Caldari cruisers, like their frigates are heavy on the missles, ECM Warfare and shields. Again drone bays don’t feature heavily but are given some grudging space. So…what are the ships?

Blackbird - The Blackbird is a fairly new design in Caldari ships, she is designed more as an ECM Warefare specialist cruiser, and the ship’s bonus is featured heavily towards it, reducing ECM energy requirements whilst increasing ECM range. To further this support role, the Blackbird has a large number of mid level slots for a ship of it’s size and even though it only has 4 hislots you can have up to 3 launchers of 3 turrets or any combination of those. For all the support capability this ship has no drone bay but is one of the easiest to fly at Caldari Cruiser skill of 2.

Caracal - Another ship pushed towards what the Caldari race does best. This is a pure missle launching fiend of a cruiser. With 5 hislots and 5 launcher hardslots you can only imagine the devestation… the 2 turret hardpoints give you some flexibility if missles aren’t your cup of tea but given the ship specific bonuses to missles you’d be a fool to watse em on turrets. This ship also has some drone capacity (2 light or 1 medium drone can be equipted) but it does have a good sized cargo bay. With the added bonus of having a Caldari Cruiser minimum skill requirement of 2, this ship is just plain awesome to behold in action.

Moa - This is the Caldari answer to a combat frigate. Heavy shields, a good mix of turrets and launchers and an even bigger drone bay (3 light or 1 light and 1 medium). It is a bit light on the low and medium slots but is ok for hislots at 6. This ship is also a bit light on the cargo capacity considering it’s size. You will need a cruiser skill at 3 for this ship. The bonuses of this ship is the medium hybrid turret range and the shield resistances.

Osprey - This is the industrial cruiser for the Caldari people. Not to be confused with industrial ships but if there is a multipurpose ship needed and all you can fly is a Caldari cruiser then this is the ship for you. With bonuses pointing towards support roles such as shield energy transportation, shield recharge and mining laser yields. This ship is slow but has the largest drone bay of the Caldari cruisers, it also has the largest cargo capacity. It can fit up to 3 turrets or 2 launchers in its 4 hislots but has a good spread of slots overall. At Caldari Cruiser skill of 1 this is the easiest cruiser to fly.

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