27 Feb 2007

Killing my first Geddon.

Determined to get more kills - I went back to Gusandall to see what was flying around. Oddly, no Blackfleet or MeanCorp or anyone for that matter. I have had some success in a the Todifrauan system in Metropolis. Its the base for many corps and many appear to mine there. Also, the place is hot with Angels so there are plenty of hunters there.

Lucius and I spent some time scanning and seeking out targets; as there were plenty and what looked like a major mining operation. We saw covetors and retrievers all guarded by Dominix, Scorpion and Caracal class ships. A bit tough for two frigates.

However, there were still plenty of ships around and we spotted a stabber and an armageddon that were working together in the belts around the VI cluster. Sensing an opportunity we split up and tried to pin them down. The primary target would be the stabber then the armageddon. We doubted the 'geddon would be able to track us unless it had NOS, SmartBombs and drones. The search for them was fun as both Lucius and I landed 100KM+ away from the pair a total of five times. It was clear to us that they knew were were around. However, we took advantage of a mistake they made: they passed a secured can and we bookmarked the can and warped back to it a suitable distance, screaming in and landing within 10km of the pair. Snarling, Lucius and I hurled our ships closer and tried to scramble the stabber - amazingly it warped off before we got close enough. Looks like both Lucius and I had 7.5km scramblers. I normally fly with a 20km disruptor but not this time.

We engaged the armageddon instead, the golden hulk gleaming and reflecting the system's red giant sun dully. The Armageddon presented its broadside and unleashed the heavy pulse lasers. Ruby lances of light flashed by. The punisher's own collision avoidance system banked the ship to one side as it regarded the destructive energy lance as another ship.

With the private independence channel alive with chatter, Lucius and I co-ordinated our attack. Scramblers came on - all four points worth and completely locking the battleship down. We started firing our small sized weapons; compared to the large destructive lances - they were a mere spittle. However, they scored hit and after hit.

The battleship pilot realising the folly of using the large lasers went to his other option: drones. Sure enough, small blisters on the ship irished open and heavy berserker class drones slid out. Their eyes swivelling into position and locking on us.

"Drones, Lucius."
"I see them."

We quickly re-directed our fire towards the deadly war machines and proceeded to pop them. They were designed as sluggers and to go after slower cruisers and larger craft, not nimble frigates. The drones were duly popped and we returned our fire at the armageddon.

The stabber then warped back in and landed on top of me. Lucius and I quickly split our targets: Lucius would maintain lock on the armageddon while I would try and take out the stabber. I switched my scrambler towards the sleek Minmater cruiser and redirected the fire from the three 200mm ACs at him. The small nosferatu also came on to supplement my capacitor. The stabber captain desperately tried to track me but I was too fast, even for the feared stabber-class cruiser; well known as a deadly anti-frigate platform.

My EMP shells ate into his shield. His only effective hits were from his missile launcher and the occasionally hit from his medium autocannons. I tanked and avoided his fire but realised that I was drifting further and further away from Lucius and the Armageddon. I called out to Revivor to get his rifter down here pronto. The blue-skinned babe duly obliged and informed us that she was ten jumps away.

Meanwhile, the stabber fight was going badly for the cruiser captain - he was down to 50% armour but started to pull away from me. He had a micro-warpdrive and even in the fast punisher, I had trouble closing the distance. Once out of scramble range, he warped.

I then made my way back towards Lucius' fight - now over 80km away. I warped back out and in on Lucius and minutes later, the stabber came in again. Once again, I peeled off to take the stabber and once again, he warped off once he was down to 50% armour. It was an effective tactic preventing me from adding my firewpower to Lucius but Revivor was only 2 jumps away and would swing the battle our way.

The stabber didn't turn up the third time so i once again, locked myself into a 2000m orbit and switched on the 200mm ACs. The damage readout on the armageddon was showing 80% armour and falling slowly. Revivor screamed in and added her firewpower to mine and Lucius. The armageddon captain must have been horrified at this.

Slowly, but surely the mighty armour of the Armageddon-class battleship was being drilled with thousands of ragged holes from our small projectiles. Atmosphere now venting out into space and fires burning in various places. Another three minutes and the armour was all but gone - most of it spinning off into space, burning and molten. Already, the crew was abandoning the ship, life pods as thick as rain flying away from the doomed ship.

We wanted the Captain.

The hull creaked and groaned and finally split after a final salvo. The Captain's pod appeared and it is only fitting that the Captain goes down with his ship. The concentrated fire of nine 200mm ACs blew the adamantium shell of the capsule to pieces.

My first ever Battleship kill.

The stabber never returned.

2007.02.25 23:12

Victim: haysis
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Technology Ventures Inc.
Destroyed: Armageddon
System: Todifrauan
Security: 0.1

Involved parties:

Name: Lucius Cain (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.9
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon

Name: Revivor
Security: -6.6
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 'Arbalest' Rocket Launcher I

Name: flashfresh
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: Punisher

There were cheers from our own crews and we congratulated each other on a fine job. The wreckage and loot was disappointing but the thrill of the kill was all. We flew to a nearby planet to re-group.

While the cheering had not even died - a stabber came into view. We thought, 'its him again'. However, a closer examination revealed a different Captain and my readouts flashed out that it was Zelgris - who piloted a ferox and had taken out my third punisher a week ago.

We wanted revenge.

The stabber was hit hard by both me and Lucius. However, the stabber managed to escape just as Revivor arrived. It sped off but Lucius was hot on his heels having quite quickly figured out where Zelgris was heading too (warp to 0 to planet FTW!).

We chased the stabber for another two planets before locking him down and pummelling the stabber into scrap. The pod escaped and Zelgris disappeared from local. His pod was still there on the scanner.....logoffski???

Concord confirmed our kill:

2007.02.25 23:33
Victim: Zelgris
Alliance: NONE
Corp: New Justice Technologies
Destroyed: Stabber
System: Todifrauan
Security: 0.1

Involved parties:

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -9.9
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Rifter

Name: Revivor (laid the final blow)
Security: -7.1
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon

Name: flashfresh
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:
Dual 180mm AutoCannon I
Dual 180mm AutoCannon I
Medium Nosferatu I
Warp Disruptor I
Nuclear M, Qty: 2360 (Cargo)
Nuclear M, Qty: 132
Nuclear M, Qty: 132

After losing two ruptures and a body - the kills today more than made up for it.

25 Feb 2007

Losing round two to Blackfleet.

So it was inevitable that we would tangle with Blackfleet once more. I was asked by the gang to come in my ruptureand proceed to Sotrenzur. Intel had spotted a much stronger Blackfleet gang in the nearby system and we had to get into position to intercept them - after the gate camp failed.

The squad leader gang warped the small fleet (drake, rupture, rupture, hyperion, megathron) to a planet and seconds later - the Blackfleet gang arrived. Primary was called on the astarte and the firing commenced. My ruptures four 425mm autocannons spun up and fired out a fearsome salvo but the monstrous tank of the command ship soaked it up. The other ships in our gang did likewise but the tank looked very difficult to break.

Meanwhile, Blackfleet was dishing out some major pain.

The Hyperion blew up under a massed bombardment from three ships.

I was targetted, scrambled and webbed and the my rupture - having served me faithfully for over a year, was reduced to a molten lump of scrap. Worse was to follow as my pod was snagged and I got podded. Some Blackfleet pilot now had a nice fat, 6 million isk bounty.

2007.02.25

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Sotrenzur
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: Sogeki Ganzenai (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Kaizoku
Ship: Megathron
Weapon: Neutron Blaster Cannon II

Name: Irish Whiskey
Security: -7.6
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Black Fleet
Ship: Drake
Weapon: Torrent Assault Missile

Name: Longtooth
Security: -5.4
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Black Fleet
Ship: Dominix
Weapon: E50 Prototype Energy Vampire

Name: Florent Stark
Security: -9.9
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Black Fleet
Ship: Falcon
Weapon: 'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I


Destroyed items:

425mm Medium Carbine Repeating Cannon I
Gyrostabilizer I
Hobgoblin I (Drone Bay)
Hobgoblin I (Drone Bay)
Gyrostabilizer I
Proton M, Qty: 1835 (Cargo)
Stasis Webifier I
400mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Medium Armor Repairer I
Fleeting Progressive Warp Scrambler I
Small Nosferatu I
EMP M, Qty: 11
EMP M, Qty: 11

And here, concord confirmed the pod kill. I woke up in Auga. I felt cold and a bit sick.

2007.02.25 00:02

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Sotrenzur
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: Karlemgne
Security: -8.7
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Black Fleet
Ship: Taranis
Weapon: Hobgoblin II

Name: Aydae (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.8
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Black Fleet
Ship: Caracal
Weapon: Scourge Heavy Missile

Waking up in Auga, my old home was a pleasant experience as recloning experiences go by. I had my clothes still here and a hangar-full of ships. Including another rupture. The fight in Sotrenzur was bad for us: BlackFleet carried the day with at least another two ship kills and a pod kill.

No doubt we will have another stab at it.

Lucius and Revivor had by this time, moved away from the gang as both MW and RLE pilots retired to their stations to re-arm and lick their wounds. Luc and Rev wanted to continue their pirating ways and decided to head down the pipe into metropolis. Basically, they were heading towards me so I undocked and travelled up the pipe to meet them half way. Both groups scanning the systems for targets.

We met up in Ebolfer after a fruitless seek and destroy misson for a rupture in Ezsur. The pilot here was a veteran one and was not afraid to continue ratting and working while we were in local. I scanned the pilot down to a belt and jumped in.

