Battleships

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Battleships ("BSs", sometimes "BBs" from US Navy terminology) are the biggest, heaviest sub-capital 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.

T1 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, battlehips can fight at the very longest ranges possible in Eve's engine, while still dealing effective DPS. Such sniper-fit battleships -- commonly the 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.

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.

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.

Amarr:

• Abaddon: Monstrous tank and decent damage. A beast.
• Apocalypse: Sniper.
• Armageddon: Its name says it all. Huge DPS, can have a sickening buffer tank, good remote repair platform, controls five heavy drones. Very nasty.

Caldari:

• Raven: Missile ship. Most effective Caldari BS for most situations. Usually heavily tanked.
• Rokh: Caldari sniper. Longest range in the game, when properly fit. Can still be nasty with a good blaster fit at close range.
• 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.

Gallente:

• Megathron: Sickening amount of DPS at close range. Also used as a sniper. A solid primary when calling BS primaries.
• Hyperion Close-range blaster gunboat.
• 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.

Minmatar:

• Tempest: High DPS, gank over tank. Good RR or sniper.
• Typhoon: Very versatile, can be used for almost anything. Quite dangerous with a pilot with a lot of skillpoints. Can control five heavy drones.
• Maelstrom Also used as a sniper.

T2 Battleships

Marauders

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.

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).

• Amarr : Paladin
• Caldari : Golem
• Gallente : Kronos
• Minmatar : Vargur

Black Ops

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.

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.

Black Ops battleships don't really have a PvE application.

• Amarr : Redeemer
• Caldari : Widow
• Gallente : Sin
• Minmatar : Panther

Faction Battleships

• Armageddon Navy Issue
• Bhaalgorn
• Machariel
• Megathron Navy Issue
• Nightmare
• Rattlesnake
• Raven Navy Issue
• Scorpion Navy Issue
• Tempest Fleet Issue
• Typhoon Fleet Issue
• Vindicator

Rare/Unique Battleships

• Apocalypse Navy Issue
• Apocalypse Imperial Issue
• Armageddon Imperial Issue
• Megathron Federate Issue
• Raven State Issue
• Tempest Tribal Issue