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Battleships ("BSs", sometimes "BBs" from US Navy terminology) are the biggest, heaviest sub-capital combat ships in the game. They are correspondingly expensive, with even the cheapest battleship hulls selling for many tens of millions of ISK. Tech 1 battleships are standard tools in PvP and PvE combat. There are two classes of Tech 2 battleships: Marauders, which are specialised for mission-running, and Black Ops battleships, which can transport fleets of stealthy ships across long distances using covert cynosural fields.
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{{ShipTypes}}
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[[File:Battleship-Velocity.svg|400px|thumb|right|Velocity of battleships. You can see that normal velocities range from 89 m/s (Abaddon/Rokh) to 130 m/s (Typhoon/Megathron NI/Tempest FI) with a number of outliers. Extra slow are the Nestor (70) and Praxis (75). On the higher end we have the Typhoon FI (138), Barghest (148), Machariel (161), and Panther (182).]]
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[[File:Battleship-Mass.svg|400px|thumb|right|Mass of battleships. Battleships typically have a mass close to 100 kt. But there are some exceptions: Black Ops weigh more with about 150 kt. Extra light are the Praxis (87 kt), Leshak (78 kt), and Nestor (20 kt).]]
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[[File:Battleship-Signature Radius.svg|400px|thumb|right|Signature radius of battleships. The signature radius varies from 350 m (Tempest FI) to 485 m (Hyperion). The Marshal (330), Typhoon (330), Typhoon FI (320), and Panther (288) have an extra small signature. The Rokh has the biggest signature with 500 m.]]
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[[File:Battleship-Targeting Range.svg|400px|thumb|right|Targeting range of battleships. The typical targeting range ranges from 81 km (Tempest) to 91.2 km (Barghest, Apocalypse NI). The number of exceptions is relatively big in this case. The Praxis has an exceptional short targeting range with 70 km. The three Black Ops Panther (66.4), Redeemer (70.6), and Sin (72.8) have rather short targeting ranges, while the Widow has a rather long range with 93.6 km. The Nightmare and Abaddon are both 96 km while the Rokh and Scorpion (both normal and navy) are 108 km. The longest range battleships are the Thunderchild (118) and the Marauders Vargur (105.3), Kronos (117), Paladin (118.3), and Golem (123.5).]]
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[[File:Battleship-Scan Resolution.svg|400px|thumb|right|Scan resolution of battleships. The typical sensor strength ranges from 111 mm (Abaddon, Raven) to 143 (many). Slower locking exceptions are the Rokh and Scorpion NI with 98 mm. Faster locking outliers are the Typhoon (150), Apocalypse NI (156), Machariel (163), Nestor (163), and Praxis (169). All T2 battleships also lock rather fast. The Marauders with Golem (160), Paladin (160), Kronos (160), and Vargur (180); the Black Ops with Widow (150), Sin (185), Panther (200), Redeemer (220), and Marshal (235).]]
  
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== T1 Battleships ==
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'''Battleships''' ('''BSs''', rarely '''BBs''' from US Navy terminology) are the biggest, heaviest sub-capital combat ships in EVE Online. They are correspondingly expensive, with even the cheapest battleship hulls selling for hundreds of millions of ISK. Tech 1 battleships are standard tools in higher-level PvE combat, are used in some large fleet [[Doctrines|doctrines]] in PvP combat, and are sometimes also used for solo or small gang PvP.
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In PvP Tech 1 battleships can mount great buffer tanks and can deal very high dps when fitted for short ranges. When mounting long-range 'sniper' fits, battleships can fight at the very longest ranges possible in Eve's engine, while still dealing effective DPS. Such sniper-fit battleships -- commonly the Apocalypse, Megathron, Maelstrom, Tempest and Rokh -- are often the backbone of fleets used to fight for territory in nullsec. One battleship is something of an exception: the Caldari Scorpion, with its bonuses for ECM, is the only Tech 1 electronic warfare battleship.  
 
  
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Battleships' weaknesses are low speed and agility, combined with slow locking speeds and poor gun tracking speeds. Battleships therefore struggle to force smaller ships to engage, and to kill smaller ships even when they can be pinned down.
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There are two classes of Tech 2 battleships: '''Marauders''', which are specialized for mission-running, and '''Black Ops''' battleships, which can either transport fleets of stealthy ships across long distances using covert cynosural fields or open the door for friendly capital ships to join a fight.
  
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In PvE battleships are also the standard class of ship used to run Level 4 missions solo, since they can fit active tanks good enough to survive lots of DPS over a sustained period of time, while still dealing out enough damage to complete missions reasonably quickly. Battleships fitted to solo Level 4 missions usually rely on light and medium drones for defence against smaller NPC targets.
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All battleships also come equipped with a Frigate Escape Bay, enabling battleship pilots to stay in a fight after their battleship explodes.
  
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'''Amarr''':
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All battleships (except [[Praxis]] and Marauders) have a role bonus known as the "battleship role bonus": 100% bonus to Shield Extender hitpoints, 50% bonus to Armor Plate hitpoints, 5% Additional bonus to Reinforced Bulkhead hitpoints.
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*[[Abaddon]]: Monstrous tank and decent damage. A beast.
 
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*[[Apocalypse]]: Sniper.
 
