tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56851967965740796112024-03-12T23:46:15.510-07:00Confessions of a Killer Carebearvon Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-31619266249158889252011-04-13T18:38:00.000-07:002011-04-13T19:47:36.085-07:00One Man; 5 Enyos.<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Much like famed pilot <a href="http://www.rifterdrifter.com/2011/04/enyo-face/">Wensley</a>, I recently picked up a stack of Enyos.<div><br /></div><div>Now in the past, I've had some bad things to say about the Enyo (I believe I called it a 'terribad sack of crap'), however it appears that I might have been a bit too harsh. In this post, I'm going to go through the 5 losses (and various kills) and speculate as to wheth</div><div>er an Ishkur would've been more beneficial (or indeed swung the battle in my favour).</div><div><br /></div><div>After a discussion with fellow Tusker <a href="http://tuskers.killmail.org/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=198202">Sa'haira</a> my ENyo was dubbed "WaaaaaAAAAAGH!!", following the well known fact that red ones go faster.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's the fit:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>[Enyo, WaaaaaAAAAAGH!!]</div><div>Small Armor Repairer II</div><div>Damage Control II</div><div>Adaptive Nano Plating II</div><div>Magnetic Field Stabilizer II</div><div><br /></div><div>1MN Afterburner II</div><div>Warp Scrambler II</div><div><br /></div><div>Light Ion Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S</div><div>Light Ion Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S</div><div>Light Ion Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S</div><div>Light Ion Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S</div><div>Small Nosferatu II</div><div><br /></div><div>Small Hybrid Burst Aerator I</div><div>Small Hybrid Collision Accelerator I</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Hobgoblin II x1</div></div><div><br /></div><div>262dps with my skills before heat, 298 with. 8k Ehp and 50/37 dps tanked. Lets compare that with my trusty Ishkur fitting:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>[Ishkur, <3]</div><div>Small Armor Repairer II</div><div>Damage Control II</div><div>Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II</div><div><br /></div><div>1MN Afterburner II</div><div>J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I</div><div>DDO Photometry Tracking Disruptor I</div><div><br /></div><div>Light Ion Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S</div><div>Light Ion Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S</div><div>Light Ion Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S</div><div>Small Diminishing Power System Drain I</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Small Anti-Explosive Pump I</div><div>Small Semiconductor Memory Cell I</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Warrior II x5</div><div>Warrior II x5</div></div><div><br /></div><div>At 197/205 dps, the Ishkur is wildly outclassed in terms of raw damage. However, it does have 100 more Ehp (I know, a HUGE difference right?) and tanked slightly harder at 62/46.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Paper stats aside the Ishkur is slower (779 against 843) however, owing to the extra mid slot, it is far more flexible. The Enyo however can be bought, fitted, rigged and loaded for about as much as the Ishkur hull alone.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ok enough with the theory, lets get onto the first loss.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Enyo 1</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">How did I lose it?</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>The first Enyo met its end after tackling a Daredevil at a FW plex. A short brawl with blasters left the daredevil burning out of my range and holding point for his mates to <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9362468">finish me off.</a> Although losing my ship with nothing to show for it, it was nice to see that the enyo could out-shoot what was supposed to be one of the best frigates. Shame I had nothing to pin him down with. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Would an Ishkur have been better?</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div>Probably not. While the extra mid could have mitigated damage from the DD, or slowed it down a bit, I'm not sure if I would have been able to finish him off before his friends arrived. And frankly, with a daredevil and a rapier on me I wasn't going anywhere.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Enyo 2</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">How did I lose it?</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">After <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9362661">brawling down a thrasher</a> on a station, I waited around for round two with his moa. <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9362759">This ended badly</a>. Fairly sure he was fit for anti-frig with a plate and webs/neuts/small guns.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b>Would an Ishkur have been better?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div>The Ishkur when TD fit will mash a thrasher without breaking a sweat, so that part would have gone more smoothly. The moa was packed <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9350375">double webs</a>, so I doubt the td would have allowed me to out speed his guns or burn out of range. Once again, as I'd have died either way the Enyo was the better choice, as its cheaper.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Enyo 3</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span">How did I lose it?</span></b></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></span></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Tackled by a crusader on a gate, due to mistakes on my part (forgetting to turn my ab on XD) it takes far too long to <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9365874">down him</a> and by this time his friends have tackled me, which doesn't work out too <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9365875">well for me</a> (although I did get the hawk into fairly low shields).</span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b>Would an Ishkur have been better?</b></span></span></b></span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Assuming I'd fitted a web, the crusader could have be</div><div>en more easily brought into my optimal (it was almost as fast as me, even with its mwd shut down) and taken out. Assuming I'd done this quickly enough, his gang wouldn't have reached me and I would have escaped. On the other hand, I screwed up on my piloting, so it may not be fair to judge against the Enyo here.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Enyo 4</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span">How did I lose it?</span></b></span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></span></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">After almost entirely failing to <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9365620">kill a punisher</a> (I'd </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">forgotten to reset my orbit after a short roam in my arty cane, and therefore spent the majority of the fight burning out of blaster range), I pressed on and met a jaguar on a gate. Unfortunately, <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9366459">he kited me</a> in small neut range.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b>Would an Ishkur have been better?</b></span></span></b></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Looking through <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9381365">his past fits</a> he seems to favour a fit without a web. An Ishkur carrying a web would've been faster and able to get into range with antimatter. From experience, at close range the ishkur's cap will last long enough to kill a jaguar. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Enyo 5</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span">How did I lose it?</span></b></span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></span></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Enyo 5 had the most successful career: starting off by <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9380208">out-ganking a thrasher</a> and then topping the killmails in a <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9384257">short</a> <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9384260">frigate</a> <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9384262">roam</a>. We'd been ordered to warp off after taking out the first cane, unfortunately the harbinger was able to grab point on me, leaving my only option as burning into scram range to get under his guns. Hits from the mighty heavy pulse lasers and drones had left my enyo in one quarter structure by the time I'd achieved this and my demise was watched fellow Tusker <a href="http://baroquepilot.blogspot.com/">Kishin Hattori</a>. Or so he thought, as my enyo popped enough of the warriors to regain slivers of armour. Kishin burnt in and grabbed point, just in time to compensate for me being jammed by ecm drones.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Unfortunately, I got a little too complacent whilst looting the field and the harbinger pilot came back in an Ashimmu to <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9384411">finish the job</a>.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><b>Would an Ishkur have been better?</b></span></span></b></span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>As the only gang engagement, this one is interesting. With the spare mid given to a web, the Ishkur could have taken out drones with ridiculous ease (the Enyo's tracking bonus did help to do this though); if the slot had been given over to a tracking disrupte</div><div>r then the whole gang would have benefited from a reduction in incoming dps. A couple of ships that we lost might have survived due to this.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>That said, the Enyo's far superior dps helped to take down the opposing ships more quickly. Furthermore, every other ship fielded by the Tuskers had at least 3 mid slots (enough from a prop mod, point and another module) so there was already plenty of space for webs and tracking disruptor (although I believe only the former were actually being carried).