Silpher
The Blackstone Group
Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2007.07.02 11:46:00 -
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Edited by: Silpher on 02/07/2007 11:52:09
Edited by: Silpher on 02/07/2007 11:47:28
Faction frigates are only flown sufficiently with well rounded, multi-racial, multi-weapon frigate skills combined with good understanding of their roles and experience in flying frigates. It can still be flown effectively without exceptional skills, but they're meant to be flown by frigate specialists.
The roll of this frig is as a heavy damage dealer/anti-tackle; *not* tackle. The point of the bonuses is to ultimately give you 6 high slots, with only giving you 5. With perfect matari frigate skill bonuses, those 2 rails = 3 with the fitting reqs of 2. 3 Rails, 3 launchers.
Scram is hardly necissary given it's role and you aren't fast enough to keep up with t2 frigates. Once you pound on them, they'll just run away. Thus, it's roll as an anti-tackler, especially given the tracking speed of your turrets for those interceptors. You can fit a scram if you want, but you might prefer saving that slot for something else, and letting the true tacklers do the tackling.
The only time you should expect to get kills with this is 1) being a part of a gang/fleet and just helping on damage on the primary or 2) 1 vs 1 against a not-so-intelligent opponent.
Frigs are usually ignored in gang vs gang engagements (don't flame me, I know they get attacked, but rarely are they a primary), so what you want to be doing is chasing/killing off the tacklers who are tying down your mates, so they can warp-out->warp-in when primaried.
You want to tank it so if you are taking damage you have time to brush off the tacklers and warp out. Whether you shield or armor tank it is entirely a personal preference. Passive shield tank works, and armor tank is cool too, freeing up your mids for e-war, or whatever else you want.
Faction frigs are only useless to those who don't understand what they are for and/or don't possess the skills to fly them properly.
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