Ships & Modules

If I may ask, why not look at the Vargur? It does well in any space and can be flown in a style closer to the Mach. Between the 2, Paladin if in amarr space. Kronos excels well against Guristas/Serpentis.

Thank you for the fast replies. I have nothing against the Vargur. I was just thinking of changing-up what I played for fun. I do not know much about Marauders; if the Vargur is a better choice I will look into it more.

Cheers :)

Paladin; and never look back.

I love the Marauders as a class and think what they have done with them is brilliant. The Paladin really is the stand out Marauder for me especially in Amarr space.

Instant changing of ammo, huge optimal ranges and a balanced resist profile mean it really is a versatile BS platform.

I've tested all 3 gunnery based marauders, and I can say they all have their strenght and weakness. Mind, all marauders are similar, and we are talking more of personal tastes of flying, rather than a clear winner.

A paladin also don't use ammos, unless you go faction / T2, which remove the part of restocking your cargo with ammunition and having to build / craft your own. The damage type dealt by this ship is often the worst around, but she makes it up with the best damage projection of all three marauders.

A kronos have enough bandwidth and drone bay to host two sentry guns, and considering the fact marauders have 3 high powered slots to customize at your heart content, you can fit a large or medium remote armour rep to lessen the chance of losing one. The damage type of the hybrid guns and their damage application is quite good, and wont let you down in any situation.

A vargur is the only marauder that can perform well at medium range (55km - 70 km) with short range weapons, in this case the 800mm autocannons. Using the plus 20% tracking ammos you are sure you'll have no problem to hit fast targets or simply rats that manage to get too close, while faction fusion ammo can easly net you 950 - 1k dps. The only issue is you are going to be always in your falloff, so in the end your effective dps is going to be similar to the kronos. If you don't like being in falloff, you can use the artillery setup, which will perform just fine.

All marauder have issues in dealing with elite frigates in missions, and unless you snipe them down, you'll have to rely on your drones to finish them off. You can also use a Large Micro Jump Drive to return into a sniping range and finish them off, but I believe this is the least efficent way.

Hope it helped

after flying a mach a vargur is just plain boring.

as for paladin vs Kronos I'd say it really just depends on what you shoot most often. Imo the fit that goes on is pretty much the same, loads of damage mods, as many tracking comps as you can, and then a sensor booster. Bring a mobile depot so you can swap between MWD, MJD, and close/long range weapons as needed. Maybe worth bringing a cap injector with some charges too.

Considering we're talking about PvE it makes sense that the PvE centric "special snowflakes" would be competitive with their pirate counterparts. Personally I find that for me the marauders have more to offer in a total PvE package.

fly what you enjoy. i had a nm and sold it for a paladin. paladin is super tank sniper but is stationary. does the job but is boaring as a brick. miss my nm called her Marie

One of my characters fly a Paladin, this is the only marauder I can fly and I chose it for the large effective range of Mega Pulse.
Turn out that because of the damage profile of Scorch (EM), I find the ship to be more effective with Tachyon and a MJD/MWD dualprop.
Hybrid have a damage profile that is much more versatile than lasers (à lot of factions are weak to Kin and/or Therm) , for this reason I believe the Kronos is the better choice.
If I had to do it again I would have trained for a Kronos or Vargur instead of Paladin.

The perk of marauders vs Pirate BS is the Bastion module that nullify Ewar.
And the fact that you can get a solid tank for either less slots or much less Isk.

I use an MJD all the time on my Golem... saves having to chew on cap boosters like they are Tums.

if you aren't blitzing the assault, you're doing it wrong™. if you are, the damage type is barely relevant, since you only need to kill ~80000EHP worth of rats.


three TCs with tracking scripts will have you reliably hit anything that is not an orbiting frigate, especially if you use gleam. no need to waste eight seconds to jump outside of high damage crystal range only to then have to jump back.


in this case 'tricky' is a euphemism for 'fucking annoying'. rails just don't cut it as far as tracking goes. they do come close to tach tracking, but don't quite reach it and the paper dps is lower than a cruise raven's.