Ships & Modules

I don't have any fits for you but I can tell you why that is.

The first is the way the two races tank damage. Shield has a passive regen that can be buffed with mods while using no cap.
Armor always takes cap to run. So its possible to do a site with absolutely no cap whatsoever and you will still regen your tank with shields.

Second is in their weapon systems. Missile range is(on a drake) about 50 km which is usually far enough to hit just about anything. A pulse harbinger for example will struggle with anything beyond 23 km when using scorch. Even when sleepers are out of missile range the time it takes you to get close enough to hit them is usually filled swatting down sleeper frigates and cruisers. Coupled with the fact that they will almost always hit for full or near full damage means your real world dps stays both fairly high and fairly consistent all the way through.

Missiles also require no cap to fire which is important when a lot of the sleepers like to neut, and on unstable capacitors like the amarr that can be very very bad. Forcing you to warp out and back in multiple times, or, if you get capped out before killing the scrambling frigates in some of the c3+ sites, killing your ship.

Shield ships, namely the drake, are fairly newbie friendly when taking the above into consideration. You do not require some special methods or skills to be effective in them. This ease of use makes them popular and also cheap. There is no reason to use a 1 bill paladin if you can do it in a 70 mill drake just as fast or faster.

So... basically for soloing I'm screwed as Amarr then...? That about right?

Well... ****.

Solo you can do C1/C2 in a Harby
C3 solo a legion works well.

Above C3 you generally need a spider tank. I've seen people run C4's in RR legions but RR tengus are more popular.

Wouldn't a HAM Sacrilege also work well?

Fun exercise: try to omnitank an amarr battleship against sleepers. Of course, with cap stability.

As said above harby will easily do c2s and I've done hundreds of c2s in both Drakes and Harbs and a pulse harb is a little harder to get the most out of it but it does a very good job, very comparable to a drake and may even be better in some sites. Zealot is excellent for c2s but it's a lot to spend for a small upgrade from the harb.

As for c3s I hear legions are good but I've never used one so can't say, Seems to me that a zealot would struggle in a c3.

You can passive tank a prophecy and rely on drones for your damage if you wanted to. If I remember right c2 sleeper sites put out something like 300 dps worth of damage. It will take you so long to do the sites though it would be nothing more than an eft lolfest. Baring the neuting sites you could probably make a regular armor prophecy that would work fine. The resist bonus will work wonders for your effective reps. You just need to do some drone management.

Something like this might work in c2's and will be overkill in a c1, though admittedly its been a while since I ran c2's so take it however you like.

[Prophecy, lol]

Damage Control II
Medium Armor Repairer II
Medium Armor Repairer II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II

Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Experimental 10MN Afterburner I

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
[Empty High slot]

Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I


Hammerhead II x5
Garde II x3
Warrior II x5
Hammerhead II x2
Garde II x2

You have about 16 minutes of cap running nothing but your reppers. Which you will only need to do briefly on the final waves. Reps about 350 so you should be ok. Damage is mostly in your drones but its still good for about 390dps which is enough to run 1's and 2's. Only run the burner when you need it. Just slowboat along the rest of the time.

That's the same tank setup I run on my Harb so you can easily drop the damage control/a resist mod for another damage mod, remember you can speed tank the BSs even in a propless BC.

Edit//
Actually i just noticed the 2 aux nano pumps, the setup i run is dual rep, 2 enams and a dcu on a harb so that prophecy is quite overtanked for c2s, id drop a nano pump for a ccc so you dont have to worry about cap and switch a enam/dcu for a damage mod.

Zealot is really fun for C2s and efficient as well, but it costs alot more than a BC and the difference in performance between a Harb and a Zealot isn't very big and as you're in a WH, you can lose your Zealot at any time. You get better gun dps, range and speed on a Zealot but the Harb has more max dps and half the time spent doing C2s is shooting BS as those have huge tanks so they end up evening out quite close.

Its kind of crazy that he had to throw buffer on a repping ship just to give himself some breathing room.