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*[[Armageddon]]: Its name says it all. Huge DPS, can have a sickening buffer tank, good remote repair platform, controls five heavy drones. Very nasty.  
 
  
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'''Caldari''':
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Battleships use large weapons that are poor against small targets like frigates. All battleships (except [[Marshal]]) have a drone bay, allowing them to use [[drone]]s to engage and kill enemies that they cannot hit with ship weapons.
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*[[Raven]]: Missile ship. Most effective Caldari BS for most situations. Usually heavily tanked. Standard PvE L4 mission-running BS.
 
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*[[Rokh]]: Caldari sniper. Longest range in the game, when properly fit. Can still be nasty with a good blaster fit at close range.
 
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*[[Scorpion]]: ECM boat, low DPS. Can shut targets down from 150KM; sometimes armor tanks; good in remote-repair gangs. Not a solo boat. Frequently primaried.
 
  
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'''Gallente''':
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== Tech 1 battleships ==
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*[[Megathron]]: Sickening amount of DPS at close range. Also used as a sniper. A solid primary when calling BS primaries.  
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In PvP, Tech 1 battleships can mount great buffer tanks and can deal very high DPS when fitted for short ranges. When mounting long-range "sniper" fits, battleships can fight at the very longest ranges possible in EVE's engine (as far as 300km), while still dealing effective DPS. Such sniper-fit battleships, commonly the Apocalypse, Megathron, Maelstrom, Tempest and Rokh, have at times been the backbone of fleets used to fight for territory in nullsec. One battleship is something of an exception: the Caldari Scorpion, with its bonuses for ECM, is the only Tech 1 [[Electronic warfare|electronic warfare]] battleship.  
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*[[Hyperion]] Close-range blaster gunboat with an active armour tank bonus. Offers little benefit over the Megathron for PvP.
 
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*[[Dominix]]: Drone boat. Versatile; lots of grid/cpu/cap.  Good for remote repairing allies or neuting enemies. With multiple flights of T2 sentry or heavy drones, can also do a lot of damage. Standard L4-running Gallente BS.
 
