32 feathers in my brand-new Indian headdress
32 new moons shining in 32 skies -(TMBG)
So finally I finish the long walk to Amarr Cruiser level V. It’s been a rather arduous journey toward a predefined goal that I set for myself and managed to talk another into. The completion of AC-V represents one of the milestone events that we discussed as being a relevant stepping stone along the heavily wooded path. It allowed for a bit of shiny in the midst of an otherwise long journey. Hopefully the last 10-15 days of training will fly by in comparison.
The upshot of AC-V is that it opens up the line of Tech 2 cruisers from the Empire for exploration and exploitation. Now I can fit and fly Her Highness‘ [no real devotion mind you - she just owns the flim-flamming Empire of Squirrels] logistics ships and can fly the Amarrian recons, but only with a Tech 1 fit. It seems rather pointless to fly a T2 ship with T1 gear. It’s rather analogous to giving special forces commandos Nerf® battle gear [That's another post!]. The T2 remote armor repairers and energy transfers will find a use, and only become more so as soon as I wrap up training for Logistics IV.
So I hit the shops and find a sweet deal on a Guardian that someone was trying to dump in Lonetrek [Amarr ships are cheaper in the State?] and flitted over to pick it up. After picking up the ship, I used some fairly ugly, low-meta, named, mission looted, gear to fit a tank on it for transport to my main hangar. I flew it quickly as I could from gate to gate, desperately hoping that anyone looking to bite into a yummy T2 cruiser would prefer ganking a Hulk to my new shiny. The trip was uneventful and I was able to even snap a couple of touristy images from the camera drones.
The whole exercise might be one in pointless futility unless I can settle on a more tanky fit that I think will allow for WH survival. Maybe the dual Guardian-lock could survive incoming Sleeper fire given the higher resists. If any of you have used Guardians in fleets against the wormhole denizens, I would be interested in your thoughts about what to slap on it.
Sometimes people will put a best named tech 1 fit on their t2 ships, either for fitting, performance or financial reasons. It doesn’t always work, but depending on the ship it can be an option sometimes
Hey Thanks! I don’t have a lot of experience with using a Guardian, and the fitting is one of those things that I’m relying on others for advice. It’s expensive to buy, fly and lose them. :s
Have a look at some of the battleclinic fitouts. A lot of them are really crap, but there are some good ones in there that will give you some ideas for starting points
If it turns out, as I suspect, that the Damnation’s warfare links are not terribly needed in our small fleets, and the ship is mostly to make me look pretty and menacing in equal quantities, I’ll be happy to jump in a twinned Guardian to be more effective.
Kename,
I fly the Guardian in RR fleets as well as solo to support armor tanking mission runners. However I also have Logistics V now and that makes a huge difference. I do not have much experience fighting sleepers however the following fit is solid and battle tested quite a few times. Works for Logistics skill IV and without Logi IV you should stay away from any logi cruiser. Some would say the same without Logi V, but I am not quite that prejudicial.
800mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Amarr Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
Damage Control II
Amarr Navy Armor Thermic Hardener
Amarr Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane
10MN Afterburner II
Conjunctive Radar ECCM Scanning Array I
4 x Large ‘Solace’ I Remote Bulwark Reconstruction
2 x Large ‘Regard’ I Power Projector
Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Remote Repair Augmentor I
Light Armor Maintenance Bot I x5
That is a pretty pimped out version, you could most likely drop the ECCM for a mod of your choice, but it has 40k ehp, and is cap stable running the ab and all four reps as long as you have a buddy feeding you two power projectors in a dual Guardian setup. Logi V and you can drop one of the power projectors and add one more remote armor repair.
This fit is less expensive, but sacrifices 2k ehp.
800mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
2 x Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Damage Control II
Amarr Navy Armor Thermic Hardener
10MN Afterburner II
[empty med slot]
4 x Large ‘Solace’ I Remote Bulwark Reconstruction
2 x Large ‘Regard’ I Power Projector
Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Remote Repair Augmentor I
Light Armor Maintenance Bot I x5
Very low on CPU so you will likely have a hard time filling the last mid slot.
Another option is to go 1 x medium ‘regard’ and 1 x large ‘regard’ and drop the Medium ACR, you remain cap stable with another Guardian but can be a close one if neuted.
Good luck out there with the Guardian!