Battleships: Difference between revisions

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 (except [[Praxis]]) has 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' 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 who 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|drones]] for defense against smaller NPC targets.

*[[Apocalypse]]: Sniper.

* [[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. No accuracy or application bonus to either, but able to output hefty DPS with either weapon type.

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.

* [[Apocalypse Imperial Issue]]

* [[Armageddon Imperial Issue]]

* [[Megathron Federate Issue]]

* [[Raven State Issue]]

* [[Tempest Tribal Issue]]

[[Shuttles]], [[Corvettes]], [[Frigates#Expedition Frigates|Expedition Frigates]], [[Frigates#Interceptors|Interceptors]], [[Covert Ops]] and [[Stealth Bombers]] are not fit despite they are frigate sized or even smaller.  

[[Astero]] is classified as a "Frigate" and thus the only frigate can fit Covert Ops Cloaking Device that can put into a Frigate escape bay. Oddly you can put a [[Venture]] in a Frigate escape bay as it is a Frigate too.

If a frigate is inside the bay when the battleship is destroyed, the pilot will be ejected ''in the frigate'' instead of their capsule. Ejecting from a battleship which has a frigate in its escape bay will also eject the pilot into space in that frigate, and attempting to board an unpiloted battleship while in a frigate will load that frigate into the battleship's escape bay (if it is empty).

Similar to the restrictions on ships stored in Ship Maintenance Bays, a frigate stored in the Escape Bay can only carry ammunition, Fuel Isotopes, and Strontium as cargo.

'''18.04 Release - Build: 1706308 - 2020-04-15''' - ''"Surgical Strike" Update'' ([https://www.eveonline.com/article/q8tteh/patch-notes-for-18-04-release Patch Notes])