Tl;dr: Go piloting 101, T3s are slow as ****. If you got caught, either your pvp setup sucks or you derped, but don't blame a hull that needs love, not nerfs. In case your fleet got owned by a few T3s with guards, don't blame fleet, improve your target calling or bring ecm next time, it slaughters T3 fleets with their average 15SS across their dps.

1. The whole T3 discussion varies from the ridiculous to the absurd.
2. They are ships with a role, they do that role reasonably well in wormhole space.
3. They have significant downsides, but we use them because they work.
4. Now someone pulls an idea out of thin air, with no idea how they work, how they are used, and screams
"nerf them they are overpowered!!!"

Sorry to disillusion you they are not.

Just because they have cruiser in their name does not mean they need nerfing back to a vexor, or a stabber.
They ain't T1 they ain't base cruisers, and they ain't goint to be made T1 because a random someone said they should be.

They should have been named spec-ops or something so the foolish were not encouraged to compare them with base T1 cruisers.
There again CCP probably under estimated human stupidity.

Define overpowered. They are very powerful in relation to their size. Its countered by massive price and sp loss. "Reasoning fades out at this point" - well this is the reasoning. So you propose to essentially kill WH space and propose nothing in return? I told you I support nerf to T3 resilience at the same time I told you why your idea is not the best way to do it. So your point is?

Here is a link to typical Tengu fit in null: Tengu fit

More than BS EHP, HAC sig radiu and excelent DMG projection. But I think simple rehaul of engineering and def subs could fix this.

Fairly anaemic dps and only really suited to medium to large gang use - even an eagle in that role has over 100K EHP and slightly better damage projection.

Outside of a situation where it isn't a pure numbers game those mids sacrificed for tank would get you very dead.

Any ship in the game is OP when you bring 500 of the things (ok exaggerated but you get the Idea)

Harpies, Eagles, Navpoc's, Drake's, Caracal's, Munnin's, Ishtars(even more op than T3) are all op in their own way when you have loads of them until you use a counter.

Except that there is no counter to them...unless you suggest hostile geddon fleet should be hunting them around with bunch of nano geddons. They outperform even napocs. Now this is in terms of fleet fights ofcourse

or fighting them close range, landing on them tackling them etc. I hear curse's are good at neuting and can shield tank really well for a recon

Null sec combat meta is based around Kite, outranging and outmanoeuvring your opponent. So outmanoeuvre them. Your not going to get an I win ship to kill T3's, we WHers learnt this and utilize other tactics to deal with them effectively, (ewar, damps, neuts)

Lets also not forget that Rails are super strong right now

The reason T3s are utterly overpowered is because they have ridiculous stat values. It has little to do with their flexibility, in fact most subsystems rarely get used if at all by people who know what they're doing. Those subsystems may be overpowered but not AS overpowered as some of the others.

A strategic cruiser can have small end of cruiser signature radius, agility, and max velocity while having battlecruiser slot and weapons layout, capacitor, and hit points. This alone is way too much, but then on top of that they get higher than tech 2 resistances and weapon damage bonuses that allow their overall DPS to beat even battlecruisers. Their effective hit points go up to the upper end of battleship hit points, often beating Abaddons and Rokhs in overall EHP.

even an eagle in that role has over 100K EHP and slightly better damage projection.

Nerf defensive subs and we go.