Well, that thing called life has caught up with me, and the next month or so I probably won't be on much, though I'll try work through my back-log of notes to do a few posts in the meanwhile.
Today was another day of expensive losses.
Saw a Cyno up, with an Augoror on scan, which does scream bait, but I went for it anyways. I grabbed my Stabber Fleet Issue, and warped to it. Locking up and firing, I ate through it's shields, and did well into it's armor, drones taking the heat off of my ship for a little as I do the main damage. The Amarr cruiser was into low armor, with my own buffer wearing to near half when a Nidhoggur warped in. Starting to see structure damage peak through, and then suddenly the Augoror was full shields. The entire time it had been scramming and webbing me. Aligned to the sun I hit the afterburner and tried to get out, but with the added DPS of drones from the Carrier I got to 8km away before my pod warped away. Had I overheated my AB? That would have been a different story.
Coming back a while later, I went into the Avaux loop, knowing there were some locals out. Trying out the VagaWolf I had fit ages ago, and then realized I didn't have the cap skills to use.
There was a flashy-red Crusader on station in Ruerrotta, who docked as I came in, and then brought an Ishkur out, before long though he had another member of his corp come out in a Scorpion. Figuring I could play around and get out without too much trouble I still engaged. He dropped his flight of drones, which I took care of in short order, before I got jammed and disengaged. Coming back for round two, I did the same thing, until I was jammed again. After the third try though, I was jammed right from the start, and having switched my overview to try and go for his drones again, I didn't notice the Ishkur get close to me, and by the time I did it was too late to correct, and I had been scrammed and webbed. Game over.
Anyways, as stated, the next month will be mostly a training month, Weapon Upgrades 5 being a priority, since I just finished my t2 drones training, followed by BCV and Minmatar Cruiser V, and probably Assault Frigate V. We'll see where I go after that though. Still lots I can put into Gunnery, but I'm always feeling the itch to cross train and get something new. The Amarr Cruiser line is always tempting me, the Arbitrator just looks like an interesting boat to fly, we'll see. There's a good chance I'll end up getting BCV, then training basic Frig/Cruiser skills in all the races so I'll be sure to have their BC skills if/when CCP changes that skill around.
Fly dangerous
'Chord
Friday, 22 June 2012
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Blasted Battlecruisers
Today was my most expensive day ever I'd hazard a guess, not totally stoked by how I lost it, but it was a good day yet.
Dahren and I soon went out in our Thrashers and tried to find some people in minor FW plexes, unlucky on finding anyone attacking a plex, we settled on trying for a Stabber Fleet Issue. Chasing it around from a few Celestials, I eventually landed 100km off of him and started burning, with Dahren warping in. It was soon apparent that this wasn't going to work when Dahren's tank was getting eaten through, I still went in as Dahren's thrasher disintegrated, and started firing, hoping that it was actually a shield tanked, since we were almost through the shield, but it wasn't. I got it to around 3/4 armor before my Thrasher suffered a similar fate.
Got on earlier then usual, as I came home from work early, and after interviewing a new member for the corp, I started my normal roaming. It wasn't too long until Dahren had seen a Drake on scan in Cumemare. There's been a new corp in there with new players, that have been fodder most of the time, but now they dock up or run to station as soon as they see Repo. in system.
Telling Dahren to leave system, I bring my prober in and eventually find their ships, a Drake and a Rifter on station, approaching/bumping each other. Watching them for around 10 minutes, they finally warp off to one of the belts, right near the Aunsou gate, so Dahren goes and takes the long way around to Cumemare through Dastryns. About one jump from getting to Cumemare, the two ships warped away. Soon enough finding them at the ice belt, I called for Dahren to jump in. Before long he called point and I was bringing Dischord in, and telling
Varah to get in, as he's needing points for his recruit assessment in Repo. It turns out that we didn't actually relay what system we were in to
Varah , so once we had the Drake in structure, we held it until he was able to come.
While we were doing this a Cormorant from the same corp came in and started firing on us, with my point on the Drake, Dahren went and grabbed a point on the Cormorant, and I set my drones on it, nearly knocking it out before Vah landed. With him on the killmail we dropped the Drake, and then the Cormorant, which Varah sadly didn't make it on, but did grab the pod, who didn't want to be ransomed.
Dahren and I soon went out in our Thrashers and tried to find some people in minor FW plexes, unlucky on finding anyone attacking a plex, we settled on trying for a Stabber Fleet Issue. Chasing it around from a few Celestials, I eventually landed 100km off of him and started burning, with Dahren warping in. It was soon apparent that this wasn't going to work when Dahren's tank was getting eaten through, I still went in as Dahren's thrasher disintegrated, and started firing, hoping that it was actually a shield tanked, since we were almost through the shield, but it wasn't. I got it to around 3/4 armor before my Thrasher suffered a similar fate.
Later on, after a while of fail-scanning, we had a Celestis on scan in Iges, a couple passes later we had it scanned down and went in. With no resistance as we dropped the ship, darmwand went for the ransom on the pod, and I've gotta say this was one of the most interesting ransoms I've seen in a while.
All the while when this was going on we saw a Hurricane and Harbinger on scan looking like they were wanting a fight. As we were getting ready to fight, Maleficas logged on and we were getting him on it, but they left system. Before too long one was back with a different friend in a Harbinger. Deciding this was a good time to test out my Cyclone, even though I'm currently only Battlecruiser III, I got into it and started looking for them, knowing I've got a couple Hurricanes and a Rupture at my back. Finding them at a belt, I warped in with everyone else aligning.
Landing on top of one of the Harbingers, I overheated everything, and forgot to use the Blue Pill I got from Dahren.... and my shield melted away, and came back a few times, but it was soon apparent that even overheated it wasn't going to be lasting all that well, and before long my first Battlecruiser vented atmosphere. As everyone landed, their trump card soon came into play, when a falcon uncloaked. Excuse my french, but, fuck ecm. With some of our guys jammed, the fight started to turn. darmwand was getting to low structure, but managed to get a last volley out of his arty-cane to drop the first Harbinger and warp out.
During this, Maleficas' Hurricane was taking heavy damage, and I was re-shipping into my Rupture, knowing the Falcon was there, I bounced to the Covryn gate and warped back at 100. Landing 20 off the Falcon, it warped out before I could get into point range, and in low armor the other Harbinger warped off, but not before both Mal's Hurricane and Dahren's Rupture had become space junk.
