Ship Fit - Tengu Trader

I've been working on getting Tengu subsystems skills to V on my main for a couple weeks now. He has 3 down and 2 more to go. For use as a shiny hauler the only subsystems skills that really matter are Defensive (more tank) and Propulsion (better alignment time) so I trained those to V first and bought my first Tengu.

This is a tank fit intended for transporting valuable items in both low and hi sec. My requirements for the fit were simple. I wanted as heavy tank as possible without making it overly expensive and I wanted good speed, in particular alignment time under 4 seconds while flying solo without implants or boosters. And of course a Covert Ops Cloak was a must have. Here's what I came up with.

[Tengu Trader - lowsec]

Damage Control II

Nanofiber Internal Structure II

Power Diagnostic System II

Power Diagnostic System II

Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II

EM Ward Field II

Large Shield Extender II

Large Shield Extender II

Large Shield Extender II

Covert Ops Cloaking Device II

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile

Medium Core Defense Field Extender II

Medium Core Defense Field Extender II

Medium Core Defense Field Extender II

Tengu Defensive - Supplemental Screening

Tengu Offensive - Covert Reconfiguration

Tengu Propulsion - Intercalated Nanofibers

Tengu Engineering - Capacitor Regeneration Matrix

Tengu Electronics - Emergent Locus Analyzer

254k tank with all Vs (253k with my current skills)

3.61 sec alignment time with MWD off (4.88 with MWD on)

1361 m/s with MWD on (239 with MWD off)

Fully cap stable at 54.9% (all Vs, 52.5% my skills) with everything (including the MWD) on.

472 million ISK total cost as estimated by Pyfa (the in game reality was a bit less than that).

In nullsec you'd want to swap in Tengu Propulsion - Interdiction Nullifier. That'll lose you a low slot which means dropping a PDS and about 11k tank but it's well worth the trade-off for immunity to bubbles.

Medium CDFE IIs aren't all that expensive (under 30 mil each) and make a fairly significant difference in the tank, more than enough to be worth using over cheap CDFE Is. The nano is required to keep alignment time under 4 seconds without implants or boosters, with them the nano could be exchanged for another PDS.

I could go with a faction fit. Swap out the invulns and EM ward field for Dread Guristas or Caldari Navy, the PDSes for Caldari Navy and gain another 55k tank (308k total) but the cost would increase by nearly 3 times to 1.33 billion. Not worth it IMO.

Or I could get ridiculous and fit it with deadspace Pithium A invulns, Pithium X EM Ward Field and Caldari Navy PDSes for an additional 83k (426k total) at a total cost of 4.67 billion. Definitely not worth it, the fittings alone would make me a target regardless of cargo.