The rupture arrived in a flash 6km away from another rupture. I hit the scrambler and the nos and proceeded to close the distance. I performed a decent alpha strike on it but it responded in kind. Ach - tech 2 ammunition methinks.

I tackled and held the rupture long enough for Revivor and Lucius to arrive. They finished the kill with a podding.

2007.02.25 00:56

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Ebolfer
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: chuchullin (laid the final blow)
Security: -3.2
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Legio Immortalis
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon II


Destroyed items:

Dual 180mm AutoCannon I
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I
Medium Nosferatu I
10MN Afterburner I
Stasis Webifier I
Gyrostabilizer I
Gyrostabilizer I
Hammerhead I (Drone Bay)
EMP M, Qty: 79
EMP M, Qty: 59
EMP M, Qty: 60
EMP M, Qty: 79

2007.02.25 00:57

Victim: chuchullin
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Legio Immortalis
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Ebolfer
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Capsule
Weapon: Stasis Webifier I

Name: Phalanx Rocket / Archangels

Name: Lucius Cain (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.9
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I

Name: Revivor
Security: -4.6
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Thorn Rocket


Destroyed items:

Medium Armor Repairer II
Dual 180mm AutoCannon II
Dual 180mm AutoCannon II
Y-T8 Overcharged Hydrocarbon I Microwarpdrive
N-Type Kinetic Hardener I
Stasis Webifier I
EMP M, Qty: 66

Nice kit there.

Well, losing two ruptures and a podding was probably enough for one day.

I logged and bid my gang mates a good night.

24 Feb 2007

More kills

Yaarrrr.

Some joint kills.


2007.02.24 15:59

Victim: Immortal Spirit
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Angel Ruffian / Archangels

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -9.9
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Rupture

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I

Name: Revivor
Security: -3.8
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Rifter


Destroyed items:

280mm Carbine Howitzer I
280mm Carbine Howitzer I
Civilian Armor Repairer
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 1810 (Cargo)
Sabretooth Light Missile, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Standard Missile Launcher I (Cargo)
Arch Angel Nuclear S, Qty: 958 (Cargo)
Domination Silver Tag (Cargo)
F-S8 Relativistic Deflection Shield Induction (Cargo)
Arch Angel Nuclear S, Qty: 7

2007.02.24 23:20

Victim: Lykhej
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Stabber
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 125mm Gatling AutoCannon II

Name: Angel Predator / Archangels


Destroyed items:

10MN Afterburner I
200mm AutoCannon I
Angel Ship Log 174132231 (Cargo)
Depleted Uranium S, Qty: 200 (Cargo)
Fusion S, Qty: 44
Fusion S, Qty: 3

Ferox kill

Still flushed from the success of taking out the Hurricanes, I wanted more. As soon as I logged there was a gang that had already formed to hunt BlackFleet pilots. I was in Eifer and there were some [M W] and [RLE] pilots as well as the usual independent contractors. Lucius was in his rupture and Revivor in his rifter. I piloted the stabber and Lucius had got the attention of a BlackFleet Ferox and had him pinned at the Gusandall side of the Eifer stargate. We all jumped and quickly engaged the two Blackfleet pilots. I aimed my stabber at the ferocious ferox and hit it with the NOS and the four dual-180mm Autocannos. The sprang to life and started to spit out EMP shells out in a satisfyingly fast stream. They flared off the ferox's shield and combined with the firepower of the other gang, ate into the armour of the ferox. It was blasted into scrap.

A second Blackfleet Vexor was sitting there - the pilot was relatively new and had a positive security rating and was protected by the sentry guns. I didn't care as I turned on the NOS and the four dual-180mm autocannons, still hot from the previous exchange.

As soon as I opened fire, the automated response from the sentry gun controller informed me that they would take action against me. By the time the sentence was completed, the vexor was down to armour. I started to align to my safe spot as I needed to perform a quick getaway. The sentry gun muzzle's flashed and lasers and projectiles screamed towards me. The first salvo missed me as I continued to pummel the vexor. The vexor pilot, either too surprised or scared didn't do anything. At least he was smart enough not to fire.

The sentry guns recalibrated for me and then started to score hits, small at first but increasing the damage with each second. The vexor was down to less than 40% armour when I hit the warp engines. He was down to 20% armour when I warped out.


I had 10% hull left.

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/flashfresh/10_structure.JPG

However, we made the ferox kill and it was good.

2007.02.24 16:20

Victim: Irish Whiskey
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Black Fleet
Destroyed: Ferox
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Zombieee (laid the final blow)
Security: -0.9
Alliance: Eastern Star Federation
Corp: Metal Winter
Ship: Megathron
Weapon: 425mm Compressed Coil Gun I

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -9.9
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I

Name: flashfresh
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: Stabber

Name: Revivor
Security: -4.6
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Warp Scrambler I



I waited out my criminal flag and docked.

Called it a day.

23 Feb 2007

Another day in Gusandall

Another day in Gusandall....


Galen Draz > ?
Galen Draz > no attack?
Galen Draz > pussy
Kailiao > lol
Kailiao > sentries numnutz
Kailiao > comeback and shoot first
Strata Rowenstar > Hay Lucius.
Lucius Cain > Yes?
Strata Rowenstar > Just saying hay
Lucius Cain > Ah, well hello then.
Strata Rowenstar > Nice ship Tigger
Strata Rowenstar > Ill keep you running tigger, Your not going to get me easy
Strata Rowenstar > Haha
Strata Rowenstar > Nice fight
TiggerTime > gf
TiggerTime > thought u were going there next
Strata Rowenstar > SO you relayed a guy infrount of me right, or was that unexpected
xavoc > he relayed me
Strata Rowenstar > Heh
Strata Rowenstar > I see
TiggerTime > on the lst warp
Strata Rowenstar > What where you flying?
Strata Rowenstar > I never saw that
xavoc > helo zombieee u finely noticed that re light was shit ?
Zombieee > yo xavoc:D
Zombieee > hehe...i didnt notice that
xavoc > lol
Zombieee > how come?
xavoc > remember u was in a belt and u out numberd me 4 to one i still killed u
Zombieee > ohhh... hehe.. do u remember setups?
Zombieee > :D
xavoc > what u meen ?
xavoc > dont give me i was fited wrong cos thats a loads of boluks
Zombieee > i came from mission, and 3 of rle guys was pvping
Zombieee > load of boluks? damn.. u got the killmail... u could see it was mission fitted:D
Zombieee > end of discussion:D
Strata Rowenstar > Well, not much of a loss, I made around 2mill out here
xavoc > zombieee ur shit lol
Hiberix > xavoc button up
Zombieee > ingorant people:D
xavoc > sheeeeee hib
TiggerTime > lol
Zombieee > xavoc is nothing but smack:D how did u lose ur hac to a noob xavoc? i heard u killed dex vexor, and he went back out to kill ya:D
xavoc > lol it was 4 v 1 agen u fool
xavoc > ur ppl got luky it will not happen agen fool
Herachte > sure
Hiberix > lol
Zombieee > u got to be dumb smacking 30 min, then go die:D
xavoc > sheeeeeee hib
Zombieee > same with the brutix.. u got lucky:D wount happen again.
xavoc > well mi8 least i can fly a shit not like u and ur crapy set ups
Zombieee > so it was a crappy setup?
Zombieee > ur not showing ur brightest side here mate.
xavoc > ur shit was yer cos ur a noob and u dont no what the hell ur doing
Zombieee > lol...
Zombieee > i got a killboard saying something else:D so im not worried:D
xavoc > lol m8 i no ur a noob at pvp go kill some 0.5 rats
Lucius Cain > Bad idea talking about brightness, when you can't spell words with more than 5 letters in it no?
xavoc > m8 i no i cant spell i dont need u telling me that i can see if but even though i cant spell i have the brains to fit a shit unlike zombieee
Zombieee > hehe... spelling error is something else.
xavoc > zombieee u rekon ur so good at pvp one on one how about that ? in a complex so u can worp in the crap BS poilots ?
Hiberix > xavoc your chatting shit
Zombieee > people like u bore me... se one cheap brutix fitted for 100k isk, and then think that tells everything.
Zombieee > lol
xavoc > sheeeeeeee hib
Hiberix > get to school id
Hiberix > your mother is calling you go on dinner time
xavoc > imgoof fight m8
Kailiao > bah gf
Zombieee > and xavoc, yes i do 1on1, plenty:D
Zombieee > just need ships fitted for it.
Zombieee > u know... not 100k isk modules, like the brutix u blew up and cant forget?
xavoc > kailiao nows how to pvp unlike u zombiee
Zombieee > u must not have expirenced much in ways of pvp, as u remember that so good:D
Hiberix > he would kick your ass also
Kailiao > crap i thought i poped you
Kailiao > poopie
xavoc > me ? lmao
Kailiao > GF mate
xavoc > hf lol
Hiberix > he killed you also
xavoc > gf*
Hiberix > lol
xavoc > tigger got the kill
Kailiao > taranis ishkuer nasty combo
Kailiao > boo
Kailiao > you warp away
Kailiao > ?
xavoc > yer but man ur a good pvp u take my hat off to ya
xavoc > yes i worped
Kailiao > grr
xavoc > thought tigger could handel u lol
Kailiao > damn scrambler
Hiberix > you do need school x
Zombieee > he knows how to run to:D
Hiberix > you dislexic
Kailiao > that's what happends when you get scrams at k-mart
Hiberix > ?
xavoc > im not going to stay if im going to die fool lmao
Zombieee > ohh.. how did u lose ur hac again?
xavoc > i lost it to 4 of ur ceowardly frends
Zombieee > i saw the chatlog again.
Zombieee > a few people have... it was so hilaruous.
Zombieee > ious
Hiberix > like you never att in numbers
xavoc > sheeeeee hib
Zombieee > ur sitting smacking in local about this and that, killing a cruiser, saying, u guys cant do shit... and bam,, ohhh i lost my hac.
Zombieee > i love reading those kinda chatlogs:D
Hiberix > sheeeeeeeeee yourself whatever it means you thick little dislexic freak
Herachte > lol
xavoc > hib sheeeee
Hiberix > there she goes again being all dislexic
Zombieee > ur pretty bad for a 2004 player xavoc:D
Hiberix > /emote will teach xavoc how to read and write if he likes?
xavoc > i am dizlexic m8 wont to make something of it ?
Zombieee > lol
Zombieee > go hide
Hiberix > yeh ill phone your school for you
Zombieee > omfg:D
Hiberix > and tell your headmaster you need special treatment
Zombieee > comedy show:D
Herachte > :P
Hiberix > looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
xavoc > sheeeeeeeeeeeeee hib
Zombieee > did u lose your ship now xav?
Zombieee > better learn to pvp if ya did:D
xavoc > lol no i dident lose it lmao
Zombieee > ohh.. i thought LIL DOMI was urs
Hiberix > starting laughing your pen lid off instead and practice your speeling
Zombieee > hehe
Hiberix > you need to get off that ass of yours
Herachte > lol
Hiberix > oops spelling
xavoc > boys at the end of the day i have more kills to ur corp than u do to my corp so shut the hell up
Hiberix > not bad 95%
Zombieee > at the end of the night, i have ur gf in my bed!
Hiberix > for your effort young lad
Zombieee > that is, if u have one.. and shes not ugly:D
Hiberix > he has a usb knob
xavoc > ow and another thing what ur doing making fun of my deslexier is banable buy ccp as its going to ur real life so carry on boys im recording this on fraps
Hiberix > his bitch is his com and he knows it
Hiberix > i have recorded your swearing mate
Hiberix > thats banable
TiggerTime > my god, was there a sale of handbags in Eartern Star fed?
Kailiao > how you get into a rokh in 1 month?
Hiberix > yeh man 2 4 1
Hiberix > want a piece?
Kailiao > is that possable, lol
Hiberix > who is 1 month
xavoc > hib ur a fool shut up
Zombieee > xavoc: itd be a difference if we started smacking... but it seems ur the one doing the crab.
Kailiao > err 3 months
Hiberix > listen mr t with your fooooooooooooool statement grow up take it like a man you got killed we all have
Zombieee > ok... i dont have any more time for ya xavoc... but, keep on... have fun