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>That said, if I was going to be stupid enough to get caught by the Ashimmu I might as well have been in the cheaper ship.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Which is better?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Surprisingly, for me at least, 3 out of 5 of these come out as a draw (or even slight win for the Enyo for being cheaper) with only 2 being victories for the Ishkur (although one of these is fairly dubious as the Enyo would have done better if I had have been less fail). I'd be interested to see which would win in a straight fight and may enlist the help of another pilot to test this. Any volunteers?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">It seems to be the case that the Ishkur is more versatile, owing to its extra mid, and is able to more compensate for its lack of speed with a web or td. Its also got sexy fangs.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><img src="http://images.wikia.com/eve/images/4/48/Ishkur512.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 512px; height: 512px;" border="0" alt="" /><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">See? Sexy fangs!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">The Enyo did however get my heart racing as it dived into point blank range against some fairly hard hitting opponents and proceeded to out shoot them. Fights were tight, often ending with me on fire. Something about that appeals to me, so I've finally bitten the bullet and finished training for interceptors. My eyes are fixed on a blaster ranis! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">So expect some comedy lossmails of me losing them to a rifter...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">o/</span></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-22664512572874251262011-04-08T18:15:00.000-07:002011-04-08T19:05:43.493-07:00(Insert self depreciative comments about my inability to FC here)Ok so my repping of my wallet was pretty much achieved by selling off my cov ops alt. The majority of the profit from that is being invested in logistics and industry. I have spreadsheets and everything!<br /><br /><div>However, from the title you can probably guess that this isn't going to be a "EVERYTHING IS FAAAAABULOUS!" blog post. Have a cookie. From trying to sell hurricanes for 5m, to losing a rifter to sentries (after warping to a station at range to check what was on it.... rapier, maelstrom and 2 sentry guns as it turns out), to trading a corp mate a daredevil by mistake: its been a fail couple of days.</div><div><br /></div><div>I've never been a confident FC: I hesitate, forget who my scouts are and never get the speed that I move the gang at right. This is very different from my behaviour when I fly solo: I rarely hesitate to engage just about anything and, I'd say, move at the right pace to cover ground and scan systems. My roams end in one of two ways: nothing at all happens and we all get home safely; everyone dies in a blaze of fail.</div><div><br /></div><div>So what went wrong today?</div><div><br /></div><div>After missing a <a href="http://tuskers.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=9330265">gang fight</a> I was fairly eager for some action, so fellow Tusker (and all round great guy) <a href="http://baroquepilot.blogspot.com/">Kishin Hattori</a> agreed to take a frigate out with me and see what we could find. While we were getting together, more Tuskers joined our fleet and slowly we rolled off towards Tama. </div><div><br /></div><div>A few jumps later, after discussion, I hesitantly took the reins as FC and pointed us further along. Reaching Nagamanen, I chose to send a scout into eaAch of the attached systems. The idea was that as we were in light frigates. Things looked up as a couple of the gang grabbed a <a href="http://tuskers.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9331074">daredevil</a> in a plex. Almost simultaneously one of the other scouts reported a hurricane on scan and we scrambled to get back onto the in gate to his system.</div><div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, this is where it started to go downhill. Due to me choosing to send scouts into the surrounding systems we couldn't muster our full firepower quickly enough (granted, 2 members of the 8 man gang were indisposed). Also, it was an armour cane. And we all know what they do to frigs, right?</div><div><br /></div><div>First to go down was <a href="http://tuskers.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9331082">Beh3motH</a> in his firetail, who held point just long enough for the majority of the gang to land. As we began to chew through the cane's buffer, Mr Snype's incursus was torn to <a href="http://tuskers.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9331085">pieces</a>. Beh3motH reported additional ships on his d-scan, however the delay in their arrival threw me and I ordered the gang to keep fire on the cane. First of their back up to land was a harbinger which <a href="http://tuskers.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9331086">finished off</a> Kishin's worm, followed by a zealot and an additional cane. Frantically calling for the remnants of my gang to flee, <a href="http://tuskers.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9331101">my slicer was pretty much alpha'd</a> before it could enter warp. </div><div><br /></div><div>I think my main issue with leading gangs, and why I tend to hesitate more then when I'm solo, stems from the fact that other people are in the fleet.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Well DUH" I hear you cry "Of course there's other people, its a gang you muppet!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Which would be a fair and valid point. However, when I'm solo I'm only wasting my own time waiting for a target to bite, not several other (more) talented pirates, who could be off hunting solo with great success. Its my own isk invested in the hulls that is on the line; as opposed to isk hard earned through ransoms or whatever else it is that my fellow Tuskers do. </div><div><br /></div><div>In hindsight, it would have been best to have cut our losses and ordered the retreat before the cane's backup had even landed, or even better to have not engaged it at all. But, it had been the only (seemingly) viable target in the time we'd been roaming, so I did not wanted to at least have something to show for our time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ah well, we live and learn. Maybe, if my fellow Tuskers still trust my judgement, I'll lead some more gangs soon and try to work up a bit more confidence. </div><div><br /></div><div>And more solo work. I don't even own any ishkurs at the moment!</div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time </div><div><br /></div><div>o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-34230400671962716782011-03-27T12:05:00.001-07:002011-03-27T12:21:53.052-07:00Docking to Rep (up my wallet)Firstly, hi! Its been a while since I've blogged. Mainly 'cus I've not really done anything on my own that was worth mentioning.<div><br /></div><div>Sometimes its fun to meet an old enemy, even better when its in an old home. You might remember my old corp NER's <a href="http://newedenrenegades.blogspot.com/2010/11/more-eve-uni-and-introducing-scum.html">dislike of the Scum. Alliance</a>. Well, it seems like what's left of them have set up shop in my old home of Lisbaetanne. Old Renegade/Hound and flier of the mighty griffin (and other assorted ships) <a href="http://thegriffintales.blogspot.com/">mitch3190</a> kept being aggressed by them on an undock. In response to this, a Tusker recon and arty gang landed and blew the offending armageddon to <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9180690">pieces</a>.<div><br /></div><div>Its been a good first month or two in the Tuskers. Shortly after joining, we headed off to Black Rise for a month to experience new territory and exciting new crime. Unfortunately, I never seemed to find targets during my active hours.</div><div><br /></div><div>I did however take part (<a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9007516">and</a> <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9068454">die</a> <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9161324">horribly</a>) in a string of corp ops based around arty canes and tempests. I've leave it to our FC <a href="http://fleeonsight.blogspot.com/">Suleimon Shouaa</a> to describe these in detail in his next few posts, but suffice to say I had a good time. </div><div><br /></div><div>We'll be heading out on another campaign soon, so in order to keep more gangs running at home and abroad there's a recruitment drive on. If you're interested in joining quite possibly the best low-sec pirate corp out there check out the requirements and post an application <a href="http://www.the-tuskers.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2">here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>As for me: I've managed to bankrupt myself. Luckily, certain *ahem* associates of mine are active in highsec so in a couple of weeks I'll be out joining gangs again. Its not a matter of making isk, its more making enough to invest in something (some kind of industry knowing me) so that I can spend less time bearing and more time yarring.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hope to be back to losing ridiculous numbers of ishkurs soon!</div></div><div><br /></div><div>o/</div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-27765136097175791122011-01-27T01:42:00.000-08:002011-01-27T01:53:15.796-08:00New Year: New Face, New Corp. (same Ishkurs)OK, so as with the trend for posting this, <a href="http://evefaces.com/?von%20diel">here</a> is a comparison between von's old and new face. I couldn't get quite the same expression of confusion on his face, and he looks naked without the visor, but I'm getting used to it.<div><br /></div><div>Secondly, as detailed <a href="http://newedenrenegades.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-year-beginnings-and-endings.html">here</a> NER has been closed down. I'm sad to see it end, but it was a great challenge to try a build a pirate corp and I had good fun (for the most part) in doing so.</div><div><br /></div><div>This left me needing a corp. I wanted to stick with piracy and have cool people to fly with. Only one real choice presented itself, so I'm now proudly a Tusker.</div><div><br /></div><div>I actually don't have anything else really to add. Urrmm.. yeah...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>LOOK OVER THERE ITS STUFF!