The first Gallente ship I review, bet it’s critical to lure you Caldari pilots over…

Hey just kidding, but seriously, this ship can be really well fitted for tank, gank, or an in between of both. I used a fairly old setup suggested by BattleClinic, plating, blasters, drones, etc; it is the standard Gallente setup. But this ship is very versatile, having 100m3 of drone space, you can throw anything from ECM to sentries to light scout drones in if you so wish. Your opponent is in for a surprise because they don’t know what to expect. You may launch ECM’s out, and when you get close enough, send out those Ogres!

I have seen suggested builds with spider tanking gangs, where the members fit a RAR (remote armor repairer) and have everyone watch listed. Whoever is receiving a lot of damage or is hurting will be remote repaired by 6 or 7 other ships. It is called spider tanking because like a spider web, it is hard to break when they are linked together. I personally prefer smaller gangs or going solo. In this case if you fit a RAR, it’s useless, so a medium armor repairer is a must!

The high slots range from a mixture of nosferatus and neutralizers to medium blasters or railguns. Medium guns get bonuses, but at times if you want more tank and fit a 1600mm plate, light guns are the only way to go. If using a nos or neut setup, a few mediums will fit with some adjustment to the rest of the ship.

Medium fittings often include a 10mn afterburner because this ship is quite slow. A fellow corp mate described this ship as a snail, but I don’t remember as to the speed or model. Back on topic, PvP modules, a web and scrambler, uses the last two slots. I have been quite resourceful in the past and invested in those webbing drones, they certainly are coming into handy now! Save a mid slot for a cap recharger, ECM, drone navigation, or whatever you want. The webbing drone also has a much better range than webbifiers too!

Lows will fit you a medium armor repairer, a pair of EANM (energized adaptive nano membrane), and either an 800mm or 1600mm plating depending on if you choose big guns or smaller guns or medium or light nos and neut. That little buffer should keep you alive for an additional 1 to 5 minutes depending on who you are fighting, and that’s sometimes enough to last a little bit longer against that other guy.

Now on to the most important part of the ship, the drones! A lot of pilots will call this ship the baby whale, or the Mini-Domi in comparison to the Gallente battleship Dominix. Both are drone carriers (don’t get confused with carriers and motherships) and both have similar characteristics, in the bonuses that they give out and their looks. Sporting a 100m3 drone bay means carrying 4 large hulled drones, 10 medium hull size drones, or 20 small hull sized drones. Ya I know you won’t want to carry 20 Hobgoblins, but this simply means you have room to hold extra drones in case the first ones go pop, or an assortment of them to deal specific damage (though I ultimately believe Gallente drones out damage all others due to their damage multiplier) or to do a specific job.

Who needs a tank when you ECM the opponent? If you are in a fleet, blow the signature radius of these ships to the size of a moon so the battleships can one volley it. Neutralize it’s capacitor, web them and keep them in place. What you want to do is up to you, just be creative and use your resources wisely.

There is another way to tank while still gank for quite a bit. Use 3 heavy, 2 medium, and 1 light armor repair drones while you fit medium sized guns, magnetic field stabilizers, EANMs, and the rest of the tackling stuff. Your opponent will be mystified on how your tanking as they usually have drones turned off in their overview…

I recently battled another corp mates passive Caracal and just dominated. He had a well built tank and good missiles, but my drones and guns he couldn’t stand up to. While his shields sunk, at times it looked like my tank was failing, but is immediately repaired every few seconds but the trusty medium armor repairer. Yay a test battle is won!

Use your shield as a buffer while you approach the target, unleash your drones, and seize victory!