  
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'''Minmatar''':
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Battleships' weaknesses are low speed and agility, combined with slow locking speeds, poor tracking speeds on large turrets, and poor damage application from large missiles. Battleships, therefore, struggle to force smaller ships to engage and to kill smaller ships even when they can be pinned down. However, in partial compensation for this, battleships also have access to certain heavy-duty modules such as the Stasis Grappler, which can easily spell a death sentence for small ships that stray too close. Battleships are the primary reason why it is commonly said that "bigger is not always better" among EVE ships: they are SP-intensive to use efficiently, are much more of an upfront ISK investment to field than cruisers or battlecruisers, and when used improperly, they can easily fail to either do their job or survive retaliation.
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*[[Tempest]]: High DPS, gank over tank. Good RR or sniper, or fitted for speed as 'Eve's largest battlecruiser'.
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*[[Typhoon]]: Very versatile, can be used for almost anything. Quite dangerous with a pilot with a lot of skillpoints. Can control five heavy drones.
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In PvE. battleships are also the standard class of ship used to run Level 4 missions solo since they can fit active tanks good enough to survive lots of DPS over a sustained period of time, while still dealing out enough damage to complete missions reasonably quickly. (Unlike with smaller ships, this tanking ability is a necessity: their large size and low speed make evasion nearly impossible.) Battleships fitted to solo Level 4 missions usually rely on light and medium drones for defense against smaller NPC targets.
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*[[Maelstrom]] Also used as a sniper. Standard PvE L4 mission-running BS. Strong active shield tank.
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[[image:isis_amarr.png|22px|link=]]'''Amarr''':
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*[[Abaddon]]: Monstrous tank and decent damage.
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*[[Apocalypse]]: Dedicated laser sniper, can reach to 80km with Pulse turrets loaded with Scorch.
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*[[Armageddon]]: Drone boat moonlighting in long-ranged energy neutralizers.
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[[image:isis_caldari.png|22px|link=]]'''Caldari''':
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*[[Raven]]: Missile ship. Longest-ranged cruise missile platform in the game. Most effective Caldari BS for many situations. Standard PvE L4 mission-running battleship.
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*[[Rokh]]: Caldari sniper. Longest railgun turret range in the game, alongside the [[Naga]]. Thick shields. Can still be nasty with a good blaster fit at close range.
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*[[Scorpion]]: ECM boat, low DPS. Can shut targets down from 150KM. Often armor-tanked to open room for even more ECM. Not a solo or PvE ship. Generally highest-priority target on grid.
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[[image:isis_gallente.png|22px|link=]]'''Gallente''':
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*[[Megathron]]: Sickening amount of DPS at close range. Also used as a sniper. Commonly used for [[Living_in_Wormhole_Space#Unwanted_Wormholes|rolling wormholes]]. When fitted with railguns, sometimes called a "Baltec", in honor of its most famous pilot.
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*[[Hyperion]] Close-range blaster gunboat with an active armour tank bonus. Commonly fit with 2 or even 3 armor repairers, but does not scale into larger fights as its local repairers make it less receptive to remote repairs.
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*[[Dominix]]: Drone boat. Versatile: lots of grid/CPU/capacitor.  Good for remote repairing allies or neutralizing enemies. With multiple flights of T2 sentry or heavy drones, can also do a lot of damage. Standard L4-running Gallente BS. Works well solo or in groups.
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[[image:isis_minmatar.png|22px|link=]]'''Minmatar''':
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*[[Tempest]]: High DPS, gank over tank. Good sniper, or fitted for speed as 'EVE's largest battlecruiser'.
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*[[Typhoon]]: Cruise missile and sentry drone sniper, or close up Rapid Heavy brawler. Commonly armor-tanked.
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*[[Maelstrom]]: Also used as a sniper. Standard PvE L4 mission-running battleship. Strong active shield tank.
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[[image:Logo_faction_edencom.png|22px|link=]]'''EDENCOM''':
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*[[Thunderchild]]:  Unique Vorton turret that hits multiple targets per cycle. Can apply as much damage as a HAW "dreadnought". Has extremely long range.
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[[image:isis_triglavian.png|22px|link=]]'''Triglavian''':
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*[[Leshak]]: Very high DPS after spool-up and good base stats give it performance (and price tag) similar to pirate battleships. Utility high slots make for powerful smartbomb and neutralizer support. Surprisingly low-mass.
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=== Empire faction battleships ===
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The "Navy Issue" or "Fleet Issue" battleships are, with the exception of the Scorpion Navy Issue and Typhoon Fleet Issue, souped-up versions of the normal battleships, with extra slots, more hitpoints, more fitting room, and so on.
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* [[image:isis_amarr.png|22px|link=]][[Apocalypse Navy Issue]]: Range bonus for lasers plus the huge capacitor makes for a popular mission runner.
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* [[image:isis_amarr.png|22px|link=]][[Armageddon Navy Issue]]: Interesting combination of bonuses to large lasers, large missiles, drones, and energy warfare. Has a large drone bay and can utilize a full fight of heavy drones. Weak powergrid favors rapid heavy missiles.
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* [[image:isis_caldari.png|22px|link=]][[Raven Navy Issue]]: Popular for blitzing missions as fast or faster than a Golem (but not as good for salvaging). A full 8 launchers, and improved damage application to small targets.
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* [[image:isis_caldari.png|22px|link=]][[Scorpion Navy Issue]]: Not an ECM platform, but a missile brawler. Extremely thick shields.
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* [[image:isis_gallente.png|22px|link=]][[Dominix Navy Issue]]: Keeps its use as a drone boat, retaining the [[Dominix]]'s bonuses to drone damage, hitpoints, and tracking, but trades the range bonus for a bonus to hybrid turret damage and armor repairer amount. Designed as a brawler with fearsome DPS and frankly ridiculous tank.  
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* [[image:isis_gallente.png|22px|link=]][[Megathron Navy Issue]]: Megathron Mark II. Gains a utility high but otherwise works the same.
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* [[image:isis_minmatar.png|22px|link=]][[Tempest Fleet Issue]]: Tempest Mark II. Gains a low slot.
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* [[image:isis_minmatar.png|22px|link=]][[Typhoon Fleet Issue]]: Gains a second utility high and a 5th heavy drone (with 125mb drone bandwidth), with damage bonuses to both turrets ''and'' missiles, as well as application bonuses to both. Able to output hefty DPS with either weapon type.
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=== Pirate and non-empire faction battleships ===
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The pirate faction battleships are more unique, requiring two races' piloting skills and bringing unusual tactical combinations to the table.
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* [[image:isis_mordus.png|22px|link=|Mordu's Legion]][[Barghest]]: Very fast battleship (second only to the Machariel) with very fast, hard-hitting missiles and long-ranged warp disruptors. Rare blueprints lead to high price. Not generally used in PvE.
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* [[image:isis_blood_raiders.png|22px|link=|Blood Raiders]][[Bhaalgorn]]: Tough and powerful capacitor warfare platform. Not much use in PvE.
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* [[image:isis_angel.png|22px|link=|Angel Cartel]][[Machariel]]: Fastest battleship in EVE, increased warp speed, and capable of dealing lots of damage with autocannons or extremely high alpha with artillery. Popular for PvP, and for PvE, where it rivals the Vargur's mission completion speed.
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* [[image:isis_soe.png|22px|link=|Sisters of Eve]][[Nestor]]: A curious ship with bonuses to hacking, exploration, and logistics. Tough armor, low mass, and large drone bay make it popular in small-gang wormhole PvE and PvP, and as a logistics platform in [[Invasion]] fleets.
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* [[image:isis_sansha.png|22px|link=|Sansha's Nation]][[Nightmare]]: Good laser platform. Combines shield tanking, lasers, and the Sansha afterburner bonus. Arguably a better mission runner than the Machariel for factions weak to EM. Also popular for high-end PvP.
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* [[image:logo_faction_the_society.png|22px|link=|SoCT]][[Praxis]]: A limited-edition ship, but common enough that it sees frequent use. Does not require ''any'' racial battleship skill training, and can be fitted with any type of weapons or defenses. The ultimate "jack of all trades" battleship, though generally inferior to some other battleships in each specific trade.
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* [[image:isis_guristas.png|22px|link=|Guristas]][[Rattlesnake]]: Caldari-style shield-tanking, Gallente-style drone bonuses. The only battleship that can mount a really effective passive shield tank for PvE, and often seen as one of the best mission-running and ratting sub-capital ships in the game.
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* [[image:isis_serpentis.png|22px|link=|Serpentis]][[Vindicator]]: The ultimate Megathron, and the be-all end-all of non-Triglavian subcapital DPS. Very popular for [[Incursions]] and [[Invasion]]s. Webifier strength bonus allows it to all but completely immobilize targets, allowing perfect accuracy for itself and its allies. Webs can even allow anti-capital dreadnoughts to hit subcapital ships.
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== Tech 2 battleships ==
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T2 battleships are very specialized hulls with a different focus than their T1 counterparts. In particular, each type of T2 battleship is centered on a particular module or ability usually reserved for ''capital'' ships.
  