</div><div><br /></div><div>*runs away*</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-61628203924035571872010-12-23T18:19:00.000-08:002010-12-23T18:21:55.677-08:00AFK ChristmasSo yeah, urrm short post here. Back to my parent's house... no EVE until 9th January :( Oh well, time to perfect von's gunnery skills. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Hopefully, come January I'll still have a corp to come back to... should do. I think.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ah well, come what may there's always Ishkurs.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>o/</div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-3564323186879326042010-12-15T19:00:00.000-08:002010-12-15T19:31:43.478-08:00On film making, Indy corps and Stupid MinersOk, so its an idea I've been toying with since my first few above class kills and 1vs2's etc: a video showcasing the fun I have playing EVE. Recently, fellow Renegade <a href="http://lex.eve-kill.net/">Lex Fasces</a> released a video of his solo work in and around Amamake (insert link here when I'm slightly more awake and thus able to locate it), and that triggered me to go and try to make something of my own :D<div><br /></div><div>The first opportunity I came across for footage came when a request came out for backup to tackle a nighthawk and myrm belonging to an industrial corp, who were trying to move into our home system. What followed was arguably me flying tackle at some of my best: eliminating drones and holding the targets down as Renegades warped out and then back in again. <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8275684">Myrm</a> went down, followed closely by the <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8275686">Nighthawk</a>. However, in my haste to keep the enemy pinned down I'd forgotten to turn fraps on... yeah.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Filming continued as badly, on a solo roam around the Molden Heath circuit, <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8277752">two</a> <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8277754">hulks</a> appeared on d-scan towards a belt. "Brilliant! This will make an excellent intro!" I thought as I burnt 20km into point range of the first Hulk and began to tear him to pieces. Rather hilariously, both pilots launched mining drones in a futile attempt to drive my ishkur away. No too long after, the first hulk made a satisfying explosion (to many curses over teamspeak from my fellow Renegades at my sudden luck).</div><div><br /></div><div>However, you may note that I posted two kill mails and therefore killed two hulks. You may therefore be wondering how I caught the 2nd hulk: was it a daring string of bumps? Maybe cloak and dagger work with a covert ops scout? Nope. He just didn't warp out.</div><div><br /></div><div>Naturally, I forgot to turn FRAPS on to record. </div><div><br /></div><div>So yeah, hopefully I'll find some nice fights/ransoms to record and produce for your amusement. The title for my video is provisionally taken from the corp motto (which hey, came from my sarcastic comments on vent when hero-tackling). </div><div><br /></div><div>Watch this space for "This Can Only End well!" </div><div><br /></div><div>o/</div><div><br /></div></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-64931649930172117712010-11-24T17:02:00.000-08:002010-11-24T17:35:11.110-08:00WHO RULE AMAMAKETOWN?Whoever it is, it certainly isn't me. <div><br /></div><div>However, the past few days there have been a lot of <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=cc_detail&ctr_id=8043">fun</a>. I've got to relive the joys of the <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8115404">incursus</a>, piss off an amarrian militiaman in a <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8115853">badass</a> way (He MAD), <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8121863">gank</a> the local gankers and scored my first ever faction battleship <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8120889">kill</a> (because missioning in a lowsec hotspot is pro amirite?). Finding a fight is relatively easy, compared to going twenty jumps through low sec. Its all about the fast paced, pulse raising frigate fights.</div><div><br /></div><div>"So von" I hear you cry "Does this mean you're moving to amamake and this is the end of your low sec roaming?"</div><div><br /></div><div>In short, no. In long, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.</div><div>In serious, no because what I do in Amamake isn't piracy; its straight out pvp. Its consensual on both sides, as opposed to hunting down carebears for their sweet loot and sweeter tears. </div><div><br /></div><div>So, its a vacation. Cyber's put a stack of corp rifters down here, at 500m of his own isk (because he is crazy and Dutch), so I'm likely to leave a jump clone down here when my vacation comes to a close. </div><div><br /></div><div>In addition, my internet appears to have returned to a fairly stable state, occasional disconnect notwithstanding. Ragequit avoided \o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-53523326890908657062010-11-17T17:59:00.000-08:002010-11-17T18:58:36.389-08:00To those who inspire me (or sleep is overrated)Ok, as my corpmates know: I'm taking a short break from EVE. My terrible internet has finally pushed me over the edge and frankly I'm sick of losing ships (and even pods) because my shitty router/connection (not sure which) decided to cut out. Losing ships rarely bothers me, lets give an <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8006700">example</a> I was laughing and mock-abusing Cyber as that thing went down. Why? Because I <b>chose </b>to fly my shiny ashimmu into an obvious trap. Losing ships when I disconnect makes me rage because I wasn't there when they went down. I'm not there to make a daring attempt to escape, or even to warp my pod out. <div><br /></div><div>All this means I have to spend less time on the piracy I enjoy and more time shooting NPCs and other monotonous carebearing. </div><div><br /></div><div>So yeah, on a break until I can get my internet working again.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyhoo, rage over and onto the topic of this post. Today children, at the expense of a nice sleep I'd like to talk to you about the pilots that I feel have shaped and influenced the pirate that I am today. This will take the form of a list and is in no particular order.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=xxxrichierichnz#kills">xxxrichierichnz</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=xxxrichierichnz#kills"></a>Richie was the ceo of my first corp and thusly taught me a lot about eve. Admittedly, most of it was to do with missions and mining but he did two things for me: Impart his love of ishkurs (which is enough to put him on this list by itself) but also that ships are only pixels. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ok, so he taught me the second one by getting me blown up by the pleasure hub in damsel in distress... twice. But it was a valuable lesson in EVE and one that's lead me to taking some reckless actions, 'cus hey <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7648361">sometimes it works.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7648361"></a>2. <a href="http://www.rifterdrifter.com/">Wensley</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.rifterdrifter.com/"></a>The famous 'Rifter Drifter'. I'm aware that other people have made eve videos, and that other people are as good if not better at flying a rifter. However, I'm yet to see the two combined like he did in 'Rifter Drifter' and 'Inconceivable'. Seriously, stop reading and go watch them. </div><div><br /></div><div>...</div><div><br /></div><div>Ok, done? </div><div><br /></div><div>For me, the best parts are when he tries things that shouldn't work. A cepter, as a t2 ship, should wipe the floor with a t1 frig. A myrm, as a drone boat should mince a frigate. And yet, he took them on and win or lose posted them in a video. Solo piracy at its finest.</div><div><br /></div><div>I also have a quote by Wensley in my bio. Squealed like a little girl. Seriously.</div><div><br /></div><div>3. <a href="http://www.eve-druid.com/">Ga'len</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=6228499">My first encounter with Ga'len</a> was what lead to me joining Hellhounds, my first pirate corp. As well as having a wealth of knowledge about ship fittings and tactics, I and other hounds spent hours listening to him tell tales of times past: the taking of Unity station and some of his past 0.0 escapades spring to mind as highlights. </div><div><br /></div><div>Also, he got me into blogging. So yeah, blame Ga'len for your having to read this crap.</div><div><br /></div><div>4. <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=Kaal+Redrum">Kaal Redrum</a><br /><div><br /></div><div>I met Kaal as part of his application to join Hellhounds, I've watched him go from flying 'junk rifters' (his own words) to being one of the best pilots I know.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, you may be looking at his stats and thinking "But von, there's nothing really special there." however what makes Kaal special is that unlike your average Noob, he thinks things through. I've fought countless 1vs1s against him, testing out new fits and ideas. Many of the old Hellhounds will remember the 'drake debate' between him and Ulyster over webs on a drake. Turns out he was wrong, but what got me was that he not only asked questions, but did work to back them up. Its not "This is cookie cutter, therefore I will use it", its not even "Would this work guys?" its "I've worked out that fit X is superior to fit Y because of Z". </div><div><br /></div><div>Kaal often says that I've inspired the way he flies, and maybe I have, but when we're both back actively flying again I feel that the student may have become the master.</div><div><br /></div><div>5. <a href="http://www.venomsbite.com/">Venom Orchid</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Venom taught me the value of discipline in fleet and rather a lot about scouting and scanning. I actually flew with her only a couple of times, but <a href="http://confessionsofakillercarebear.blogspot.com/2010/05/good-fight_31.html">one</a> of those sticks in my mind as one of the most fun fights of my career.