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Wintermoon
Interstellar eXodus
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Posted - 2006.09.09 13:35:00 -
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Warp drive operation 5 ASAP.
Will take you less warps to get home in your pod. :)
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Wintermoon
Interstellar eXodus
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Posted - 2006.09.09 18:11:00 -
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For a more sensible reply then. 
They are all alright for gang warfare, lending considerable anti frigate firepower to the gang very cheaply.
For solo work they only ever work under very specific circumstances.
The cormorant being the most generic of the four. Four midslots lend themselves well to ECM (you'll have lost all your hair before finding a tank setup on those). Double optimal bonus and crazy tracking, competes with the harpy as the top notch frigate class sniper. Wins at being alot cheaper but loses at being so much easier to kill. Very nasty up close with all that ECM and some blasters.
Thrasher is pretty damn good as well. Full rack of 280mm arties and you generally don't have to worry about the 25% ROF penalty much. The penultimate frigate crusher (the cormy outranges it though). The sick volley damage can even make some tech I cruisers worry. For short range it has more limited midslots than the cormy so it is generally alot less viable like that solo although it works in small gangs like that somewhat.
Catalyst. Can squeeze out the highest DPS on this one with a few magic tricks. But that requires blasters. With no MWD/AB. And AWU 5. So basically only useful in station camping where you will always be in range of the target. You can always downgrade the firepower to smaller scale blasters but then the cormorant is just better due to more midslots. Does nicer volley damage with railguns than the cormorant though and has more space for damage mods.
Coercer. The least versatile of them all. Only 1 midslot. Will not function properly without a gang. Could dish out some sick damage, but it is mostly EM/Thermal and the biggest frigate beam lasers don't fit even with AWU 5 and two or three MAPCs... Workable as a pulse laser platform but loses alot of the range and functionality when doing so.
Better reply? 
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Wintermoon
Interstellar eXodus
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2006.09.09 18:41:00 -
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 Originally by: Murehk
So from what you've said the setup I have with ECM, blasters and NOS should be ok?
On the cormy, yup.
Just be careful of the targets you pick.
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Wintermoon
Interstellar eXodus
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Posted - 2006.09.09 20:04:00 -
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Originally by: Dorah Hawkwing
[stuff about the coercer]
It does function alright in gangs/fleets. But the thread author is also looking for solo possibilities (unless I am reading it wrong) where the coercer is quite limited. But yeah, all your points are valid if we are talking about gangs and fleets.
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