Like their frigates, the Minmatar Cruisers feature a mix of abilities like drone bays and missle launchers. They favour their projectile weaponry and their shields. Most of them are also pretty fast for their class in comparison to the other factions.

Bellicose - This Cruiser is a multipurpose combat vessel. She has a good drone bay (40m3) a solid mix of launcher (3) and turret (3) slots, good slot layout (5,4,3) has a reasonable turn of speed (215m/s) good shields and average armour. At Minmatar Cruiser II and considering she gives bonuses to target painters and medium projectile turret rate of fire, she makes a good escort which is not too hard to fly.

Rupture - First off the Rupture is slow for a Minmatar vessel (200m/s) but considering how powerful this crusier is, thats ok. with superb slot layout (6,3,5), 3 launcher hardpoints, 4 turret hardpoints, a not insignificant 30m3 drone bay, excellent shields, average armour and bonuses to medium projectile turret firing speed and damage, this ship should lay waste to anything that gets too close. At Minmtara Cruiser II though it will take a bit of practice to get the hang of.

Scythe - The Scythe is the easiest Cruiser to fly (Minmatar Cruiser I) she’s also the multipurpose industrial cruiser. She should not be considered an easy target though. With small drone bay (5m3), 2 launcher hardpoints, 3 turret hardpoints and enough hislots (5) to fit them all, this ship can give most pirates a bloody nose. AT 215m/s she’s not exactly slow either. Her general slot layout of 5,3,3 gives her some flexibility and with bonuses to mining laser yield and tracking links (both in range and general bonus).

Stabber - The Stabber is the scaled up version of the Slasher. Fast for a cruiser (235m/s) with bonuses leaning towards Medium Projectile firing speed and max velocity. Slot layout is high heavy at 6,3,3 with 2 launcher and 4 turret hardpoints. She has a small drone bay as well (5m3) and pretty good shields and average armour. AT Minmatar Crusier II she’s also reasonable to fly!

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