</div><div><br /></div><div>6. <a href="http://baroquepilot.blogspot.com/">Kishin Hattori</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Kishin inspires me because he's an experimenter with fits and doesn't fly anything bigger than a destroyer. Like me he likes to do crazy shit in a frigate, however unlike me he's <a href="http://baroquepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-started-something-i-couldnt-finish.html">actually successful</a> at it fairly often. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Anyhoo, I'm meant to be in a lecture in 6 hours time so I'll leave it there. Hope to be back flying in a week or so, until then o/</div></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-58910196173574386852010-11-03T01:41:00.000-07:002010-11-03T02:32:10.801-07:00The fall of Jimmy Mcmillan<span class="Apple-style-span" >As previously stated, my stats are terrible. On average, my I manage to score three kills in a ship before it dies in a blaze of fail. So when I score 19 with one in just under a week, you may see why that ship claims a place in my heart. Presenting: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Mcmillan, my Omen navy issue.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Her career started out rather <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7930020">blandly</a>, sure scorch proved to be <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7931650">pretty</a> <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7931653">damn</a> cool but the ONI just hadn't pulled anything <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7936589">special</a> out of the bag yet, unlike his sister ship my fleet stabber. It was tempting just to sell her back on, however then I remembered watching Tusker <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><a href="http://fleeonsight.blogspot.com/">Suleiman Shouaa</a> tear apart a Russian gang with his and decided to give her another try. Within five minutes of leaving home station, a gate camp had taken me to structure, something that would happen to me a good five times in this ship before she finally went down. I scored a few more kills last week, but again nothing that made me stand up and go 'wow': a couple of confused noobs and a solo gate camper who made the mistake of taking gcc on one of my corp mates.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Monday proved to be short on <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7955798">kills</a> but high on 'lulz', as following that a large gang started chasing me around system. At one point, they caught me: arazu had me scrammed and webbed, falcon had me jammed and various bcs were applying dps. I was melting fast and spamming the mwd button in the vague hope that somehow it would defy CCP and activate. To my confusion, it did \o/ and I burnt to safety. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yesterday turned out to be the ONI's finest few hours in my possession, killing a badly fitted </span></span><a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7958597" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; ">harbinger</a><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (although those beams could hit me quite well at range), a tremendously fail </span></span><a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7961826" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; ">Raptor</a><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (he had a claymore and taranis in system, and I dced after tackling him. Was majorly surprised to not only log into a ship, but also to then be able to repoint him) before a rather<a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7961825"> hilarious</a> encounter with a Scum. frigate gang. We would've got more, however I'd capped out by this point (had to keep the mwd running to keep the main gang at range, three ishkurs would've hurt); I'd given Cyber an excellent warp in (right in the middle of the scramming frigs \o/) and Delisa had gone afk. Still, props to Scum. for trying something different instead of their usual recon heavy blob. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jimmy's career finished off with my first EVAR t3 <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7965334">kill</a> \o/ a missioning <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7965338">battleship</a> who was gracious enough to grant us a "good fight" in local and finally a <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7963128">confused noob in a reaper</a> who aggressed me on a gate? </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So, the ONI completed two of my EVE goals in her short life: Kill a t3 and get to 600 kills before 200 losses (a tall order given my track record, as I was 589 for 199). However, like her namesake it didn't end well last night and I finally lost <a href="http://vondiel.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7963773">my dear ONI</a> to a competent gate camp. So the ship endeared itself to me. So I'm going to buy another one, right?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_IRWgpojw&feature=related">WRONG!</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >For two reasons actually, firstly because on Monday I will be able to fly Vagabonds (<a href="http://www.eve-druid.com/">Ga'len</a> would be so proud!) and secondly, <a href="http://somer.idiofx.com/blink/">somer.blink</a> has stolen all my isk by being so damn addictive. Seriously, every time I think of quitting I place a random bet and win big. Thing is, while the stats here are actually quite good and I've technically won money, its in the form of two ships that I don't even need.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Watch this space for an Ashimmu loss mail</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >o/</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-27426654746842588632010-10-28T04:44:00.000-07:002010-10-28T14:23:02.354-07:00LOL RPA lot of my fellow bloggers either occasionally or entirely write their blogs in character. A good number of these are fairly terrible for a variety of reasons, but some I do rather like (<a href="http://nashhkadavreveblog.blogspot.com/">Nashh's</a>, <a href="http://www.eve-druid.com/">Ga'len's</a> and <a href="http://lifeinlowsec.blogspot.com/">Mynxee's</a> to name three). I've tried on several occasions to write either backstory or IC posts for von Diel, but they either turn out implausible, corny or a horrible combination of both.<div><br /></div><div>He's a Gallente carebear turned pirate, who can fly Amarrian battleships and Minmatar ships up to battleships... seriously where do you even start with that?</div><div><br /></div><div>My best attempt is to basically ignore the carebear time and put him as a matari sympathiser during their war for independence. I think I could've used that to explain his abilities to fly gallente (academy training), minmatar (learning from the other rebels) and amarr (hijacking etc). But tbh, still can't figure out details on that, but maybe one day I will.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyhoo urrm... not much pvp action to report. Maybe my next update will be more substantial.</div><div><br /></div><div>o/</div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-68078115873500057622010-10-20T23:52:00.000-07:002010-10-21T00:06:31.120-07:00Three for ThreeDamn, I swear my pilot <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=593344">stats</a> get worse every time I look at them and yet my battleclinic rank seems only to rise.... confusing. Anyhoo, the point of this post is to analyse my most recent three kills and losses.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7856379">Loss one</a> was my beloved Hurricane named 'Lucky Sod'. She earned this name due to my rather fail internet connection which handily disconnected when I jumped through a gate and into a rather large gate camp. Somehow, despite logging back in and dcing immediately, I logged in for the third time and managed to burn back to the gate with my ship fairly intact. Unfortunately, her luck didn't hold and the next time my internet failed she went down. Still, a fun ship to fly and really has put me in the mood for the Vagabond that I'm training for.</div><div><br /></div><div>Later on, my dear friend <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=652064">Kaal Redrum</a> logged in hungry for blood. He quickly located a vagabond and stabber fleet issue in the system next door to our home and started to bait them. Unfortunately I'd made the error of leaving my only fitted ishkur three jumps away and had run out of close range ammo... still the fleet stabber made a <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7856438">pretty explosion</a> and Cyber Ten's curse was able to finish off the <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7856448">vagabond</a> shortly before I <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7856467">popped</a>. Hooray for my drones whoring on the Vaga mail \o/.</div><div><br /></div><div>Afterwards, we got bored and decided to roll down to Taff to mess with an alliance named Scum. I've had some fun with them over the past few weeks, however they seem to have got annoyed with my antics and deployed a gang to blockade my fellow Renegades inside a station when they were forced to dock due to a thing called 'real life'. So, I did the only sane and honourable thing and baited the camp off the station, letting my gangmates free at the cost of one new <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7857422">ishkur</a>, still I managed to drag a <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7857412">stiletto</a> down with me so I'm going to call that a win. </div><div><br /></div><div>Finally a quick mention of our corporate blog located <a href="http://newedenrenegades.blogspot.com/">here</a>. Posts will be made by myself, Cyber, Uly, Kaal and various other renegades. Not sure what else to add really, other than how awesome its going to be. </div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time, o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-92002841167730489912010-10-13T16:09:00.000-07:002010-10-13T16:50:56.870-07:00New BeginningsSome times, things don't work out. The best of friends grow apart. Etc, etc.<div><br /></div><div>Bottom line, a group of us were not happy in Hellhounds and felt we needed something new. That new thing turned out to be our new corp: New Eden Renegades.