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A mark for your clan, a word that means more than family.
- – Line spoken during a Voluval ritual
In YC114 each major empire faction, having been embroiled in a harrowing, extensive, long-term war, recognized the growing need for support and logistics functionality in their vessels during the kind of protracted interstellar warfare that might otherwise prove exhausting for its participants. Both Frigate and Cruiser-class ships were put under the microscope, and in the Minmatar Republic the outcome of the re-evaluation process led, among other developments, to a redesign and redeployment of the Scythe.
The Scythe-class cruiser remains the oldest Minmatar ship still in use. It has seen many battles and is an integrated part in Minmatar tales and heritage. With its redesign, past firmware upgrades for mining output were tossed out entirely in favor of two new separate systems that focused on shield transporting and logistics drones respectively.
SHIP BONUSES
Minmatar Cruiser bonuses (per skill level): 12.5% bonus to Remote Shield Booster amount 5% reduction in Remote Shield Booster activation cost Role Bonus: 430% bonus to Remote Shield Booster optimal range and falloff 100% bonus to Logistic Drone transfer amount
Required Skills
Training Time what's this?19h 15m 30s
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Grouping
▪ Variations Scimitar
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735 MW 445 tf
253 m/sec
440 m³
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,Scythe Fleet Issue
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745 MW 400 tf
280 m/sec
440 m³
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Ship Attributes
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High 3
Launchers 1
Turrets 2
Rig
3
medium
Calibration 400
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Navigation |
Base Time to Warp 9.24 s what's this?
Base Time to Warp is essentially the time needed for this ship to align and accelerate until it reaches 75% of its top speed and goes to warp. The time displayed here is the base calculated time with no account for any warp related skills, modules or any other effects.
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Drones |
Drone Bandwidth 45 Mbit/sec
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Targeting |
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Structure |
Structure Hitpoints 1,300 HP
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Armor |
Armor Hitpoints 1,100 HP
Armor Resistances
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Shields |
Shield Capacity 1,400 HP
Shield Resistances
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Summary
The Scythe is a Tech 1 logistics cruiser, with bonuses to shield repair. It is designed to support 3 medium shield transporters and a shield tank while remaining capacitor-stable. Achieving all of these things can be a challenge for pilots with limited skills.
Like its smaller counterpart the Burst, the Scythe offers pilots a good way to try out flying in the logistics role. The same player (not character) skills of organisation, quick reactions and steadiness under fire are used in piloting the Scythe's more powerful T2 equivalent, the Scimitar.
Skills
Further information about additional or recommended skills to pilot Scythe for a specific or its common role(s) can be written here.
Tactics
With decent character skills, the Scythe can run cap-stable, supporting its fleetmates successfully without capacitor transfer from other logistics ships. This makes it a more convenient ship for fast-response fleets scrambling to form up quickly to defend a system or leap on a target of opportunity, when there is less time to organise a "chain" of mutual capacitor transfers. This fast "grab-and-launch" quality synergizes well with shield logistics, as the fits used for fast-moving gangs often have buffer shield tanks.
The Scythe's capacitor-independent nature does not make it a solo logistics ship. Scythe pilots should work as a team to save ships and to keep each other alive. Depending on the size and type of fleet, logistics ships will be coordinated using watchlists and/or broadcasts and/or a logistics squad commander who will call out logistics targets.
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Patch History
A long, long time ago...
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October 2019 Release - 2019-10-15.1
Every Cruiser, Battlecruiser and Battleship now warps faster than before.
- Warp Speed increased from 3 AU/s to 4 AU/s (+1 AU/s)
March 2016 Release 1.6
Released on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016
- Moved the forward turret hardpoint on the Scythe and variants to prevent kill mark occlusion.
Odyssey 1.0
Released on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
- -85 Scan Resolution.
- -1 Sensor Strength.
Retribution 1.0
Released on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
- Role bonuses: +1000% to shield transfer and +100% drone repair amount
- Minmatar Cruiser bonuses: -5% shield transfer capacitor use and +12.5% shield transfer repair amount per level
- Slot layout: 3 H, 5 M, 5 L, 2 turrets, 1 launchers
- Fittings: 310 PWG, 315 CPU
- Defense (shields / armor / hull): 1400 / 1100 / 1300
- Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 1250 / 240 s / 5.2
- Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 250 / 0.6 / 11110000 / 6.2 s
- Drones (bandwidth / bay): 45 / 45
- Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 52.5km / 400 / 8
- Sensor strength: 13 Ladar
- Signature radius: 75
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