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== T2 Battleships ==
 
 
=== Marauders ===
 
=== Marauders ===
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Marauders are essentially designed to run missions efficiently. They mount half as many weapons as their Tech 1 equivalents, but have damage bonuses that let them deal at least as much DPS. The spare highslots are usually dedicated to tractor beams and salvagers, so that mission-runners can salvage as they go. Marauders come with tractor beam bonuses to help salvaging, and the Amarr Paladin and Gallente Kronos also have webbing bonuses which can help pilots to kill small targets.
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{{main|Marauders }}
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'''Marauders''' are T2 battleships designed to be damage dealer with a strong local tank. For that, they can fit the Bastion Module which doubles the rate of fire, the local repair amount, improves resistances to damage and EWAR, but at the same time has drawbacks such as making the ship immobile, not receiving remote repairs, and giving a weapon timer. Besides that they have additional strong hull bonuses.
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* [[image:isis_amarr.png|22px|link=]][[Paladin]] - Armored laser platform, extremely resilient and surprisingly capacitor-efficient.
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* [[image:isis_caldari.png|22px|link=]][[Golem]] - Shielded cruise missile platform. Very unusually, has a strength bonus to Target Painters, either to improve its own damage application or in rare cases to improve its allies' application
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* [[image:isis_gallente.png|22px|link=]][[Kronos]] - Armored blaster platform that can make blasters project out to railgun ranges.
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* [[image:isis_minmatar.png|22px|link=]][[Vargur]] - Shielded projectile platform favoring chain-micro-jumping to force enemies to keep approaching it. Twin application bonuses allow it to hit both close and long range targets.
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=== Black Ops battleships ===
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{{main|Black Ops}}
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Black Ops battleships (also "BLOPs") are designed for covert operations behind enemy lines. For that they have the ability to [[jump]], [[Jump drives#Bridging|bridge]], and conduit jump to any [[cyno]] especially [[Jump_drives#Covert_Cynosural_Fields|covert cynos]]. Black Ops gameplay usually means: jump in, kill the target, get safe, jump out.
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Covert cynos help a lot with stealthy movements in hostile space as they are not systemwide visible like hard cynos.
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* {{sh|Redeemer}} - Least commonly seen in combat, but able to fit the largest cargo bay for storing jump fuel, or the thickest armor if a tank must be held.
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* {{sh|Widow}} - Greatly diminished in popularity after the ECM overhaul, but still sees use on the rare occasion where heavy ECM is an important utility to a fleet. The best option for the aforementioned Escalation-running strategy.
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* {{sh|Sin}} - The only Black Ops commonly used for hunting other battleships. Able to attain destructively high drone damage and neutralization strength, making it a significant threat to most subcapital ships if fought solo.
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* {{sh|Panther}} - The fastest of the Black Ops and the most able to move around while holding its cloak.
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* {{sh|Marshal}} - Able to use any form of weapons, and comes with a unique bonus improving its local repair modules based on the pilot's Security Status. Long-ranged tackle, and extremely fast warp drive. Also extremely expensive, 6 times the price of any other black ops for the hull alone.
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== Rare/unique battleships ==
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* {{sh|Apocalypse Imperial Issue}}
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* {{sh|Armageddon Imperial Issue}}
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* {{sh|Megathron Federate Issue}}
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* {{sh|Raven State Issue}}
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* {{sh|Tempest Tribal Issue}}
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* {{sh|Python}}
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== Frigate escape bay ==
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The Frigate Escape Bay is a unique cargo bay, introduced in the March 2020 update<ref>[https://www.eveonline.com/article/q6z2qy/patch-notes-for-march-2020-release Patch Notes for March 2020 Release]</ref> and present on all battleships. It enables a battleship to hold one fully assembled and fitted frigate or some classes of frigate.
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Ship types that fit a Frigate escape bay are:
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* [[Frigate]]
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* [[Frigates#Assault Frigates|Assault Frigate]]
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* [[Frigates#Electronic Attack Ships|Electronic Attack Ship]]
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* [[Frigates#Logistics Frigates|Logistics Frigate]]
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[[Shuttles]], [[Corvettes]], [[Frigates#Expedition Frigates|Expedition Frigates]], [[Frigates#Interceptors|Interceptors]], [[Covert Ops]] and [[Stealth Bombers]] do not fit despite being frigate sized or smaller. None of the ships that can fit an Interdiction Nullifer can be placed in a Frigate escape bay.
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The [[Astero]] and [[Metamorphosis]] are classified as Frigates rather than Covert Ops, and thus they are the only ships that can be put into a Frigate escape bay with a Covert Ops Cloaking Device fitted.
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Oddly you can put a [[Venture]] in a frigate escape bay as it is a Frigate too, and it is the only ship that can be put into a Frigate escape bay with a built in +2 warp core strength. It, however, has a longer align time than most frigates, and it is ill-advised to push a Venture in a battleship.
  
