Ships & Modules

You're going to find MOST Legion fits don't do that well in fours.

Legion just isn't a logical choice for lvl 4 missions, there's several reasons

- no drones, this means you have to heavily adapt your fit to deal with upclose tacklers and spider drones, this very much affects your performance against larger/ranged targets
- the extra T2 resists don't mesh well with the laser damage types so if you mostly get Sansha/BR missions (which you should) then you need a lot of slots to get your tank to work
- dps isn't brilliant to begin with, neither is the range

You're simply better off with an Abaddon, Navy Geddon or Paladin.

[Legion, Missions]
Armor EM Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Centum A-Type Medium Armor Repairer
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink

Large Capacitor Battery II
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range Script
10MN Afterburner II

Heavy Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Conflagration M

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Nanobot Accelerator I
Medium Anti-Thermic Pump I

Legion Defensive - Nanobot Injector
Legion Electronics - Tactical Targeting Network
Legion Engineering - Capacitor Regeneration Matrix
Legion Offensive - Liquid Crystal Magnifiers
Legion Propulsion - Fuel Catalyst

With navy multifrequency + tracking speed scripts I bed to differ chump

you guys are cute.

L4 Missions are a round hole, the Legion is a square peg. I love the Legion but its just not designed for missioning.

Use a BS. Cheaper and less frustrating. I would suggest a Napoc personally. Although its not really much cheaper its certainly better suited for the task.

Not many even use the HML Tengu in lvl 4's so, Legion, far less.

Talk about an end to the thread :D

[Legion, L4]
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Federation Navy Co-Processor
Imperial Navy Heat Sink
Imperial Navy Heat Sink

Corelum A-Type 10MN Afterburner
Gist C-Type X-Large Shield Booster
Gist A-Type EM Ward Field
Gist A-Type Thermic Dissipation Field
Omnidirectional Tracking Link II

Heavy Beam Laser II, Multifrequency M
Heavy Beam Laser II, Multifrequency M
Heavy Beam Laser II, Multifrequency M
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit II
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit II
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I

Legion Defensive - Augmented Plating
Legion Electronics - Dissolution Sequencer
Legion Engineering - Capacitor Regeneration Matrix
Legion Offensive - Drone Synthesis Projector
Legion Propulsion - Chassis Optimization


Hammerhead II x5

Only problem with that setup, aside from the fact that it's a legion and using relatively "gank me now" modules, is that the rigs are overkill. The whole ship is cap-stable. You can make the tank (afterburner and booster) stable by using just T1 CCCs leaving the guns to cap you out of course, and doing 2 T2 CCC rigs and a shield EM rig will keep the tank stable and boost it as well. The problem with that, however, is that a shield resistance rig on an armor tanked setup, which you'll probably do later, is pretty useless. That's ignoring the boost in signature radius and the (minimal) effect it will have on damage taken. If a battleship can speed tank L4s moving at only 300m/s at best and with a 440 DPS tank then a T3 cruiser pushing 740m/s with a 370 DPS tank ought to be able to do it as well.

All in all were I to use a legion in L4s I'd use a build like that rather than trying to use some sort of gun (or HAM) based build, though in all fairness you could probably push a slightly cheaper HAM variant of that build through with nearly 87% of the raw DPS and against any NPC not weak to EM/thermal probably more effective DPS than the drone synthesis variant.

[Legion, L4 HAMs]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Co-Processor II
Co-Processor II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Corelum A-Type 10MN Afterburner
Gist C-Type X-Large Shield Booster
Gist A-Type EM Ward Field
Gist A-Type Thermic Dissipation Field

Dread Guristas Heavy Assault Missile Launcher, Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Dread Guristas Heavy Assault Missile Launcher, Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Dread Guristas Heavy Assault Missile Launcher, Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Dread Guristas Heavy Assault Missile Launcher, Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile
Dread Guristas Heavy Assault Missile Launcher, Mjolnir Heavy Assault Missile

Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I

Legion Defensive - Augmented Plating
Legion Electronics - Dissolution Sequencer
Legion Engineering - Capacitor Regeneration Matrix
Legion Offensive - Assault Optimization
Legion Propulsion - Chassis Optimization

Hmm. Don't think I like how well those missiles would fare against really small targets though. Could switch to 2 T2 rigor rigs and a T2 flare rig and upgrade one CPU to a FedNav variant to increase the rDPS->eDPS conversion I suppose, but if you get into a mission where you have to run the booster for any length you'll have issues after two minutes. On the flip side if you spring for 4 CalNav BCUs (or DG) you'll get a whopping 6.3% increase in rDPS *and* be able to use just two T1 CPU modules. Or you could spend even more money, put an even bigger "gank me now" flag over your head, fit a FN CPU, and have an extra low slot for something else like another propulsion mod as 8 CPU isn't much to work with on a shield-tanked ship.

That won't work. Rigors don't work on HAMs.

Also, ugh. L4 Legion.

Bleh, yeah, point. Forgot about that.




Much as I'd rather use a curse as an L4 Amarr drone ship or a sacrilege as an L4 HAM ship I have to admit that the legion is at least viable in L4s.