The Megathron is a fine ship, but I was used to drone boats. I felt not courageous enough to go back to a standard Dominix as I’ve seen what initial damage flows in some missions. Then I skipped through the Navy versions which are now on the regular market. The Mega Navy Issue was just a heavy armored Mega. Ok, one low slot more. Nothing fancy. On the other hand, the Navy Domi had the same tank numbers as the Mega plus it had reasonable drone space. So in a mid night playing mood and after a bit number shuffling in EFT I bought:
A SHUTTLE !!!
But only to jump into it and fly to Jita, buying the cheapest Navy Domi on the market. As I knew from EFT, I could shield tank the Navy Domi. This leaves some low slots free to fit magnetic stabilizers and tracking enhancers. EFT says this gives a 50% higher turret dps than the Mega, but you cant top the tracking bonus of the latter. That I then compensated sacrificing the AB and putting in a target painter (makes your drones happy too). As a side effect this freed a lot of power and capacitor resources so I could even fit a large shield booster, perma-running at 217dps.
Running level 4 (high sec) missions in “The Shoe” feels safe and comfortable.
Update: Recon Part 1 got quite hairy. Six battleships are a lot to tank. They ate 6 berserker I drones and repeatedly forced me to warp out and doing some armor repair. Well, 10.5 million in bounties and 1.5 million in rewards are kind of compensation.
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February 13, 2011 at 8:06 am
evehermit
You should be able to tank 6 BS relatively comfortably. I played around in EFT and could set up T2 shield or armor Navy Issue Domi’s that could tank 400-500+ dps cap stable (although only with a full rack of dual 250mm Rail guns.) Tanking for only two resists and selective use of cheaper faction modules should allow 350mm Rail guns. (And armor would be my choice, given its 30% bigger buffer in case of oops moments.)
February 13, 2011 at 5:30 pm
DerMuffin
Of course, you are right. The restrictions for my fitting were: reuse the low & mid slot modules from the Myrm and reuse the 425mm-rails from the Mega. Plus the large booster this gave the mentioned 200dps tank. To use the rails I had to use one (somehow expensive) ancillary current router rig
I rechecked it in EFT some minutes ago: when replacing the low slots with cap power relays and power diagnostic systems, thus reducing turret dps and tracking I can perma run two large shield boosters and four shield hardeners achieving a 400-500dps tank and still have the 425mm rails fitted. I’ll check this setup next time I get that mission.