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These are not very useful in PvP. They have very low sensor strength, making them very easy to jam, and their active-tanking abilities are less useful in PvP, which usually favours buffer tanks. The Paladin and Kronos's webbing bonuses might be useful, but Blood Raider and Serpentis ships get similarly effective webbing bonuses and cost less (even though they're pirate ships).
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If a frigate is inside the bay when the pilot ejects from the battleship, either the battleship is destroyed or a manual ejection is committed, the pilot will be ejected ''in the frigate'' instead of their capsule.
  
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*Amarr : [[Paladin]]
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While a pilot is in a frigate, attempting to board an unpiloted battleship with an empty frigate escape bay will load that frigate into the battleship's escape bay.
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*Caldari : [[Golem]]
 
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=== Black Ops ===
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Restrictions on ships stored in Ship maintenance bays are applied on Frigate escape bay too: a frigate stored in the Escape Bay can only carry ammunition, fuel isotopes, strontium, deployables, modules, rigs and mobile warp disruptors as cargo.
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These are the big brothers of the Recon Tech 2 cruisers. However, while they do get bonuses to how fast they move while cloaked (which actually means that they'll move faster when cloaked than when not cloaked with the Black Ops skill at a decent level), they can't warp while cloaked. Black Ops battleships cost about 700 million ISK before fittings, so it's rarely worth risking them in combat. Their primary role is to provide covert jump bridges.
 
  
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Covert cyno fields can now be lit even in cyno-jammed 0.0 systems and don't appear as a beacon in the entire system like a normal cyno. Black Ops battleships can lock onto these fields and create bridges to them, which then allows other covert ops ships -- any ship that get a bonus to cloaking, including Tech 3 cruisers with the cloaking subsystem -- to jump in.
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== History ==
  
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'''20.03 Release - Build: 2013787 - 2022-03-08''' - ''"Road to Fanfest" Update'' ([https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/patch-notes-version-20-03#Ship-Balancing Patch Notes])
  
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*Amarr : [[Redeemer]]
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Brand new Role bonuses have been added to all battleships (excluding the Praxis).
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*Caldari : [[Widow]]
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* 50% bonus to HP from all Armor Plates
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*Gallente : [[Sin]]
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* 100% bonus to HP from all Shield Extenders
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== Faction Battleships ==
 
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Faction variants of Battleships usually cost several hundred million ISK and are now available on the market as well as through contracts.
 
  
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The 'Navy Issue' or 'Fleet Issue' battleships are, with the exception of the Scorpion Navy Issue, souped-up versions of the normal BS, with extra slots, more hitpoints &c.
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'''18.04 Release - Build: 1706308 - 2020-04-15''' - ''"Surgical Strike" Update'' ([https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/patch-notes-for-18-04-release Patch Notes])
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* T1, Faction and Pirate Battleship base hp increased by 10%
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* T1, Faction and Pirate Battleship base scan resolution increased 30%
  
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The pirate faction battleships are more unique, requiring two races' BS piloting skills and bringing unusual tactical combinations to the table.
 
  
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* [[Apocalypse Navy Issue]] -- Range bonus for lasers plus the huge capacitor makes for a popular mission runner.
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'''October 2019 Release - 2019-10-15.1'''
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* [[Armageddon Navy Issue]] -- Interesting combination of lasers and a huge drone bay. Weak capacitor though.
 
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* [[Bhaalgorn]] -- Tough and powerful capacitor warfare platform. Not much use in PvE.
 
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* [[Machariel]] -- Incredibly fast and agile (for a BS), and capable of dealing lots of damage. Popular for PvP, and for PvE, where it rivals the Vargur's mission completion speed.
 
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* [[Megathron Navy Issue]]
 
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* [[Nightmare]] -- Good laser platform. Can combine shield-tanking with lasers. Arguably a better mission runner for EM weak factions, compared to the Machariel.
 
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* [[Rattlesnake]] -- Caldari-style shield-tanking, Gallente-style drone bonuses. The only BS that can mount a really effective passive shield tank for PvE.
 
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* [[Raven Navy Issue]] -- Popular for blitzing missions as fast or faster than a Golem (but not as good for salvaging).
 
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* [[Scorpion Navy Issue]] -- Not an ECM boat like the Scorpion. Like a Raven with a tougher tank but weaker damage-dealing capabilities.
 
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* [[Tempest Fleet Issue]]
 
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* [[Vindicator]] -- Popular blaster platform, as the webbing bonus helps it force its targets into blaster range.
 
  
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''Every Cruiser, Battlecruiser and Battleship now warps faster than before.''
  
