What I use:
All waves other than prots:
Config 1: 3 Engines / Rest Shields / LF-3 on Ship + Iris
Config 2: All Engines on ship / Shields on drones / LF-3 on ship.
This passes all the waves perfectly fine.
Prots:
Config 1: 8 Engines / Rest Shields (Iris -> LF-3's)
Config 2: All Engines on ship / Shields on drones / LF-3 on ship.
-This works perfectly fine in A,B,Y.... Although I tend to sit at Pc while it does prots, switch to sab when sab is needed, If you're wanting to do prots while you're afk, or have no sab, you're probs best of having more engines than 8 on your battle/NPC config.
And remember; Try and send 5-10 sep over and throw it on your shields, same with prom on engines for prots.
regards
Tw