and THIS is where mods come in. robberflies and courier corvettes make up my extremely fast fleet of skirmishers, lashers, wolves and sidecars (most of them captured) make up my cheap throwaway fleets (as well as semi expendable cannon fodder in massive battles also involving larger ships), and tempests, various phase frigates and scarab heavy frigates make up my heavy hitting frigate fleet, sometimes lead by a fast phase destroyer with augmented engines (revrent, medusa, or virtually anything high end from citadel or blackrock.) also, they earned the nickname white rock crack yards because without fail, their frigates and destroyers are all either insanely fast for their size, or obscenely overpowered (somewhat balanced-ish by their very high operating cost and other factors.)
frigates are fun and fast, but sometimes you gotta mess around with the big boys too, so long as they can keep up. which the reverent cant without augmented engines, but dont fear, almost anything else i listed can.
