Originally by: Tzrailasa

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This is IMHO a good and quite balanced change!

However complex it might look, in total I don't really see this as more than a change in how webbing works (incl. making AB's slightly more viable), a slight reduction in MWD speed, speed balancing between ship classes, and a reduction of stacking benefits for speed.

For the Blasterthron pilots, I really don't see that you really have anything to worry about. You might not be able to effectively combat frigate sized ship, but as a battleship, you're not supposed to!
If you target has a T2 MWD (550% today, 500% if changed), scrambling him will first reduce his speed by about 85% due to the loss of MWD, and you then put a 60% web on him, it'll reduce his speed by a total of just below 94%. Another web will get him to 97.5% speedloss.
If the module changes are all done too, he'll even be slower to start with.

Mainly, this is a reduction of ludicrous speed as Nozh says.
Small fast-moving gangs are still effective today as they've been over the years, EXCEPT when they meet a nano-gang! They'll still be effective after this (even more so), but nano-gangs will have become vulnerable again.

Nano'ed gangs has one advantage over normal small gangs, that they can disengage even if they've made a bad call to engage when they shouldn't have. This is simply too great an advantage, and has to be removed.

Bad decisions has a penalty for other ship setups, but not so for nanos. A good pilot in a non-nano setup will probably die if he makes a bad call when engaging, while a mediocre nano-pilot will probably not die.
That's the main difference, and that has to go.

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