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LinChow
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Posted - 2011.05.17 02:57:00 -
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Ok, I just got my Manticore. I got it fit according to so many's suggestions and I flew off to the nearest null sec system. I have dreams of great glory (ok, ok... just don't pop my bubble with all the nay saying).
I set a bm at 400km off the gate, cloaked, aligned to the gate and warped to 50km. I then flew in (cloaked of course) and set my second bm at 39km (for my bombs). I then flew in a straight line from the first two bm's to 111km off the other side of the gate and set my 3rd bm (for torps if I get a target on that side to far away for bombs). I then flew out to 400km again in a straight line with the last three bm's and set my 4th bm.
Then I aligned and warped to 100km off the only station in the system. About half way there, i clicked and got a random "mid space" bm. I then turned around and warped to that bm and flew 500km off the route between the gate and the station (to NOT have a straight path into a bubble). I deleted the original "random" bm so I wouldn't accidently warp to it and end up in a bubble.
To be continued... 
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LinChow
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Posted - 2011.05.17 03:06:00 -
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Now, my "method of insanity"...
When I jump into the null sec system (from low sec system), I immediatly align, cloak, warp to the 1st bm (400km off gate). As soon as I'm there, I mentally prepare myself and check to make sure everything is set up right and I warp the #2 bm (39km off gate). I then sit there cloaked and wait.
What has happened so far?
I was alone in system. A pilot jumps into system and is sitting on the gate. He's in a tengu.
He begins to chat with me in local. The whole while, I'm sitting watching him and he's flown back to the gate. He's almost straight ahead of me. He's 36km from me. I'm twitching to launch my bomb.
He then asks me what I'm flying and I tell him I'm in a drake. (my ship has been renamed "LinChow's Drake"). He challenges me to a little 1v1 and promises me that we will not either of us pop the other.
To be continued because the screen keeps jumping up and down when I type this far down the page.
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LinChow
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Posted - 2011.05.17 03:12:00 -
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I ask him what he's flying (as if I didn't already know) and I play hard to get. We chat for a few more seconds and I "give in" to some friendly 1v1 (knowing I'm being played for a sucker).
He says I should come to the gate and we will "test each others abilities".
I then uncloak, launch bomb, come up to speed and warp to bm #3 when the bomb smashes him.
I get to #3 bm (111km off the other side of the gate), which I'm cloaked again by this time and spin the camera around to see him warping away towards the station.
I go ahead and warp to #4 bm and then back to #1 bm to start the cycle all over again after giving him time to cool off.
He is ****ed!!!
That was some serious smack talk in local and it seems that he wasn't prepared for that bomb and didn't have his shields active and it took him way into armor.
If only I had had another friend or two with me in their SB's, we would have splashed a tengu on the gate.
Will post more adventures as they come along...
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LinChow
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Posted - 2011.05.18 01:18:00 -
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Lord's Servant-
Thanks for the advice and imput. I'm completely new to the SB. I fly a Manticore. I set those bookmarks really just to get a feel for the how, why and whats of a SB with bombs. I don't plan on using bombs alot because of the costs but I wanted to see what they looked like and did.
Another happened today but not much to tell...
A Navitas and a Burst came through the gate and for some reason decided to turn and head back for the gate. I figure they where going to jump back out of the system because they forgot something but I never had the chance to really find out. I dropped a bomb on their parade and got two for the price of one. That was fun.
Going to check into some different fits. (I'm not sure about all the abbreviations when mentioning specific modules).
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LinChow
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Posted - 2011.05.21 13:35:00 -
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It seems that some Tengu pilots on here are offended by my post... sad that they live in a fantasy world where they actually believe their ship is almighty.
Anyway...
I've decided that camping the gate just 1 jump into 0.0 space isn't enough.
I've moved 15 jumps into 0.0 and found an "instructor".
We are refitting the ship to make it more usefull and he is teaching me the basics first.
I have dscan lessons today. I didn't realize just how much you can do with the dscan.
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