Rifter - 400mm Armour Fit

The fight with Tawa Suyo had ended in defeat but had also resulted in a very interesting post mortem about the Rifter fits used.

Tawa Suyo had engaged with a dual armour repair fit and at face value that had bested the combination of 400mm + armour repair. The key reason had been that the dual repairers had been able to keep pace with the incoming damage and repair it all but the buffer fit with one repairer had not been able to do the same. Consequently, over time the armour buffer was slowly eaten away with the single repair only able to slow the incoming damage not repair it all.

Starwalker had tried to innovate on the fit by taking a fairly standard 400mm + Micro Auxiliary Power Core (MAPC) fit and adding the small armour repairer instead of the MAPC. The compromise needed with Starwalker’s skills was to fit 3 small ancillary current routers:

This left the armour fit vulnerable to explosive damage and also removed some of the flexibility that might have been available with the rigs.

Tawa Suyo made a convincing point that it was better to go either buffer or active with the 400mm armour plate and not to try to do both since that required a fitting compromise. He also extolled the virtue of the neutraliser and that offensively it made more sense than fitting a rocket launcher. Not only did it potentially make the target ship helpless with no propulsion, active repair and so on it also provided a GTFO (get out fast) option if things were going badly.

Some good points about fitting and something to think about.