Bowhead

 

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Bowhead

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Outer Ring Excavations Freighters Bowhead Class Massive Ship Maintenance Bay HIGHLIGHTS High Structure Hitpoints HIGHLIGHTS Generous Fitting Options HIGHLIGHTS RELATED UNI-WIKI REFERENCES EVE Online Ships Overview EXTERNAL LINKS Bowhead on zKillboard Bowhead on EVE Workbench Bowhead on Janice Bowhead on EVE Ref

As part of its ongoing program of developing new products for the capsuleer market, ORE has created the Bowhead freighter as a specialized ship transporter. Experience with the ship-handling technology used in the Orca and Rorqual vessels enabled the Outer Ring Development division to build a ship dedicated to moving multiple assembled hulls at once. Outer Ring Excavations are aggressively marketing the Bowhead as a flexible transport platform for organizing fleet logistics across New Eden, available from authorized ORE outlets. SHIP BONUSES ORE Freighter bonuses (per skill level): 5% bonus to inertia modifier 5% bonus to ship maintenance bay capacity Role Bonus: 90% reduction to effective distance traveled for jump fatigue Required Skills ORE Freighter I1h 15m ORE Hauler III17h 46m Spaceship Command III4h 26m Advanced Spaceship Command V29d 15h 6m Spaceship Command V5d 22h 13m Training Time what's this? 36d 12h 46m Estimated training time only for the listed skills based on zero implants and without neural remaps. Grouping ▪ Variations none Ship Attributes Fittings Powergrid 1,350 MW CPU 215 tf Capacitor 3,900 GJ High 0 Launchers 0 Turrets 0 Medium 3 Low 3 Rig 3   capital Calibration 400 Navigation Max Velocity 65 m/sec Inertia Modifier 0.108 Warp Speed 1.37 AU/s Base Time to Warp 59.89 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. Drones No drone bay. Targeting Max Tgt. Range 51.5 km Max Locked Targets 3 Magnetometric Sensor 12 points Sig. Radius 10,200 m Scan Res. 45 mm Structure Structure Hitpoints 60,000 HP Mass 400,000,000 kg Volume 17,550,000 m³ Cargo Capacity 4,000 m³ Ship Maintenance Bay Capacity 1,600,000 m³ Armor Armor Hitpoints 18,000 HP Armor Resistances EM 50 THR 35 KIN 35 EXP 10 Shields Shield Capacity 26,400 HP Shield Resistances EM 0 THR 20 KIN 40 EXP 50

Summary

The Bowhead serves a purpose as the game's premier high-sec ship carrier. It has the ability to carry many fitted ships inside its massive Ship Maintenance Bay, allowing players who commonly need several fitted ships to easily transport their fleet from one location to another. Pilots who take part in activities such as Incursions will find great use out of the Bowhead, being able to use it to carry several fitted Battleships and Cruisers across high security space.

Though the Bowhead has already impressive base health, the ability for the freighter to fit low slot modules such as Damage Control and mid slot modules like an Multispectrum Shield Hardener creates one of the toughest ships found in high security space, with potential to exceed over 600,000 EHP with ease.

Skills

The Bowhead benefits greatly from skills that affect shield and structure health, though primarily the latter. Train Mechanics and Shield Management to V to greatly increase the base survivability of the freighter. And though the benefits are not as large, Hull Upgrades can add some additional armor to the already bulky structure of the Bowhead.

As with all ships of this caliber, the Bowhead can rely quite a lot on the navigational skills of the pilot. Unless using a Microwarpdrive to decrease align times, increasing the ship's agility is a must for long trips through the galaxy as the long align time can lengthen your journey immensely. Train Evasive Maneuvering to V as soon as possible. The bonuses the Bowhead receives from ORE Freighter levels also aid in decreasing align times.

Tactics

Though the Bowhead can carry fully fitted ships, it is not always necessary or wise to leave the ships with expensive modules equipped. Keep a quick-aligning Interceptor or two in your Ship Maintenance Bay at all times, and leave valuable modules attached to your ships in their originating station. Once the ships and their cheaper fitted modules/rigs have reached the destination, burn quickly back to your starting point in the safer and faster Interceptor to pick up the expensive modules, to avoid painting a target on your Freighter's back.

Remember that ships in your Ship Maintenance Bay can still carry charges, such as ammunition and Nanite Repair Paste. Consider carrying a ship with a larger cargo hold than the Bowhead to bring more charges with you than the freighter itself can carry.

Use a 500MN Microwarpdrive to decrease your align time to 10 seconds. If you use the Microwarpdrive for a single cycle while aligning for a warp, your ship will have crossed the required speed to enter warp by the time it finishes. This can allow you to fit low slot modules to increase your survivability rather than your agility.

Notes

Has a larger ship maintenance bay than a Carrier, Dreadnought or Force Auxiliary at 1,600,000m³ before ORE Freighter bonuses

Patch History

A long, long time ago...

April 2022 Version 20.04 Patch notes Renaming of the <Racial> Industrial skills to <Racial> Hauler 18.04 Release - Build: 1706308 - 2020-04-15 - "Surgical Strike" Update (Patch Notes) Suicide Ganking and the Void buff This topic is more complicated to untangle but it is certainly not our intention to make suicide ganking easier or cheaper. While divorcing damage increases from suicide ganking is not simple, we are planning to increase freighter hp while we do some investigation on the current state of high sec ganks. Depending on results from those investigations we will look at further changes if necessary. -CCP Rise, Surgical Strike Update Follow-up Structure HP increased from 50,000 to 60,000 (+10,000 HP, +20%) Armor HP increased from 15,000 to 18,000 (+3,000 HP, +20%) Shield HP increased from 22,000 to 26,400 (+4,400 HP, +20%)

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