Hurricane Season!

I was bored and decided to check out the kill mails that I had accumulated over the last few months and it is over 200. A few were ship losses of my own and since I insist on flying frigates and with a 6million isk bounty; I do get a lot of attention.

More power to the bounty collectors I say, so long as they engage - I don't care. Also realised that while a T1-fitted rifter is a lot of fun, I do need something that can hit even harder so I am faced with either getting a Jaguar (drool) or fitting a new rifter with T2 kit.

Decided that I would do both but I also realised that I am using the punisher more and more; slowly I am refining the 'Bleeder' setup and understanding the ins and outs of this ship. Sure, it has been pwned a few times but it was always from ships with T2 guns or very fast firing ships. Need to be a bit smarter in using the tough little Amarr frigate.

I loaded up on ammo - opting for three-quarters EMP and one-quarter Phased Plasma and undocked into the vastness of space. The station slowly receeded as I increased the sub-light engines and pushed out into space. I check the local com-net and there were a few pilots. I took a chance and snapped on the scanner, just in case a few were around in the belts. After a minute or two - it was clear that the three local pilots (x1 battleship, x1 battle-cruiser and x1 frigate) were all in safe spots: deep areas of space away from any warpable celestial objects.

Sighing, I popped in the co-ordinates of the next system and fired up the warp engines. I have to admit, the Punisher has nice clean lines and makes a change from the Rifter. Of course, the deadly rusted Rifter is still my ship of choice but change is good. I arrived and recieved immediate clearance to jump into the next system.

Arriving in Eifer, I hit the scanner again - the local comnet was quite busy so potential for targets I thought. I hit the scanner and waited for the return. Finding nothing, I quickly hit the warp engines and arrived at my secondary scan spot. Sure enough, the scanner came back with solid returns. Narrowing the angle down, I spotted a Republic University pilot in a burst-class frigate. Not much of a challenge but I needed to warm up the guns.

I hit the warp engines and the frigate leapt into the warp. I could feel my heart start to beat faster as I neared the belt, adrenaline coursing through my body and feeling a touch-light headed. I hit the scanner mid-way to ensure that the target was still in front of me and yes, it was. The ship sensed my eagerness for the kill and hurled itself out of the warp tunnel and into normal space, thin plasma streams trailing off the ship's sleek golden frame.

The sweet, sweet overview return of a white cross made me grin with fierce joy. All hunters will know the feeling of excitement of seeing a target icon appear in the ships overview. I hit the afterburners as soon as the navi-computer was sorted out and closed the distance. The Burst class frigate was 25km away and I had a long-range 20km disruptor. I had to close the 5km gap before the pilot could get out.

23km and I hit the targetting computer - it cycled through it's lock very quickly. A long tone indicated a successful lock but the I was still 21km away. I prayed that the last km would be rewarded with a snared ship and not me chasing after plasma trails. The computer maintained its lock and the distance ticker read 18km and dropping.

On came the disruptor and he was mine - the burst-class frigate suddenly became aware of me and tried to pull away but I had the velocity and closed to within 9km and opened fire. The ship's shields flared brightly as my EMP shells spat out of the 200mm ACs. Soon I was chewing into his armour as the burst tried to fight back. The armour peeled off in glowing strips and the vulnerable and soft hull was exposed. The pilot was too young to have any money but his clone would be cheap. I quickly slammed two more shells into his hull and his pod ejected out. Calmly, I targetted the blinking pod and sent the Republic University back to his cloning vats.

A kill was a kill and I was warmed up.

2007.02.22 13:55

Victim: Ashval
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic University
Destroyed: Burst
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:

Dual Diode Mining Laser I
Dual Diode Mining Laser I
Civilian Expanded Cargohold
Small Shield Extender I


2007.02.22 13:57

Victim: Ashval
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic University
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Of course, the burst was a snack really I wanted more. I swept the area for more potential victims but they had all finally found a dark, deep hole to safely hide. If only I had a wing mate with scanner probes. Grumbling a bit I jumped through a number of gates after my criminal flag had expired.

One of my regular hunting buddies came back to the same area and we greeted each other. Lucius Cain is a pilot with SNIGGWAFFE but outside of corp operations, we fly with each other and other likely minded pilots; all frigate pilots and all looking to misbehave. We spotted for each other calling out targets in each system and assessing the likely success of a joint operation. He was in his trusty rifter while I still flew the punisher.

Lucius called out a hurricane-class battlecruiser had arrived into Gusandall so we decided that this would be a nice test of the two-frigate combo.

flashfresh > Phantom Sulker in 1-1
Lucius Cain > heh
flashfresh > he's moved
Lucius Cain > want to try him?
flashfresh > ofc
flashfresh > I always die to canes
Lucius Cain > Booyah :D
flashfresh > he's moved though
Lucius Cain > Try IV - 1
flashfresh > k
Lucius Cain > Warping

Lucius had tracked down and engaged the battlecruiser pilot and called me in.

flashfresh > laaagg
Lucius Cain > He's here
flashfresh > In warp
Lucius Cain > 20km away

I arrived within 10 seconds and landed a mere spitting distance away from the bulk of a hurricane battlecruiser. A rifter was in a tight orbit around the hurricane; there was a faint blue glow of an activated web around the battlecruiser - reducing it's velocity and transversal to a crawl. This made the beast easier to hit.

I hit the afterburners and pushed the punisher into a 2000m orbit and engaged the 200mm AC and the small nosferatu. The EMP projectiles screamed out and smashed and flared off the hurricane's shields.

My disruptor came on and with the nosferatu firmly engaged, I settled into destroying the hurricane's shields. Throughout this time, the Hurricane captain tried to fight back but he had the wrong weapons: too big to track small ships. He also lacked a nosferatu or even drones. However, his shields were ten times that of ours and I could only hope that the 6ooo rounds of EMP ammunition was enough.

His shields did go down however, as they could not last forever.

We knew we had him.

Soon the readouts were showing armour damage; I switched one of the 200mm ACs to phase plasma and continued to pummel the hurricane's armour - armour that was peeling off in white-hot stripes and spinning off into space. I could imagine the panic on board the ship as internal fires started to erupt and the klaxons blaring away at failed shield generators. No matter, I wanted the kill and to see what it was carrying.

The armour was soon gone, it was venting atmosphere and the hull's integrity was severly compromised. Still no word from the Captain but Lucius and I decided to ransom the pod as we both wanted a Hurricane kill to our names.

The Hurricane was in its death throes - it was still firing at us but it had seconds to live, Lucius and I were merciless and destroyed the ship. I howled in delight as debris flared off my shields, the explosion was a bright flash that vapourised two small asteroids. The Captain's pod was visible and both Lucius and I attempted to lock it but to our amazement, it jumped into warp instantly. The few remaining crew in their own life boats were ignored.

The captain opened up a conversation to me:

Phantom Sulker > I will find you and kill you when you are not with your buddy.

