Item Database:Ships:Battleships
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Hull Classification Overview
Battleships are ships of the wall. They are the largest practical combat vessel available. Measuring from lengths of 800 to 1000 meters along their longest beam. Despite all the attempt to stealth, active electronic sensor scrambling can only hide the ship down to electronic footprints of 400 meters. Massing at 100,000,000 kilograms, these ships are usually better transported by direct piloting rather than inside cargo bays. 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. Because battleships are designed entirely for war, compartments are thickly armored, and reactors shielded. Redundant systems and internal damage control greatly factors into crew survival rates of 50%
Appeal
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 task forces to complete their walls of battle. Battleships are the first ship class that can pose a significant damage threat against capitol ships and for their cost is a more effective means in damaging capitol ships. Battleships are very survivable yet can deploy almost anywhere in New Eden.
Roles
Battleships typically find themselves in attack roles including bombardment and siege roles not usually reserved for smaller ships. Despite the battleship being built for war, there are some creative pilots whose use of the ship is typically reserved for civilian activities such as mining or salvaging.
Strengths
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 they will get multiple licks out before going 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 and cause grave damage to the targets.
Weaknesses
Battleships are a high value target in a non-capitol ship composition. Although the threat of being picked is unlikely as multiple battleships will be fielded, its threat value is too great to ignore amongst any of the smaller classes of ships. Battleships even though are able to counter most threats cannot counter against all of them at the same time. Smaller swarms of ships are able to overwhelm the battleships systems and larger capitol ships with sufficient tracking can be accurate enough to cause quite serious damage shooting a frigate sized shell though the entire ships hull.
Similar Ships
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