Originally by: Cardice Makar

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Originally by: James Lyrus

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Caldari are the worst carriers, because midslots are really important, and armour tanking is just generally more useful in a fleet.

Go for Archon if you want to frontline, or Thanatos if you want to POS hug.

Niddy is good if you like to repair stuff, and since triage became rather sweet.

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I disagree, but your millage will defiantly vary. If you've setup your Chimera properly, though it will be just as competitive. Not sure what you use your midslots for on a carrier though... not much EW to be had for it. But here's my guesstimations: [these numbers are estimates]

An Archon gets:

9600 armor hp / 30 s [base] -> modified becomes 9600 armor hp / 22.5s
[for a cap use of 2400 cap @lvl4]

= 426.66 hp /s
= 106.66 cap / s

While a Chimera gets:

6400 shield hp / 10s [base] -> modified becomes 6400 shield hp / 10s
[for a cap use of 2031 cap @lvl4]

= 640 hp/s
= 203.1 cap/s

the end results [obviously] is that you have to fit two cap armor reps. Big deal, I suppose, but it needs an extra slot to do it. That could be used somewhere else, so factor that into your equations.

The cap requirements for both are about the same, and the dual-armor rep will defiantly field you more pure armor points every second. The Chimera will also have the native shield recharging factor thrown in [which I didn't bother with] and there's the amount of cap the hardeners will take too... but by no means is the "Chimera a short-term engagement" ship, if you've got your archon setup to dual-rep all the time, than it requires just [about] as much cap to run. You just don't have the ability to turn off half your tank as you feel like it.

The CPU issues... that's another story all together. If you're fielding fighters [and don't have Adv. Interfacing 4] you shouldn't have too many CPU issues.

As I said though, YMMV.

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