Navy Battlecruisers
Like the sweet, yummy sugar and cherry frosting on that desert you are about to eat, we decided to introduce navy variants of the Combat battlecruisers to fill the gap between Navy Cruisers and Navy Battleships. That would be the Harbinger Navy Issue, Drake Navy Issue, Brutix Navy Issue and Hurricane Fleet Issue.
Harbinger Navy Issue: we decided to give this ship some much needed flexibility by adding a 5th medium slot, and replacing the medium energy turret capacitor reduction bonus with a 7.5% medium energy turret tracking bonus per level. However, the drone bay has been slightly reduced next to its regular counterpart.
Amarr Battlecruiser skill bonuses: +10% medium energy turret damage and +7.5% to medium energy turret tracking per level
Slot layout: 7 H, 5 M, 6 L, 6 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 1495 PWG, 410 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) : 4500 / 7500 / 6750
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 3125 / 822 s / 3.8
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 150 / 0.69 / 13800000 / 13.2 s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 50 / 50
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 55km / 210 / 6
Sensor strength: 21 Radar
Signature radius: 270
Drake Navy Issue: unwilling to imitate our dear friend Victor by creating a Drakenstein monster, the navy version focuses on flexibility instead of improving the already good raw firepower and tank of the regular Drake. It has a 10% missile velocity and 5% missile explosion radius bonus per level, 8 launchers and improved mobility.
Caldari Battlecruiser skill bonuses: +10% to heavy missile and heavy assault missile velocity and 5% bonus to explosion radius of heavy missile and heavy assault missile per level
Slot layout: 8 H, 6 M, 4 L, 0 turrets, 8 launchers
Fittings: 880 PWG, 550 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull) :7875 / 4875 / 5625
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 2500 / 658 s / 3.8
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 150 / 0.64 / 13329000 / 11.8 s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 25 / 25
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 60km / 195 / 8
Sensor strength: 23 Gravimetric
Signature radius: 295
Brutix Navy Issue: this vessel is an iteration over the regular version. The armor repairer amount bonus has been swapped for a 7.5% medium hybrid turret tracking bonus per level, another low slot has been added and it is a bit more maneuverable as well.
Gallente Battlecruiser skill bonuses: +10% to medium hybrid turret damage and 7.5% bonus to medium hybrid turret tracking per level
Slot layout: 7 H, 4 M, 7 L, 6 turrets, 0 launchers
Fittings: 1235 PWG, 455 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull): 5250 / 6750 / 7125
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 3000 / 789 s / 3.8
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 155 / 0.704 / 11875000 / 11.6 s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 50 / 50
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 55km / 200 / 7
Sensor strength: 22 Magnetometric
Signature radius: 305
Hurricane Fleet Issue: over its regular version, this ship has 8 high slots, two utility slots, slightly more mobility and fittings, while the role itself doesn’t change. Kind of reminds us of something, but what could that be? Memory must be playing tricks on us.
Minmatar Battlecruiser skill bonuses: +5% to medium projectile damage and 5% bonus to medium projectile rate of fire per level
Slot layout: 8 H, 4 M, 6 L, 6 turrets, 3 launchers
Fittings: 1235 PWG, 420 CPU
Defense (shields / armor / hull): 6375 / 6750 / 5250
Capacitor (amount / recharge rate / cap per second): 2250 / 592 s / 3.8
Mobility (max velocity / agility / mass / align time): 165 / 0.704 / 12500000 / 12.2 s
Drones (bandwidth / bay): 30 / 30
Targeting (max targeting range / Scan Resolution / Max Locked targets): 50km / 220 / 6
Sensor strength: 20 Ladar
Signature radius: 250
The new Navy Battlecruisers will be available from:
Regular corporation LP stores, 1 run blueprint offer: 250,000 LPs plus 100 million ISK for 1 run blueprint copy (BPC)
Regular corporation LP stores, built ship offer: 300,000 LPs plus 1x built tech1 Battlecruiser plus two cruiser sized Nexus Chips
FW Loyalty Point stores, 1 run blueprint offer: for 125,000 LPs plus 10m ISK for 1 run BPC
FW Loyalty Point Stores, built ship offer: 125,000 LPs plus 1x built tech1 Battlecruiser plus two cruiser sized Nexus Chips
