I had considered Ishtars, but I was worried CCP was going to hit them with a nerfbat, given their popularity. For now I am training up 6x Vexor Navy Issue pilots and 2x Osprey pilots on a ~40 day skill plan. The goal will be to start in a C3 and faceroll sites while I get up to speed on multiboxing two pilot types and 8 in total.

Not sure what will be next. Ishtars would work, as I'm training drone skills, and your point about sig tanking would be pretty useful. The battleship hull I'm contemplating now is the Hyperion. 125mbit drone bandwidth, decent rail dps, option to use a flight of lights/mediums for frigate killing, decent amount of buffer, and stupid cheap. My current fit is ~260m, entire fleet will run just over 1.5b but pump nearly 6x the DPS of my Vargur.

Good idea on feeding cap from the DPS boats to the logi. Also thanks for the info re: T1 logi.

Are your Ishtars armor or shield fit? Guessing armor, or you're running a super tight 2 slot shield tank?