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Flagships!
"A flagship is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, a designation given on account of being either the largest, fastest, newest, most heavily armed or, for publicity purposes, the best known. In military terms, it is a ship used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships."

Flagships are the elite of your tournament team. They are the strongest, toughest, most damaging (and most expensive) ship you can field. Flagships must have a name, and successful flagships can become the stuff of tournament legend. The disadvantageous side of this, though, is that flagships are famous. As a tradeoff for their power, your opponents will know in advance what they are capable of when their setup is advertised for all to see. This raises the question of when you should field your flagship -if at all. Do you use it in the early rounds, and risk losing it? Do you save it for a late game where you may need some extra power? And if you do that, will your opponent predict it and counter it? And will we see some rare battleships fielded as flagships, heralding the return of the most expensive ships in Eve to the tournament? I'm excited just thinking about it.

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Originally by: Balor Haliquin

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GALLENTE
Name: Artemis
Hull: Hyperion
Role: Theater Command Ship

Developer: CreoDron
As the largest drone developer and manufacturer in space, CreoDron has a vested interest in drone carriers. While sacrificing relatively little in the way of defensive capability, the Artimus can chew its way through surprisingly strong opponents - provided, of course, that the pilot uses top-of-the-line CreoDron drones.

Gallente Battleship Bonus: 10% bonus to drone Hit Points and Damage per level, 5% bonus to armor resistances per level
Flagship Bonus: 5% bonus to fleet member's maximum Armor Hit Points per level, 3% bonus to Information Warfare Link module effectiveness per level
Role Bonus: 99% reduction in CPU cost for warfare link modules, Activate 2 warfare link modules simultaneously

Fitting slots: 8 high / 6 mid / 6 low / 2 rig
Power Grid: 14150
CPU: 570
Hard points: 6 Turret/1 Launcher
Shield HP: 7100
Shield Resistances: 0/50/55/32.5
Shield Recharge: 2500.00sec
Armor HP: 8800
Armor Resistances: 50/10/50/47.5
Hull HP: 8950
Velocity: 110m/s
Drone Bay: 175m^3
Drone Bandwidth: 125 MgBits/sec
Cargo Bay: 675m^3
Capacitor Capacity: 7200
Capacitor Recharge: 1500.00sec
Maximum Targeting Range: 65km
Maximum Lock: 8
Sensor Strength: Magnometric 23
Signature Radius: 495m
Scanner Resolution: 110
Inertial Modifier: 0.155
Propulsion Strength: Ion 8

Prerequisite Skills
Primary Skills Required
> Gallente Battleships V
-> Spaceship Command IV
-> Gallente Cruisers IV
--> Spaceship Command III
--> Gallente Frigates IV
---> Spaceship Command I

Secondary Skills Required
> Flagships
-> Warfare Link Specialist IV
--> Leadership V
-> Spaceship Command V

Tertiary Skills Required
> Logistics IV
-> Spaceship Command III
-> Signature Analysis V
> Multitasking I
-> Targeting V
--> Electronics I
-> Long Range Targeting V
--> Electronics II
> Electronics V
-> Fleet Commander I
--> Wing Commander V
---> Leadership V

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Originally by: Ysp Amai

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The idea of a T3 Battleship has been floated in here before. But there are several issues with this. The Flagships are hyper specific as tho their role and concept. The Strategic Battleships are by nature overly versitle. The very concept of the Strategic Battleship is rather alien to these ships. I would love to see them in game. But these ships are designed entirely around the T2 concept of ship design.

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Originally by: Balor Haliquin

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this was exactly my intention, they are tough, but not imortal. As far as DPS they are about 15% better then standard Battleship and about 10% more than a Command Ship.

I was going to try and do all the skill requirements for all of the ships but as it took me about 6 hours of calculating all the stats based off of the Battle Cruiser to Command Ship leap. And doing that for all the races plus balancing bonuses . I decided to just do basic skills that prity much all of the Heavy Command Ships would need. I'll have the full skill requirements that i can come up with as soon as i have free time.

Thanks for the complement on the names. The only one im not happy with is the Minmatar fleet ship, the Halbred just does not seem to do it justice.. was gonna call it the Standard, as in Battle Standard. But alass i went with Halbred for some reason.

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Originally by: Rjaiajik Kajvoril

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Not really. It's powerful compared to other ships however when you consider you need a level of skill approaching that of a capital ship to pilot it it's really not that powerful when you really think about it.

Look at a dread or carrier, they have hundreds of thousands of HP where as the average battleship has what about 8 thousand... that's without tanking at all. If you can justify something with the "health" (for lack of a better word) of more than 200 battleships then you should be able to justify this ship for a very similar level of skill training.

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Originally by: Balor Haliquin

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In all honesty im looking at what you prepose and not seeing show they would be a more effective fleet command ship. You are giving them bonuses to remote repair/energy transfer/shield transfer and cutting their guns in half. What is to prevent this ship from sitting in a tower in the system and just giving bonuses? As it stands they will fall apart just as fast as their T1 counterparts. They need a tank bonus to make them harder to kill. Not to mention a hit point boost. I like the remote repair gang bonus but realize that that already exsists in the form of gang warfare modules.

Also note that the tier 2 battleships already have a tech 2 version. Why do they need another one?

That being said im not against a battleships size logistics ship.

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