Figuring that the fight was over, with other corp-members docked up and re-shipping, I went in and tried to loot the field, after grabbing a couple of wrecks worth of loot, the Harbinger warped back in, locking it up and opening fire, the Falcon once again de-cloaked. Calling for everyone to come back, I was from then on perma-jammed, watching the lasers eat through my hefty tank, while my drones nibbled away. Before I popped someone managed to grab a point on the Amarrian Battlecruiser, and they dropped it as I was grabbing a Wolf to come out and try get the Falcon.
With the engagement actually over, we looted the field and docked up. Good fight sirs, though relying on using ECM was a bit of a low-blow.
Later, I got a call from Superpooper that he had a lowsec to lowsec wormhole with a Gila on the other side. He's a resident of the Amoen loop, so I had to take something smaller and fast through there, so I grabbed my Wolf and headed over, with darmwand beside me in an Incursus, Sadly, by the time we got there, the Gila was gone, but there was a Worm and a few other ships running a minor outpost. Going and re-shipping into my ASB Rifter, I came back, but the plex was gone. The worm was still on scan, so Super grabbed a probe ship, but never got a bead on it. He came back in a Coercer as we saw them on the gate of the major plex. Warping in, we landed on top of the Worm, and I called it primary, but it was able to warp out before anyone got lock. Trying to go for the Cormorant that was there, none of us were able to catch the Railgun fit ship, so we gave up and warped off, taking no losses.
Roaming back the 15 jumps to Iges instead of taking the Wormhole, it was fairly empty besides a couple FW blobs. Eventually seeing DARKSTAR POWNYOUALL in a Wolf, and asked if he was interested in a t1 frigate 1v1, he agreed and soon I was waiting for him to reship at the sun. Landing on me our deadly dance began, with my ASB handily dealing with all the incoming damage, but too well as I let it run a couple cycles where it didn't repair nearly as much as it could have. Both of us neuting each other, he capped me out before I had gotten him down, I'm guessing it was a cap-boosted fit, as he was also running an armor rep. My guns tore into his armor quite well, but his rep was dealing with it as well as mine was.
And then the horrible thing with the ASB happened, out of charges. No more tank, with everything overheated, the remaining time was nailbiting as his armor kept edging lower and lower. My shields were gone, and he was around 1/3 armor, but a couple volleys later my armor was nearly gone, and his rep had kept his stable. The end was in sight, and my Rifter was on the losing end.
Definitely one of the best fights I've had in ages.
Rather eventful day. I probably won't be touching my Battlecruisers (I've got another Cyclone fitted, along with a Hurricane, and another of each sitting in Jita that I won on blink earlier today that I'll be bringing down) until I have BC IV finished, which will be in 3 and a half days. I look forward to that, and seeing what I may be able to pull with a Cyclone out solo. Also makes me glad I've got a scout in a covops ship now too.
Fly dangerous
'Chord
Friday, 1 June 2012
Busy days
The past few days have been some of the busiest ones since I've started playing Eve. Lots of kills, lots of losses, mostly in good fights.
To start it off, yesterday I went on a roam down to Kenninck, but when I arrived I ended up having to do a few things out of pod when I docked up. Undocking my rupture when I got back, there was a Cynabal waiting for me outside. Trying to warp off, it locked me, pointed me and got a volley off, so I docked back up. Deciding to try again, I also enabled moons on my screen, and saw one that was quite close to being an insta-undock, able to warp to it, I then went to the gate to leave system, and soon noticed the Cynabal following me.
Each jump I took, it followed me, so as I got close to home I put the call out to a couple other Repossession agents that were at home to jump in ships that could take gate guns, because we were going to drop this Cynabal. Landing on the Iges gate in Covryn, it landed right beside me, and this time I didn't jump through, but started aligning elsewhere, hoping for the other cruiser to engage, or at the very least to get off the gate. As we burned a ways off the gate, I decided that was enough, and opened fire. Because the other pilot had agressed earlier, I didn't take any gate-fire. With my two friends jumping through in Hurricanes, and the Cynabal scrammed and webbed, it was apparent how this was going to go down. GFs were exchanged, and I scooped the loot and went home.
Not all that much later, I undocked from the station, and while thinking about where to go, a Tempest undocked from the station. Looking at the pilot, I saw he was quite a new player, so I decided to see what he was going to do. It didn't take long before the battleship locked up my cruiser, and opened fire, so I returned the favor and let my guns go to work. His large calibre guns weren't able to track my ship, though he did have one gun that was hitting me, while my guns were constantly landing solid hits. With his shields gone quite quickly, and armor going down fast, Maleficas, one of the other Repo. agents in system came in, and helped finish this battleship off quickly.
Deciding it was a good time to roam the Amoen/Avaux loop, I then headed down there, getting to Avaux, I found a Covetor and Hurricane on scan in a belt. Thinking I had a decent enough chance to pop the Covetor and get out before the Hurricane could get me, I warped in. Landing close to the Covetor, I lock it up and open fire, doing decent damage, while receiving little from the Hurricane. I got it into structure, and started to align out towards the sun, but then my damage started to fall off quickly. Deciding to go back in for the kill, I turned around and burned back for the Covetor, and once in range, it dropped. The problem then was that I was in range of the Hurricane's 425mm autocannons, and though I was nearly at the edge of distruptor range, he manged to get the final blow on my Rupture.
Once again back in Iges, I heard darmwand take out a Malediction in his Wolf, but had burnt out his MWD at the same time. As he was salvaging the wreck, a Sentinel warped in on him, so he left. Hearing that, I jumped in a thrasher, and went to the sun to see if the Sentinel stayed there. He didn't but as it turns out, he thought a Thrasher would be a good target. It was soon apparent that he made the wrong choice, as the seven autocannons tore straight through his shield, armor, and hull. If he had been aligned out and spamming warp, there's a good chance the other pilot could have gotten out, because the neuts dropped my point near the end.
Able to get a point on the pod, He proceeded to agree with the 75m ransom for the pod.
When ransoms go that smoothly, I always wish I had asked for more to start with. Not complaining though.
Later on that night, there was a Jaguar hanging around in Iges. At first I chased it in my Rupture, but he wasn't interested in that fight. Re-shipping into a Wolf, we never landed in the same spot as each other, and eventually he went to Covryn. Following him there, he went into the Gallente Infrastructure Hub and waited there. Warping in at 20, I locked up and began my slow-kiting, aligned away from him. Getting him to around half shields I started to go in on him, and got him into armor only having to pulse my rep once or twice, when he decided to disengage. He warped off to a station and repaired, as I used my rep to finish repairing my armor as I went to a safe to wait out my GCC.