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* [[Apocalypse Imperial Issue]]
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* Warp Speed increased from 2 AU/s to 3 AU/s (+1 AU/s)
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* [[Armageddon Imperial Issue]]
 
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* [[Megathron Federate Issue]]
 
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* [[Raven State Issue]]
 
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* [[Tempest Tribal Issue]]
 
  
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== References ==
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{{reflist}}
  
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== Support Skills==
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[[Category:Ships]]
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See: [[Support_Skills#Battleships|Support Skills]]
 

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Ships by faction
Velocity of battleships. You can see that normal velocities range from 89 m/s (Abaddon/Rokh) to 130 m/s (Typhoon/Megathron NI/Tempest FI) with a number of outliers. Extra slow are the Nestor (70) and Praxis (75). On the higher end we have the Typhoon FI (138), Barghest (148), Machariel (161), and Panther (182).
Mass of battleships. Battleships typically have a mass close to 100 kt. But there are some exceptions: Black Ops weigh more with about 150 kt. Extra light are the Praxis (87 kt), Leshak (78 kt), and Nestor (20 kt).
Signature radius of battleships. The signature radius varies from 350 m (Tempest FI) to 485 m (Hyperion). The Marshal (330), Typhoon (330), Typhoon FI (320), and Panther (288) have an extra small signature. The Rokh has the biggest signature with 500 m.
Targeting range of battleships. The typical targeting range ranges from 81 km (Tempest) to 91.2 km (Barghest, Apocalypse NI). The number of exceptions is relatively big in this case. The Praxis has an exceptional short targeting range with 70 km. The three Black Ops Panther (66.4), Redeemer (70.6), and Sin (72.8) have rather short targeting ranges, while the Widow has a rather long range with 93.6 km. The Nightmare and Abaddon are both 96 km while the Rokh and Scorpion (both normal and navy) are 108 km. The longest range battleships are the Thunderchild (118) and the Marauders Vargur (105.3), Kronos (117), Paladin (118.3), and Golem (123.5).
Scan resolution of battleships. The typical sensor strength ranges from 111 mm (Abaddon, Raven) to 143 (many). Slower locking exceptions are the Rokh and Scorpion NI with 98 mm. Faster locking outliers are the Typhoon (150), Apocalypse NI (156), Machariel (163), Nestor (163), and Praxis (169). All T2 battleships also lock rather fast. The Marauders with Golem (160), Paladin (160), Kronos (160), and Vargur (180); the Black Ops with Widow (150), Sin (185), Panther (200), Redeemer (220), and Marshal (235).

Battleships (BSs, rarely BBs from US Navy terminology) are the biggest, heaviest sub-capital combat ships in EVE Online. They are correspondingly expensive, with even the cheapest battleship hulls selling for hundreds of millions of ISK. Tech 1 battleships are standard tools in higher-level PvE combat, are used in some large fleet doctrines in PvP combat, and are sometimes also used for solo or small gang PvP.

There are two classes of Tech 2 battleships: Marauders, which are specialized for mission-running, and Black Ops battleships, which can either transport fleets of stealthy ships across long distances using covert cynosural fields or open the door for friendly capital ships to join a fight.

All battleships also come equipped with a Frigate Escape Bay, enabling battleship pilots to stay in a fight after their battleship explodes.

All battleships (except Praxis and Marauders) have a role bonus known as the "battleship role bonus": 100% bonus to Shield Extender hitpoints, 50% bonus to Armor Plate hitpoints, 5% Additional bonus to Reinforced Bulkhead hitpoints.

Battleships use large weapons that are poor against small targets like frigates. All battleships (except Marshal) have a drone bay, allowing them to use drones to engage and kill enemies that they cannot hit with ship weapons.

Tech 1 battleships

In PvP, Tech 1 battleships can mount great buffer tanks and can deal very high DPS when fitted for short ranges. When mounting long-range "sniper" fits, battleships can fight at the very longest ranges possible in EVE's engine (as far as 300km), while still dealing effective DPS. Such sniper-fit battleships, commonly the Apocalypse, Megathron, Maelstrom, Tempest and Rokh, have at times been the backbone of fleets used to fight for territory in nullsec. One battleship is something of an exception: the Caldari Scorpion, with its bonuses for ECM, is the only Tech 1 electronic warfare battleship.

Battleships' weaknesses are low speed and agility, combined with slow locking speeds, poor tracking speeds on large turrets, and poor damage application from large missiles. Battleships, therefore, struggle to force smaller ships to engage and to kill smaller ships even when they can be pinned down. However, in partial compensation for this, battleships also have access to certain heavy-duty modules such as the Stasis Grappler, which can easily spell a death sentence for small ships that stray too close. Battleships are the primary reason why it is commonly said that "bigger is not always better" among EVE ships: they are SP-intensive to use efficiently, are much more of an upfront ISK investment to field than cruisers or battlecruisers, and when used improperly, they can easily fail to either do their job or survive retaliation.

In PvE. battleships are also the standard class of ship used to run Level 4 missions solo since they can fit active tanks good enough to survive lots of DPS over a sustained period of time, while still dealing out enough damage to complete missions reasonably quickly. (Unlike with smaller ships, this tanking ability is a necessity: their large size and low speed make evasion nearly impossible.) Battleships fitted to solo Level 4 missions usually rely on light and medium drones for defense against smaller NPC targets.

Isis amarr.pngAmarr:

  • Abaddon: Monstrous tank and decent damage.
  • Apocalypse: Dedicated laser sniper, can reach to 80km with Pulse turrets loaded with Scorch.
  • Armageddon: Drone boat moonlighting in long-ranged energy neutralizers.

