Hydra Crucifier
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General Info
- Bonuses: 7.5% bonus to Tracking Disruptor effectiveness and 10% bonus to Tracking Disruptor optimal range
The Crucifier is an excellent electronic warfare platform. With its tracking disruptor bonus, it can single-handedly shut down an opposing turret ship, and is a great addition to any gang. When fitting a Crucifier, remember that you are not there as a DPS ship - your focus should be on maximizing the effectiveness of your tracking disruptors. The best way to fly the Crucifier, as is true of any of the Disruption Frigates, is at the optimal range of your EWAR modules, not the optimal range of your guns. One good thing to use your guns for is to blow up any drones sent after you.
Keep an eye on your capacitor during combat, especially if you have relatively low skills.
Example Hydra Crucifier Setup
Low Slots
- Damage Control
- Overdrive Injector
- Signal Amplifier
Mid Slots
- 1MN Afterburner
- 2x Tracking Disruptor
High Slots
- 2x Dual Light Beam Laser
Drones
- Light Armor Maintenance Bot x 1
Cargo
- Your choice of laser crystals - choose one that gives you a range over 6km (to avoid smartbomb range). Since lasers can change ammo type instantly, you may also wish to carry mid and long ranged crystals, although this is not required.
- Tracking speed and optimal range scripts for tracking disruptors.
- Spare Light Armor Maintenance Bots.
Rigs
These are optional, but some of these are extremely cheap to purchase in trade hubs. Next to each rig in parentheses is the number of calibration points it requires. Crucifier has 400 calibration points in total:
- Small Tracking Diagnostic Subroutines I (200) - increases tracking disruptor effectiveness, decreases shield amount
- Small Particle Dispersion Projector I (100) - increases EWAR optimal range, decreases shield amount
- Small Low Friction Nozzle Joints I (50) - improves ship's agility so you can warp out faster, decreases armor amount
- Small Auxiliary Thrusters I (100) - increases ship's max velocity, decreases armor amount
Due to the high calibration requirement of the tracking disruptor strength rig, fitting 2 of it will leave you unable to fit a 3rd rig, although this will give you the highest possible tracking disruptor effectiveness.
Example EFT Cut & Paste
Here's an example using cheap named modules which will fit using starting skills:
[Crucifier, HYDRA t1] Damage Control I Type-D Altered SS Overdrive Injector Type-D Attenuation Signal Augmentation Experimental 1MN Afterburner I F-392 Baker Nunn Tracking Disruptor I F-392 Baker Nunn Tracking Disruptor I Dual Modal Light Laser I, Multifrequency S Dual Modal Light Laser I, Multifrequency S [empty rig slot] [empty rig slot] [empty rig slot] Light Armor Maintenance Bot I x1
And here's a t2 variant which will require more advanced skills:
[Crucifier, HYDRA t2] Damage Control II Overdrive Injector System II Signal Amplifier II 1MN Afterburner II DDO Photometry Tracking Disruptor I DDO Photometry Tracking Disruptor I Dual Light Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency S Dual Light Beam Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency S Small Tracking Diagnostic Subroutines I Small Tracking Diagnostic Subroutines I [empty rig slot] Light Armor Maintenance Bot I x1
Stats
With cheap named variant and starting skills:
- Effective HP: 1750
- Speed: 796 ms/
- DPS: 20 (multifrequency)
- Turret Optimal + Falloff: 4.8 + 3 km (multifrequency)
- Tracking Disruptor Optimal + Falloff: 44 + 22
- Tracking Disruptor Strangth: 41.8%
- Targeting Range: 61.75km
With te variant and all Lv V skills:
- Effective HP: 2332
- Speed: 1038 ms/
- DPS: 45 (multifrequency)
- Turret Optimal + Falloff: 6.6 + 3.8 km (multifrequency)
- Tracking Disruptor Optimal + Falloff: 69 + 35
- Tracking Disruptor Strangth: 67.18%
- Targeting Range: 77.19km