It wasn't too long before he was back in the Hub, and I warped in again. This time I decided not to kite so much, and went in much sooner. The results turned out much the same, with his shield failing while my tank was holding, but this time when he disengaged I managed to cut off his route when he was aligning and get into overheated scram range, and finish him off.
To round out that night, I was in Kenninck again, and there was an Arbitrator on the gate. Neither of us sure about the fight, we end up warping around at different ranges to various celestials. Finally landing near enough to him at a customs office, I go in for the kill. Knowing I'd be tracking disrupted, I thought best would be to approach and then once in range stop moving. Turned out this didn't work very well, and his drones started to eat me while I had serious issues tracking. Deciding it was time to try disengage I started aligning out and spamming warp. While I did this, I noticed my shots landing, and landing hard, but it was too little, too late as the structure failed in my Rupture.
Not really sure what I should have done better there, though I did notice he was actively repairing his armor, I probably should have used my neuts from the start of the fight, and probably tried to get out quicker then I did.
Today was another fairly eventful day, from popping a Retriever next door in Uphallant, to grabbing another Retriever in Kenninck, which in turn got the local alliance mad at me, and then camped me in with a Proteus/Arazu and various other ships. They were probing me down, so I kept warping to safe spots, and this kept up for a solid hour before they had gotten one of my safes and waited there. I warped in on their ships and right away started to spam warp to another safe as best I could, and though a few of them were able to lock and do damage to me, none of them pointed me, and I was able to get out. Saying something about their lack of points, I then noticed the Arazu off the gate, and warped through, and got out to freedom from there.
Heading back home, I found haerod of Black Rebel Rifter Club in Dastryns, and though he wasn't interested in playing with my Rupture, he was much more inclined to take on my Firetail.
Waiting for him on the gate of a Gallente Outpost, he warped in. having previously tested out vs Merlins with Penumbrawolf of Repo. I knew my best chance was to just get close, and stay close while using my TD to hamper his guns tracking, and it worked well, able to eat through his shields, and make real quick work of his armor and hull, when he just started to damage my armor. It was at the end of this fight that I also realized I had been firing Fusion at him the entire time too, hitting his shields' best resist.
With the word of a Myrmidon next door, I then took my prober over there, while I grabbed my Rupture once more, and darmwand grabbed his arty-cane. Warping us both in, with darm slightly ahead of me, he was able to get point while I burned in, attempting a ransom, the other pilot didn't like the 60m price we put on it, and so we dropped the ship (though the rats were nearly going to do that while we were attempting the ransom).
And to round out the events of tonight, there was an Enyo on scan in Iges. Jumping in my trusty wolf, I went to find it, as it turned out it was on a station. Not too keen on letting an Enyo get close to me, I warped to the customs office near there, and the other pilot followed, but warped in at range. Then worried that it may be rail fit I warped to the planet at range, hoping for a close engagement (I should have looked at, yes I know). Not coming there, I eventually caught up to the pilot at the same station again. This time deciding just to go for it, I nearly suicided myself by firing before the non-flashy pilot had engaged. The Enyo was MWD fit, so I figured there was a good chance of having some good range control, getting straight through it's shield, and making quick work of it's armor, I was feeling pretty good, and then started to get closer, trying to make sure I'd be in range to grab the pod, when my armor just melted, and hull soon after.
Apparently the Enyo was at 36% hull. Gf.
Grabbing the other fit Wolf I had, I right away went looking for the Enyo. Warping to the top station, which has repair facilities, I had hit dock, but then saw the Enyo undock as I came in. Scrambling to not dock, and give chase, I locked up the station. When my lock resolved on the Enyo, right as it was at the edge of scram range, I opened fire, and hit my scram, on the station, and soon was destroyed by the guns from said station.
Not my finest hour, that's for sure. Oh well, I've done enough stupid flying, it was sure to catch up with me.
Fly dangerous
'Chord
To start it off, yesterday I went on a roam down to Kenninck, but when I arrived I ended up having to do a few things out of pod when I docked up. Undocking my rupture when I got back, there was a Cynabal waiting for me outside. Trying to warp off, it locked me, pointed me and got a volley off, so I docked back up. Deciding to try again, I also enabled moons on my screen, and saw one that was quite close to being an insta-undock, able to warp to it, I then went to the gate to leave system, and soon noticed the Cynabal following me.
Each jump I took, it followed me, so as I got close to home I put the call out to a couple other Repossession agents that were at home to jump in ships that could take gate guns, because we were going to drop this Cynabal. Landing on the Iges gate in Covryn, it landed right beside me, and this time I didn't jump through, but started aligning elsewhere, hoping for the other cruiser to engage, or at the very least to get off the gate. As we burned a ways off the gate, I decided that was enough, and opened fire. Because the other pilot had agressed earlier, I didn't take any gate-fire. With my two friends jumping through in Hurricanes, and the Cynabal scrammed and webbed, it was apparent how this was going to go down. GFs were exchanged, and I scooped the loot and went home.
Not all that much later, I undocked from the station, and while thinking about where to go, a Tempest undocked from the station. Looking at the pilot, I saw he was quite a new player, so I decided to see what he was going to do. It didn't take long before the battleship locked up my cruiser, and opened fire, so I returned the favor and let my guns go to work. His large calibre guns weren't able to track my ship, though he did have one gun that was hitting me, while my guns were constantly landing solid hits. With his shields gone quite quickly, and armor going down fast, Maleficas, one of the other Repo. agents in system came in, and helped finish this battleship off quickly.
Deciding it was a good time to roam the Amoen/Avaux loop, I then headed down there, getting to Avaux, I found a Covetor and Hurricane on scan in a belt. Thinking I had a decent enough chance to pop the Covetor and get out before the Hurricane could get me, I warped in. Landing close to the Covetor, I lock it up and open fire, doing decent damage, while receiving little from the Hurricane. I got it into structure, and started to align out towards the sun, but then my damage started to fall off quickly. Deciding to go back in for the kill, I turned around and burned back for the Covetor, and once in range, it dropped. The problem then was that I was in range of the Hurricane's 425mm autocannons, and though I was nearly at the edge of distruptor range, he manged to get the final blow on my Rupture.
Once again back in Iges, I heard darmwand take out a Malediction in his Wolf, but had burnt out his MWD at the same time. As he was salvaging the wreck, a Sentinel warped in on him, so he left. Hearing that, I jumped in a thrasher, and went to the sun to see if the Sentinel stayed there. He didn't but as it turns out, he thought a Thrasher would be a good target. It was soon apparent that he made the wrong choice, as the seven autocannons tore straight through his shield, armor, and hull. If he had been aligned out and spamming warp, there's a good chance the other pilot could have gotten out, because the neuts dropped my point near the end.
