Myrmidon

Worried that their hot-shot pilots would burn brightly in their eagerness to engage the enemy, the Federation Navy created a ship that encourages caution over foolhardiness. A hardier version of its counterpart, the Myrmidon is a ship designed to persist in battle. Its numerous medium and high slots allow it to slowly bulldoze its way through the opposition, while its massive drone space ensures that no enemy is left unscathed.

The Myrmidon is one of the most survivable and cheap T1 hulls in the game. Able to tank an astonishing amount of incoming damage and win drawn out fights when other hulls would gas out long before the Myrmidon. The hull shows its age due to the low mobility. But in a long protracted fight where you can get tackle it will still shine. Below is an example of one of, if not the most, famous fits in EVE.

The Myrmidon is the next in the drone boat line of Gallente ships. It sits between the Vexor and Dominix. Its bonuses allow for a very strong armor tank, but a shield tank is not only possible but also effective given the right fittings. Prior to the introduction of drone bandwidth the Myrmidon could field 5 Heavy Drones, but now it can only field 4. Much like the other ships in the droneboat line, very good drone skills are a must for the Myrmidon

Because of the drones, the Myrm is a brilliant ship to use in PVE, because you can fight frigates to battlecruisers with ease from 40+km away. Recommended for mission levels 2-3. Not often recommended in PVP, but with a shield tank it can almost be compared with the drake in terms of stats, so it makes a nice surprise bait ship. Because the Myrm's ship hull doesn't give bonuses to hybrid weapons, many players use autocannons/artillery cannons on the Myrm for better cap stability. Note: To get the maximum theoretical dps out of the 100 mbps drone bandwidth, use a group of 3 heavy and 2 medium drones. Depending on the situation however, 5 medium drones might be preferable because of the slow travel time of heavy drones.

Gallente Battlecruiser Skill Bonuses (Per Skill Level):

• 10% bonus to Drone hitpoints and damage
• 7.5% bonus to Armor Repairer amount

Role Bonus:

• Can use one Command Burst module
• 12.5% bonus to Drone microwarp velocity
• 50% bonus to Command Burst area of effect range

• Gallente Battlecruiser I
  • Spaceship Command III
  • Gallente Cruiser III
    • Spaceship Command II
    • Gallente Destroyer III
      • Gallente Frigate III
        • Spaceship Command I

The Oxford Sneaker is a ratting fit first described by Diplo/DoYouEvenLiftBro/Bulge-in-Chief Dran Arcana. He made a really long, cool post about how to use it but the last time I went to the effort of making a theorypost into readable wiki content the meta changed and I don't feel like doing that again so yeah read about it here if you must.

The tl;tl;dr;dir is this:

0. Use one of the below fits

1. Activate shit in warp or when you land
2. Lock up all the things
3. wait for the rats to start aggressing you
4. pick a rat and ewar it
5. launch drones and send them at a rat
6. use autotarget if you want
7. set orbit and turn on your AB

Time to channel your inner Steve Santini and think about the following

• Are you scrammed? if not just align to something tetherable and MJD
• Are you scrammed? If yes scram him back and turn on neuts to cap him out and then MJD
• Remember how you have a 100mn ab? yeah you'll drift out of cyno traps and anything slow don't worry just MJD
• Did I mention you have a scram, neuts, and an MJD?
• You actually can't die unless you're not paying attention, you'll be fine don't be a coward, idiot

Reccommended - The ChADMidon is a tweaked variant made to be easier on cap/piloting skills for alts to use on the frontline.

[Myrmidon, ChADMidon]

Reactive Armor Hardener
Medium Armor Repairer II
Multispectrum Energized Membrane II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Cap Recharger II
Warp Scrambler II
Large Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery
Medium Micro Jump Drive
100MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner

Medium Infectious Scoped Energy Neutralizer
Small Energy Neutralizer II
Auto Targeting System I
Drone Link Augmentor I
Drone Link Augmentor I

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Ancillary Current Router I

Hornet EC-300 x5
Praetor II x6
Warrior II x5

The Oxford Sneaker (Requires Higher Skills / Good Piloting; small damage boost)

[Myrmidon, Oxford Sneaker]

Reactive Armor Hardener
Medium Armor Repairer II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Cap Recharger II
Warp Scrambler II
Large Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery
Medium Micro Jump Drive
100MN Y-S8 Compact Afterburner

Medium Energy Neutralizer II
Auto Targeting System I
Drone Link Augmentor I
Drone Link Augmentor I
Small Energy Neutralizer II

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Ancillary Current Router I

Hornet EC-300 x5
Praetor II x6
Warrior II x5

[Myrmidon, Ratting Myrm - Deklein Shield Speed]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Damage Control II

100MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II
Large Cap Battery II
Multispectrum Shield Hardener II
Medium Shield Booster II

Drone Link Augmentor I
Drone Link Augmentor I
[Empty High slot]
[Empty High slot]
Auto Targeting System I

Medium Thermal Shield Reinforcer I
Medium Kinetic Shield Reinforcer I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I



Hornet EC-300 x5
Wasp II x5
Vespa II x5

Tracking Speed Script x1
Optimal Range Script x1