Tengu or not Tengu????

[Forgottenheathen]

Just been reading a WH blog and one of the points that's made is:

'Train for a Drake and a Tengu, you will be dissapointed with anything else'

I take it that's Drakes for Combat sites and Tengu for PvP defence?

Discuss

Actually, I kind of more meant it as a natural skill progression, as both ships are shield tanking missile boats.

I've fought against both, and watched them run combat sites in wormholes. I regret not training in either shields or missiles, so hence my statement. If you're a new player, go straight for those, and you'll be happy. And watching a Tengu tank an entire radar/mag site spawn of multiple sleeper battleships goes a long way to making my point. Armor tankers just can't do that. The DPS is just too high and we don't have anything like passive shield regen to help us out.

T3 ship prices have come way down, but losing a 500 mil ship instead of a 1 bil ship is still pretty daunting. But the sheer scare factor of them cannot be overlooked, as at least 60% of combat inside wormholes is in the psychology warfare dept. Which is my dept.

[Grondir]

Yeah, the psychological side of it is something I need to improve (6 retrievers doesn't really intimidate anyone lol). Even when I have my drakes out I still lost my salvage ship to a cloaked myrm.

Think I will eventually train my 4 drake pilots into Tengu's, will just have to finish all the refining training for mining crystals first.