Capacitor warfare: Difference between revisions

Minmatar ships and Gallente / Amarr droneboats are often particularly well supplied with utility highs.  The general race capacitor strengths are Amarr > Gallente ~ Caldari > Minmatar.  Any ship which doesn't use capacitor to run its weapons (Gallente droneboats, Amarr droneboats and ships fitted with [[Turrets#Projectile_Turrets|projectile turrets]], Caldari missile ships and Minmatar projectile ships) has more capacitor available for cap warfare.  Similarly capacitor free tanks (buffer armour tanks and passive shield tanks without active hardeners) provide more spare capacitor.  Range is fairly neautral as every race has its close and long range setups.  Taken together these indicate that Amarr and Gallente are probably racially the best suited for T1 cap warfare use.  Not to say the other races can't or wouldn't field cap warfare effectively, but the strengths of Amarr and Gallente lend themselves to it.

The Punisher has an inordinately large capacitor for a T1 frigate.  In fact, at 425 GJ without skills, it is larger than its runners up by 75 GJ (the Caldari Merlin and Gallente Tristan at 350 GJ - the Minmatar Rifter only has a 250 GJ capacitor), it is also has a larger one than all T2 frigates other than the Retribution (Amarr Assault Ship), and most of the faction frigates.  It also has a utility high slot unuseable for DPS due to the number of turret and lack of missile slots.  Finally it is particularly well suited to a negligable (DCU) capacitor armour tank due to its inherrent armour resist bonuses, four low slots, and very nice amount of shield and armour HP.  Taken together the Punisher is the undisputed King of T1 frigate cap warfare platforms.

** The Punisher is the T1 frigate with the most robust capacitor and at least one (venerable) [http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=289086 strategy] for fitting it relies on a nos in precisely this way.