profit on a cargo of three t2 fit battleships.

I assume nothing. This is the what CCP have stipulated as the kind of cargo the ship is meant to carry. Their tank should be sufficient to carry 3 T2 fitted T1 battleships, this goal has been met.

In this very thread. CCP asked if the tank was enough for transporting 3 t2 fitted battleships.

You can hit half a million using a fairly cheap tank and t2 rigs.

I somehow think that all of the RvB players, not to mention mission runners everywhere, will disagree.

Because as we showed earlier if you have a large number of ships using the bowhead is faster. You also cannot scan the fits of the ships inside the hold so nobody but you will know how they are fitted.