Able to get a point on the pod, He proceeded to agree with the 75m ransom for the pod.
When ransoms go that smoothly, I always wish I had asked for more to start with. Not complaining though.
Later on that night, there was a Jaguar hanging around in Iges. At first I chased it in my Rupture, but he wasn't interested in that fight. Re-shipping into a Wolf, we never landed in the same spot as each other, and eventually he went to Covryn. Following him there, he went into the Gallente Infrastructure Hub and waited there. Warping in at 20, I locked up and began my slow-kiting, aligned away from him. Getting him to around half shields I started to go in on him, and got him into armor only having to pulse my rep once or twice, when he decided to disengage. He warped off to a station and repaired, as I used my rep to finish repairing my armor as I went to a safe to wait out my GCC.
It wasn't too long before he was back in the Hub, and I warped in again. This time I decided not to kite so much, and went in much sooner. The results turned out much the same, with his shield failing while my tank was holding, but this time when he disengaged I managed to cut off his route when he was aligning and get into overheated scram range, and finish him off.
To round out that night, I was in Kenninck again, and there was an Arbitrator on the gate. Neither of us sure about the fight, we end up warping around at different ranges to various celestials. Finally landing near enough to him at a customs office, I go in for the kill. Knowing I'd be tracking disrupted, I thought best would be to approach and then once in range stop moving. Turned out this didn't work very well, and his drones started to eat me while I had serious issues tracking. Deciding it was time to try disengage I started aligning out and spamming warp. While I did this, I noticed my shots landing, and landing hard, but it was too little, too late as the structure failed in my Rupture.
Not really sure what I should have done better there, though I did notice he was actively repairing his armor, I probably should have used my neuts from the start of the fight, and probably tried to get out quicker then I did.
Today was another fairly eventful day, from popping a Retriever next door in Uphallant, to grabbing another Retriever in Kenninck, which in turn got the local alliance mad at me, and then camped me in with a Proteus/Arazu and various other ships. They were probing me down, so I kept warping to safe spots, and this kept up for a solid hour before they had gotten one of my safes and waited there. I warped in on their ships and right away started to spam warp to another safe as best I could, and though a few of them were able to lock and do damage to me, none of them pointed me, and I was able to get out. Saying something about their lack of points, I then noticed the Arazu off the gate, and warped through, and got out to freedom from there.
Heading back home, I found haerod of Black Rebel Rifter Club in Dastryns, and though he wasn't interested in playing with my Rupture, he was much more inclined to take on my Firetail.
Waiting for him on the gate of a Gallente Outpost, he warped in. having previously tested out vs Merlins with Penumbrawolf of Repo. I knew my best chance was to just get close, and stay close while using my TD to hamper his guns tracking, and it worked well, able to eat through his shields, and make real quick work of his armor and hull, when he just started to damage my armor. It was at the end of this fight that I also realized I had been firing Fusion at him the entire time too, hitting his shields' best resist.
With the word of a Myrmidon next door, I then took my prober over there, while I grabbed my Rupture once more, and darmwand grabbed his arty-cane. Warping us both in, with darm slightly ahead of me, he was able to get point while I burned in, attempting a ransom, the other pilot didn't like the 60m price we put on it, and so we dropped the ship (though the rats were nearly going to do that while we were attempting the ransom).
And to round out the events of tonight, there was an Enyo on scan in Iges. Jumping in my trusty wolf, I went to find it, as it turned out it was on a station. Not too keen on letting an Enyo get close to me, I warped to the customs office near there, and the other pilot followed, but warped in at range. Then worried that it may be rail fit I warped to the planet at range, hoping for a close engagement (I should have looked at, yes I know). Not coming there, I eventually caught up to the pilot at the same station again. This time deciding just to go for it, I nearly suicided myself by firing before the non-flashy pilot had engaged. The Enyo was MWD fit, so I figured there was a good chance of having some good range control, getting straight through it's shield, and making quick work of it's armor, I was feeling pretty good, and then started to get closer, trying to make sure I'd be in range to grab the pod, when my armor just melted, and hull soon after.
Apparently the Enyo was at 36% hull. Gf.
Grabbing the other fit Wolf I had, I right away went looking for the Enyo. Warping to the top station, which has repair facilities, I had hit dock, but then saw the Enyo undock as I came in. Scrambling to not dock, and give chase, I locked up the station. When my lock resolved on the Enyo, right as it was at the edge of scram range, I opened fire, and hit my scram, on the station, and soon was destroyed by the guns from said station.
Not my finest hour, that's for sure. Oh well, I've done enough stupid flying, it was sure to catch up with me.
Fly dangerous
'Chord
Thursday, 31 May 2012
What's in my hangar
Well, it's been making the rounds along all the blogs, I figured I may as well do this myself.
Not all that much there, but it's enough to keep me interested.
Solitude - Jaguar that I can't quite fit how I want, passive shield tanked, meant to wear down bigger ships, completely able to ignore incoming DPS from drones. I've taken it out a couple times when we needed heavy tackle, but no real stand out fights in it yet.
Leftöver Crack - My go-to Wolf fit, stolen from Ava Starfire. This fit has definitely done me some good, with kills such as this.
Nasum - Similarly fit, though it has a SAR2 rather then Centii C-Type.
VAGADONTUSE - Fit, but unused Vagawolf. I fit it, only to figure out my skills related to keeping the modules running are horrible, and it's sat since then.
Neurosis - Cyclone I won on Blink. Can't fly it yet, but, I've got a full XL SB fit sitting for it here.
SNFU - 1600mm plate Rupture, just started flying these, and loving it.
Abyss - Brawling shield fit Stabber. It's pretty crappy. It's cheap. It's fun to fly.
Propaghandi - SFI I picked up cheap recently, don't intend to fly it until I can really fly it well.
Xasthur - Shield fit Thrasher, all gank. Definitely fun to fly.
Johnny Hobo - TD/SAR , my go to ship most days. I love these things, like I've said before (and yeah, I've linked back to that post twice in two posts now)
Firetail - Spare
Phaeleh - Standard 200mm/SAR Rifter. I may switch it up though, since they seem to not be all that great vs other t1 frigs these days.
Spare Rifters (not sure why they aren't stacked)
and my PI hauler.
Nothing all that special. I've got another Cyc and Hurricane sitting in Jita to take down eventually, both won on Blink. Most of the names are all music-related, mostly metal/punk.
Fly dangerous
'Chord
Not all that much there, but it's enough to keep me interested.
