On the Herc on everyday except the coldest of days ( this was the E model ) we normally set TIT 931 was max power.. 900 was our reduced power takeoff. Our guages were in INCH pounds of torque. and rarely could you pull max torq except on exceptionally cold days. THEN you would match torques. Most of our FE's would match torqs in cruise inboard to inboard and outboard to outboard. Frankly they had free rein most of the time to fine tune the engines for the given situation. In an aircraft which can pull max torq most of the time... setting torqs only makes sense.