</div><div><br /></div><div>I began my time in NER with my usual <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7741251">levels</a> of <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7742534">success </a>. However <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7782519">kills</a> soon <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7784520">followed</a>, the story of the myrm can be found over on Xeross' blog <a href="http://theelitist.net/myrmidon-struggle/">here</a>. From there its been a great mix of fun fights, losses, fruitless 0.0 solo roams and endless setting standings on alts. Still, one of the best parts of founding a new corp is that you don't have the history and <a href="http://lifeinlowsec.blogspot.com/">celebrity</a> associated with an older corp/alliance (EVERY damn app we got for hounds mentioned Mynxee... not that I have anything against her personally, but she did leave over 6 months ago). Everything is our way, our rules.</div><div><br /></div><div>One of the things we instituted was an in-corp ladder, which I have had <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7783167">great</a> <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=7807844">success</a> in so far. Still, early days.</div><div><br /></div><div>Over the next few days I'll move these links into the side bar and take down the Hellfleet ones, but until then:</div><div><br /></div><div>Forum: <a href="http://www.newedenrenegades.com/">http://www.newedenrenegades.com/</a></div><div>Killboard: <a href="http://renegades.eve-kill.net/">http://renegades.eve-kill.net/</a></div><div>EveO forum post: <a href="http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1398598">http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1398598</a></div><div><br /></div><div>See you guys out there o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-74364640758469097032010-09-21T02:16:00.000-07:002010-09-21T10:05:19.271-07:00FINALLY some action :DIts been a hectic couple of days for me IRL, moving from my family home to my new student house and settling into a new area (plus having to help look after a fairly large dog). So, its nice to have the escape of EVE and a fun few days its been :D.<div><br /></div><div>Lets start with the AF tournament. First match pitted me against an Enyo. In general 1vs1 Ishkur>Enyo. I'd say I won fairly comfortably.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second match was a three-way FFA, where I had the misfortune to land on top off a Wolf, which pretty much chewed my face off. It was left to the third pilot to down the wolf and then finish me off. Big thanks to<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://fleeonsight.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://fleeonsight.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Suleiman Shoua</span><span class="Apple-style-span" >a</span></a> for organising a great tournament.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yesterday's action started with me roaming out into the heart of Amarr militia space and took out a <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=161966"><span class="Apple-style-span" >punisher</span></a> under the noses of one of their gangs. About an hour later, I stumbled upon three ships in a system: a kestrel, a thorax and a vengeance. Sensing the possibility for a fun fight, I requested some assistance and ceo <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=64049"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Cyber Ten</span></a> answered my call. However, he was 12 jumps away in our home system and the enemy gang had just landed on me and got me triple pointed. I had only one option, try to take down as many as I could and hold on until Cyber arrived. Assessing the situation, the kestrel was at long range, the veng was close but probably heavily tanked and the thorax was close and probably more gank fit. Thorax primary, veng secondary and screw the kestrel. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Establishing orbit around the thorax and swatting the hammerhead drones he'd put out I noticed that he was shooting me with small railguns and not with a great deal of success. It took me longer than I would've liked, but the Thorax went <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=161975"><span class="Apple-style-span" >boom</span></a> whilst the kestrel withdrew from the field, leaving me 1vs1 with the veng. Or so I thought: d-scan soon picked up an inbound drake. By this point, I was running into serious cap issues and was forced to pulse my repair system. This took its toll as my ishkur began to, as we say, 'shit fire'. But, Cyber was only two jumps away so I knew I had to hold on long enough to make the trip worth while for him.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Loading Grid", the most beautiful words you can hear from your backup. A couple of seconds later and the veng made a pretty <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=161976"><span class="Apple-style-span" >explosion</span></a>. Unfortunately, neither of us had pointed the drake as we both had believed that I was going down. Smarting from this, we headed to the nearest station, repped up and headed out roaming.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The majority of systems were empty, save for a Dominix class battleship apparently at a belt. With the memory of the lost drake in our minds and the possibility for glory in our hearts (LOL) we warped in and tackled the Domi. The plan was simple: knock out as many of his light and medium drones as we could and hope he didn't have too many neuts. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There were some touchy moments (I was forced off the field, pulled back some armour and landed again just as Cyber needed to pull out) but eventually we eliminated the majority of the Domi's light drones. Plus, he'd been forced to choose to either neut or rep, so was no longer able to keep us capped out. A few minutes later and Cyber reported that the pilot had logged off. A frantic overload session followed (we weren't sure if the ship would just 'vanish') but soon enough the <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=161984"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Domi was no more</span></a>. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Overall, the events of the past few days have restored some of my confidence in myself as a Pirate. Lets see if I can maintain it, eh?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Until next time, o/</span></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-38328080310942867842010-09-12T10:40:00.000-07:002010-09-12T10:57:41.801-07:00Burning out.I've had this post forming in my head for the past few days, then reading <a href="http://baroquepilot.blogspot.com/2010/09/old-before-your-time.html">this</a> over at <a href="http://tuskers.killmail.org/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=507759">Kishin Hattori's </a> blog made me finalise what I wanted to say.<div><br /></div><div>In short, I'm starting to tire of low sec. <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=117594">Good fights</a> are few and far between, mostly turning into <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=153307">me</a><a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=152791"> getting</a> <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=149383">hopelessly</a> <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=152792">outnumbered</a> or being so bored for lack of targets that I'll engage just about <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=155515">anything</a> (also, see last blog post). Sure, I still get kills but its been a while since my last big <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=134338">pay day</a>. Weekly <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=148428">suicide</a> and <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=148399">disco</a> ops are amusing, but they require numbers to really work (plus, there's only a limited number of actively used belts in our immediate area).</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, I've sunk over a year of my life into EVE along with a lot of money before I got my isk making up to speed. I don't want to give up and burn out, so I'm thinking of ways to make my EVEtime more interesting again: new adventures and activities. Hopefully, that'll be enough to keep my interest.</div><div><br /></div><div>Will definitely be around for Suleiman's AF tourney, I have a few fits cooking for that and may (rather foolishly) Post my analysis of them later in the week.</div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time o/</div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-21521903789936625442010-09-05T14:47:00.000-07:002010-09-05T15:18:39.249-07:00On baiting, Kaal, Discos and 1vs1.Writing a quick blog post after returning in my pod after being <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=150914">killed by the number one pilot on battleclinic</a>. Was a fairly uneventful roam up until that point, only other action was a <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=150913">drake</a> that I'd baited in top belt (who complained both in local and on his own KB of 'crashing' mid fight, butthurt much?). Ceo Cyber Ten often uses me as his plus1, scout and bait pilot for our guardian roams. I'd like to think that this is because he trusts me to get the job done, but more likely its because of my ability to attract targets and be called primary (as a note, I've only ever brought a harbinger home from a roam once, luckily the Veto gang decided to primary Kaal instead).<div><br /></div><div>Talking of Kaal, this guy is really starting to impress me both with his attitude and abilities as a pilot (who else do I know who's crazy enough to engage a (mining) fleet solo?). He's started flying solo more, even managed to do the one thing I haven't: solo'd a battleship in an assault frigate. No KM on this one, as the pilot ejected and Kaal sold the ship. Still, my hat is off to him as that's been one of my long term goals flying solo and he gets it on his first night flying out XD. Just need to get him into an Ishkur and he'll be the perfect wingman, amirite? </div><div><br /></div><div>In all seriousness, he's a pilot that's always up for a good fight and seems to share my passion for hunting large prey in small ships. </div><div><br /></div><div>On Thursday, four of us dropped disco-battleships on an ice mining fleet. <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=148398">Hilarity followed</a>. Poor ice miners, didn't see that coming. </div><div><br /></div><div>Now, here's a fact I'm rather proud of: to date, I have not lost a prearranged 1vs1 to anyone outside of my alliance (Cyber just keeps kicking my ass). Usually, my ishkur/veng can either beat my opponent or drive them off the field in a couple of minutes. Recently, I did some theory-crafting in anti-dramiel combat, which has met with limited success (that is to say in 5 fights, 5 dramiels have run away with their tails in-between their legs). Last night I finished a quiet roam, with only a self destructing drake to speak of, and so I was bored. Jumping through a gate, I saw tusker <a href="http://baroquepilot.blogspot.com/">Kishin Hattori</a> in a dram warp off towards a belt. Banter in local lead me to conclude that he was in a similar position to me: nothing to shoot at and so bored.