Solitude - Jaguar that I can't quite fit how I want, passive shield tanked, meant to wear down bigger ships, completely able to ignore incoming DPS from drones. I've taken it out a couple times when we needed heavy tackle, but no real stand out fights in it yet.
Leftöver Crack - My go-to Wolf fit, stolen from Ava Starfire. This fit has definitely done me some good, with kills such as this.
Nasum - Similarly fit, though it has a SAR2 rather then Centii C-Type.
VAGADONTUSE - Fit, but unused Vagawolf. I fit it, only to figure out my skills related to keeping the modules running are horrible, and it's sat since then.
Neurosis - Cyclone I won on Blink. Can't fly it yet, but, I've got a full XL SB fit sitting for it here.
SNFU - 1600mm plate Rupture, just started flying these, and loving it.
Abyss - Brawling shield fit Stabber. It's pretty crappy. It's cheap. It's fun to fly.
Propaghandi - SFI I picked up cheap recently, don't intend to fly it until I can really fly it well.
Xasthur - Shield fit Thrasher, all gank. Definitely fun to fly.
Johnny Hobo - TD/SAR , my go to ship most days. I love these things, like I've said before (and yeah, I've linked back to that post twice in two posts now)
Firetail - Spare
Phaeleh - Standard 200mm/SAR Rifter. I may switch it up though, since they seem to not be all that great vs other t1 frigs these days.
Spare Rifters (not sure why they aren't stacked)
and my PI hauler.
Nothing all that special. I've got another Cyc and Hurricane sitting in Jita to take down eventually, both won on Blink. Most of the names are all music-related, mostly metal/punk.
Fly dangerous
'Chord
Monday, 28 May 2012
Buffed Frigates vs Firetail
The new T1 frigs are interesting beasts. I won't lie, I feel a little left out with the Rifter being unchanged. The day of the patch, I watched Sard Caid's stream as he tested a bunch of them out (here's the link to the VoD of that stream), and it really seems like the Merlin is king of the hill now.
After watching that for a while, I decided to see what I could find in the way of frigates around, and I went roaming in my trusty Firetail. As I was roaming and chatting with Penumbra, he said something about that he had fought an Incursus who's tank he absolutely couldn't break with his Crow. Not too long later, I heard from my friends in the Amoen/Avaux loop that there was an Incursus around there, piloted by Gulidor that was looking for a fight. I've fought him a couple times before, and knew he's definitely a pilot that'd be good to see how ships stack up against each other with. Telling them to pass along that I'm on my way, I head towards Amoen, and get there just before he gets into system, and warp into the sun. With barrage loaded, I burned away from the warp in for a couple AB cycles to make sure he wouldn't land on top of me, and waited.
As he landed, we began the deadly dance, with him scrammed/webbed, and range distrupted, and with myself in the faster ship, I most definitely had range control, and what I thought was the upper hand. That was, until I hit his armor, and proceeded to see all the damage I did, repped back up. I asked Penumbra before getting into this fight who was piloting the Incursus he had fought earlier, and it was the same pilot.
After a while of this, with him not landing decent shots, and with my fire not breaking his tank (apparently the fit is cap-stable with cycling the rep), I decided it was time to stop falloff kiting with barrage, and I took the time to reload. At this point, I think he figured I was giving up and about to let him go, and he had also stopped firing. Hitting approach, I overheated the guns and went for it, and it was soon apparent that my DPS with fusion in close was going to be enough to break his tank, but the real question was if my tank would hold under the fire from his blasters in close.
Approaching and turning off the TD, I switched to the Tracking Disruption script, and watched the combat log with a hawk's eye, and sure enough, I did notice enough of his shots that weren't landing all that well, but it was still enough incoming damage that I had to perma-run my SAR to keep up with the incoming damage. With guns and NOS overheated trying to squeeze out the extra cap for a few more cycles of my SAR I started to think I was about to lose this fight, and started to align out as I hit structure. He was a little deeper into structure then I was, but I was also afraid of the Gallente frigate hull-tanking me. Pulling a little bit more range, I landed a few good shots, and it was over. With my Firetail trailing smoke, with 80% of it's hull still intact, I was happy to have won that, and we chatted in local for a while about the fits and how things have changed.
Still looking for a Merlin fight a couple days later, I ended up in the Shades of Gray home system of Pellile. There were a bunch of them home, but all in ships larger then my Firetail could handle, so I asked in local if any of them would be down for a frigate 1v1. Caige DarkBane replied that Nopset was interested, but a few jumps out, so I said I'd be down to wait, and asked what he was in... a Merlin.
Finally going to get a fight with the dreaded Caldari powerhouse, it wasn't too long before he got in, and we fleeted up, I had dropped a new safe for this fight, as I didn't really trust them not to BM the spot and possibly come looking for me in a safe some other time, and as it turns out, this may have been a really smart idea.
Not sure what tactics would be the best against this newly buffed blaster boat, I chose to try the standard falloff kiting, figuring that I would probably still have the damage advantage with my TD's range script in full effect, and it did seem that I did, but I also didn't keep a very close eye on the fleet window, before long, when it seemed that I was getting the upper hand, he dropped fleet, and joined up with a bunch of the Shades guys, who soon enough warped into the safe spot that we were dueling in. I right away targeted the Stiletto that came in, and aligned out while taking pot shots towards the Stiletto, but he never did point me before I got out.
That's definitely some bad points towards that alliance from me. At least I learned it without having to pay for a new ship. Luckily that sweet bitch Karma reared her head, and ended up dropping Nopset's Merlin a short time later, and I got on the KM for it.
I also dropped another Merlin later that night, but he was "PvE" fit running a minor FW plex. I chased him around for ages, and he could have warped off, but never did. SMRT me though, I had tried to go and pop the pod (wasn't going to ransom it with the FW rats shooting me), and hit my guns before the lock resolved. When I then went to grab the loot, it targetted the wreck, and shot it right away, and I didn't get any of the loots. Sad day.
Finally today, I got the Merlin fight I had been waiting for. PenumbraWolf, fellow Repo. member had picked some up and fit them while I was away for the weekend (skiing in May, can't beat that), and was willing to waste a bit of money on ammo and repairs so we could see where the Firetail stacked up vs the Merlin.
The first fight we had, I tried to falloff-kite with Barrage, with my orbit set at 7500. It was soon apparent that this isn't the way to go, with his web on me, it turned out he was faster then I was. This may partly be my current skills (I'm really starting to feel like I'm falling behind in the Navigation side of things, though I'm finally finishing up High Speed Maneuvering IV right now, mostly for flying Cruisers more). But with that, it didn't take long until he was right in his optimal, and I was shooting against his best resist. I had him to around 2/3 shields when I hit structure.