Great. Bring it on.

Concord confirmed the kill:

2007.02.22 14:28

Victim: Phantom Sulker
Alliance: Gods of Night and Day
Corp: Deep Space Consortium
Destroyed: Hurricane
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -9.9
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Rifter

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I

Destroyed items:

650mm Artillery Cannon I
Havoc Heavy Missile, Qty: 40 (Cargo)
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I
'Halcyon' Core Equalizer I
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I
720mm Carbine Howitzer I
Quantum Co-Processor I
Shield Boost Amplifier I
Titanium Sabot M, Qty: 1650 (Cargo)
Beta Reactor Control: Diagnostic System I
Miner I (Cargo)
Malfunctioning Shield Emitter, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Small Capacitor Booster I (Cargo)
200mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon (Cargo)
Tripped Power Circuit, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Havoc Heavy Missile, Qty: 8
Titanium Sabot M, Qty: 15

The loot from the wreckage was so-so, nothing T2-wise but plenty of ammo. Shame I haven't got a salvager here, one could make quite a bit of isk from the scrap floating round here.

Lucius and I congratulated each other on a good kill - a first I think for us both.

We both waited for the criminal flag to expire and then went out to seek more prey.

I found Ashval in a rifter this time and shaking my head in disbelief I warped into him his belt and killed him. He was understandably very pissed at me but I did tell him that he was in low-sec and that no-one was safe. I didn't pod him as I felt guilty - don't want him to hang up his pod controls and go back to being a planet-bound pleb now could I?

2007.02.22 14:51

Victim: Ashval
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic University
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Sotrenzur
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

In the next system, I spotted a vagabond heavy assault cruiser. Never went after a HAC before but flushed with success I called out to Lucius who duly responded with a firm 'yes' on engaging the vagabond. He docked to fit double webbers and a MWD while I maintained an overwatch on the vagabond. He was moving from belt to belt in rapid succession - no doubt looking for victims.
However, Lucius informed me that as he as undocking from Gusandall - he spotted yet another Hurricane-class battle cruiser. Deciding that a second kill would be good, we decided to engage the new targer. Lucius went to engage it immediately while I fired up the warp engines and made the two jumps back to Lucius' position.

flashfresh > Second cane today I hope
Lucius Cain > V- 1
flashfresh > omw
Lucius Cain > I don't have scram
flashfresh > YAAARRR
flashfresh > I have 1pt
Lucius Cain > Hurry
flashfresh > In warp
Lucius Cain > Man, now i'm the damn Noob

I warped in and saw the familiar shape of a hurricane-class battle cruiser. It was double-webbed by Lucius but not scrambled. I got into range and hit a tight orbit and hit the disruptor.

flashfresh > Scrambled for one.
Lucius Cain > Get a point on him and you're an angel.
flashfresh > I have.
Lucius Cain > *phew*

Once again, this Hurricane pilot did not fit a medium nosferatu or any other anti-frigate defence. We attacked the hurricane much like before and soon her shields flared off in a bright flash and we pounded at her armour.

Lucius Cain> 'Cant believe our luck. Two hurricanes in such a short time!'
Flashfresh> 'Yah'

Then the hurricane fired up it's warp engines and left us alone.

Flashfresh> 'WTF?'
Lucius Cain > DO you know that sound when the tea pot starts boiling?
flashfresh > wtf?
Flashfresh> 'Damnnit, stabs....but it's still in-system. No wait, its docked. Damn.'
Lucius Cain> ' Well, at least we got one kill. Might need to refit this rig and put the scrambler back in. Damn it!'
Lucius Cain > Well that sucked... Talk about anti-climax.

Both of us were unhappy but congratulations to the Hurricane pilot for fighting as long. Warp Core Stabiliser do gimp most pilots setups so he was willing to take this hit. No matter. However, it was clear as Lucius and my criminal timer was counting down that the hurricane pilot was still docked. The to our amazement, he undocked and warped to another belt. We were torn between re-engaging him again, as with his single WCS - he negated my single, one-point warp disruptor. It would be a waste of ammo and worse, he probably refitted with specific anti-frigate weapons.
Still, we realised that he had undocked and was continuing to rat. We both looked up at our timers and we each had 6 minutes left.

Lucius Cain> 'This is the worst moment in EVE for me....'
Flashfresh> ' Yeah. Goddamnit - this timer is so slow. We need to refit and re-engage the 'cane!!!'
Lucius Cain> 'I know mate, I know!!!'

The timer was glacial as we prayed that the 'cane pilot would stay outside. Maybe it was waiting for us?

We also noticed that a taranis-class interceptor had also undocked. Lucius, in another scan spot then cried out:

Lucius Cain> 'Taranis has engaged the Hurricane'
Flashfresh> 'OK - we re-engage and take out the Inty. The inty pilot is a pirate anyways. Don't engage the Hurricane - wait until your global timer is out.'
Lucius Cain> 'Roger. Let's go.'

We both warped and landed a short distance from a furious fire-fight between the Interceptor and the Hurricane. The taranis was indeed piloted by a pirate (-9.6) so we engaged him and with Lucius' double-webber rifter - we killed the interceptor in short order. The pod escaped though.

2007.02.22 15:25

Victim: Kailiao
Alliance: Astral Wolves
Corp: The Black Fleet
Destroyed: Taranis
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: The Genral
Security: 0.1
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FM Corp
Ship: Hurricane
Weapon: Hurricane

Name: Lucius Cain (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.9
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon

Name: flashfresh
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: Punisher

Now it was round two: I had the Hurricane scrambled once more and orbitted around him, he threw heavy missiles at me but I could easily tank his damage. Lucius's global criminal flag finally expired and he quickly made his exit towards the station. I had to maintain contact with the hurricane. It was tricky though: I had to do enough damage to make him fight me, take enough damage so that he would stay long enough for Lucius to dock, refit with a 2 point scrambler and undock and rejoin the fight.

Gah.

I turned my armour repairer off and took the damage - hopefully this would force the Hurricane to stay for his 'kill'.

I was down to 35% armour and he was down to 10%, I had one single 200mm AC on him now, having turned off the other two.

Just as Lucius undocked with a new scrambler - the hurricane hit warp again.

Flashfresh> 'Shite. He warped out.
Lucius Cain> ' Nooooooo'
Flashfresh> ':-('
Flashfresh> 'Safespot, as local is beginning to fill up'
Lucius Cain> 'Roger. Shame we missed the second Hurricane kill'
Flashfresh> 'Yeah. We'll get our chance'

So we each zipped off to our own spots and waited.

Oddly, the hurricane Captain was still in local. I scanned and realised that he had docked. Then a thought occured to me. I voiced this to my partner:

Flashfresh> LC - you know, we could get a third shot at this 'cane.
Lucius Cain> Yeah?
Flashfresh> I think the fool has redocked to repair and I think he will come back out again. I mean we had two attempts to kill him and each time he escaped. Probably doesn't realise that you docked up to refit or even realised that we now know why we cant scramble him.
Lucius Cain> He cant be that stupid....
Flashfresh> Lets see....yes! he's undocked. Scan and find him!

We both quickly hit the scanners and let the machine do it's work. There! We located him at IV-2 and with a wary cry both Lucius and I pushed our ships into warp and hoped that the Hurricane was not running away.

Both frigates burst back into normal space, the entry bubble bursting like a supernovae and there it was: the same hurricane - fully repaired and shields back to 100%. No matter, unless it had refitted with another two warp core stabilisers - he was dead.

He re-targetted us, just as we did him - looks like he was eager for round three as much as we were. I locked and hit the disruptor and got into nosferatu range. My faithful 200mm ACs spat death in the form of screaming EMP projectiles. Lucius's guns also spoke the same deadly language.

The hurricane was frantically regenerating his shields and also, for the first time - hitting us with ECM. He was using the wrong one though on me but one cycle was sucessful.

Flashfresh> Careful! He is using ECM.
Lucius Cain> Roger.

We continued to orbit, weaving in and out of each other's orbits and dancing around the bright flashes of the Hurricane's medium autocannon projectiles. Without anything to slow us down, he had a hard time hitting us....however, the Captain hadn't been idle and in addition to a single ECM module - he also fitted a target painter and it was I who was illuminated.

His heavy missiles shook the punisher and my computer protested at the damage being caused, with an angry look I shut the automated messages off as I needed to concentrate on managing my capacitor and the repairer. Still, his damage was inconsistent and I managed to get on top of the damage and tank it.

Meanwhile, our furious onslaught had knocked the hurricane's shields down and we were once more drilling into its newly repaired armour. This time, there would be no escape. The ECM had also stopped and Lucius and I assumed that he was running low on capacitor energy. No matter, that was his problem.

The bloodlust was on me and I howled in delight as the shells started to bore into the hull. If the hurricane wanted to escape it would have tried by now and I could imagine the panic on the Captain's face as he realised that this time, he was stuck.

Lucius Cain> I think we have him!
Flashfresh> Yaaarrrrrr

The hull was now a smoking ruin, venting out fiery atmosphere and crew escape pods. The order to abandon ship was obviously given. We however, waited for the Captain's pod.

Lucius Cain> I want to pod him. He deserves it.

The hurricane shook as a length wise shudder ran through it and then in a bright flash it exploded in a bright multi-coloured flash. We saw the pod appear on our scanners and locked it. Both Lucius and I hit it with our ACs and it disappeared in a flash. The Captain was no more.

We searched the wreck but there wasn't much in it. No matter, it had been a good day for us. We managed to get some named medium autocannons and a T2 shield booster but it was the thrill of the chase and combat that we loved.

