Heavy Assault Cruisers 101
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Class Information
This chapter contains the standard information of this class pertaining to scheduling and class contents. The General Information should be sufficient to create a proper class topic for scheduling on the Eve University forum. Additional information relevant to the teacher is listed under Notes for the Teacher.
General Information
Illustration link for class description on the Eve University forum: http://i757.photobucket.com/albums/xx216/ScoopIrish/Ishtar512.jpg
In this class, you'll learn all about Heavy Assault Cruisers, also known as HACs or Heavy Assault Ships - the different racial versions, how to fit them, and how to fly them in PvP and PvE situations.
- Duration: 1 hour
- Location: Docked up safely in a station
Class contents:
- Intro to HAC ships
- Fitting HACs for PvE and PvP
- Flying HACs successfully
- Q&A
Student requirements:
- Mumble registration and access - make sure you have Mumble sorted out and operational well before the class begins. Use this guide for set-up: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Mumble
- Access to the Class.E-UNI in-game chat channel
Additional information: This class is primarily lecture delivered in the Class.E-UNI channel in Mumble, followed by Q&A.
Notes for the Teacher
Required materials:
- Class.E-UNI chat channel, to receive questions and post relevant links
Class Contents
Introduction
Welcome to this class on Heavy Assault Cruisers, otherwise known as HACs. You'll also note that in-game they are referred to as Heavy Asssault Ships, but the majority of players use the term Heavy Assault Cruisers (why is that, by the way?) so we will continue with that designation.
Over the 60 minutes or so, we shall cover the different HACs by race, how to fit them for PvP and PvE activity, and some general advice about how to fly HACs successfully.
(Instructor should then introduce himself or herself - covering relevant experience level and background.)
We have a few ground rules for this class:
- Please put your Mumble settings on "Push to Talk" if you have not already done so.
- Feel free to type any questions in the Class.E-UNI chat channel as we proceed - I will try to answer your questions as they come during the class. [At the end of my lecture, we'll open Mumble for any further questions or general discussion.]
- You should be docked up safely in a station
Everyone ready? OK, then - let's begin....
Intro to HAC ships
Heavy Assault Cruisers are high damage ships with high survivability. They enjoy the highest tier of racial resistances, giving them very powerful base tanks. Each race has two HACs based around the two core weapon systems of that race:
- Autocannons and artillery for Minmatar
- Missiles and rail-guns for Caldari
- Blasters and drones for Gallente
- Lasers and short-range missiles for Amarr
Flavour/offtopic: MISSILES FOR AMARR??: Initially CCP tried to make 'pulse' and 'beam' laser ships for the Amarr. Invariably people chose the 'pulse' ships and used scorch ammo for range, leaving the beam ships unused. In response to this CCP changed all the 'pulse' ships into Khanid missile ships and turned the beam ships into general laser ships
The ships
- Gallente
- The drone based Ishtar
- The Blaster based Deimos
- Minmatar
- The artillery based Muninn
- The Auto-Cannon based Vagabond
- Amarr
- The Laser based Zealot
- The missile based Sacrilege
- Caldari
- The Rail-gun based Eagle
- The missile based Cerberus
HAC fittings
- PvP recommendations
- PvE recommendations
Advice on flying HACs successfully
- Essential skills
- Heavy Assault Ships I (Assault Ships IV, Weapon Upgrades V, Spaceship Command V prereqs)
- Ship-specific weapon and tanking skills
- Tactics
Class Wrap-up
- Thanks for attending this class!
- I would appreciate any feedback from people on how to improve the class
- Questions ?
