Ships & Modules

I think you're very invested with your mission battleship choices. This is what I saw with the various mission ships:

Golem:
- Sometimes the rats spawn out of range. This generally sucks but if you're spamming triggers it's generally not a big deal.
- Sometimes you miscount volleys, which is why I always preferred 2x missile velocity rigs to the vel + time rig combo. I was immensely gratified when that caught on. :)
- Sometimes you lose a painter cycle to falloff, which can make it take 2 volleys to kill a BC. :(
- You have to manage a rack of painters, which is quite a lot of multitasking if you're trying to loot+salvage too.
- Looting/Salvaging is generally easy because you're pretty well guaranteed that everything's in tractor range.
- The damage application is stellar against anything above destroyer sized.
- Pure damage type selection is great.
- Ammo is moderately expensive but overall it's just not a big deal. The real problem is that torps are just freaking enormous and so supply runs kinda suck.
- For whatever reason I didn't have much trouble with the Golem and jamming rats. I think it's because missions vs Guristas have relatively few jamming rats where Caldari State missions have entire ******* waves of jamming rats.

Vargur:
- Sensor strength means fighting against Caldari State and Guristas really sucks. It's very, worthwhile to stack 2x ECCM in place of your 2 TCs.
- You can really feel the damage reduction at range. You can mitigate the problem by spamming all the frigates.
- Caldari State, Guristas, certain drone missions, etc spawn at range and have high explosive resists. But, it was still a better choice to use Barrage than faction ammo.
- Damage type selection isn't as nice as I'd really like. Specifically the lack of a high damage kin heavy ammo kinda hurts.
- Faction ammo with an AC Vargur is actually somewhat reasonable in all respects. I didn't generally use faction ammo because transporting it to Stain via wormholes was kinda annoying.
- Tracking disruption (Sansha mostly, maybe Amarr too?) is kinda annoying...

Maelstrom:
- Just like the Vargur, except with worse range.
- The problems with damage type selection hurt a lot more because you're forced into Barrage earlier.
- Faction ammo with the Maelstrom is quite expensive.

Domi:
- Missions against Serpentis with their heavy damping are hiiilarious. Eat a drone, jerks!
- Sentry drones tie you down - sometimes this is a big deal when there's gates and sometimes it isn't a big deal.
- I've seen both Ogres and Gardes kill one ship and then immediately volley the trigger. That's always fun when you're running a full gank domi because they're a bit thin.
- Don't underestimate your gun damage - it's critical to timely mission completion.
- The Domi is great for AFK missioning.

Tengu:
- OMG you use so many missiles... so many... so so many...
- Fury or T1 missiles, faction is pure ******* madness.
- Damage type selection makes shooting EM rats kinda crappy.
- Poor damage application against frigs and no drones to help out. It's generally more worthwhile to fit a web than a painter due to cycle times and the range frigs orbit at.
- It's fast and agile with a great tank.

Meh, I could probably go on but it's almost time to officially start working.

You're obviously way more emotionally invested in your mission ships than I am, so you win! Maelstrom / Vargur is better than Tengu, Golem, CNR, Domi, Mach, Nightmare, etc against all enemies and have no down sides!

-Liang

Ed: PS, sort your overview on transversal in a turret ship. Then snipe the frigs with low transversal. :)

What fit are you rolling with? I kept thinking I wanted to try a nano torp Fleet Typhoon for giggles. :)

-Liang

Nice, thanks! Looks like a fun little setup. A bit nano with some gank out of those autocannons. :)

-Liang

Yeah, I know. It still looks like fun. Well, as much fun as L4 missioning can be.... ;-)

-Liang

Yup. It's my personal favorite for running L4s when I can be asked to do so. It throws incredible damage point blank and is fast enough to balance enough range to mitigate damage while still staying close enough not to lose much to falloff. They're on the pricey side of course but one will pay for itself.

Stick with the Domi or pick up the Megathron if you want a more hands on ship. It takes a looooong time to flesh out Battleship skills and jumping from Gallente ( Armour, Turrets ) to Caldari ( Shields, Missiles ) is literally starting over your training completely from scratch.

This, it could not be more true. And to add to this, a Domi is a great AFKing ship too, meaning you can do more missions while sitting around watching TV or whatever.

Couldn't have said it better myself.