Isis caldari.pngCaldari:

  • Raven: Missile ship. Longest-ranged cruise missile platform in the game. Most effective Caldari BS for many situations. Standard PvE L4 mission-running battleship.
  • Rokh: Caldari sniper. Longest railgun turret range in the game, alongside the Naga. Thick shields. Can still be nasty with a good blaster fit at close range.
  • Scorpion: ECM boat, low DPS. Can shut targets down from 150KM. Often armor-tanked to open room for even more ECM. Not a solo or PvE ship. Generally highest-priority target on grid.

Isis gallente.pngGallente:

  • Megathron: Sickening amount of DPS at close range. Also used as a sniper. Commonly used for rolling wormholes. When fitted with railguns, sometimes called a "Baltec", in honor of its most famous pilot.
  • Hyperion Close-range blaster gunboat with an active armour tank bonus. Commonly fit with 2 or even 3 armor repairers, but does not scale into larger fights as its local repairers make it less receptive to remote repairs.
  • Dominix: Drone boat. Versatile: lots of grid/CPU/capacitor. Good for remote repairing allies or neutralizing enemies. With multiple flights of T2 sentry or heavy drones, can also do a lot of damage. Standard L4-running Gallente BS. Works well solo or in groups.

Isis minmatar.pngMinmatar:

  • Tempest: High DPS, gank over tank. Good sniper, or fitted for speed as 'EVE's largest battlecruiser'.
  • Typhoon: Cruise missile and sentry drone sniper, or close up Rapid Heavy brawler. Commonly armor-tanked.
  • Maelstrom: Also used as a sniper. Standard PvE L4 mission-running battleship. Strong active shield tank.

Logo faction edencom.pngEDENCOM:

  • Thunderchild: Unique Vorton turret that hits multiple targets per cycle. Can apply as much damage as a HAW "dreadnought". Has extremely long range.

Isis triglavian.pngTriglavian:

  • Leshak: Very high DPS after spool-up and good base stats give it performance (and price tag) similar to pirate battleships. Utility high slots make for powerful smartbomb and neutralizer support. Surprisingly low-mass.

Empire faction battleships

The "Navy Issue" or "Fleet Issue" battleships are, with the exception of the Scorpion Navy Issue and Typhoon Fleet Issue, souped-up versions of the normal battleships, with extra slots, more hitpoints, more fitting room, and so on.

  • Isis amarr.pngApocalypse Navy Issue: Range bonus for lasers plus the huge capacitor makes for a popular mission runner.
  • Isis amarr.pngArmageddon Navy Issue: Interesting combination of bonuses to large lasers, large missiles, drones, and energy warfare. Has a large drone bay and can utilize a full fight of heavy drones. Weak powergrid favors rapid heavy missiles.
  • Isis caldari.pngRaven Navy Issue: Popular for blitzing missions as fast or faster than a Golem (but not as good for salvaging). A full 8 launchers, and improved damage application to small targets.
  • Isis caldari.pngScorpion Navy Issue: Not an ECM platform, but a missile brawler. Extremely thick shields.
  • Isis gallente.pngDominix Navy Issue: Keeps its use as a drone boat, retaining the Dominix's bonuses to drone damage, hitpoints, and tracking, but trades the range bonus for a bonus to hybrid turret damage and armor repairer amount. Designed as a brawler with fearsome DPS and frankly ridiculous tank.
  • Isis gallente.pngMegathron Navy Issue: Megathron Mark II. Gains a utility high but otherwise works the same.
  • Isis minmatar.pngTempest Fleet Issue: Tempest Mark II. Gains a low slot.
  • Isis minmatar.pngTyphoon Fleet Issue: Gains a second utility high and a 5th heavy drone (with 125mb drone bandwidth), with damage bonuses to both turrets and missiles, as well as application bonuses to both. Able to output hefty DPS with either weapon type.

Pirate and non-empire faction battleships

The pirate faction battleships are more unique, requiring two races' piloting skills and bringing unusual tactical combinations to the table.

  • Mordu's LegionBarghest: Very fast battleship (second only to the Machariel) with very fast, hard-hitting missiles and long-ranged warp disruptors. Rare blueprints lead to high price. Not generally used in PvE.
  • Blood RaidersBhaalgorn: Tough and powerful capacitor warfare platform. Not much use in PvE.
  • Angel CartelMachariel: Fastest battleship in EVE, increased warp speed, and capable of dealing lots of damage with autocannons or extremely high alpha with artillery. Popular for PvP, and for PvE, where it rivals the Vargur's mission completion speed.
  • Sisters of EveNestor: A curious ship with bonuses to hacking, exploration, and logistics. Tough armor, low mass, and large drone bay make it popular in small-gang wormhole PvE and PvP, and as a logistics platform in Invasion fleets.
  • Sansha's NationNightmare: Good laser platform. Combines shield tanking, lasers, and the Sansha afterburner bonus. Arguably a better mission runner than the Machariel for factions weak to EM. Also popular for high-end PvP.
  • SoCTPraxis: A limited-edition ship, but common enough that it sees frequent use. Does not require any racial battleship skill training, and can be fitted with any type of weapons or defenses. The ultimate "jack of all trades" battleship, though generally inferior to some other battleships in each specific trade.
  • GuristasRattlesnake: Caldari-style shield-tanking, Gallente-style drone bonuses. The only battleship that can mount a really effective passive shield tank for PvE, and often seen as one of the best mission-running and ratting sub-capital ships in the game.
  • SerpentisVindicator: The ultimate Megathron, and the be-all end-all of non-Triglavian subcapital DPS. Very popular for Incursions and Invasions. Webifier strength bonus allows it to all but completely immobilize targets, allowing perfect accuracy for itself and its allies. Webs can even allow anti-capital dreadnoughts to hit subcapital ships.