Round two, I loaded EMP and set my orbit to 1000m, along with having the tracking speed script loaded in my TD. Landing on grid, we opened up on each other, and this time it was soon apparent that the reverse from the first fight was playing out. With him landing weak hits, I was eating through his shields at a decent rate, while he wasn't hitting me hard at all. Once he finally hit my armor (after a wrecking blow taking out half my shields), it was the occasional cycle of the small armor repairer to keep it at full strength. Though the last 1/4 of his shields took their time to actually break through, I never thought with that fight there was much chance of coming out on the losing side of it.
With that figured out, we both went on our ways, with more knowledge as to what we can engage. I can safely say I still feel confident taking on any T1 frigate with my Firetail, and quite frankly, I do think that's the way it should be with the price difference between them.
Take chances,
Dischord
After watching that for a while, I decided to see what I could find in the way of frigates around, and I went roaming in my trusty Firetail. As I was roaming and chatting with Penumbra, he said something about that he had fought an Incursus who's tank he absolutely couldn't break with his Crow. Not too long later, I heard from my friends in the Amoen/Avaux loop that there was an Incursus around there, piloted by Gulidor that was looking for a fight. I've fought him a couple times before, and knew he's definitely a pilot that'd be good to see how ships stack up against each other with. Telling them to pass along that I'm on my way, I head towards Amoen, and get there just before he gets into system, and warp into the sun. With barrage loaded, I burned away from the warp in for a couple AB cycles to make sure he wouldn't land on top of me, and waited.
As he landed, we began the deadly dance, with him scrammed/webbed, and range distrupted, and with myself in the faster ship, I most definitely had range control, and what I thought was the upper hand. That was, until I hit his armor, and proceeded to see all the damage I did, repped back up. I asked Penumbra before getting into this fight who was piloting the Incursus he had fought earlier, and it was the same pilot.
After a while of this, with him not landing decent shots, and with my fire not breaking his tank (apparently the fit is cap-stable with cycling the rep), I decided it was time to stop falloff kiting with barrage, and I took the time to reload. At this point, I think he figured I was giving up and about to let him go, and he had also stopped firing. Hitting approach, I overheated the guns and went for it, and it was soon apparent that my DPS with fusion in close was going to be enough to break his tank, but the real question was if my tank would hold under the fire from his blasters in close.
Approaching and turning off the TD, I switched to the Tracking Disruption script, and watched the combat log with a hawk's eye, and sure enough, I did notice enough of his shots that weren't landing all that well, but it was still enough incoming damage that I had to perma-run my SAR to keep up with the incoming damage. With guns and NOS overheated trying to squeeze out the extra cap for a few more cycles of my SAR I started to think I was about to lose this fight, and started to align out as I hit structure. He was a little deeper into structure then I was, but I was also afraid of the Gallente frigate hull-tanking me. Pulling a little bit more range, I landed a few good shots, and it was over. With my Firetail trailing smoke, with 80% of it's hull still intact, I was happy to have won that, and we chatted in local for a while about the fits and how things have changed.
Still looking for a Merlin fight a couple days later, I ended up in the Shades of Gray home system of Pellile. There were a bunch of them home, but all in ships larger then my Firetail could handle, so I asked in local if any of them would be down for a frigate 1v1. Caige DarkBane replied that Nopset was interested, but a few jumps out, so I said I'd be down to wait, and asked what he was in... a Merlin.
Finally going to get a fight with the dreaded Caldari powerhouse, it wasn't too long before he got in, and we fleeted up, I had dropped a new safe for this fight, as I didn't really trust them not to BM the spot and possibly come looking for me in a safe some other time, and as it turns out, this may have been a really smart idea.
Not sure what tactics would be the best against this newly buffed blaster boat, I chose to try the standard falloff kiting, figuring that I would probably still have the damage advantage with my TD's range script in full effect, and it did seem that I did, but I also didn't keep a very close eye on the fleet window, before long, when it seemed that I was getting the upper hand, he dropped fleet, and joined up with a bunch of the Shades guys, who soon enough warped into the safe spot that we were dueling in. I right away targeted the Stiletto that came in, and aligned out while taking pot shots towards the Stiletto, but he never did point me before I got out.
That's definitely some bad points towards that alliance from me. At least I learned it without having to pay for a new ship. Luckily that sweet bitch Karma reared her head, and ended up dropping Nopset's Merlin a short time later, and I got on the KM for it.
I also dropped another Merlin later that night, but he was "PvE" fit running a minor FW plex. I chased him around for ages, and he could have warped off, but never did. SMRT me though, I had tried to go and pop the pod (wasn't going to ransom it with the FW rats shooting me), and hit my guns before the lock resolved. When I then went to grab the loot, it targetted the wreck, and shot it right away, and I didn't get any of the loots. Sad day.
Finally today, I got the Merlin fight I had been waiting for. PenumbraWolf, fellow Repo. member had picked some up and fit them while I was away for the weekend (skiing in May, can't beat that), and was willing to waste a bit of money on ammo and repairs so we could see where the Firetail stacked up vs the Merlin.
The first fight we had, I tried to falloff-kite with Barrage, with my orbit set at 7500. It was soon apparent that this isn't the way to go, with his web on me, it turned out he was faster then I was. This may partly be my current skills (I'm really starting to feel like I'm falling behind in the Navigation side of things, though I'm finally finishing up High Speed Maneuvering IV right now, mostly for flying Cruisers more). But with that, it didn't take long until he was right in his optimal, and I was shooting against his best resist. I had him to around 2/3 shields when I hit structure.
Round two, I loaded EMP and set my orbit to 1000m, along with having the tracking speed script loaded in my TD. Landing on grid, we opened up on each other, and this time it was soon apparent that the reverse from the first fight was playing out. With him landing weak hits, I was eating through his shields at a decent rate, while he wasn't hitting me hard at all. Once he finally hit my armor (after a wrecking blow taking out half my shields), it was the occasional cycle of the small armor repairer to keep it at full strength. Though the last 1/4 of his shields took their time to actually break through, I never thought with that fight there was much chance of coming out on the losing side of it.
With that figured out, we both went on our ways, with more knowledge as to what we can engage. I can safely say I still feel confident taking on any T1 frigate with my Firetail, and quite frankly, I do think that's the way it should be with the price difference between them.
Take chances,
Dischord
Monday, 21 May 2012
Times like these.
