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===Battlecruisers===

A battlecruiser is a nice step up from a cruiser in firepower and tank. In fact, it's the first hull you're likely to get into where fitting a tank has real meaning. The cost of the fitted ship is also a lot lower than a battleship (1/3 to 1/4 the price), and you don't have to have large guns trained. Which is to say, you don't need to be overly timid about moving up from a cruiser.

Support skills you'll want to work towards are the ability to fit a T2 armor or shield tank, good enough fitting skills to fit all the turret/launcher slots, and eventually T2 medium weapons. If you have medium gun/missile skills to L4, and can fit a t2 tank, I wouldn't hesitate to step into one of these. You should also be able to handle a full flight of drones (Drones V), since battlecruisers generally have a drone bay -- and you'll want light drones to harass tackling frigates and so on.

This is also the first hull you'll encounter that generally has rigs installed. You can use rigs without having the rigging skills trained, but you'll need someone to install the rigs for you, which is a pain -- so you may want to train rigging skills for whatever you're fitting.

===T2 Frigates===

Support skills depend on the particular frigate, of course. An extreme example: you can fly a covops ship without putting a covops cloak on it, but you'll be missing the point completely.

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 ===Battlecruisers===
+A battlecruiser is a nice step up from a cruiser in firepower and tank.  In fact, it's the first hull you're likely to get into where fitting a tank has real meaning.  The cost of the fitted ship is also a lot lower than a battleship (1/3 to 1/4 the price), and you don't have to have large guns trained. Which is to say, you don't need to be overly timid about moving up from a cruiser.
+Support skills you'll want to work towards are the ability to fit a T2 armor or shield tank, good enough fitting skills to fit all the turret/launcher slots, and eventually T2 medium weapons.  If you have medium gun/missile skills to L4, and can fit a t2 tank, I wouldn't hesitate to step into one of these.  You should also be able to handle a full flight of drones (Drones V), since battlecruisers generally have a drone bay -- and you'll want light drones to harass tackling frigates and so on.
+This is also the first hull you'll encounter that generally has rigs installed.  You can use rigs without having the rigging skills trained, but you'll need someone to install the rigs for you, which is a pain -- so you may want to train rigging skills for whatever you're fitting.
 ===T2 Frigates===
 Support skills depend on the particular frigate, of course.  An extreme example: you can fly a covops ship without putting a covops cloak on it, but you'll be missing the point completely.