Originally by: Liang Nuren

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Edited by: Liang Nuren on 11/07/2010 18:56:03
Simply put:

Tengu Advantages:
- Convenience (3 bil ISK fit, but damn if it isn't convenient!)
- Travel Time (~10 seconds per warp, useful in the mission itself during Recon 2/3, Recon 3/3)

CNR Advantages:
- More Raw DPS
- Real Damage Type Selection

Mostly irrelevant differences:
- Price. There is a price difference (in the Tengu's favor) as long as you're willing to take a pretty massive hit to the Tengu's convenience and tank. You could make a similar sacrifice for the CNR and use an 800K ISK named booster, but really the Tengu/CNR and all modules associated with them are investments. You buy, you sell back later - potentially for more, potentially for less. Ex: I could sell my Tengu for a half bil loss and I could sell my CNR for a gain 200-300 mil gain. My CN/DG crap I could sell for massive profit (but lose the utility of having it).

I'll state it again: In my mission running hanger at my mission running hub, I have a Golem, a CNR, and a Tengu and I use all three. Coincidentally, I have a massive stack of T2/faction stuff and a whole bunch of other ships that I've used for comparison mission running.

But, if you can have only one, it should almost certainly be a CNR unless you have some unreasonable aversion to battleships - because the Tengu doesn't average out better. It barely keeps pace in Kin weak missions (I'll accept the "~5% worse" though I know it to be false), and gets completely trounced the first time you face a Drone/Sansha/Blood/Merc/Angel mission without immense gate distances.

I want to be clear: I've never said the Tengu doesn't have a place - I've said that it's not the most efficient choice. And I've repeatedly stated that the most efficient choice is to have them all. :)

-Liang

Ed: I was just thinking about my hanger. Holy. ****. That's a lot of ISK sitting around. Why am I grinding missions instead of selling this **** and buying GTCs for the next 5 years?!?

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