Two posts in two days, but I just can't hold off on writing about the events of today.
Started off fairly normal, got on, didn't have everything in the hangar to fit another Wolf after losing one last night, so I took out the Jaguar, after trying to get a Brutix to agress on the gate (a member of the corp "Anti-piracy Impire, I figured he'd for sure go for it) with no success, I soon found a Ferox on scan... at a station.
Once again trying to get him to agress flashy-red 'ol me, and he doesn't. I warped off, and kept scanning the station, and he left, but didn't dock up. Soon enough I found him, at a belt! Landing on top of him, I got the scram/web and went to work on his fairly stiff shield tank. It didn't take long for him to convo me, asking me what it would take to stop. Soon enough, we came to an agreement at 25 million, which I happily took, and went on my way (especially considering this all went down in Dastryns, which is a high traffic system, and I had a Tengu and Taranis on scan at the time).
Not seeing any more action after that, I exited my pod for a while (and finished D3 on normal...). Coming back, there were a few more members of Repo. on, and as I warped around our home system, I saw two Ishtars, an Oneiros, and a Noctis all on scan together in deadspace. Quickly getting my alt on, I was able to get a warp in after the first pass, and then waited for the rest of the corp-mates to get in some heavier ships, while I re-fitted a Jaguar as fast tackle.
Warping us in we came to a room with 9 gates or something like this. Omu Matol, who runs level 5s tells us that they all just bring us into the same room, at different ranges, so, with my Jaguar leading, we all jump in, landing in a room with the ships, though one of the Ishtars I had originally seen had left. Being closest to the Noctis, I burned to it and pointed it, and Penumbra and I quickly dropped it, while the other two were still trying to get there. Around this point, we realized that this was a complete cake walk, and they were all AFK. It didn't take us much longer until we had dropped all of the ships, and the empty pods.
All of us were then hanging around Iges, waiting down our GCCs, darmwand saw three pods on scan, members of the corp Regeneration. It didn't take long until we had probed them down, as they left local, finding ourselves in front of a wormhole right then, we decided to see what was happening with that, and before too long, a Nightmare and Loki jumped through. Not knowing what was going on, we all scattered.
Seeing those pilots then enter the wormhole again in pods, we all went back, and as they came through again, this time in Tengus and warped off/re-entered the wormhole. At this time, one of the pilots convo'd me, notifying us that they were mid-heist from a WH alliance, (R.E.P.O. funnily enough) and offered to pay us if we were to run security for them, agreeing to that, we stood guard at the wormhole, and let them know who was around. It wasn't too long after that they were calling for us to all come in and grab ships asap, because the owners were wising up to what was happening. Not being able to really fly anything of value, I figured it was more valuable for me to stay in my wolf and take care of anything that might come after our friendlies here. There was a Typhoon sitting on the entrance to the wormhole where everything was located, along with a few Stealth Bombers flying around, but nothing happend at the time. Before anyone could get into one of the ships from the POS though, they had changed the password. So as everyone podded out, we decided to try grab the Typhoon that was still sitting on the entrance to the WH.
Being the only person in a ship at the time, I went after it as they grabbed other ships. Dropping wave after wave of drones, my armor was starting to wear thin, though my repper was taking decent care of it, when my backup arrived, but so did a Retribution to aid the 'phoon. Launching a flight of ECM drones, I got jammed at that point, and without the extra cap to run my rep, the Retribution was able to drop the small amount of armor remaining, even through the T2 Minmatar resists, and then ate through my structure.
darmwand and Omu were also unable to get out of there as more backup arrived in their ships, but they did manage to get the Retribution down (though the KM only shows Omu, as the Retri went through the WH). Omu who had jumped through the WH to try and get away, found out the hard way as he came back into the one where the fight was that the C5 had heavy nerfs to ship agility, as he while he was aligning he watched a Drake come through, lock, and scram him before he was able to enter warp. Bad luck there.
So sitting around back in Iges after all that, we were talking with the memebers of the other corp for our payment, not sure what was happening, and watching them ferry ships out, Starting to get the feeling that we were about to get screwed out of any payment we were told to talk to the corp leader. During this all, there was a harpy on scan, at the sun it turned out. Thinking this may be bait, but figuring I probably had enough backup with me, I turned my Jaguar towards it and warped in. Landing on top of it, and applying my tackle and firing on it, it wasn't long before everyone else dropped in on it with their battlecruisers, and we dropped it. At about the time it's shields melted a Cynabal dropped in on us. But because it was either dual prop or AB fit, it was able to shake the scram that had been applied to it, and started to apply it's damage from range. Dropping the Harpy, we all turned our attention to the Cynabal. During all of this though, nobody had been watching local or D-Scan, and soon we had Hurricanes dropping on us. The call was made to get out if you can, but I was unable to, along with Maleficas in a Hurricane.
After all this, Omu was still talking to the leader of Regeneration about our payment. After a while longer, those of us who lost ships eventually got paid what they were worth according to the killmails, with the leader citing that they didn't get nearly the haul they were expecting out of the whole operation. While glad that they didn't hang us out high and dry, that was a bit of a disappointment to what was an interesting night, though breaking even on that is always good.
I've gotta say, if nights like these come around every so often, I can't see losing interest in Eve.
Fly dangerous.
'Chord
Started off fairly normal, got on, didn't have everything in the hangar to fit another Wolf after losing one last night, so I took out the Jaguar, after trying to get a Brutix to agress on the gate (a member of the corp "Anti-piracy Impire, I figured he'd for sure go for it) with no success, I soon found a Ferox on scan... at a station.
Once again trying to get him to agress flashy-red 'ol me, and he doesn't. I warped off, and kept scanning the station, and he left, but didn't dock up. Soon enough I found him, at a belt! Landing on top of him, I got the scram/web and went to work on his fairly stiff shield tank. It didn't take long for him to convo me, asking me what it would take to stop. Soon enough, we came to an agreement at 25 million, which I happily took, and went on my way (especially considering this all went down in Dastryns, which is a high traffic system, and I had a Tengu and Taranis on scan at the time).
Not seeing any more action after that, I exited my pod for a while (and finished D3 on normal...). Coming back, there were a few more members of Repo. on, and as I warped around our home system, I saw two Ishtars, an Oneiros, and a Noctis all on scan together in deadspace. Quickly getting my alt on, I was able to get a warp in after the first pass, and then waited for the rest of the corp-mates to get in some heavier ships, while I re-fitted a Jaguar as fast tackle.
