My shiny new Myrmidon Battle-cruiser

A battle-cruiser is a souped-up cruiser that stands half way between a cruiser and a battleship. My cruiser (a Thorax) could never fit everything on it due to lack of CPU and Power. The battle-cruiser (a Myrmidon) has CPU and power to burn. My main damage is currently caused by my drones (Train for Tech II drones while in Prague) with my gunnery coming a very second place – so the idea is to aggro everything and tank while the drones demolish the rats. As such my fittings are all about keeping my capacitor from emptying and shutting down the armour hardeners. My guns, AB and drone range extender are all secondary and designed to stay outside the rats range as much as possible while the drones do their business.

The ship is sitting in bubble-wrap waiting for it’s first outing and I must admit, I am scared to use it following my first PVP encounter last night. I am down to 1m ISK, should I lose it then I’ll almost be starting again.

I notice that it is slower than the Thorax which means slower travel (takes longer to get to warp speed) and slower at sub-warp velocities. I am very impressed that I haven’t managed to use all the power or CPU yet though I am only sporting 4no 250mm railguns, 1no salvager and 1no drone range augmenter. If I could swap a gun for a tractor beam I would be tempted to make cleaning up easier.

I have fitted it out in a very traditional missioning spec:

Lows (6 slots)
Medium armour repairer
Medium armour repairer
Energised Adaptive Nano
Armour hardener (generally thermal)
Armour harderer (generally kenetic)
Capacitor Power Relay

Mids (5 slots)
Capacitor recharger
Capacitor recharger
Capacitor recharger
AB
Sensor booster? Forgotten what I fitted here.

Highs (6 slots)
Drone Augmenter
Salvager
250mm railgun
250mm railgun
250mm railgun
250mm railgun

I will have to work on electronics and gunnery to allow me to fit a greater range of guns (425mm for tea anyone?)