I had to dock and grab a beer while LC had to log.

We both agreed that it was a superb day. Long may these continue.



2007.02.22 15:35

Victim: The Genral
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FM Corp
Destroyed: Hurricane
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -9.9
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon

Name: Kailiao
Security: -9.8
Alliance: Astral Wolves
Corp: The Black Fleet
Ship: Unknown
Weapon: X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Name: Angel Nomad / Archangels


Destroyed items:

Mining Drone I, Qty: 3 (Drone Bay)
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I
425mm Medium Carbine Repeating Cannon I
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I
Damage Control I
Sensor Booster I
Basic Gyrostabilizer
Large Shield Booster I
Phased Plasma M, Qty: 1646 (Cargo)
EMP M, Qty: 1136 (Cargo)
Thunderbolt Heavy Missile, Qty: 703 (Cargo)
Civilian Shield Booster I (Cargo)
Miner I (Cargo)
Stasis Webifier I (Cargo)
EMP M, Qty: 60
Scourge Heavy Missile, Qty: 24
EMP M, Qty: 60


I came back on later in the evening and hooked up with Rail Duke and went hunting in Ingunn. I got ambushed as we moved through the belts. I made a rookie mistake of redoing my overview settings inside a belt. I didn't see or realise that I was under attack until I was down to 50% armour. Noob.

2007.02.22 18:53

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Ingunn
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: Lord Lilu
Security: 0.2
Alliance: The Pentagram
Corp: Marquie-X Corp
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Thorn Rocket

Name: Reiner Brutor (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.3
Alliance: The Pentagram
Corp: Marquie-X Corp
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Name: Angel Shatterer / Archangels

Destroyed items:

200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
Small Nosferatu I
Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
Depleted Uranium S, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
100mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I (Cargo)
125mm Compressed Coil Gun I (Cargo)
150mm Compressed Coil Gun I (Cargo)

So a great day ended on a slightly downbeat note. No matter. There is always tomorrow.

21 Feb 2007

A win and a loss. Guess things are even.

Got bored. Logged in and killed a noob. God, am a bastard. He wasn't too pleased....

2007.02.21 10:08

Victim: Mothers Nightmare
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Slasher
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:

Nuclear S, Qty: 760 (Cargo)
Power Diagnostic System I
200mm AutoCannon I
Civilian Afterburner
Standard Missile Launcher I
Nuclear S, Qty: 7


2007.02.21 10:10

Victim: Mothers Nightmare
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon I


However, later on in the night I wanted some more action and tangled with Agio - someone I had seen before. I did the usual engage, lock, scramble and orbit mode but hi rifter was far superior to mine. I got pwned.

T2 kit FTW!

2007.02.21 19:13

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Agio (laid the final blow)
Security: 2.1
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Solar Wind
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon II

Name: Angel Ambusher / Archangels


Destroyed items:

Nuclear S, Qty: 17 (Cargo)
Gyrostabilizer I
Small Shield Booster I (Cargo)
EMP S, Qty: 1952 (Cargo)
Rocket Launcher I
200mm Reinforced Nanofiber Plates I
150mm Light AutoCannon I
Stasis Webifier I
Small I-a Polarized Armor Regenerator
Mining Drone I (Cargo)
Gremlin Rocket, Qty: 15
EMP S, Qty: 56
EMP S, Qty: 56

You win some and you lose some.....

Got another consignment of punishers.....I can't seem to get rid of them it would seem, so I went rummaging around the hangar and found enough bits and pieces to make another bleeder setup. I made a change and dropped a CPR for a damage control unit. I never seem to run out of cap before I die so why not make some changes? I also experimented with a few changes to the low slots but settled on the DCU variant.

Other setups (all variations in the low slots) included:

Variation one: x2 CPR, x1 200mm steel plate, x1 SAR
The standard Bleeder setup. Not bad but difficult against fast damaging opponents.

Variation two: x1 CPR, x1 200mm steel plate, x1 Damage Control Unit, x1 SAR
Dropping a CPR lowers the cap recharge rate but the DCU is very useful increasing the resists across the board.

Variation three: x1 CPR, x2 200mm Steel plate, x1 SAR
Increases the armour HP to 1500 and with the high resists; means it is a hard tanker.

Suitably tanked up I ventured out into my hunting grounds and stalked it. A few minutes later a rupture came into local. Oh yes, my heart beat faster as I checked out the information on the pilot. Still a RMS graduate but has been with them now for ten months. My goodness, is he having learning problems?

I wanted to test out the Bleeder against the rupture so was super-keen to take him out. It took me a few jumps before I found him, he left a trail of wrecks behind him so was easy to follow. I landed at 9Km from him and proceeded the scramble cycle. We exchanged fire but I then noticed that he was moving away from me: 1km, 3km, 5km - shite; he had a mwd installed and was pulling away from me. Partly my fault as I wasn't paying enough attention but I didn't want to get into a flat out race as my traversal would drop too low and his howitzers would tear me apart. I tried to re-orbit him but it was no good. From range, he started to hit while my trusty 200mm ACs failed to reach him.


Gah. I warped out and had to rethink my strategy. However, he left the system soon afterwards and I couldnot follow due to my criminal flag. Next time I need to be smarter as the bleeder doesn't have any webbers to slow fast ships down.

LC was busy in 0.0 with his corp mates but Revivor was back in town. I hooked up with her and we went hunting in Eifer. Local was busy and within a few moments, a rifter pilot - all cocky offered us a 1 v 1. Rozalina was her name and I admired her courage. Revivor and myself were hunting Rozalina, Underundertaker and threesixone but they were buzzing around the system like flies around crap.

We opted to wait for them to jump into a belt where we would be waiting. Within a few minutes, theesixone came screaming into the warp-in point in a freshly built rifter. Revivor and I proceeded to tear it to scrap. Revivor also podded the unlucky pilot.


2007.02.20 23:46

Victim: threesixone
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Revivor
Security: -2.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Phalanx Rocket

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:

150mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun
150mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun
150mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun
Civilian Armor Repairer
Civilian Shield Booster I
Civilian Shield Booster I
EMP S, Qty: 71


Hmm decent weapons but a civilian shield booster doesn't cut it I'm afraid. Not local was down to two other pilots and Rozalina was asking (nay, demanding) that we meet her at a belt for some fisticuffs. I decided to warp to a scan spot first just to make sure all was ok. Revivor on the other hand leapt straight into belt IV-4 with a war cry.

She was jumped on by the remaining rifters so I turned round and went to help. Revivor was doing well but her shields were down. I locked underundertakers (also in a rifer) and proceeded to take her shields down. The 200mmACs spat EMP death and stripped her shields. Meanwhile, Revivor, who had targetted both Rozalina and Underundertaker knocked Rozalina's rifter out of the fight - Rozalina's pod popped out and blinking and just asking to be podded but no-one did the honours. I was too busy with underundertaker's rifter.

Her shields and armour disappeared quickly enough but it was then when I zoomed out a bit that I noticed a third rifter in the belt. Obviously, having just warped in and it went for the nearest pirate: Revivor. I heard her say someothing and then she was in a pod.

I quickly dispatched Underundertaker and scrambled the pod. Meanwhile, I had to quickly acquire the new target: another rifter piloted by Nak Nok. Not taking any chances I started to fire on Nak Nok with two of the 200mm ACs and the third 200mm AC was used to blow Underundertaker back to the cloning vats.

2007.02.20 23:52

Victim: underundertakers
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Revivor
Security: -3.4
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Phalanx Rocket

Name: Angel Defacer / Archangels

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

2007.02.20 23:54

Victim: underundertakers
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher

With Underundertaker duly dispatched, I concentrated on Nak Nok's rifter. It could hit hard and I suspected he was using Tech 2 ammo. Certainly my armour was protesting under the barrage. However, my tank held - and so did his but only for a minute. My 200mm ACs consistently scored hits on him, even without a webber and the NOS was adding more cap to my reserves while depleting his.

Nak Nok's tank was good though - probably some tech 2 stuff there too?

I controlled my cap flow and managed to get on top of the damage. Nak Nok's tank eventually broke (ran out of cap?) and my EMP rounds drilled into his hull. His ship exploded in a satisfying burst of light and debris - the scraps sparking off my remaining shields and armour. I quickly tried to acquire the pod as such a good fight deserved to end in a podding.

Nak Nok was good though and his capsule zipped off before I could even finish the lock cycle.

Checking the kill mail and all was revealed:

2007.02.20 23:54

Victim: Nak Nok
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Twisted Individuals
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Revivor
Security: -3.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Capsule
Weapon: Rocket Launcher I

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:

EMP S, Qty: 2372 (Cargo)
Power Diagnostic System I
Power Diagnostic System I
1MN Afterburner I
Barrage S, Qty: 1378 (Cargo)
150mm Light AutoCannon II
150mm Light AutoCannon II
150mm Light AutoCannon II
Shield Power Relay I
Medium Azeotropic Ward Salubrity I
Fleeting Progressive Warp Scrambler I
Barrage S, Qty: 52
Barrage S, Qty: 52

Tech II 150mm with barrage s and a big shield tank. Nice.


I looted what I could and collected the bodies.

Revivor then had to log - she only came on to check skills and ended up with two kills to her name and a lot of fun!

Later on in the evening - I spotted Dakker (MW) in local and we said hi. Have tangled with his corp and his predecessor corp (RLE) but they are a good bunch. He safe spotted while I went hunting for a thrasher that was ratting in Eifer.