Warping us in we came to a room with 9 gates or something like this. Omu Matol, who runs level 5s tells us that they all just bring us into the same room, at different ranges, so, with my Jaguar leading, we all jump in, landing in a room with the ships, though one of the Ishtars I had originally seen had left. Being closest to the Noctis, I burned to it and pointed it, and Penumbra and I quickly dropped it, while the other two were still trying to get there. Around this point, we realized that this was a complete cake walk, and they were all AFK. It didn't take us much longer until we had dropped all of the ships, and the empty pods.
All of us were then hanging around Iges, waiting down our GCCs, darmwand saw three pods on scan, members of the corp Regeneration. It didn't take long until we had probed them down, as they left local, finding ourselves in front of a wormhole right then, we decided to see what was happening with that, and before too long, a Nightmare and Loki jumped through. Not knowing what was going on, we all scattered.
Seeing those pilots then enter the wormhole again in pods, we all went back, and as they came through again, this time in Tengus and warped off/re-entered the wormhole. At this time, one of the pilots convo'd me, notifying us that they were mid-heist from a WH alliance, (R.E.P.O. funnily enough) and offered to pay us if we were to run security for them, agreeing to that, we stood guard at the wormhole, and let them know who was around. It wasn't too long after that they were calling for us to all come in and grab ships asap, because the owners were wising up to what was happening. Not being able to really fly anything of value, I figured it was more valuable for me to stay in my wolf and take care of anything that might come after our friendlies here. There was a Typhoon sitting on the entrance to the wormhole where everything was located, along with a few Stealth Bombers flying around, but nothing happend at the time. Before anyone could get into one of the ships from the POS though, they had changed the password. So as everyone podded out, we decided to try grab the Typhoon that was still sitting on the entrance to the WH.
Being the only person in a ship at the time, I went after it as they grabbed other ships. Dropping wave after wave of drones, my armor was starting to wear thin, though my repper was taking decent care of it, when my backup arrived, but so did a Retribution to aid the 'phoon. Launching a flight of ECM drones, I got jammed at that point, and without the extra cap to run my rep, the Retribution was able to drop the small amount of armor remaining, even through the T2 Minmatar resists, and then ate through my structure.
darmwand and Omu were also unable to get out of there as more backup arrived in their ships, but they did manage to get the Retribution down (though the KM only shows Omu, as the Retri went through the WH). Omu who had jumped through the WH to try and get away, found out the hard way as he came back into the one where the fight was that the C5 had heavy nerfs to ship agility, as he while he was aligning he watched a Drake come through, lock, and scram him before he was able to enter warp. Bad luck there.
So sitting around back in Iges after all that, we were talking with the memebers of the other corp for our payment, not sure what was happening, and watching them ferry ships out, Starting to get the feeling that we were about to get screwed out of any payment we were told to talk to the corp leader. During this all, there was a harpy on scan, at the sun it turned out. Thinking this may be bait, but figuring I probably had enough backup with me, I turned my Jaguar towards it and warped in. Landing on top of it, and applying my tackle and firing on it, it wasn't long before everyone else dropped in on it with their battlecruisers, and we dropped it. At about the time it's shields melted a Cynabal dropped in on us. But because it was either dual prop or AB fit, it was able to shake the scram that had been applied to it, and started to apply it's damage from range. Dropping the Harpy, we all turned our attention to the Cynabal. During all of this though, nobody had been watching local or D-Scan, and soon we had Hurricanes dropping on us. The call was made to get out if you can, but I was unable to, along with Maleficas in a Hurricane.
After all this, Omu was still talking to the leader of Regeneration about our payment. After a while longer, those of us who lost ships eventually got paid what they were worth according to the killmails, with the leader citing that they didn't get nearly the haul they were expecting out of the whole operation. While glad that they didn't hang us out high and dry, that was a bit of a disappointment to what was an interesting night, though breaking even on that is always good.
I've gotta say, if nights like these come around every so often, I can't see losing interest in Eve.
Fly dangerous.
'Chord
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Firetail Folly.
So, how about that D3.
Just kidding, not going to do a post about that. I've put some time into it in between my roams over the last few days, it's enjoyable, but I doubt it's going to break the hold on me that Eve currently has, especially once I finally am able to start flying Cruisers decently later this week. I've got a fully fit Rupture and Stabber sitting and waiting for me, though I've not heard much good about the Stabber, I figure it's worth giving it a shot. Fully fit, I doubt it runs anymore then my Firetails have been.
On one of my more un-eventful roams, I eventually came across Celebris Nexterra. He was flying something that was a little more then my Firetail could handle, but offered to re-ship into something for a frigate 1v1. Having had no action that night, I decided it was better then nothing. Heading to his home system, we fleeted up and I waited for him in a safe. Not quite knowing what to expect, I was spamming my scan button and soon saw a Federation Navy Comet on scan. Seeing that, I didn't worry about re-loading my guns, which I default to barrage in most cases, so I prepared to get the fight underway. He landed 30k off of me, and soon I realized I was in trouble, I wasn't able to do any meaningful damage to him, and he was just picking away at me with his railguns. Unable to get away, and having a lapse of brainpower as I was trying my hardest to get away, I never used my tracking disruptor, which quite possibly could have turned the table on the fight. I warped my pod out, and exchanged GFs in local.
This is something I need to catch myself on more often, not using all my modules. I love flying things that have more to do with them then just hit orbit, and guns, and hope you win. Coupled with preferring brawling to kiting, and it really has lead to me loving the active tanked/TD Firetail.
[Republic Fleet Firetail, Dogfight!]
200mm AutoCannon II
200mm AutoCannon II
E5 Prototype Energy Vampire
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator
Balmer Series Tracking Disruptor I
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
Experimental 1MN Afterburner I
Small Armor Repairer II
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Damage Control II
Small Projectile Ambit Extension I
Small Projectile Collision Accelerator I
Small Anti-Explosive Pump I
While I do love the fit, and it's probably my most flown ship these days, I do find the ships I can engage with it to be lacking at times. I'm sure it may be able to drop some turret based AFs, and probably most of the turret based interceptors if flown correctly, more often then not I avoid the fights as I'm just not confident about being able to do it. I'll put it up against most turret cruisers also, but there just aren't many of those around without neuts.
Anyways, I just wanted to throw a quick blog post out there. Also, to anyone who reads this I'd like some input again. The notepad document I've got notes about the fights on is getting rather large, and I've got a real long back catalogue of fights I could write about. Up until this point I've basically been keeping it chronological, but I've been thinking of just scrapping that, and writing about the best of the fights, and the ones that I think could be learning experiences for myself and others. Thoughts and opinions?
Fly Dangerous
'Chord
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