Tech 2 battleships

T2 battleships are very specialized hulls with a different focus than their T1 counterparts. In particular, each type of T2 battleship is centered on a particular module or ability usually reserved for capital ships.

Marauders

Main article: Marauders

Marauders are T2 battleships designed to be damage dealer with a strong local tank. For that, they can fit the Bastion Module which doubles the rate of fire, the local repair amount, improves resistances to damage and EWAR, but at the same time has drawbacks such as making the ship immobile, not receiving remote repairs, and giving a weapon timer. Besides that they have additional strong hull bonuses.

  • Isis amarr.pngPaladin - Armored laser platform, extremely resilient and surprisingly capacitor-efficient.
  • Isis caldari.pngGolem - Shielded cruise missile platform. Very unusually, has a strength bonus to Target Painters, either to improve its own damage application or in rare cases to improve its allies' application
  • Isis gallente.pngKronos - Armored blaster platform that can make blasters project out to railgun ranges.
  • Isis minmatar.pngVargur - Shielded projectile platform favoring chain-micro-jumping to force enemies to keep approaching it. Twin application bonuses allow it to hit both close and long range targets.

Black Ops battleships

Main article: Black Ops

Black Ops battleships (also "BLOPs") are designed for covert operations behind enemy lines. For that they have the ability to jump, bridge, and conduit jump to any cyno especially covert cynos. Black Ops gameplay usually means: jump in, kill the target, get safe, jump out. Covert cynos help a lot with stealthy movements in hostile space as they are not systemwide visible like hard cynos.

  • Amarr Redeemer - Least commonly seen in combat, but able to fit the largest cargo bay for storing jump fuel, or the thickest armor if a tank must be held.
  • Caldari Widow - Greatly diminished in popularity after the ECM overhaul, but still sees use on the rare occasion where heavy ECM is an important utility to a fleet. The best option for the aforementioned Escalation-running strategy.
  • Gallente Sin - The only Black Ops commonly used for hunting other battleships. Able to attain destructively high drone damage and neutralization strength, making it a significant threat to most subcapital ships if fought solo.
  • Minmatar Panther - The fastest of the Black Ops and the most able to move around while holding its cloak.
  • CONCORD Marshal - Able to use any form of weapons, and comes with a unique bonus improving its local repair modules based on the pilot's Security Status. Long-ranged tackle, and extremely fast warp drive. Also extremely expensive, 6 times the price of any other black ops for the hull alone.

Rare/unique battleships

Frigate escape bay

The Frigate Escape Bay is a unique cargo bay, introduced in the March 2020 update[1] and present on all battleships. It enables a battleship to hold one fully assembled and fitted frigate or some classes of frigate.

Ship types that fit a Frigate escape bay are:

Shuttles, Corvettes, Expedition Frigates, Interceptors, Covert Ops and Stealth Bombers do not fit despite being frigate sized or smaller. None of the ships that can fit an Interdiction Nullifer can be placed in a Frigate escape bay.

The Astero and Metamorphosis are classified as Frigates rather than Covert Ops, and thus they are the only ships that can be put into a Frigate escape bay with a Covert Ops Cloaking Device fitted.

Oddly you can put a Venture in a frigate escape bay as it is a Frigate too, and it is the only ship that can be put into a Frigate escape bay with a built in +2 warp core strength. It, however, has a longer align time than most frigates, and it is ill-advised to push a Venture in a battleship.

If a frigate is inside the bay when the pilot ejects from the battleship, either the battleship is destroyed or a manual ejection is committed, the pilot will be ejected in the frigate instead of their capsule.

While a pilot is in a frigate, attempting to board an unpiloted battleship with an empty frigate escape bay will load that frigate into the battleship's escape bay.

Restrictions on ships stored in Ship maintenance bays are applied on Frigate escape bay too: a frigate stored in the Escape Bay can only carry ammunition, fuel isotopes, strontium, deployables, modules, rigs and mobile warp disruptors as cargo.

History

20.03 Release - Build: 2013787 - 2022-03-08 - "Road to Fanfest" Update (Patch Notes)

Brand new Role bonuses have been added to all battleships (excluding the Praxis).

  • 50% bonus to HP from all Armor Plates
  • 100% bonus to HP from all Shield Extenders
  • 5% additive bonus to all Reinforced Bulkhead modules, for those with discerning tastes.


18.04 Release - Build: 1706308 - 2020-04-15 - "Surgical Strike" Update (Patch Notes)

  • T1, Faction and Pirate Battleship base hp increased by 10%
  • T1, Faction and Pirate Battleship base scan resolution increased 30%


October 2019 Release - 2019-10-15.1

Every Cruiser, Battlecruiser and Battleship now warps faster than before.

  • Warp Speed increased from 2 AU/s to 3 AU/s (+1 AU/s)

References

  1. ^ Patch Notes for March 2020 Release
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