Ships & Modules

The Ishtar is your boy.

EDIT: Read the bit about Sleepers taking out drones. Personally, though its hard, I've never lost more than a couple of drones, and there is plenty of room for spares in an Ishtar. I spent a lot of time on drones skills though, as I'm a solo player myself, and the Ishtart bonus helps a tonne. You'll want to carry a small remote reppers for the drones though. If you find your still getting heavies beaten up, use beserkers as they are the fastest

Is a Gila a good ship to use on top of the Ishtar? Also could anyone help me with a Proteus and/or Tengu fit that could pull of what i am seeking?

Just keep in mind it needs a Probe Bay (Preferably Expanded Sisters), Salvager (II), Codebreaker (II), and Analyzer (II). That the ship needs to be able to run Level 3 Missions/Complexes Solo and run C3 Wormholes solo, as well as be able to Ninja. I have seen it pulled off with Ishtar's and Gila's as well as Proteus's and Tengu's.

So if anyone has fits for those four ships that fit what I am looking for, that I can use for my ship, please help.

What about this fit, would it do the job of Level 3/C3 Complex/Mission/Wormhole running, if not what should I change?

[Tengu]

Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

Medium Capacitor Battery II
Medium Ancillary Shield Booster, Navy Cap Booster 100
Medium Ancillary Shield Booster, Navy Cap Booster 100
EM Ward Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
10MN Afterburner II

'Smokescreen' Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
'Sisters' Expanded Probe Launcher I, Sisters Core Scanner Probe I
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Scourge Rage Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Scourge Rage Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Scourge Rage Assault Missile
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher II, Scourge Rage Assault Missile

Medium Warhead Calefaction Catalyst I
Medium Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Medium Hydraulic Bay Thrusters I

Tengu Defensive - Supplemental Screening
Tengu Electronics - Emergent Locus Analyzer
Tengu Engineering - Augmented Capacitor Reservoir
Tengu Offensive - Covert Reconfiguration
Tengu Propulsion - Interdiction Nullifier

Codebreaker/Analyzer/Salvager are all in the Cargo hold so when needed I can fly back for refit

Covert/Null/Afterburner are to get past gate camps and to do sneak and kill on Ratts.

This isn't going to work. And frankly I don't see any Tengu fit that can cram all of your goals together.

Your problems are legion. First, any time you use the Covert Reconfiguration you're going to lose a huge chunk of damage. For any serious combat you need an Accelerated Ejection Bay.

Second, the combination of Emergent Locus Analyzer and Interdiction Nullifier leaves you short on lows -- which you need to increase your damage. Again, a Tengu fit for combat will want at least three BCUs and will preferably have the option to fit four.

Third, HAMs aren't helping you as much as you think. They have gimped range compared to HMs, which is a problem because one of the huge advantages a Tengu has over other T3s is damage projection (also helped by the Accelerated Ejection Bay). More importantly, they have trouble applying that damage to cruisers and smaller, and lots of the rats you're looking to shoot fall in to that category. As a bonus, Rigors don't do anything for unguided missiles, making that a wasted rig slot.

Furthermore, you're trying to get by on four launchers. For combat sites, wormholes, etc. you want six. Your damage doesn't add up to enough to break many low sec overseers, and that's providing you get far enough to even encounter them.

Fourth, relying on ASBs for roaming exploration is just bad. You need a constant supply of cap boosters to keep your tank running and there's simply no way to carry enough plus ammunition to go through more than a site or two (again, if we're talking serious combat and not non-wormhole professional sites).

Fifth, you're slow. Again, this is the Interdiction Nullifier's fault.

Sixth, your rigs are a mess. Calefaction Catalysts are almost always an inferior choice to Bay Loading Accelerators. The extra 2.8km you get from the Bay Thrusters are probably needed but still fall well short of the 70-110km a Tengu should have as basic operating range. And as noted, Rigors don't work on HAMs.

So all in all, no, this will not do what you want. No single Tengu build will do what you want. If you want to daytrip into C1/C2/possibly C3s, you can build a Tengu for that but don't expect it to run professional sites and don't expect it to be nullified or have a covops cloak. If you want to roam low sec fit up a travel/probing/covops fit and carry a combat reconfiguration. If you want to do null professional sites you can get away with a cloaky/nullified fit but don't expect it to run combat sites.

And honestly, practice fitting on less finicky ships. T3s require that you know quite a bit about how different modules interact. Being able to fit ships where are

Ok changed some things

[Tengu]
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

Medium Capacitor Battery II
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Shield Boost Amplifier II
Small Shield Booster II
EM Ward Field II
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II
10MN Afterburner II

'Smokescreen' Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
'Sisters' Expanded Probe Launcher II, Sisters Combat Scanner Probe I
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile

Medium Warhead Calefaction Catalyst I
Medium Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Medium Hydraulic Bay Thrusters I

Tengu Defensive - Supplemental Screening
Tengu Electronics - Emergent Locus Analyzer
Tengu Engineering - Augmented Capacitor Reservoir
Tengu Offensive - Covert Reconfiguration
Tengu Propulsion - Interdiction Nullifier

Now what do I still have wrong? And what should I swap out? I am keeping my subsystems I have a reason for using them, that includes the cloak and probe bay. So what can I do to boost this fit up to handle what I seek to do?

Thanks, believe me, even though it may look bad, I have managed to make worse fits fly pretty well in Solo PvE. I was just looking for ways to up my chances is all. Also does anyone know of an good program other than EFT to use? EFT I feel is skewing the numbers a little and some equipment is missing from its listings.

Thanks again.