Yeah, I agree that would probably take a few ships down while it dies, but I was hoping my ship would survive at least one engagement .

Are you actually roaming looking for a fight or are you station hugging? Domi is the better choice for the "I could run into anything, solo roam", heavy neut Fit, Hyperion is the better choice for the I know what I'm fighting and I'm going to PWN it with mah 3 characters...solo... :)

As someone already said though, if you plan to do this in FW...don't...go buy 3 BCs instead, and do the same thing in triple rep Myrms!

I was really hoping to get similar results to Gods Coldblood (if anyone has seen his videos). I realize that in his videos he's running a faction battleship with 3 bil in equipment to do the job, I was just wondering if I could get anywhere near that performance without selling my newborn.

One final question, are Slaves worth it when active tanking a Gallente battleship? Or should i be looking at Snakes/ECCM implants?

Do you have any idea what a Slave set costs? That ISK would be better spent on higher-end modules if you're hell-bent on throwing tons of ISK into this, but solo PvP is usually "person vs. people"

Not really. Losing a ship means losing those expensive mods, but you can just warp your pod out when your ships dies and preserve the Slave set. Admittedly this is a little harder since spamming warp when you are about to die stopped working properly, but the point still stands - implants are harder to lose in lowsec.

@Andski - Yes, I have also concluded I would get better value out of more expensive modules than an implant set, but as everyone keeps mentioning Gallente is do or die, and I don't want to keep throwing that kind of money into the fray... I have a better chance of keeping implants through multiple engagements, especially if i don't advertise the fact that I have them .

. Do the larger ships just not have a place in solo PvP?

The Kessah-domi is a beast for fights on gates and stations. Highly recommended.

If you want to see what it can do then check out the "Forever Pirate"-videos.

While the Kessah domi is fantastic I typically swap the highs for 425mm ACs. Reasoning behind this is, greater options with range, I know typically you will be up close but in the time to get there ACs make up some extra damage. ACs are also capless, I know you are boosting heavily but when you are being neuted you can focus on timing your boosters and reps and not have to reactivate guns. Third reason behind this is the damage selection, the largely thermal hybrid damage will often clash with your drones so its nice to be able to mix it up with some EM or explosive.

Also add a legion alt, before legion the domi will be tanking 1200 DPS, with implants and exile. With legion you are looking at 2200 DPS, you can also add a skirmish link to help extend your tackle for easier catches.

As others have said the other gallente BS really aren't worth looking at for solo, the hyperion is arguably one of the worst BS ingame and the domi is easily one of the best for solo, the other main contender being the 'phoon.

In fairness, any discussion about Gallente battleships would need to include the Dominix, but I expected it to hold ground as a second rate citizen... Now I plead to all Gallente loyalists - redeem our battleship lineup, show me somewhere the Hyperion and Megathron can excel in solo PVP!