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5% Additional bonus to Reinforced Bulkhead hitpoints<br>

 

 

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The '''Marshal''' is the [[CONCORD]] Black Ops battleship. Like its counterparts, the [[Pacifier]] and the [[Enforcer]], the Marshal receives bonuses to weapons from all four empires, range bonuses to both warp disruptors/scramblers and webs, and also features a strong active tanking bonus connected with the pilot's [[Security status]]. The Marshal also has a very niche bonus to security status gains from killing non-capsuleer pirates. This bonus does have a use, however, in ensuring that you will always have the full 50% bonus to active reps from security status as long as you are not involved in lowsec or hisec ganking. Initially only available as a redeemable code to attendees of EVE Vegas 2017, BPCs are acquirable either as the level 500 reward of [[Project Discovery]] or as a reward for recruiting 40 players in the recruit a friend program, provided those recruits buy [[Clone states|Omega]] game time on the EVE Online Website. This limited availability has kept the Marshal much more expensive than its empire peers.

The Marshal brings flexibility, utility, and fast-locking tackle to a blops fleet. With 7 medium and low slots (along with very generous fitting room) and 40% global shield and armor resists, the Marshal can be either armor or shield tanked, with larger blops fleets preferring armor buffer, and solo or smaller groups preferring active shield. Active tank on a Marshal also benefits from the Marshal's bonus to local repairers/shield boosters based on security status. The Marshal has bonuses to all racial weapons but is often fitted with torpedoes to maximize DPS, while autocannons and smartbombs are also used to a lesser extent. With bonuses to warp scramble/disruption range as well as web range, the Marshal provides excellent tackle capabilities, able to point targets at long range (up to around 60km if using abyssal and/or officer disruptors); an officer heavy scram on a Marshal with full skills can reach out up to 2km more than normal scrams while still possessing up to 8 points of warp disruption, creating a niche use in which Marshals are used to hold down supercapital ships with their superior range. Combined with its generous number of mid-slots and high native scan resolution, the Marshal can fit sensor boosters to quickly lock down its targets. When used for hot-dropping, the Marshal is usually fit with a buffer armor tank; in part due to the balanced native resists, such tanks can usually reach up to hundreds of thousands of EHP, with blingier fits (ie. High-Grade Amulets and abyssal modules) easily reaching 600k effective hit points, though these fits sacrifice DPS to a certain extent. On the other hand, decently tanked Marshals still have a moderate amount of hitpoints while reaching over 1800 DPS.  

Additionally, the Marshal also sees use in nullsec as a very fast (though expensive) escalation-running battlship, with the extra advantage of possessing a jump drive for extracting from dangerous situations. Marshals fitted for running DED sites usually use Cruise Missiles or Pulse Lasers and are shield-tanked to maximize application and repair rates. Blingier fits are quite capable of finishing a 10/10 (of any faction) in under 20 minutes, but usually require a cyno alt to extract safely and/or reach the next site.

 

The main drawback of the Marshal, however, is its price, being only available from Project Discovery or the recruit a friend program and costing around 10 billion for the BPC or 12 billion for the hull alone (Prices: August 2025).

As one of the most expensive sub-capital ships in the game, the Marshal deserves very good fitting skills. T2 or even faction weapons are highly recommended before undocking, while armor and/or shield skills are a must-have depending on which you choose.

As mentioned above, the Marshal can be used as a null-sec DED runner; additionally, if you want to take advantage of its jump drive capabilities you can utilize it as an extremely versatile and powerful Black Ops, with its bonuses to tackle range allowing it to successfully pin down enemies from surprisingly long ranges. However, bear in mind that the hull is over 15 times more pricey than standard BLOPs, and for that very reason, people can and will attempt to bait you into dropping on them. Caution is advised. (See Marshal losses to see what happens to foolhardy blops-droppers)

According to its description, the Marshal is based on the [[Amarr Empire]]'s [[Apocalypse]] class battleship.

* Increased the cargo capacity by 100m3.

* Increased maximum target range by 30%.

* New Role Bonus: 50% reduction in Covert Cynosural Generator duration

* New Role Bonus: 650% bonus to ships maximum velocity when using a Cloaking Device (this was previously a Black Ops ship bonus and has been moved into a role bonus).

* Increased role bonus to 75% for reduction to effective distance traveled for jump fatigue.

* Updated Gallente Battleship bonuses (per skill level):

** Increased the bonus to Large Hybrid Turret damage from 5% to 10%.

* Updated Minmatar Battleship bonuses (per skill level):

** Increased the bonus to Large Projectile Turret rate of fire from 5% to 10% .

* Updated Caldari Battleship bonuses (per skill level):

** Increased the bonus to Heavy Missile, Cruise Missile and Torpedo Launcher rate of fire from 5% to 7.5%.

* Updated Amarr Battleship bonuses (per skill level):

** Increased the bonus to Large Energy Turret damage from 5% to 10%.

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