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, I've read of Kishin's exploits in a dramiel <a href="http://baroquepilot.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-started-something-i-couldnt-finish.html">here</a>. Under normal circumstances I would have continued merrily home to lisb, logged and played the Guild 2 for a bit. However, I was curious to see how my ishkur would perform against his armour dram. </div><div><br /></div><div>To summarise:</div><div><br /></div><div><ol><li>1vs1 is arranged, we fight at a belt.</li><li>I land on dram. We both point, td and drop drones.</li><li>For the next 15 minutes we knock out each other's drones. </li><li>His td and speed mean my blasters can't hit him; his auto cannons cannot break my tank.</li><li>Flycatcher lands and we bug out.</li></ol><div>Now, that might sound fairly tame reading it, but I was on edge for most of the fight: micromanaging overheat on my rep, pulling in and swapping out drones, managing active modules to keep the important ones running. This fight stands out in my mind for the shear length if nothing else (frigate duels are often over in under two minutes, often less). Economic victory to him (10 warriors vs 3), but I'm just happy that my tactics worked and I didn't lose a ship.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Anyhoo, I'm rambling here so until next time </div><div><br /></div><div>o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-25302114234456131562010-08-27T10:35:00.000-07:002010-08-27T10:50:50.006-07:00Spot the Difference?Ok, two kms for you here:<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=143057">http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=143057</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=143061">http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=143061</a></div><div><br /></div><div>You'll notice that the first one is me killing a thorax and the second is me being killed by the same pilot in a Vexor. Both fights that easily could have gone the other way, let me explain.</div><div><br /></div><div>First fight, against the thorax, I'd seen him on a gate so knew he had medium blasters fitted. He warped to a belt and I followed, landing pretty much at zero. Tracking script from the td kept his guns off me, while my guns and drones made light work of the ecm drones he had dropped. After they were gone, my ishkur ripped him to pieces. This is an example of what I like doing: flying against a bigger target, getting under its guns and slowly chewing through it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second fight didn't go quite as well. I'll list the mistakes I made in the fight:</div><div><ol><li>Forgot to switch script. He was small gun fit so I went to kite, but left the tracking script in. His guns were therefore able to hit me; while the optimal range script would have kept me safe.</li><li>Drones ran amok. Against another drone boat, you really need to win the drone battle and I lost control of mine for 10 seconds or so, in that time they could have taken down at least one of his drones.</li><li>I set orbit too far out. Outside of nos range, and in a blank clone (from suicide ganking op), I couldn't keep my rep going long enough to take his light drones down.</li></ol><div>To answer my own question: in the first kill I used tactics I've spent months developing and they paid off; in the second these went out of the window and I lost the fight.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In other news, I led a fairly successful suicide gank op last night. 5 Mackinaws, 3 Hulks and an iteron mark IV at the cost of only a few dessys and a couple of disco battleships. Was a really fun op and the directors present agreed to make it a regular event. Better get me some more disco-geddons :D</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-75804083090019314432010-08-08T17:47:00.000-07:002010-08-08T18:06:13.018-07:00The Jaguar DiariesI was planning on continuing my AF posts by ranting on how much I hate the enyo, but then the Jaguar happened. Only finished Minmater frig V a few days ago, and already I've lost three of the things. Four kills with them though, so I'll go through them all.<div><br /></div><div><br /><div>First Jag met her <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=108504">end</a> to a team of a taranis and an Enyo, a risk that comes with flying solo is that not many others do.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>Second jag managed to do <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=108556">this</a> before a manual piloting error on my part caused it to <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=108571">die</a> (I flew into a building). Originally we had a 3 man gang: thrasher, jag and gank vexor but the cyclone made mince out of my wing mates. Had it tackled for a good 10 minutes before a secondary tackler arrived (Kaal reshipped) and then a friendly drake landed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Third Jag had a bit more luck. Firstly, I probed down a missioning cyclone and when he logged off mid combat I <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=108949">blew him up</a>. I then decided to take for a long roam down past wiskeber. Engaged a <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=109694">raven</a> and a <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=109695">drake</a> solo (because sanity is overrated amIright?). A stabber fleet issue landed at range and I aligned out and warped off. However, the stabber pilot was willing to call a temporary truce to take down these two carebears, which they weren't all too happy about judging from local. Scored a third kill when a <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=109709">tristan</a> decided to engage me on a gate. </div><div><br /></div><div>However, on my way over to see the EVE gate (and hopefully kill/ransom some tourists) my jaguar met an unfortunate end to a <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=109777">gate camp</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Overall then, I've been charmed by the jaguar. Over the next few weeks, I plan on carrying out some tests of tactics and fits in friendly 1vs1s with alliance mates. Kaal tells me its impossible, but I think I've figured a way of taking down an ishkur with (relative)ease. This means that I'll probably fail epically but it'll be fun.</div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-74908578652584727742010-08-01T12:02:00.000-07:002010-08-01T12:44:30.880-07:00Veng is fine, just fix the damn roflkets.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIz8k_oHbCKvqAkbIoTTbzBiYGsaAmJ2cS1696wl53D3y1K9C9OtUNm4xi2MsHnXTplKAUXLly2sZzlyGe_5Ay-2fsw1_UY8Uvz_KPrlU-pXclmaxa39EtnMQ6rdj-rr2UxBGaXW_17c/s1600/2010.08.01.18.41.46.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIz8k_oHbCKvqAkbIoTTbzBiYGsaAmJ2cS1696wl53D3y1K9C9OtUNm4xi2MsHnXTplKAUXLly2sZzlyGe_5Ay-2fsw1_UY8Uvz_KPrlU-pXclmaxa39EtnMQ6rdj-rr2UxBGaXW_17c/s320/2010.08.01.18.41.46.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500522174282778146" /></a><br />I'm known in HellFleet as somewhat of an AF addict, you may be able to tell this from my last post where I basically jacked off over my favourite (the Ishkur) for a couple of paragraphs. And I stand by most of what I said, ishkur's a brilliant ship. No I will not buy a vexor.<div><br /></div><div>However, my 2nd favourite AF has a few tricks that the Ishkur can't pull. Introducing: UBER DPS</div><div><br /></div><div><div>[Vengeance, UBER DPS]</div><div>Damage Control II</div><div>Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II</div><div>Small Armor Repairer II</div><div>Small Armor Repairer II</div><div><br /></div><div>1MN Afterburner II</div><div>Warp Scrambler II</div><div>Small Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 200</div><div><br /></div><div>150mm Light AutoCannon II, EMP S</div><div>150mm Light AutoCannon II, EMP S</div><div>150mm Light AutoCannon II, EMP S</div><div>Small Nosferatu II</div><div><br /></div><div>Small Anti-Thermic Pump I</div><div>Small Auxiliary Nano Pump I</div><div><br /></div></div><div>Had some debate with Cyber Ten about the cap booster, with him maintaining that a web is better. However, I'd like to see his veng do what's happening in the picture above. Jumped through a gate to meet a 7 man frig gang, who promptly pointed, webbed and even tded me. Activating my tank and burning for the gate, I realised that I was actually tanking the oncoming damage, without heat or taking a booster. I did, briefly, think about attacking but then a couple of decent shots by their jag (I think) hit my armour pretty hard (but nothing a couple of overheated rep cycles couldn't handle).</div><div><br /></div><div>Overall, therefore, the Veng is a pretty sweet ship. However, its main flaw is the primary weapon system that ccp assigned to it: rockets. Now, when a ship does more damage with a secondary (in this case autocannons) then with the one its meant to use I'd say that something's gone wrong. (tl;dr: FFS CCP FIX ROCKETS XD)</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyhoo, had some fun recently with my 'geddon. Had the dubious honour of bringing down Ka Jolo, the ceo of Tuskers, after his gang engaged our bait. Was fun. He was as awesome about it as I'd expected and I'm going to stop talking now before I look like a screaming fan girl.