Missions & Complexes

I'm currently running a drake to do mostly lvl 3 mission and have a goal of getting at some point in a golem. I am currently skilling my way up for battleship but all Caldari ship seems to favor Cruise missile while the Golem looks more like a torpedo boat. Is it the most efficient stepping stone to still go the cruise missile way while skilling and then switching to torpedo or am I missing something?

1. Cruises. The thing is you can train cruise missiles because CNR uses them very well. You'll have like ~700 DPS with like 120+km range which is a life-saver for many missions.

2. Torpedoes. You use Torps only on Stealth Bombers and Golem. In other words Torps are not the good thing to use if you're in the wrong ship and this weapon system is a little bit crappy. Almost anything outperforms them.

3. Marauders. Golem is the Torp boat and performs very bad when fitted with anything but Torps. The sad thing is Golem is the worst marauder and if you can you should train for something else. Why Golem is bad? 2 things kill this ship's performance:
a) Torps. As I said before, this weap system is bad. Guns outperform them in almost every situation.
b) Painters. You are to use Painters on Golem, otherwise it performs worse than a rookie ship. Painters are the bad idea because they have range and cycle time. Cycle time means you have to wait Painter finishing it in order to dps the new target. Range means you loose dps whenever you're out of painter effective range.

So there you have it: if you train Torps you will be able to use them only on 2 types of ships.
If you train for Cruises you'll be able to use CNR/Raven/Navy Scorp.
Or just train for everything and test things out by yourself :D

Don't know if this is the optimal, but I went this way:
Drake -> Raven (2 days) -> CNR (4 months) -> Golem

Don't know what missions people are flying to need the 4 target painters, I can easily do my missions with 2xTP's. The range is the only thing, at it is a big one. With 2xT2 rigs and +6 velocity implant and other Missile skills at V, I can hit with faction torps reliably at 41KM (EFT says 45.4, but it's lying). Because of that, you can do effectively only certain missions. But if every ship in that misc IS in that range - mission goes down fast (I can finish Enemies Abound 3/5 in <25 minutes).
3xVolley per Big BS with no TP, 2xVolley per faster BS with 1xTP, 1x Volley per BC with no TP, 1xVolley per C with 2xTP. And the drones take on all the frigates.

BTW, they buffed torps during last expansion, now they are affected by other missile skills and thus they do more damage with less TP's.

Thanks for all the answer. I guess I'll have to go toward another goal. The support skill are not wasted at least I guess...