eve-wiki-content/content/ships/gallente/battleships/megathron.md

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Summary

The Megathron is a gun boat, specializing in large hybrid turrets, and being something of a spiritual successor to the Thorax and Catalyst. With 4 mid slots and 8 lows, it is almost exclusively armor-tanked, and can mount a thick armor buffer or a respectable active tank (though it lacks the Hyperion's active tank bonus). It has the bandwidth and drone bay to field either a flight of 3 heavy drones or full flights of both light and medium drones to add to its DPS.

In fleet combat Megathrons are usually fitted with railguns which can reach very good ranges due to spike ammunition; at the same time the application is decent due to the bonus to tracking speed. Besides that, it can also be used as a high-DPS brawler.

The Megathron is also traditionally used to roll wormholes. This is because with the old wormhole mechanics it was favorable to have a ship mass of just under 100 kt before fitting. In comparison to the other options the Megathron has many low slots for tank, and enough mid slots for a range of prop mods.

Skills

Like any battleship, the Megathron is a substantial step up from cruisers and battlecruisers, and benefits from good fitting skills and general support skills. Gunnery support skills and armor tank skills are especially helpful; being able to mount Tech 2 armor tank modules increases the ship's survivability.

Tech 2 hybrid turrets are not an absolute must for a new Megathron pilot, but they are a desirable medium-term goal for anyone seriously using the ship, as they increase DPS and allow the use of T2 ammo. They are gated through the long trains of Large Hybrid Turret V, Motion Prediction V (T2 blasters) and Sharpshooter V (T2 railguns).

Tactics

No sub-article about Megathron roles or piloting tactics. You can write them here.

Notes

The Megathron has had relatively high-profile coverage reaching beyond the EVE player community. The insistence of a player named "Baltec1" on flying the ship developed a memetic force within the culture of Goonswarm, who eventually named a railgun doctrine fit the "Baltec Megathron" in his honor.

History

Historically, the Megathron was a fixture of sniper fleets in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Although outranged by the Apocalypse and Rokh, the Megathron was preferred in most circumstances due to its unique combination of armor tank, tracking and rate-of-fire bonuses, and good drone capacity.