Myrmidon

 

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Myrmidon

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Gallente Federation Standard Battlecruisers Myrmidon Class Can use Command Burst module HIGHLIGHTS RELATED UNI-WIKI REFERENCES EVE Online Ships Overview EXTERNAL LINKS Myrmidon on zKillboard Myrmidon on EVE Workbench Myrmidon on Janice Myrmidon on EVE Ref

Worried that their hot-shot pilots would burn brightly in their eagerness to engage the enemy, the Federation Navy created a ship that encourages caution over foolhardiness. A hardier version of its counterpart, the Myrmidon is a ship designed to persist in battle. Its numerous medium and high slots allow it to slowly bulldoze its way through the opposition, while its massive drone space ensures that no enemy is left unscathed. SHIP BONUSES Gallente Battlecruiser bonuses (per skill level): 10% bonus to Drone hitpoints and damage 7.5% bonus to Armor Repairer amount Role Bonus: • Can use one Command Burst module 12.5% bonus to Drone microwarp velocity 50% bonus to Command Burst area of effect range Required Skills Gallente Battlecruiser I50m Spaceship Command III4h 26m Gallente Cruiser III22h 13m Spaceship Command II47m Gallente Destroyer III8h 53m Gallente Frigate III8h 53m Spaceship Command I8m Training Time what's this? 1d 21h 16m 40s Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero implants and without neural remaps. Grouping ▪ Variations Eos Eos Command Ships Myrmidon Class High Amount of Low Slots 5 (0/4) 4 7 1,200 MW 425 tf 150 m/sec 400 m³ , Myrmidon Navy Issue Myrmidon Navy Issue Faction Battlecruisers Myrmidon Class Can use Command Burst module 6 (0/4) 5 6 1,100 MW 400 tf 155 m/sec 400 m³ Ship Attributes Fittings Powergrid 1,050 MW CPU 400 tf Capacitor 2,900 GJ High 5 Launchers 0 Turrets 5 Medium 5 Low 6 Rig 3   medium Calibration 400 Navigation Max Velocity 145 m/sec Inertia Modifier 0.7 Warp Speed 3.5 AU/s Base Time to Warp 12.32 s what's this? Base Time to Warp is essentially the time needed for this ship to align and accelerate until it reaches 75% of its top speed and goes to warp. The time displayed here is the base calculated time with no account for any warp related skills, modules or any other effects. Drones Drone Capacity 200 m³ Drone Bandwidth 100 Mbit/sec Targeting Max Tgt. Range 55.00 km Max Locked Targets 7 Magnetometric Sensor 18 points Sig. Radius 305 m Scan Res. 200 mm Structure Structure Hitpoints 4,750 HP Mass 12,700,000 kg Volume 270,000 m³ Cargo Capacity 400 m³ Armor Armor Hitpoints 4,500 HP Armor Resistances EM 50 THR 35 KIN 35 EXP 10 Shields Shield Capacity 3,500 HP Shield Resistances EM 0 THR 20 KIN 40 EXP 50

Summary

The Myrmidon (or "Myrm") is a versatile drone-armed battlecruiser, with a strong bonus to drones and a bonus for armour repairers. To match the weapon range bonuses on other battlecruiser hulls, it has a drone speed bonus.

With a relatively balanced 5/6 layout of mid and low slots and no need to rely on its high slots for primary damage, the Myrmidon can be fitted in a wide variety of ways. Compared to the Amarr Prophecy drone battlecruiser, the Myrmidon has more bandwidth but a smaller dronebay, which means that it can deal more raw damage, including more heavy drones in its mix if necessary, but has a little less tactical flexibility. The ship has five turret hardpoints and no missile hardpoints whatsoever; with no bonuses for any kind of mounted weapon, projectile turrets are sometimes preferred by high-SP pilots, as they use no capacitor and allow for damage type selection. The high slots can also be used for command bursts, or for capacitor warfare.

In PvE, the Myrmidon makes a fine stepping-stone between the Vexor and the Dominix, and will chew happily through Level 3 missions. Players living in nullsec also sometimes use it to run combat sites and to rat in belts. For PvE combat it typically mounts an active armour tank. The Myrmidon is rare in large-fleet PvP, but can be a powerful and underestimated ship in small-gang and solo PvP.

Skills

As a battlecruiser, a Myrmidon is a step up from cruisers, and is a good point to be ensuring that you have good fitting skills and can mount Tech 2 tanking modules. Drone skills are obviously important to the ship. While it is perfectly fine for PvE to fly it with Tech 1 drones initially, pilots should look into training for Tech 2 drones if they intend to fly the ship often, and especially if they plan to move on up to the Dominix.

PvP Myrmidon pilots can consider training for projectile turrets and for capacitor warfare. The ship can mount a command burst (or several, with the right rigs), and while command skills are a slow train they can pay off in good bonuses for you and for your fleetmates. The ship can also mount a Micro Jump Drive, making Micro Jump Drive Operation handy.

Tactics

For PvE, bring drones appropriate to your targets' weaknesses, and an active armour tank with strengthened resistances against the damage type(s) you will be receiving. Make sure you have a flight of light drones to deal with small targets.

In PvP a multi-rep active armour tank using the hull's bonuses and an armour command burst can achieve quite startling EHP recovery per second. The Myrm can be tanked in other ways, though: buffer armour and even buffer hull tanks can have a lot of EHP and can free up more low slots and capacitor for other purposes.

Fit autocannon in the high slots to push towards the ship's DPS ceiling, or fit energy neutralizers to shut other ships down. With energy neutralizers in the highs and scram-web in the mids, a Myrmidon can have terrifying brawling potential—if it can close in on the enemy.

Besides raw damage, a flight of ECM drones can come in handy. The Myrmidon is a typical PvE ship: to bait hunters into coming onto grid and engaging you, you can try bringing a single flight of Tech 1 light drones and popping them out to show on d-scan, then abandoning them and unleashing Tech 2 drones once you have someone pinned.

Notes

In ancient Greek mythology, the Myrmidons were a tribe in Thessaly; in Homer's Iliad, they are the soldiers serving under Achilles. The classical Greeks thought, possibly wrongly, that the name came from their word for "ant" and meant "ant people". In medieval and early modern Europe, "myrmidon" came to be associated with ant-like unfeeling loyalty, and the word was used in ways not unlike the more modern word "robot". Most of these associations seem appropriate to the Myrmidon's drone bonus, and the ship was probably named for one of them, or possibly for several at once.

Patch History

A long, long time ago...
October 2019 Release - 2019-10-15.1 Every Cruiser, Battlecruiser and Battleship now warps faster than before. Warp Speed increased from 2.7 AU/s to 3.5 AU/s (+0.8 AU/s)

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