</div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-52808991640707141582010-06-23T09:31:00.000-07:002010-06-23T10:32:07.145-07:00A little Ishkur lovin'Ah my beloved Ishkur. Three ion blasters, two flights of Warrior IIs. Long pointy-thing that no one can explain the purpose of. Sexy green paint job. (/emote starts drooling)<div><br /></div><div>I've had some fun in this ship, <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=80791">tackling as part of a large(ish) gang</a>, <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=73625">baiting larger ships to engage me on gates</a>, 2vs2 alongside eviwyn against another <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=52433">af</a>+<a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=52432">frig</a> pair and as <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=66057">part</a> of <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=81216">AF</a> <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=81413">roams</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Fitting-wise, I follow Turelles's excellent fitting which can be found <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/loadout/19950-Turelle-s-solo-Ishkur-The-Bane.html">here</a>. On occasion, for example if I'm flying as tackler, I'll drop the tracking disruptor for a web. I've heard people make the argument for using a MWD instead of an AB, but frankly I can't see a benefit: gimps your cap and makes you vulnerable to scrams.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yesterday, I fought a 1vs1 against another Ishkur pilot. We fleeted up and he warped to my safe. Observing the velocity of his ship, and using the handy 'look at' function, allowed me to deduce that he was mwd and rail fit. </div><div><br /></div><div>I had no way of catching him, however his hobgoblins were no match for my blasters and flight of warriors so his main bulk of dps was quickly eliminated. I'd love to be able to post a tasty km here, but when I turned my drones on him he quickly warped away. For me, this is the main argument against the nano-ishkur, while its speed and added mobility give advantages in many situations it simply cannot put anywhere near the dps down that a blaster build can.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, I'm a believer that strength comes from flexibility so I do fly a range of urrm.. other assault frigates. Namely, the Amarrian Vengeance and Retribution. I fit my veng as a dual-repped tackler and my retribution for AF-gang dps support. Neither of them can replace the ishkur as my main ship though: the Veng is slow with poor damage output; the retribution only has one mid slot. </div><div><br /></div><div>All-in-all, I love my Ishkurs. I'm currently finishing up my training for T2 medium pulses (allowing me to fly my harbinger more often on fleet actions), then I plan on taking a detour to pick up interceptors. Its between the Taranis and the Crusader for me at the moment, with the ranis slightly taking the lead. After that, its onto t2 large pulses and maybe, dare I say it, the long road towards carriers and dreads. </div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time, when CCP FINALLY GET THE DAMNED SERVER BACK UP</div><div><br /></div><div>o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-81818327104894117602010-06-13T15:28:00.001-07:002010-06-14T11:43:58.239-07:00Herr Direktor*As you may be able to tell from the title, I got made a full director of Hellhounds earlier this week. Cyber Ten's still showing me some of the ropes, and there's still a load of menus that I have no idea what they do (if anything). <div><br /></div><div>Last week I FINALLY topped the KB for kills (this week I'm joint top with the awesome <a href="http://makingamessaroundessence.blogspot.com/">Eviwyn</a> check her blog out, its far more interesting than mine and has PICTURES :D). I know its not a big thing, but I've been trying to top the KB since I joined up, and pretty much every week I lead until Friday: where upon someone else logs in and leaves me in the dust.</div><div><br /></div><div>Its been an interesting week on the piracy front. I was 'democratically' chosen to FC a couple of roams out of our base in Brin. Now, I've FCed before but that was back in my old corp where I was the most experienced at low sec piracy and so felt more confident in that role. Its a bit different for me over in HellFleet, where I frequently fly alongside people have been playing for years (some of them since beta). </div><div><br /></div><div>Regardless, it was a quiet roam. Only action we had was when a <a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=69465">thorax</a> engaged Kaal on a gate. Could've gone worse I guess, considering what happened the next day. </div><div><br /></div><div>Lesson learnt: Do NOT warp to the top belt in Amamake. It was a fun roam though. </div><div><br /></div><div>Today my ishkur exploded against a rupture, I was doing fine until he managed to neut me so hard that I couldn't even fire my blasters or keep point. However, Evi and Jayde managed to bring him down so it was all ok I guess.</div><div><br /></div><div>Next, we teamed up with a few guys from Devious Decorum to hit the Roughnecks. I was a little bit apprehensive about this as I was that my usual mixture of frigate variants wouldn't work, as they don't pack enough buffer to last until the carrier could get reps on it. Looking through my hanger, I settled on my old bait/camping maller: 22k in raw armour, with all resists over 75%. Cyber ten baited in his Abaddon and it wasn't long until the Roughnecks took the bait.</div><div><br /></div><div>We only managed to net two of them:</div><div><a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=72027">http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=72027</a></div><div><a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=72026">http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=72026</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Annoyingly, I'd fitted a short range point instead of a long range one so their Claymore was able to escape :(, alongside their harbinger and another ship that I forget.</div><div><br /></div><div>From local, they weren't too happy about that :D</div><div><br /></div><div>It was nice to be out blobbing the Roughnecks for once and having capitals backing us up. We got invited on a battlecrusier roam with the DVDC guys but we had to turn down: RL was catching up with us (plus, personally I don't typically keep one in hanger).</div><div><br /></div><div>"LOL" kill of the week: </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=72017">http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=72017</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=72017"></a>None of the others could keep point, except my Keres (which does terrible dps, but was able to keep point at 25km and damp him out of lock range). Eventually, we got our act together and managed to get webs and additional points on him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Things are getting interesting round Essence and I'll keep you updated as to events.</div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time, fly safe o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>(* Kaal did a hilarioius German Accent on vent calling me this)</div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-71993015333865558242010-06-03T16:54:00.000-07:002010-06-08T13:17:16.017-07:00Breaking Even<div>Yaarr?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Anyhoo, today I was stupid and got my gate camp busted by two Bastards. They graciously offered to let me go for 25m, far below even the cost of my harbinger's hull. If there's one thing I've learnt its that sometimes you're better off to swallow your pride and pay then have to go get a new ship. </div><div><br /></div><div>Smarting from that I set course back to our holiday home in Brin. My scout (urrm.. myself) had probed down a hurricane who was missioning. Hungry for some action I warped to the acceleration gate. Disaster! The bumbling covert ops had decloaked and my target had escaped.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>But then again, missioners often come back. And come back he did, to find 'Vidi vici veni!' (Translate it) sitting there waiting for him. Now a proper pvp fit hurricane spells death for pretty much any frig outside of a dram, lucky me he's a missioner eh?</div><div><br /></div><div>I lock him up, scramble his warp drive, disrupt tracking on his guns (medium guns can hurt) and we both launch a flight of warrior drones. My guns and drones make short work of his drones, allowing me to focus fire on breaking his tank. From the looks of it, he's fitting an active shield tank with a booster. At this juncture I open comms:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>[23:46:51] von Diel > 50m</div><div>[23:47:03] Chel MocTran > Haha my shi[p isnt worth that fool</div><div>[23:47:09] von Diel > ok</div><div>[23:47:19] Chel MocTran > Try 20 and youve got a deal</div><div>[23:47:32] von Diel > 30</div><div>[23:47:41] Chel MocTran > Again, more than its worth</div><div>[23:47:54] Chel MocTran > 20 only saves me 5</div><div>[23:47:58] von Diel > mate, I want to know where you're buying your canes from lol</div><div>[23:47:59] Chel MocTran > including insurance</div><div>[23:48:06] von Diel > ah good point insurance</div><div>[23:48:09] Chel MocTran > Make em</div><div>[23:48:12] Chel MocTran > :P</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, I don't think he's taking me seriously. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>[23:48:15] von Diel > aH</div><div>[23:48:17] von Diel > well</div><div>[23:48:18] von Diel > I dunno</div><div>[23:48:24] von Diel > 20 is fairly low for a bc</div><div>[23:48:28] von Diel > no deal sorry</div><div>[23:48:31] Chel MocTran > Meh your choice</div><div><br /></div><div>I open fire again, ripping through his armour and into the structure.</div><div><br /></div><div>[23:49:00] von Diel > ok</div><div>[23:49:06] von Diel > 25?</div><div>[23:49:15] Chel MocTran > Haha, alright</div><div>[23:49:23] Chel MocTran > give me a sec gotta transfer funds from alt</div><div>[23:49:32] von Diel > you got 30 seconds</div><div><br /></div><div>At this point, as seems a trend when I'm ransoming people, a couple of new people enter local. Fearing its a trap, and as the dictated 30 seconds are up I resume fire. Suddenly wallet flash:</div><div><br /></div><div>[23:50:11] Chel MocTran > Transfered</div><div>[23:50:22] von Diel > lol just in time</div><div>[23:50:32] von Diel > have a nice day :)</div><div>[23:50:36] Chel MocTran > i wanna know where you get your clocks</div><div>[23:50:40] Chel MocTran > :p</div><div>[23:50:45] von Diel > lol</div><div>[23:50:52] von Diel > it was 49:32</div><div>[23:50:57] von Diel > and it turned 50 :P</div><div>[23:50:58] Chel MocTran > gw, saw youre probes</div><div>[23:51:05] Chel MocTran > Not sure why I warped back in</div><div>[23:51:10] Chel MocTran > : /</div><div>[23:51:17] von Diel > lol I was sure I'd missed you</div><div>[23:51:25] von Diel > cov ops hit the acc gate XD</div><div>[23:51:36] Chel MocTran > I saw</div><div>[23:51:53] von Diel > yeah, I gotta work on that lol</div><div>[23:52:11] Chel MocTran > Ah well, good hunting</div><div>[23:52:18] von Diel > fly safe o/</div></div><div><br /></div><div>So it ends on relatively amicable terms. Kinda wish I'd got more, but overall it means I broke even today.