Eifer is a big system with lot of belts, some of which are outside of scan range. Makes a challenge to get pilots. However, Bariaur (RMS) in his thrasher was trying to be careful as he knew there were other pilots around. I located him in belt V-3 and zipped in; my heart hammering and the adrenaline pumping through me. The thrill of chasing down a kill is still there, as intense as ever.

Bariaur's thrasher was a mixed AC and howie setup - not much of a pain but he was fast. The Bleeder came in, plasma trailing off it's sleek body from the warp tunnel and locked the thrasher. I hit the afterburner as soon as the navigation computer could align itself. I then pushed the punisher into a high-g 1000m orbit and started up the 200mm ACs.

The destroyer's shields soon fell to the trusty EMP shells. I wanted t get into his armour and chew into his hull. The bloodlust was on me and there was to be no mercy. His ACs scored hits on me but this is where the Bleeder's tanking ability and high resists came into it's own. The key
to the Bleeder is that it is hard to hit due to its size but if it does get hit: the high resists should reduce most of the damage. Finally, even if there's damage the SAR can be run almost indefinitely. Only issue with the bleeder is that it's damage is slow over time. I like to alpha-strike my targets. Fighting for a long time in a busy system is asking for trouble.

I took Bariaur down to hull and popped the ship. Bariaur pod was scrambled but he couldn't pay a ransom so he was popped.

We continued to chat once he recloned and swapped notes.

The kill mail:

2007.02.21 00:12

Victim: Bariaur
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Thrasher
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Name: Angel Depredator / Archangels


Destroyed items:

250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
Damage Control I
Piranha Light Missile, Qty: 1137 (Cargo)
250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
125mm Gatling AutoCannon I
250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
Depleted Uranium S, Qty: 575 (Cargo)
Angel Bronze Tag, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Small Energy Transfer Array I (Cargo)
Small Hull Repairer I (Cargo)


2007.02.21 00:13

Victim: Bariaur
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Meanwhile, a cyclone had appeared in local. I initiated chat with Dakker and asked if he wanted to hunt the cyclone down. We agreed on a truce and went after the battlecruiser. Dakker made contact first and I followed but I landed 48KM away. Dakker didn't have a scrambler and the cyclone managed to warp out.

Ach.

We hunted the cyclone over the next few minutes but a Myrmidon came into the fray. Ah, so things were getting complicated. We finally locked down the cyclone and proceeded into him. The Cyclone had problems hitting the rifter and the punisher but we could hit him.

We had him!

However, the myrmidon came into the fray. I warped out while Dakker stayed. A few nervous minutes passed and Dakker informed me that Taxus ( the myrmidon pilot) was so-far, neutral. I warped back in and landed on top of the Cyclone pilot (called Briaritus).

We killed him quickly, as the myrmidon had tech 2 drones. As soon as Briaritus cyclone popped- the Myrmidon turned on me! I was scrambled and his drones then proceeded to tear the punisher to pieces. Even before the damage reached the hull I was attempting to warp out.

The Punisher was shattered into small pieces under the combined firepower of the Myrmidon's 425mm autocanon II (yes, ACs) and his tech 2 drones. I warped out - so much for Taxus and his myrmidon being neutral.

Briaritus was podded and Dakker also lost his ship. Taxus had a good night.

2007.02.21 00:58

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Taxus (laid the final blow)
Security: 0.2
Alliance: The Guardian Coalition
Corp: Soliders Of Eve
Ship: Myrmidon
Weapon: 425mm AutoCannon II


The kill mail for Briaritus:

2007.02.21 01:07

Victim: Briaritus
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Cyclone
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Taxus (laid the final blow)
Security: 0.2
Alliance: The Guardian Coalition
Corp: Soliders Of Eve
Ship: Myrmidon
Weapon: Berserker I

Name: dakker
Security: -1.6
Alliance: Eastern Star Federation
Corp: Metal Winter
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Phalanx Rocket

Name: flashfresh
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: Punisher

Destroyed items:

Medium Peroxide I Capacitor Power Cell
Alpha Hull Mod Inertial Stabilizers
ECM - White Noise Generator I (Cargo)
Miner I (Cargo)
Dual 180mm AutoCannon I (Cargo)
Titanium Sabot M, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I (Cargo)
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron (Cargo)
Depleted Uranium M, Qty: 31

I lost the loot from the thrasher but no matter. It was a good night and with the adrenaline still coursing through my veins I called it a night.

20 Feb 2007

An update - some losses and some kills.....

The valentine's day hunt was a lot of fun and I am looking forward to more challenges. The usual noobs keep the guns warmed up nicely and the killmail inbox nice and full. However, I have been hunting further afield for more marks. Still haven't quite given up on the punisher - it can certainly tank better than the rifter but does not do as much damage per second. Basically, if I can alpha strike someone then rifter is ideal but against a cruiser or something; the punisher is probably the better choice.

I pushed the punisher towards Metropolis once more and this time solo - LC was away in 0.0 so flying on my own once more; need to pick my targets more carefully. I headed back almost to my old stomping grounds in Auga but stopped short by one system at Dal. It had only three belts and all were off the scanner - so it was deep inside the system and away from the gates. I could see three pilots in local so decided to chance it.

Approaching the belt systems I activated the scanner and found a coercer there. An Amarr destroyer. Never took one of these on so decided, what the hell. I tried to narrow him down and managed to pin the Amarr ship into a belt. I then warped in. I knew even before arriving that he was there as the signs were all there: the slightly slower loading time and the feeling you have inside your stomach.

Popping out of warp I saw Aardwolfe and immediately locked him. I scrambled him and hit the orbit at 2000m with the x3 200mm autocannons spitting fury and fire. This coercer's shields were poor and were soon stripped. I got him down to hull very quickly and was preparing to snag his pod when two other pirates appeared in local. They were from the Shi Yah Tong corporation and I smelt trouble. One of the pirates soon warped in on me as I was taking down the coercer to 10% hull. His pod popped out just as the new pirate started to target me. I knew his mate would soon warp in afterwards so I hit the warp drive and jumped out.

Next thing I knew, I saw the pirate type in local:

"2 million for you pod Aardwolfe!"

Cheaky git had stolen my pod ransom!

Shrugging, I prepared to leave the system - the pirate's mate was in a hurricane so I had made the right decision.

Aarwolfe was podded as he refused to reply to the ransom.

Kill Mail:
2007.02.16 18:25

Victim: Aardwolfe
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Imperial Academy
Destroyed: Coercer
System: Dal
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Angel Impaler / Archangels

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I


Destroyed items:

Small Armor Repairer I
Medium C5-L Emergency Shield Overload I
Medium Pulse Laser I
Dual Afocal Pulse Maser I
Infrared S
Medium Pulse Laser I
Infrared S
Dual Afocal Pulse Maser I
Cargo Scanner I (Cargo)
Heavy Pulse Laser I (Cargo)
LADAR Backup Array I (Cargo)
200mm AutoCannon I
Thorn Rocket, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Cap Booster 75, Qty: 10 (Cargo)
Small Capacitor Booster I (Cargo)
Infrared S
Medium Pulse Laser I
Expanded Cargohold I
Carbonized Lead S, Qty: 49


Anyway, I went back to Auga and the surroundings but the place was flat. Eggehelende was more fun and I played cat and mouse with a few would be pirates and pirate hunters but nothing significant and no kills. Much to my disappointment.

I decided to log and come back another day.

A few days later, with some new skills in my head; I made my way back towards Gusandall. LC was online and was recounting the BoB kills that the anti-BoB front were making. It sounded all quite exciting.

However, I wanted to kill something and in Arnstur I spied a ferox. Normally too big for me and with a six month pilot; it looked dicey but I went for it anyway. I found him ratting in a belt and landed about 3.5KM away - on came the scrambler and I pushed the punisher into a tight orbit. I made hardly a dent in his armour.

I was also scrambled too so had to fight my way out. Nope. His shields rarely went down below 75% while he gradually killed me with his drones and missiles. I should have moved further away from the ferox, drawn off the drones and killed the drones. However, my cap was running low too.

It was an ambitious attack but fun. I learnt some useful lessons.

2007.02.18 23:08

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Arnstur
Security: 0.1

Involved parties:

Name: Zelgris (laid the final blow)
Security: -1.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: New Justice Technologies
Ship: Ferox
Weapon: Havoc Heavy Missile

I will have my revenge!!!

Well that was the last of the punishers in my hangar. No more left unless I get another delivery. I am getting better at knowing how this ship works and to be honest, I should have killed his drones asap.

Back into the rifter we go and into everyone's favourite hunting grounds: Eifer.

I got two kills: a rifter and a bellicose. The latter is my first.

2007.02.19 23:06

Victim: Zorue
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Native Freshfood
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Gremlin Rocket

Name: Angel Defacer / Archangels


Destroyed items:

Kinetic Deflection Amplifier I
EMP S, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Upgraded 'Limos' Standard Missile Bay I
'Malkuth' Standard Missile Launcher I
Nuclear S, Qty: 13
Sabretooth Light Missile, Qty: 16


2007.02.19 23:07

Victim: Zorue
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Native Freshfood
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I

And..........................

2007.02.19 23:21

Victim: nephalimtwenty3
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Republic Navy
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I

Yes, yes - the rat got the ship kill mail though I did 99% of the damage!! Grrrrrr.

I sat at the SS and waited for the timer to run out. I did spot a few more likey targets and went for them - I actually had one in my sights but then Redblack Frietas uncloaked his force recon cruiser; much to my dismay, and I got out there asap. Redblack failed to get the rifter I was chasing too.

