Item Database:Ships:Battleships
Contents
Ship Type Overview
Battleships are ships of the fleet. They are the largest practical combat vessel available. Measuring to lengths of 600 to 800 meters and a difficult to hide electronic footprints of 400 meters and massing at 100,000,000 kgs. Crewed by many as 10,000-15,000 lives, the combat efficiency increases greatly with the use of the pod reducing minimal crew needed to the hundreds. Though most roles fulfilled by the battleship is reserved for combat it doesn't exclude it from becoming used in heavy non-combat activities.
A Battleship's heavyweight and extreme technicality makes it a challenge to master as their replacement impact is far heavier than cruisers and frigates. Though military states heavily invest into the battleship to complete their walls of battle.
Their large size offers maximum room for various functional outfitting, and its offensive power is to be feared by any other ship as the battleship can be specifically fitted for any threat from anti-frigate to anti-capital ship. With room to spare its able to not only deal damage effectively but take massive amount of punishment from all threats, no matter how menacing that threat can be in whittling them down. Though specific battleship sized weapons are not designed for countering smaller ships nothing is stopping that battleship from fielding angry swarms of anti-frigate drones or smart bombs both which can fit without stress on the chassis.
Battleships are most vulnerable to smaller craft which it cannot track easily and sometimes the rarer larger craft that are built to destroy battleships.
Battleships have a limited extended family with few advanced brothers to complete the family tree including Marauders and Black Ops battleships.
Types of Battleships
Amarr
- Armageddon: Laser Weaponry Specialization
- Apocalypse: Laser Weaponry Specialization, Sniping Specialization
- Abaddon: Laser Weaponry Specialization, Armor Resistance Bonuses
- Redeemer: T2 Black Ops
- Paladin: T2 Marauder
Caldari
- Scorpion: ECM Specialization
- Raven: Missile Launcher Specialization
- Rokh: Hybrid Weaponry Specialization, Sniping Specialization, Shield Resistance Bonuses
- Widow: T2 Black Ops
- Golem: T2 Marauder
Gallente
- Dominix: Drone Specialization, Hybrid Weaponry Specialization
- Megathron: Hybrid Weaponry Specialization, Sniping Specialization
- Hyperion: Hybrid Weaponry Specialization, Armor Repairer Bonuses
- Sin: T2 Black Ops
- Kronos: T2 Marauder