Whats the best ship for the job?
There are a number of ships and setups availible for tanking sentries. The favoured ship type, because of the raw damage, is the battleship. While a battleship can be set up to tank the sentries constantly with Tech 2 gear and capacitor boosters or nosferatu, once those limited resources run dry, your tank will fail. In addition, any damage your enemy deals, should he decide to fight back, tears chunks straight out of your ship’s hit point reserve. Alternatives include using dual-BS setups, some of which I have found are quite amazing, and running the tank off a can full of cap 800s. However, there are other choices. The weightings in damage types dealt by sentries were developed to account for Tech 1 ships – if they dealt mostly EM or explosive, shields and armour would each be able to harden against their weak point and end up tanking sentries easilly. Kinetic and thermal damage is considered raw damage, since armour and shield resist it roughly equally. This, however, is not true fo
