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This Guide focuses on logistics ships of most interest to young Unista pilots—on logistics frigates and cruisers. The Guide also discussed, more briefly, battleship and capital logistics. More information on these topics is available on the individual [[Template:ShipsMatrix|ship articles]] for ships in this class.

Logistics frigates have the least repping power and shortest optimal range out of all the logistics ships, but they do have the advantage of being very inexpensive and difficult to hit (like any other Tech I frigate). The charts below illustrate statistics for Tech I shield and armor logistics frigates (using all-Tech-I Burst and Inquisitor [http://fleet-up.com/Fitting/Index Fleet-Up fits] as a model) piloted by a typical, low-skill Unista*:

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! width="90px" | Shield Boost Rate

&lowast; ''[[Basic_Skills#Minimum_recommended_skillplan|"Minimum recommended skills"]], plus Shield Emissions Systems III.

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As these tables show, a Tech I logistics frigate can repair the damage caused by one or two opponents at most, at short range. (These tables shows HP repaired, rather than eHP repaired; keep in mind that fleetmates with high resists benefit more from the same HP repaired than fleetmates with low resists, because they receive more eHP.) In addition, shield logistics frigates operate in falloff (because they have such short optimal ranges), and so they can almost never apply their full repair capacity. Pilots with poor capacitor skills, or low skills in the appropriate racial frigate skill or in [[Skills:Shields#Shield_Emission_Systems|Shield Emissions Systems]] or [[Skills:Armor#Remote_Armor_Repair_Systems|Remote Armor Repair Systems]], will have trouble with capacitor even if they use all "Enduring" meta versions of all active modules. For a freshman Unista, as a result, Tech I logistics frigates demand higher skills than analogous Tech I EWAR or tackle frigates.

===Tech II Logistics Frigates===

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&lowast; ''[[Basic_Skills#Advanced_recommended_skillplan|"Advanced recommended skills"]] +1 at each skill, plus Logistics Frigates IV, Shield Emission Systems V.''

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! [[Thalia]]

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|name=Deacon, Deadspace-Fitted

|high=Coreli C-Type Small Remote Armor Repairer<br>Coreli C-Type Small Remote Armor Repairer<br>Coreli C-Type Small Remote Armor Repairer

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The repair bonuses, repair range and base velocity of Tech II logistics frigates aren't dramatically better than those of their Tech I relatives. When CCP introduced Tech II logistics frigates, developers argued that the signature radius bonus of the [[Scalpel]] and [[Thalia]] might be useful for "signature tanking", by which ships can evade damage. Signature tanking works poorly against opponents with light drones, though, and so this strategy has not been widely successful.

The [[Scythe]] and the [[Exequror]] are the two Tech I logistics cruisers that are not bonused for remote capacitor transfer. New logistics pilots often begin flying one of these first, because they are simpler to pilot than the cap-chain cruisers. But the performance of all of the logistics cruisers is sensitive to pilot skill, and pilots with different skill levels sometimes have to fly even these simpler hulls differently. The charts below illustrate statistics for the [[Scythe]] and [[Exequror]] (using the [http://fleet-up.com/Fitting/Index Fleet-Up fits] for afterburner-fit NSC Reship hulls as starting points) piloted by Unistas with different skill levels:

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|high=Medium Murky Compact Remote Shield Booster<br>Medium Murky Compact Remote Shield Booster<br>Medium Murky Compact Remote Shield Booster

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! height="50px" width="90px" | Pilot Skill Level

&lowast;&lowast;&lowast; ''[[Basic_Skills#Advanced_recommended_skillplan|"Advanced recommended skills"]] +1 at each skill, plus Minmatar Cruiser V, Shield Emissions Systems V.''

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&lowast; ''[[Basic_Skills#Minimum_recommended_skillplan|"Minimum recommended skills"]], plus Gallente Cruiser III, Remote Armor Repair Systems III. Logistics drones cannot be used at this skill level.''<br />

&lowast;&lowast; ''[[Basic_Skills#Advanced_recommended_skillplan|"Advanced recommended skills"]], plus Gallente Cruiser IV, Remote Armor Repair Systems IV.''<br />

The [[Scythe]] and [[Exequror]] are very similar, with roughly the same ship bonuses and repair capacity. As is true for all logistics ships, the shield-boosting [[Scythe]] has a shorter optimal range and a longer falloff, whereas the armor-repairing [[Exequror]] has a much longer optimal range, but shorter falloff. The role bonuses that logistics cruisers receive to repairer range makes both of these cruisers excellent at repairing from a distance, and these bonuses do not depend on pilot skill level. Repair rate, on the other hand, is very sensitive to pilot skill. Unista logistics pilots are encouraged to target "Intermediate" skills before flying Tech I logistics cruisers.