BattleClinic.com, which you may know from their involvement with the EVE Mon utility, has been undergoing a serious revamp of their site. It has been under way for a while now. I got a note from them months back asking if they could use screen shots from EVE Online Pictures, to which I answered in the affirmative.
But the big site changes have finally been revealed… which I didn’t notice until Rixx Javix did a post about a new feature, ships used.
I actually think that the “ships used” information was in the old version of the site. Something in the back of my brain believes that it was there. But it wasn’t as accessible and I do not think it showed as much detail. Or maybe I am totally wrong. Memory.
And technically it is not ships you’ve flow, just ships you were flying that were involved in combat where they appeared on a kill mail, either having contributed to a kill or having been the victim. I’d like to see a stat on which ships I have spent the most time flying in space, especially since I fly in the “space priest” logistics role a lot of the time. But a list is a list and any long time reader knows I love me a list.
So what ships have I been flying while whoring on kill mails by pressing F1 in CFC blob fleets since December 2011? Here are the top 10, plus one.
1. Drake – 395 kills / 12 losses
Oh my trusty old Drake. I have half a dozen of them sitting around still in various null sec stations just waiting for my old favorite ship to return to its place in the sun.
Unleash the Drake-en!
It was a fortuitous set of circumstances that made Drake Fleet a prime CFC doctrine shortly after I arrived in null sec. I couldn’t shoot guns or lasers for shit, but I have max shield and missiles skills and Battlecruiser V when it came time for Drake Fleet.
Those were happy times. Null sec combat was all new to me and scooting about the battlefield in a swarm of MWD Drakes like a school of fish, Scimitars weaving around us while we spewed missiles and dodged foes was a real highlight in my career. The first big fleet engagement where I kind of knew what was going on was in a Drake at EWN-2U back in 2012. Time dilation was a new thing back then.
2. Megathron – 166 Kills / 2 Losses
Mainstay of the war in Fountain, the primay weapon of Baltec Fleet, one of the two doctrines that got rolled up once we found that the doctrines we started the war with were not working out. This was the ship I flew into some of the more memorable fights of the war, including Z9PP-H, 3WE-KY, and 6VDT-H.
The “How To” of Baltec Fleet
The Megathron hasn’t seen as much action since Fountain. First it was replaced by the Dominix to exploit drone assist, then the Apocalypse came along and the Megathron was phased out. Still, the ship was immortalized in the Boat’s Oddity video, and I bet Baltec1 is still flying one in every fleet no matter what the actual doctrine. Never not Mega.
3. Harpy – 143 Kills / 2 Losses
Harpy fleet has been an ongoing frigate doctrine in the CFC for a while. I tend to resist flying frigates. It used to be a matter of not wanting to lose a 40 million ISK clone in a 20 million ISK ship, but now CCP has fixed that. But I found Harpy roams to be enjoyable.
A Harpy down in Curse
The doctrine started when we were deployed on and off to Curse. I probably have more Harpies sitting around in hangars than any other ship besides the Drake. I need to go on more Harpy fleets.
4. Apocalypse – 93 Kills / 1 Loss
After drone assist was scaled back from “game breaking” to merely “overwhelming” we moved back to the Baltec Fleet doctrine. However, while you could still fly Megathrons, we were all encouraged to pick up an Apocalypse. I did not need more than a small push in that direction. I had been training up lasers in the hope that one day they would be useful, so once I wrapped that up I immediately moved into the Apoc. I wanted to shoot colored beams of light dammit!
Apocs with lasers hot
I used to carry every damn crystal type I could find and I pretty quickly became “that guy” in Baltec fleet firing a different color laser from everybody else (I am pretty sure the red beams in that picture above is me) or multiple colors because what the hell. Red and green on Christmas, mustard and ketchup because I was eating a hamburger. I had a good time with that. The doctrine has since fallen into disuse, but I still have a couple Apocs, and a large supply of crystals, sitting around.
5. Ishtar – 64 Kills / 0 Losses
Drones are still pretty strong, so Ishtars and Dominixes are back in fashion, to the point that the game is mockingly called Ishtars Online some nights of the week. This is also a Reaver doctrine fit, which is where I have flown it. Most of my kills are towers, though there was that carrier we got at the end of our first deployment. Due to a general shortage of logi pilots, I only flew the Ishtar on that one deployment, swapping out for a Basilisk since then.
6. Caracal – 39 Kills / 6 Losses
There have been a number of tries to get a good Caracal doctrine going from time to time. I always join in because they aren’t too expensive and I have all the skills. Caracals were a doctrine at the start of the war in Fountain and we lost them in droves until we stopped using them. I think I have lost every single one I ever owned in null.
7. Dominix – 27 Kills / 1 Loss
The post Fountain doctrine with drone assist. I was in something of a slack period when Domis were the main thing. I went on a few ops with a Domi, but it isn’t really a special ship to me. Or it wouldn’t be if it weren’t for the fact that I am on six titan kill mails with a Domi from the fight at B-R5RB. I still have that particular neut fit Domi, still parked in the station in that system with a jump clone should I ever wish to retrieve it. A pity that N3 owns the system again. I have a Basilisk stranded out there as well.
8. Hurricane – 25 Kills / 1 Loss
One of the ships I bought early on when I was trying to be a good soldier and follow orders to have one ship for every doctrine on hand at all times or some such. It was a “Digi-cane,” which belonged to a doctrine that was already out by the time I bought it. I used to use in for Homeland Defense ops and I flew it to BWF-ZZ in a Boat fleet that bagged a dozen Raiden capital ships. I think I have an “insta-cane” in a hangar somewhere, which I bought seconds before they got nerfed.
9. Maelstrom – 21 Kills / 0 Losses
This was the prime doctrine when I joined the CFC, just before Drake Fleet showed up. Big, slow to move, slow to align, and slow to shoot, the key to the doctrine was to have everybody fire at once to cause an overwhelming spike in damage that would blow the hostile ship off the field with a single volley.
10. Scimitar – 18 Kills / 2 Losses
Given how many times I have flow logi, I am actually surprised to see that I have only lost two Scimitars. I guess a debt is owed to our logi anchors who appear to have kept us out of the line of fire and aligned to get the hell out of Dodge when things go wrong. Plus it is a swift ship. And, as you can see, even a space priest isn’t above loading a couple of combat drones in order to whore on kills.
Special Mention – Basilisk – 13 Kills / 3 Losses
The ship in 11th place and the one I have been flying for the most part for the last six months. Ugly and awkward in that way that only Caldari ships can manage, it is once again proof that logi isn’t above carrying a combat drone or two in order to get a few hits in. I don’t mind playing logi. It is what I mostly do these days. But I like to get something on the kill board at least once a month just some my corp knows I’m still alive. Lord knows I barely talk to them and I almost never fly with them, so I try to keep up my end by paying my monthly dues, getting a few kills, and clicking on participation links.
It is all about the Basi… and cap chaining
So that is the list, my top 10+1. Of course, the kills and losses are in no way an indicator of any capability on my own part. Even a scrub like me can keep a “green” kill board because of the way kills and losses are counted.
And, of course, this is just the BattleClinic accounting of my ships and kills. My totals at ZKillboard and EVE-Kill are different, though I do wonder why my BattleClinic totals are as far off as they are from the other two. ZKillboard and EVE-Kill differ by a mere dozen kills while BattleClinic is a good 20% shy of those total.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 