Frigates: Difference between revisions

The Covert Ops class is split into two sub classes with significantly different roles, both of which have the ability to warp while cloaked.

Cov-ops frigates can warp while cloaked, and have several uses. As scouts they can stealthily gather intelligence and use their scanning bonus to probe out enemy targets. They can watch enemy targets while in cloak and provide a warp coordinate for a much larger gang of heavy hitting ships in an organized surprise attack. In exploration they can use the same scanning bonus to probe down PvE exploration sites. Due to their extreme fragility, cov-ops frigates should not generally be used in a tackling role, and are typically invisible at all times.

In E-Uni Covert Ops are mainly used as a forward scout or rear scout. For more information for using a Covert Ops and Scouting: [[Scouting]].

Stealth bombers are very specialized ships which can warp cloaked and don't have a sensor recalibration delay preventing them from locking targets after decloaking. They can fit torpedo launchers and bomb launchers (although [[Bombs|bombs]] -- devastating area-effect weapons -- can only be used in [[0.0|nullsec]]). Stealth bombers put out extraordinary [[alpha]] damage and die very fast if anyone manages to put some damage on them, so bomber pilots will typically fire a few salvos and/or a single bomb then recloak. They are the bane of large ships, especially in nullsec. In groups and flown well, stealth bombers can take down a capital ship.

Each race's stealth bomber is based on the hull of that race's missile frigate (the Gallente Nemesis is based on the Tristan hull) and has a damage bonus for bombs and torpedoes which do its race's associated [[NPC Damage Types|damage type]].