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Solyaris Chtonium
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Posted - 2016.10.15 17:58:51 -
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I've flown all except Paladin, because I already loved my Nightmare and didn't feel I needed to switch to Paladin.
Missioning mostly in Gallente space though, so mostly Serpentis and quite a bit of Angels, I actually enjoyed Kronos. It is perfectly viable to use Blaster Kronos with Null ammo, tracking enhancer+optimal scripted tracking comps+ambit extension rig, you can apply reasonably ok up to 45~55km, and turrets being turrets you can often insta-pop frigates approaching from further away than that.
What can get annoying is if the rats are in range of 60km or so, because your damage application is pretty meh after 50km ish (including fall off), and it's just that awkward distance where neither MJD or MWD is really convenient.
Having said that, for most missions, if you run them for a while and know all the rat spawn areas and such, there are usually spots you can MJD to which will get you in good blaster range of the rats. You just have to find the right direction to MJD to in considering different axis/angles/etc.
Vargur is nice for Angels and I MWD fit it instead of MJD, but fit like that it's debatable while not use an MWD Mach instead in such a case.
Golem is just very nice for all things, and with max support skills, implants and ewar skills your damage application is not bad at all, although hitting frigs that are 7~80km away will always be painful especially with missile travel time. Personally for missile ships I had a Golem fitted with Torps (because there ARE missions where Torp Golem is perfectly viable) and CNR for Cruise (because TP range is vastly shorter than cruise range on CNR).
All the marauders are more than capable of chewing through L4s in high-sec. I have not missioned for long time but they all been good and missions didn't really change as far as I know so I assume they are still good.
I did some missions on an alt recently, and one surprisingly good ship I tried was pimped Gila. Pimped GIla (A-type this and that, all faction drone damage mods, etc) with max skills (both missiles/drones) + augmented drones just zip around the space and kill everything in no time from frigs to battleships. It doesn't need much attention at all and with AB fit it speed tanks very easily, and anything that can catch up to can be very quickly destroyed with missiles+drones. And the warp speed of a cruiser is a lot more bearable than warp speed of a Marauder (that's one of the reasons why many consider Mach as the king).
Anyways, although you've chosen one Marauder I've never flown (Paladin heh), I'm sure it will be more than good enough for what you want to do.
Have fun!
"When faced with my demons, I clothe them and feed them,
and I smile, yes I smile as they are taking me over" - Strange Glue
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