Anyway, once the flag was gone I came back into Gusandall. I saw a thrasher and thought...why not. I jumped into a belt but it was empty - was sure she was here. She was - and jumped in after me. I locked and scrambled here and took her shields down v quickly but this thrasher managed to get a few good hits in and repped some of her damage. I was now running low on cap and soon was out....just as me and the thrasher were into 25% hull. My webber turned off as did the afterburner. I kept on firing as did she and for a moment, the screen froze - I thought I had the killing blow but alas, it was me - her howitzer got in a good hit that pulverised my hull. With no cap to run the repper: i was dead.
Damn.

She was down to about 10% hull too! I warped out just as an EOS and Brutix came into local. I safespotted and waited. Cursing my bad luck and bad judgement. Should have turned off the disruptor once I knew the thrasher was going to fight back. That would have saved my cap and maybe given me an extra rep cycle....which is all I needed. Have learnt.

2007.02.19 23:40

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Drusilla Lux (laid the final blow)
Security: 0.6
Alliance: Astral Wolves
Corp: TuBular Enterprises
Ship: Thrasher
Weapon: 280mm 'Scout' Artillery I

Name: Angel Shatterer / Archangels


Destroyed items:

Small Armor Repairer I
Gyrostabilizer I
Rocket Launcher I
Monopropellant I Hydrazine Boosters
Warp Disruptor I
200mm Reinforced Steel Plates I
150mm Light AutoCannon I (Cargo)
150mm Light AutoCannon I (Cargo)
Shield Power Relay I (Cargo)
Shield Power Relay I (Cargo)
Overdrive Injector System I (Cargo)
Arch Angel Nuclear M, Qty: 959 (Cargo)
Proton S, Qty: 360 (Cargo)
Valkyrie I (Cargo)
250mm Light Artillery Cannon I (Cargo)
650mm Artillery Cannon I (Cargo)
Small 'Notos' Explosive Charge I (Cargo) Gremlin Rocket, Qty: 14 EMP S, Qty: 55



14 Feb 2007

Valentine Day's Surprise

Not much love this time round. Black Fleet have decided to park themselves in Gusandall and one pilot just talks and talks and talks. Gah, gives me a headache!!!

However, Auren was a bit quieter and I was stalking two ships (vexor and rupture) there. The rupture was piloted by an old victim (Tazit1z) and I called in Lucius for assistance. It was a game of cat and mouse for ages though with new pilots coming in frequently. It was clear the two Moon Hawk Corporation pilots were ratting as they left wrecks all over the place; however each time me and Lucius were too slow. The vexor was the most dangerous ship with its myriad of drones but a challenge is a challenge. The vexor pilot was also at least six months old so had decent skills we think.

Finally, local cleared down to only four pilots (me, Lucius, Taz and his mate) and Taz made a mistake and ended up in a belt - his mate warped off to another part of the system so LC and I made our move. I arrived first and landed 6KM away - excellent! My heart thumping - I locked on and hit the scrambler. Then I started to loose off EMP roounds. LC came screaming in a second later and his T2 ACs spat death.

Amazingly, the rupture did not have drones.

We tore into the rupture and laughed as Taz' mate LEFT local, leaving Taz on his own! He was toast and begged us to stop but he was already in structure and soon popped.

BoomYah.

But the rat got the kill mail - a freaking Angel frigate decided to get involved and boom. Landed the killing blow. We got the pod however.

2007.02.14 16:37

Victim: tazit1z
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Moon Hawks
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Auren
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -9.9
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Warp Scrambler I

Later on in the evening I was back on in Gusandall having made a 14-jump journey and it yielding no kills. Gusandall was full of Black Fleet pilots (again) but there were a handful of other non-aligned pilots. I spotted one in a Thrasher and decided he was a good target but he was a slippery chap.....

I went into the Angel plex but it was empty except of wrecks and I lacked the key to move to the next level. It was then that I spotted a new pilot....in a retriever come into local. With a manic laugh, I hit the jump drive. Just as I was leaving, another red blinky came into the complex in a merlin. It was Geigher (-9.6) and I had my eye on him. Better he stay out of my way and no funny business.

I landed in the first of three target belts but the retriever was nowhere to be seen. Frustratingly, he was still on scanner and I managed to eventually land on him. On came the scrambler and the tight orbit. Boom, boom. I quickly convo'ed him and asked for a 10million isk ranson, he took ages to reply but came back with a counter offer of 5 million.

I said no and repeated the offer with a time limit of 10 seconds.

He still wanted to bargain me down to 5million isk so I shredded his armour. Then something amazing happened. He ejected from the ship and sat there. I wondered WTF? but continued to blast his mining barge to scrap. I then scrambled the pod....as he hadn't even warped out. I was about to get another ransom when Giegher screamed into the same belt as me.

He targetted me and scrambled me just as I was 'negotiating' with Bahamut420. Gah - Giegher was more of a danger so I had to disengage.

Bahamut420 > FUCK YOU

Well, that was nice.

Anyway, Giegher in his merlin was now a threat. I tried to jump out as I didn't want to fight him but he had me scrambled. With that decision made, I went for him. His merlin was orbitting me at between 5-6km and even with my afterburner I could not close the distance. He had railguns that picked at my shields and my cap was going down fast. He had two small nosferatus on me.

I quickly shut down some mods and tried to save cap and returned fire. Even at 6KM my lovely 200mm autocanons were scoring hits. I turned off the warp disruptor as I reckoned Giegher was too intent on me to warp himself out. He wouldn't notice that my disruptor was off.

My EMP shells screamed across the vacuum and flared off on the merlin's shields. I was down to 35% armour but the tank had finally kicked in and held steady. The repairer was working at optimal effeciency while the merlin's shields were failing.

Once into his armour, like all other Caldari ships - their armour is like paper.

At this point, I knew that I had won this contest. I occasionally switched on the disruptor - just to make sure that Giegher decided to warp out. His Merlin was tough but not tough enough. His armour was eventually stripped off and his hull, well couldn't stand up to the pounding and fell to my 200mm ACs. I also snagged the pod and PK'ed him as I wanted my first bounty collection. Pity his bounty was only 55K isk!

2007.02.14 23:17

Victim: Giegher
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Black Fleet
Destroyed: Merlin
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:

Warp Disruptor I
Warp Disruptor I
1MN Afterburner I
125mm Railgun I
Small Nosferatu I
125mm Railgun I
Small Nosferatu I
Cap Recharger I
Iridium Charge S, Qty: 16
Iridium Charge S, Qty: 16


2007.02.14 23:17
For your termination of Giegher we have paid you the bounty that was set to his head: 55,000.00 ISK

2007.02.14 23:18
Victim: Giegher
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Black Fleet
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

And the mining barge kill:

2007.02.14 23:14

Victim: Bahamut420
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Ice Fire Warriors
Destroyed: Retriever
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I


Destroyed items:

Strip Miner I
Mark I Modified SS Expanded Cargo
Strip Miner I
Hobgoblin I (Drone Bay)
Vespa I (Drone Bay)

13 Feb 2007

Killing Jelko

So Lucius C and I are observing an increase in pilots (pirates and others) coming into and through Eifer. This is good and bad really so we're waiting for how it all plays out. Certainly working together helps us take down much larger ships and while a kill, is a kill - noobs offer little challenge and excitement.

This day saw me and LC patrol Eifer and noticed plenty of other ships and pilots, all apparently safe spotted. Jelko however wasn't and we narrowed him down to a single belt. LC, not having had a kill all day leapt into the belt and pummelled the unfortunate pilot into debris.

I got in the kill too.

2007.02.13 17:00

Victim: Jelko
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic University
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -9.8
Alliance: Pandemic Legion
Corp: SniggWaffe
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon II

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I


Destroyed items:

Standard Missile Launcher I
Piranha Light Missile, Qty: 300 (Cargo)
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 42 (Cargo)
Fusion S, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Proton S, Qty: 13
Proton S, Qty: 13
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 38

and two more victims.

Well after getting that war dec - I think its time I killed some more innocent peoples.

2007.02.13

Victim: Malachi Malichant
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: Dual 180mm Prototype I Automatic Cannon


2007.02.13 00:19

Victim: Jak Silverheart
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I


Destroyed items:

150mm Light AutoCannon I
100mm Reinforced Titanium Plates I
100mm Reinforced Titanium Plates I
EMP S, Qty: 1200 (Cargo)
Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
Tracking Disruptor I
150mm Light AutoCannon I
150mm Light AutoCannon I
EMP S, Qty: 62
EMP S, Qty: 62


2007.02.13 00:20

Victim: Jak Silverheart
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: Dual 180mm Prototype I Automatic Cannon


YAAARRR.

Hahahaha - my office neighbours obviously dont like me...

2007.02.12 22:35
Bitter And Twisted has declared war on Independent Pilots.
After 24 hours fighting can legally occur between those involved.

Lets kill a hurricane....not!

Lucius and I wanted to tackle something bigger and after letting him test his T2 200mm ACs on me we both undocked. We were chatting about the current firestorm enveloping the community over the dodgy T20-dev and Kusugsumen and his bannings etc. A more detailed blog will be coming out later but suffice it to say, Lucius (who flies with SNIGGWAFFE) was suitably fired up in all this and so was i to be honest.

But back to reality in Eifer - we spotted lots and lots of ships but couldn't catch any. We did like the look of a hurricane and it looked like a suitable challenge. However, it was a tricky one to find.......until he found us!

The hurricane landed about 50KMs from my holding position near a planet in Eifer. Lucius and I both engaged, me in a punisher and him in his rifter......versus a top-range battlecruiser. Yaaarrrr.

