Letrange
Minmatar
Chaosstorm Corporation
Apoapsis Multiversal Consortium
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Posted - 2007.10.09 20:16:00 -
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I depends on exactly what type of T1 ship you want to/can fly.
in most of these scenarios you'll want some form of artillery/light missile load out.
Frigate: Option a) Rifter with arty
Frigate: Option b) Vigil with Target Painters (ooo looky, BS can splater frigates now)
Frigate: Option c) Breacher with light missiles
Destroyer: Option a) The T1 armed gank dessy isn't bad
Destroyer: Option b) if you've got the skillz a T2 armed gank dessy is purpose build to kill frigates faster than you can target and with two sensor booster you can target frigs pretty fast (caveat: advanced weapons upgrade 4 or 5 is not easy to get to - although it solves a lot of fitting problems on all ships).
Cruiser: Option a) Scythe with a mix of tracking links, assault missile launchers and possibly some target painters if you can fit em (once again, your BS buddies suddenly have no problems with frigates)
Cruiser: Option b) Bellicose with Small Arty or the lightest medium artillery with tracking aids (the ones that go in the lows) and assault missile launcher and target painters, lotsa target painters. This is arguably the role for which this ship was designed.
Cruiser: Option c) any other cruiser: Small Arty or the lightest medium artillery with tracking aids and assault missile launcher.
Now in most cases you'll want to hang back from your BS buddies so they grab any agro and not you. This is why you want serious range for a frigate or dessy. you want to be on the other side of the BS from any agro but you want to be able to kill stuff before it gets can attack the BS preferably.
The exception to this is obviously the Vigil, Scythe and Bellicose. Most people discount the matari e-war ships. Mainly because there is less evident application of these ships in PvP. Welcome to the situation in which they shine. Independent of their inherent ability to kill small ships, they are there to allow the big boys to kill small ships really really quickly. When a npc frigate's signature is suddenly as big as a battle cruiser and those big artillery or rails can suddenly track a gnat, and heavy/cruise missiles are suddenly hitting for full damage, trust me the BSes can also take care of frigates very very fast. This is one of those effects that unless you've seen in action you don't really know how effective it can be.
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