Tier 5

Hull: 24,750

Shield Modifier: 0.88

Turnrate: 23

Enhanced Battlecloak

Console Layout:
4 Engineering
3 Science
3 Tactical


Costs 5 fleet modules; 1 fleet module if the player owns the regular B'rel Retrofit.


This ships seems great ... except for the console layout. Who the hell needs 4 engineering consoles on a Bird of Prey?

It's going to have Enhanced Battle Cloak for sure? If so, what is the point of having the B'rel Retrofit then?

At least with the Tactical Escort Retrofit, you get the cloak console that can be used with the Fleet Tactical Escort Retrofit.

There is really no point anymore in buying the B'rel Retrofit if you access to a Tier 5 Shipyard. Fleet modules cost around 4-5 million EC on the exchange and are therefore easily obtainable.

But the main question is why does it get a fourth engineering console? Why not science or tactical? It can't tank anyway and it doesn't need an RCS console with its high innate turnrate.

The B'rel Retrofit is mostly under cloak, more armor helps it survives as it GTFO's out of danger.

I would move one of my universal consoles (I think I have a Rule 62 console or Assimilated Module in one of the Sci slots) to the 4th Engineering slot.

Then I'd put it another Flow Capacitor to boost my Tachyon Beam 3 and Aceton Assimilator drains. I could consider putting in a Particle Generator console to boost the Aceton Assimilator radiation damage as well.

Or get that Zero-Point Energy Conduit console.

This doesn't really matter. It gets destroyed when shot at thanks to the low hullpoints of BoP's in general, even a fourth armor console won't change that.

could always stick a universal console in instead

Tac or Sci console would be more welcome on the glass cannon. Fourth eng console or not, it will explode as soon as someone looks funny at it.

I'll get it regardless, just love the B'rel. Maybe the isometric charge will find it's way onto this ship

5 Fleet Modules, not the normal 4?

Still this thing is, even without the EBC, superior to the Hegh'ta. Sweet.

Glass cannon award now goes to the Fleet BoP at Tier shipyard III ... the one with LESS hull than a frakkin runabout.