I have said it once and I will say it again, I don't care what garbage CCP comes up with, Battleships are not worth fielding. Their effectiveness per cost is terrible. They are huge, hulking, snail paced, slow locking, big fat targets, with great on-paper stats, but in reality are not able to apply half of their dps to anything that's not stationary and of equal size.

When I can buy a HAC or even faction cruiser that has similar stats and better applied dps, over a wider range of targets, that is not slow as hell, and can lock stuff in under a months time, for much less cost, why would I ever bother with a battleship? It is common sense. Battleship are obsolete in the current meta game. Only a fool says the ship balance is in an adequate state. Their statistics are fabricated, almost nobody pilots a BS outside of a capital fleet, and even then there are much better vessels for the task.

They are simply too vulnerable and expensive for their poor performance.

What you aren't realizing is that there are hard counters to battleships that you can purchase for 3m ISK or less. Yes, x3 T1 frigates can, and will kill your multi-billion dollar dream boat for more reasons than your space bugatti can actually handle. Also, the most you're getting out of those webs are 15kms, boss. 19km if you're overheated or 25km if you want to make your KM loss to 5 catalysts even more spectacularly hilarious. So no, you're dead in the water - just like every other battleship to smaller hulls. Let me know the next time you go soloing with your vindi, and let me know how many of those kills were on tacklers and not the shuttles you're proposing you dual web on a daily basis.

So the narrative becomes even more comical when not only do you need a 1b faction battleship, but gang links with max skills on a secondary ship, while overheating your web - just to have a sliver of hope to kill some long ranged frigates. Yet you still don't see how grossly imbalanced frigates are vs battleships? You've pretty much added every thing to your advantage in this fight, and all they'd have to do is manually tackle you in their 2m frigates. You seem to forget that they can overheat as well, and they don't have to risk popping a 400m isk web in the process.

You aren't going to win against frigates, ever, at all.

I think OP has gotten his asnwer: You need a a specific Pirate faction battleship with 1b in mods and a links alt to kill frigates in a BS nowadays.

Tongue in cheek, of course.

Maybe not.

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