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General Info

• Special Ability: 5% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret damage and Remote Sensor Dampener effectiveness per skill level.

This is a basic T1 setup for use in a PvP-BASIC Hydra gang.

The maulus is an excellent electronic warfare platform. With its bonus to sensor dampeners, many ships will be dead before they can establish lock. Teaming up with an ECM ship such as a griffin can create a truly deadly combination for 2 tech 1 frigates.

Unlike most electronic warfare frigates, the maulus is actually capable of dealing significant damage with blasters and light drones, however in PvP-BASIC this is generally not effective (blaster range is too short, and you will lose your drones the first time the fleet emergency warps out of a fight). When fitting a maulus for PvP-BASIC, your focus should be on maximising the effectiveness of your sensor dampeners.

Remember to bring both types of scripts as you may be directed to change them by the FC or EWO.

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. Maulus has 400 calibration points in total:

• Small Inverted Signal Field Projector I (200) - increases sensor dampener 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 sensor dampener strength rig, fitting 2 of it will leave you unable to fit a 3rd rig, although this will give you the highest possible dampener effectiveness.

Example Hydra Maulus Setup

Stats (All level V)

• Effective HP: 2,170
• Speed: 920 meters/second
• DPS: 42 with antimatter
• Turret Optimal + Falloff: 6.5 + 6.3 km with antimatter
• Dampener Optimal + Falloff: 41 + 83km
• Autonomy: stable at 54%
• Targeting Range: 62km

Low Slots

• Emergency Damage Control I
• Mark I Generator Refitting: Capacitor Power Relay (named capacitor power relay)

Mid Slots

• Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters (named 1mn afterburner)
• Indirect Scanning Dampening Unit I (named sensor dampener)
• Indirect Scanning Dampening Unit I (named sensor dampener)

High Slots

• 125mm Compressed Coil Gun I
• 125mm Compressed Coil Gun I
• Offlined Small Coaxial Regenerative Projector (small remote armor repairer)

Drones

• Light Armor Maintenance Bot x 2

Cargo

• 1000 units of Federation Navy hybrid charges - try to choose an ammo type that gives you an optimal range over 6km (to stay outside smartbomb range).
  
• Targeting Range Dampening and Scan Resolution Dampening scripts for sensor dampeners.
  
• Spare Light Armor Maintenance Bots.

Example EFT Cut & Paste

[Maulus, hydra]
Emergency Damage Control I
Mark I Generator Refitting: Capacitor Power Relay

Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
Indirect Scanning Dampening Unit I
Indirect Scanning Dampening Unit I

125mm Compressed Coil Gun I, Antimatter Charge S
125mm Compressed Coil Gun I, Antimatter Charge S
Small Coaxial Regenerative Projector

[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]


Light Armor Maintenance Bot I x2