I was nos'sed and my cap disappeared. WTF?

I was then scrambled and pummelled senselessly though I did do some significant damage to the hurricane's shields.

My pod was out so I warped just as Lucius lost his ship.

Damn - the 'cane pilot had a decent anti-frigate setup.

2007.02.12
Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Zabijucha (laid the final blow)
Security: 4.5
Alliance: C0VEN
Corp: Guns'n'Roses
Ship: Hurricane
Weapon: 220mm Medium 'Scout' Autocannon I

Destroyed items:

200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
Warp Scrambler I
200mm Reinforced Steel Plates I
EMP S, Qty: 36
EMP S, Qty: 36

10 Feb 2007

Moving along

Been thinking if I am a bully and if so, why? I make no distinctions between the pilots I chase and kill but the easiest to catch are the noobs. Some noobs has fought back well - many I suspect are alts of carebears mains. However, I like the thrill of the hunt more so than the kill - the feeling of anticipation as I move from belt to belt, planet to planet - trying to think how the target is thinking and using that against him.

Also, I love T1 frigates and throwing them against far 'superior' ships is a challenge that I crave for. However, I am not stupid or suicidal. I suspect Battlecruiser are probably the limit to what is doable. A hurricane or cyclone would be a fine test of the bleeder.

So, I decided to head into Metropolis for a bit - Eifer and the surrounds was getting a bit crowded for my liking so I moved through and into Metropolis via Arnstur.

Lots more corps here and one has to pick targets carefully too.

A fair few corps have established themselves in certain systems so I moved cautiously between the systems - the scanner open. I saw feroxes, ravens and other ship types so there were targets but nothing I could take on without an entire corp piling into my ass. I moved into Ualkin and once again, plenty in local. However, there was one pilot from a corp with no other corp mates. This is good.

I scanned him and figured out that he was in a thrasher but there were also battleships with him. I think they were all ratting together. I waited until someone left and after five minutes the thrasher moved out of scan range. This was good - all the pilots were in my half of the system. So I hit the jump drive and went to the furthest planet and commenced scanning. Found the thrasher first time and decided to seize the opportunity. No time like the present.

Checking ammo levels were ok, I pushed the punisher into the warp tunnel and preceded to the belt where I hoped the thrasher was waiting for me. It was there as I thought it would be. However, I landed short so I had to fly over with the afterburner screaming away to close the distance. It had spotted me and decided to target me - it was a thrasher after all and designed to take out frigates like myself. Thats fine for me!!!

We engaged and I pwned.

2007.02.09 19:47
Victim: Nabil 69
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Omega Mining and Manfacturing
Destroyed: Thrasher
System: Ualkin
Security: 0.2
Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.9
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun
Name: Mammon Apis / Unknown

Destroyed items:
Small Subordinate Screen Stabilizer I
250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
Standard Missile Launcher I
Serpent F.O.F. Light Missile I, Qty: 123 (Cargo)
250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
Titanium Sabot S, Qty: 24 (Cargo)
EMP S, Qty: 26 (Cargo)
Carbonized Lead S, Qty: 1335 (Cargo)
200mm AutoCannon I
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 39 (Cargo)
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 132 (Cargo)
100mm Reinforced Steel Plates I
Rudimentary Ship Scanner I
Nuclear S, Qty: 1000 (Cargo)
Nuclear S, Qty: 442 (Cargo)
Condensed Alloy, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Burned Logic Circuit (Cargo)
Charred Micro Circuit, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
Crystal Compound (Cargo)
Depleted Uranium S, Qty: 30
Proton S, Qty: 23
EMP S, Qty: 10

2007.02.09 19:49
Victim: Nabil 69
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Omega Mining and Manfacturing
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Ualkin
Security: 0.2
Involved parties:
Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun

An hour later, I was patrolling the area again (this time passing through Evati) when I spotted a lone punisher in a belt. I figured, what the hell so i leapt in with the Bleeder. This one was poorly fitted but he was a noob after all. I killed and podded him but he wanted to chat. So, being bored - I allowed him through into the IDP channel.

He was not happy and proceeded to give me a load of verbal about being a miner-killer etc etc. Well, I did point out to him that he was in low-sec and thus, not free from being molested. He obviously thought I was a griefer as he posed no threat to me. This I agreed was true and therefore more reason for me to take him out. He ended the conversation with the classic: " run into a wall and die!" then signed off.

Ach.

2007.02.09 21:02

Victim: IVAN R
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Imperial Academy
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Evati
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I

Destroyed items:
Minmatar Graduation Certificate (signed) (Cargo)
Caldari Graduation Certificate (signed) (Cargo)
Amarr Graduation Certificate (signed) (Cargo)
Medium Beam Laser I
Civilian Shield Booster I
Civilian Armor Repairer
Gamma S (Cargo)
'Langour' Drive Disruptor I (Cargo)
Minmatar Frigate (Cargo)
Small Armor Repairer I
Scrapmetal Processing (Cargo)
Civilian Shield Booster I
Reactor Control Unit I
Reactor Control Unit I

2007.02.09 21:04

Victim: IVAN R
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Imperial Academy
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Evati
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I

OK, I admit - am a bastard but I did enjoy the kill. Decided to head back home and dock up - maybe even change ships.

I managed to snag two more rifter kills in the punisher before signing off.

2007.02.09 22:07

Victim: Luhz
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I

Name: Angel Smasher / Archangels


Destroyed items:

200mm AutoCannon I
200mm AutoCannon I
200mm AutoCannon I
Small Shield Extender I
Small Shield Extender I
Shield Power Relay I
Titanium Sabot S, Qty: 2431 (Cargo)
Shield Power Relay I
Shield Power Relay I
Titanium Sabot S, Qty: 42
Titanium Sabot S, Qty: 42


2007.02.09 22:11

Victim: Luhz
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I


2007.02.09 22:21

Victim: Glen Ninja
Alliance: NONE
Corp: SOUTHERN KILLERS
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I

Name: Angel Smasher / Archangels


Destroyed items:

200mm AutoCannon I
Rocket Launcher I
1MN Afterburner I
Warp Disruptor I
Titanium Sabot S, Qty: 1672 (Cargo)
Foxfire Rocket, Qty: 782 (Cargo)
Hornet I (Cargo)
Flameburst Light Missile, Qty: 929 (Cargo)
200mm AutoCannon I (Cargo)
200mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun (Cargo)
Wavelength Signal Enhancer I (Cargo)
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Foxfire Rocket, Qty: 5

8 Feb 2007

Killing scythes

Tested out the Bleeder again, not too happy with it to be honest - it doesnt last well against frigates but cruisers - well, better.

Checked out Auren today - usually the ass end of nowhere but plenty of belts for victims to hide in. I arrived and there were two. A rifter and a scythe. The rifter was ss'ing everywhere and I had no hope in catching him. The scythe was something different.

I found him ratting in a belt near planet IV. I landed about 12KM and hit the afterburner to close the distance. He better not warp out! I thought to myself. He didn't but started to lock me - so it was game on. Only had two kills in the punisher so was eager to add a third.

I hit a tight 2000m orbit, switched on the 200mm and the nos and maintained orbit. He was using heavy missiles and they stripped my shields pretty quick but then hit the wall that was the Bleeder's tank. He was only down to 50% and I was in armour but it felt like a fight I could win. I also decided to do a quick repair on the armour: nothing dis-heartens a pilot when he see damage being repaired mid-battle.

He continued to hit me with missiles but all was in control - my nos was picking up enough Cap to sustain my (already huge) cap reserves. The 200mm ACs chipped away with EMP projectiles while the disruptor kept him tight.

He con'voed me and started chatting - I got the feeling he was unsure what to do - doesn't he know when he is being mugged?

I took him down to armour and continued to chip away - his conversation was interesting but i wanted the kill. I told him 500K to save his pod but he said no. Fare enough - took the scythe down to hull and continued to chip away at him. My armour tank was at 98% with 80% cap. There was no breaking this tank. The 200mm reinforced steel plate made a difference.

His ship popped and I snagged his pod. We chatted some more even when his pod was blasted. He wasn't pleased but calmed down enough to see that this was not personal. He just got ambushed.

Yaaaaarrrr.




2007.02.08 14:47

Victim: tazit1z
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Moon Hawks
Destroyed: Scythe
System: Auren
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Angel Defacer / Archangels

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.9
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I


Destroyed items:

Heavy Missile Launcher I
Heavy Missile Launcher I
Miner II (Cargo)
Miner II (Cargo)
Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
Target Painter I
Miner I, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
Fusion S, Qty: 18 (Cargo)
1MN Afterburner I, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
250mm Light 'Scout' Artillery I
ML-3 Amphilotite Mining Probe (Cargo)
Nanoelectrical Co-Processor I
280mm Howitzer Artillery I
Suppressed Targeting System I (Cargo)
Thunderbolt Heavy Missile, Qty: 15 (Cargo)
Passive Targeter I (Cargo)
EMP M, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
ECCM Projector I (Cargo)
Stasis Webifier I (Cargo)
200mm AutoCannon I (Cargo)
Medium Hull Repairer I (Cargo)
Small Hull Repairer I (Cargo)
Passive Targeter I (Cargo)
Warp Disruptor I (Cargo)
Titanium Sabot S, Qty: 15
Arch Angel Carbonized Lead S, Qty: 58
Thunderbolt Heavy Missile, Qty: 4


2007.02.08 14:49

Victim: tazit1z
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Moon Hawks
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Auren
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.9
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I