</div><div><br /></div><div>In other news I've been playing with my vengeance a bit. Had some fun duelling with the aforementioned Kaal Redum and his new Rupture. Once again, a nasty opponent for a frigate pilot. Round one I conclusively hammered him. Round 2, he was having coaching from ceo Cyber Ten and had learnt a few things from our last fight. There was a few moments where I was close to structure, but in the end I broke his tank. Then burnt my guns out 'cus I was paying more attension to micromanaging my reps and booster. But that was ok because he ran out of ammo. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm chalking that up as a win, despite not actually winning (if that makes sense?). The Veng isn't meant to be a solo boat, the fit I use is designed to hold down a ship and tank it until backup arrives. However, I will give that Kaal gave me a real run for my money and that he would have ripped my beloved Ishkur to shreds. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In other Ishkur related news, I finally finished Assault Ships V. I'm tempted to buy and pimp out an ishkur to celebrate... treat the old girl with some faction and complex modules. Who knows.</div><div><br /></div><div>Also, after running some numbers whilst bored and camping I decided to buy a Dominix BPO and get back in the manufacturing game. Assuming prices hold, it should provide some reasonable income in addition to whatever else PI brings next week. </div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time o/</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-53266946938672267022010-05-31T15:42:00.001-07:002010-05-31T16:45:48.426-07:00A good fight(Been a while since I've posted, haven't really had much to blog about. But, recently we've been messing about away from our usual home in Essence. Felt like writing up our last engagement, so enjoy :P. Different writing style to my usual posting, so lets see how this works out)<div><br /></div><div>The fleet forms up outside our new office in Brinn, far from home. I'm captaining a shiny new Ishkur class assault frigate, easily my favourite ship: tough and hard-hitting, for a frigate. With me are a fellow Hellhound, flying his Harpy, and two of the Hellcats, both in dramiels. All four of us are waiting for the signal to move into the next system to support the fifth member of our gang: a recent addition to our motley crew, Kaal Redrum. </div><div><br /></div><div>We're not the only gang hunting around here, and someone quickly takes the bait. Call goes out over comms that an interceptor is engaging Kaal. We rush to activate the jump gate and warp to support our comrade, but its too late: the interceptor is down, but his friends have arrived. Kaal's thrasher is no match for the combined fire-power of three cruisers. I'm the first to arrive on the field, so as usual they call me as primary. Immediately we get to work, scrambling the their warp drives and our commander calls the Caracal as our primary target, and our secret weapon uncloaks: a top of the line Rapier. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Caracal collapses under the combined firepower of our five ships, but the shells from both of the gunboats are turning my armour into confetti. Even diverting maximum power to overload the nano-assemblers isn't enough. Klaxens sound as the last of my Ishkur's armour evaporates and another volley rips into her exposed hull. </div><div><br /></div><div>Structural integrity 90%</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 70%</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 50%</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 25%</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 12%</div><div><br /></div><div>C'mon baby, hold it together. We can do this.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> 12%</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> 12%</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> 12%</div><div><br /></div><div>The rupture forms a beautiful explosion, and the repair system's final effort before it burns out absorbs the final volley from the stabber, which promptly erupts into flames. We hold the field, scoop what loot we can and return to dock. Its one of the many times I'm glad to have a good ship under my command and a great group of pilots flying under the same flag. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>(tldr: we killed shit and I didn't die. Will try to update more often, as more eventful stuff will hopefully happen :D)</div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-35476984430828436982010-04-26T15:33:00.000-07:002010-04-26T15:50:59.824-07:00A costly weekSo, it turns out that the all powerful dramiel can be brought down by two garden variety rifters, assuming they can get webs on the dram. <div><br /></div><div>I'll not be doing that again.</div><div><br /></div><div>Or warping to a station with GCC immediately after a kill and then being unable to dock.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, in my third dram in as many days. My stats show that since joining Hellhounds, I've scored: 21 kills in an ishkur, 15 in a maller, 15 in a dramiel, 4 in a vexor, 1 in a rifter and another 1 in an incursus. Dram's quickly catching up, but despite the amount that people rave about them (and after flying one, I can understand this to a degree) its not got the charm of my beloved ishkur. Doesn't have her punch either, but over 6km/s is not to be sneezed at.</div><div><br /></div><div>Assasin55, a part of me wants to mock him and a part of me wants to direct him to a corp to be taken care of. Killed and podded him twice in the same day, same system, within half an hour. Firstly he was in a caracal and then in a procurer (for those of you who aren't secretly massive carebears, its a mining barge which is genrually considered useless for everything except building its t2 variant). Alliance KB shows that he lost a third ship to us too. </div><div><br /></div><div>Today's piracy started with a lonely moa sitting and ratting, who quickly was introduced to my autocannons. Refused to tell me a joke and so was sent back to his medical station. Next was a pair of rifters that I'd tangled with before (and it cost me a dramiel), this time no such issue and even managed to get some back up in: Fox McFox, a hellhounds applicant. Managed to snag a vexor for us too before he had to log off. Finally, a noob ratting in a destroyer rounds off today's kills.</div><div><br /></div><div>In other news, the dram's amazing speed has allowed me to escape from a couple of nasty tangles: firstly with a cynabal and secondly with four rifters. I'd much rather suffer the shame of turning tail and fleeing than the cost to my wallet of another ship, and keeping range to 4 targets isn't all two easy. Chased a few other pirates around for a bit, but nothing interesting to report there except epeen from making them run from me.</div><div><br /></div><div>At this rate, maybe I'll hit -10 by the end of the week.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica;color:#CCCCCC;"><b><br /></b></span></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-84762541220253524992010-04-17T16:54:00.000-07:002010-04-17T17:07:37.344-07:00Bait, foiling revenge attacks and.. movie stardom? Its all at HellFleetMissed the start to the planned roam, so no real idea how that went. However, afterwards things went a little dry so Cyber Ten suggested we start to put together some film footage. During this time, one of my alts popped a destroyer as it undocked. But, thinking little of it I took these pictures: <a href="http://s799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/vonDiel/Hellfleet%20Vid/">http://s799.photobucket.com/albums/yy271/vonDiel/Hellfleet%20Vid/</a><div><br /></div><div>Ishkur: von Diel (me).</div><div>Rifter: Eviwyn</div><div>Legion: Cyber Ten</div><div>Vagabond: Ulyster</div><div><br /></div><div>Hopefully we'll soon be seeing the finished product of this :D</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyhoo, setting up in a belt with my alt I'm convo'd by a capsuler named Federal Clone, who claims to be able to find me many noob targets with valuable loot. Responce from voice comms with fellow HellFleet members is that noob targets never have valuable loot, so I figured he was up to something. Not even the 5 million ISK he deposited into my account as a mark of 'trust' could make these suspicions go away... </div><div><br /></div><div>So I did the logical thing, and invited him to join me in a belt.</div><div><br /></div><div>To my surprise, not only does he turn up but he is alone and in a frankly terribly fitted ship (<a href="http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=55929">http://www.eve-hellfleet.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=55929</a> ) and the gang makes short work of both him and the merlin that drops in. Turns out, the merlin pilot is the same one from before.. interesting. Should be able to post logs later/tomorrow which suggest that the raven set up was a revenge attack for the loss of the destroyer. If so, probably the most hilarious thing to ever happen to me on EVE :D</div><div><br /></div><div>Until next time.</div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5685196796574079611.post-62342790083982136832010-04-09T16:19:00.000-07:002010-04-09T23:47:58.327-07:00I think this is appropriate nowFor as long as its existed, my ransom channel has had this as the MOTD: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvUbbYX9BMs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvUbbYX9BMs</a><div><br /></div><div>And seeing as I've just joined a proper pirate corp, seems like I'm actually a professional pirate now :D</div><div><br /></div><div>Coming back from holidaying in Wales, looking after my adorable little cousins, its nice to be back in command of Life for Rent... because all the cool kids listen to Dido...</div><div><br /></div><div>Last night, only one kill to report: some poor noob in an iteron mark I got jumped by our entire gang. That really must have confused him.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hopefully I'll have some more to post tonight :)</div><div><br /></div>von Dielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06291919241474030284noreply@blogger.com2