Unique Ships - Freki and Utu Assault Frigates

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Amarr Magnate Frigates

Unlike the Silver and Gold Magnates which are essentially advanced Tech I frigs, the Freki and Utu are advanced Tech II assault frigates making them some of the most powerful frigates in the game.

Freki

We'll start with the Minmatar Freki. There were 50 blueprint copies awarded to the second place team in the 7th Alliance Tournament and the ship is based on the popular Rifter hull. Its bonuses are:

Minmatar Frigate Skill Bonus:

• 12.5% Small Projectile Turret damage bonus per level
• 30% bonus to Stasis Webifier range per level

Special Ability:

• 50% Small Projectile Turret falloff and optimal range bonus
• 75% Afterburner and MWD capacitor consumption bonus 

Also worth noting is its high AU/sec warp speed of 9, comparable to combat interceptors. I fit out a Freki in a typical combat heavy tackler role.

As you can see, it sports a decent combination of speed, agility, defence, and DPS but what is really impressive is the 25 kilometer webifier range. One could even consider dropping the warp scrambler (let someone else do it) and going with two webs like a mini Rapier or Huginn. The afterburner gives the ship an impressive speed while maintaining a minuscule signature radius making it hard to hit, and except for the Kinetic hole it has decent armour resistances with only one EANM II and an explosive hardener.

Utu

The Gallente Utu runs in a similar vein. It was just recently awarded as 50 blueprint copies to the second place team of the 8th Alliance Tournament and it has bonuses to damage and warp scrambler/disruptor range:

Gallente Frigate Skill Bonus:

• 10% bonus to drone damage per level
• 10% bonus to warp scrambler and warp disruptor range per level

Special Ability:

• 50% bonus to small hybrid turret optimal range and tracking per level
• 50% reduction in the amount of heat damage absorbed by modules per level 

Very interesting is the overheating bonus which I've only seen on Strategic Cruisers before. Anyways, the Utu has a nice 75 m3 drone bay and 25 mb bandwidth so three flights of your favourite light drones are in order. The armour resistances are a bit higher than the Freki so I threw an overdrive injector in there to give it more speed.

The war scrambler gets up to 13.5 kilometers (instead of 9 regularly) and the DPS is incredible at 253 (with perfect skills of course). She's a mean one.