[expand title=Technical Specs:]

• 5% bonus to medium hybrid turret damage
• 10% bonus to drone hitpoints, damage and mining yield
• Default targeting range is 52 km with 5 locked targets
• Velocity is 170 m/sec with 100 m3 of drone capacity
• Armor hitpoints is 1485
• Capacitor amount is 1250 and recharges in 446.25 seconds
• Power grid is at 675MW, 270ft of CPU, and 400 calibration points
• There are 5 high slots, 3 medium slots, 4 low slots, and 3 rig slots
• 0 slots for launchers and 4 for turrets[/expand]

Suggested Role: Solo PvP fights

[ratings]

Even before I got my Crow, lately it’s just been a lot of cruising around in belts looking for Guristas and doing some small complexes that are not empty. I guess it’s fun for the first bit while, but then it gets really redundant.

Then I tried to spice things up by flipping cans, waiting for can flippers, and taking wrecks hoping someone would engage in a 1 vs 1 battle with me. So far that hasn’t been working out very well either.

Other than that, here is a small list of past events:

• Had scouting help from Zoe for a hauling route through some low sec systems to retrieve my order of tritanium with my Badger Mark II.
• Almost got a kill in Akiainavas (Moa) with my Crow but he got out of warp scramble range, which is 24km, for some reason. Almost had him, he was down to 20% hull. Then we were able to recruit a new corp mate who is an active miner.
• Me and Zoe joined in on a mining operation with our good friends over in the Kul corporation and at the end, Saft surprised me and interrupted me when he brought in his cloaked Manticore.
• Then our corp did some little PVP and had some fun flying our ships
• The corp did a few missions for fun times.
• Went and tried to gang flipped cans. We first tried to lure other people to us by dropping our own can with minerals in it. Not a lot of people tried to steal our containers so we stole from others. Very good operation for a first fleet flip.
• Received another new corp mate
• Back to level 4′s with Saft, Zoe, and Busta. Yay!

Ya, that’s what I do, besides throwing up some sell orders and contracts.

I also wanted to share with you guys on how things have been going and to present to you some of the beautiful scenery of EVE online!

Jita:

Missioning:

Can Flipping:

Ratting

Mining:

On 23:13:00 EVE time, a fleet of about 60 State Protectorate pilots engaged an enemy fleet of about 50 pilots, or so we had thought. Once we got there, about another 30 to 50 ships jumped in through and lagged us up.

This is what the fleet started out like, about 90 people.

Our plan was to go around back door from the Caldari high security space into Tama. There was hostiles in the only Tama station and we wanted to trap them inside and snipe/kill them off. 10 minutes later and we arrive. Things didn’t go so well because there was a neutral spy following us and another spy in our fleet. Most of the people inside that station escaped. We started to chased them down and was able to pick off one or two.

Later, we reach Heydieles and our recon says a fleet is parked on the Old Man Star to Villore. We decide to go after these guys and got the fleet ready. By that time when we got to the destination, we only had a little above half of the people remaining.

The battle was not the best I have ever had. It lagged like hell! I did not appreciate it because you would always target the wrong thing or shoot at something that wasn’t there anymore. Everyone zoomed out to try to reduce the lag, but more reinforcement ships just keep jumping in from the Gallente side. Now we were just trying to get those that we could.

Our fleet commander was still calling the primary targets, and we were able to successfully take some ships down. In the end, I helped to kill these guys:

• Victim: Kadean
• Location: Old Man Star
• Corp: Elite Underworld Special Forces
• Alliance: None
• Ship: Dominix [Fitting]

• Victim:Parmenides Elea
• Location: Old Man Star
• Corp: Wrath of Fenris
• Alliance: None
• Ship: Dominix [Fitting]

• Victim:Lucas Avignon
• Location: Old Man Star
• Corp: Avignon Associates Inc.
• Alliance: None
• Ship: Dominix [Fitting]

If you want to see my full kill board, please visit here.

Here is to the cool people that stuck it to the end, I salute you!

Corewin, CRUSH BOSS, Cuthbert Drake, Ecky Ptang, Kazabet, Lord Erebos, Marcuz Griffin, Ray Rosny, sakura okami, Splunk jamma, Tzu Wu, and Xanath Fireheart

Gallery, enjoy!