Quoted for truth.

Actually it took longer to get within scram range of that guy than to take him down. The Kronos aggressed at about 90km away. I started to head right at him and was immediately put into deep armor, so I turned to increase transversal velocity with him. He was good with his guns and kept clipping me with the occasional shot. Every time I started to get close he would MJ away, but I'm as persistent as I am stupid sometimes, so I kept coming at him while trying to keep an angle so he wouldn't just volley me off the field. I noticed that the gap between us kept shortening a tiny bit with each jump.

After about 45 minutes of this being repeated, the gap between us was shortened to the point where I had about 15 km or so before his next MJ cycle, so I overheated the afterburner and the scram and made for the final push. Once I managed to land the scram on him things got serious. He used bastion to keep me from scramming him, but kept dropping it in hopes that he'd get a shot at jumping away. OCD and a certain fervent mania kept me spamming the scram button on him, so every time he dropped bastion he was immediately repointed.

I was inside his guns, and while I don't recall whether or not he started with any drones, I can say for certain that after a minute or two he surely had no more. Itty bitty neut was applied and I switched to void as I began to administer the 'Death of a Thousand Cuts' to him. Very very very slowly his tank began to crack, as 'cap stable' came face to face with the notion of 'cap stable enough?'. Once he hit low structure I was informed very sternly that he had commenced self destruct sequence.
Dafuq?

Okay, fine. Sure enough, he went kaboom... and then promptly sat there in his pod. Irked as I was, I summarily sent him back to his med bay to contemplate where he went wrong. At any point in the 45 minutes I was chasing him he could have simply warped off. Once his ship went boom he also could have simply warped off.

Judgement is a thing I guess.

So! Not really a yarry uber pirate story but a story about a bit of combat I had.


So I log on this morning, and I was promised a fight from one of my wartargets. I planned on giving him a fair one v one, but since I was at war with other Mercenaries at the time. I logged on my two other alts, a Combat Toon, and a Link/scout to guild be though space. I was moving from Amarr down to Gal space and had to pass by on of there home systems. They were German based and were fairly active during the morning times so I knew I was risking my lovely ships.

So I brought two Gila's and a Loki. Located the Target and began my trek through Caldari space and avoiding the home system of the German Mercenaries. I had thought I had made it passed them unawares as I was now slow plodding along through Udema. However, Either they had taken an interest in me and located me, as I had early popped a Daredevil of theirs. Or they have a rather active scout network, but all of a sudden two Wartargets enter Hatakani, just as I hit my out gate.

I may have freaked out a little bit at that point. I warp my two combat alts to a station and sit on it as my cloaky linky low key loki checks the gate I just came in from. I see two Cynabals sitting on the gate. Which is great. With the two Gila's I can't out run them. They warp faster than I do. I can't ***** out either, that isn't fun and I'm not about to let two people make me stop playing my game. Right? So I jump my Loki into Hata to see if there are more than just the two Cyna's and see a very odd looking Tengu land on gate. It's got the Warp speed Prop Sub on it. So again can't out run it. But oddly enough it's running the Subsystem that let's it run the 8 mid slot set up.

Now I know that the German using a Armor Cyna, 200mm neut, dual points and sebo'ed, and by looking at the Tengu all I can guess from it, is that it's some sort of heavy-tackle/chase Tengu? I've seen Tengu's set up before with the warp speed sub. But never actually fought one before.

Bascially I had the choice of logging off. (AKA Bitching the **** out) Or trying to fight.

This whole time, the two Cyna's are still sitting on the gate. They want me to leave the station. So I'll see if I can split them up. I warp my two combat alts to two differnt parts of the systems. Planets or something. Then warp them both to Algogille, along with my links. One of the Cyna's land with me however and I know as soon as I jump gate I need to engage or I will die once they catch range.

I jump in, and wait for them to decloak.

Luck being in my favour one of the Cyna's decloaks 13km from me. I quickly activate my links, and point/web and dps. And I do the same with my alt. As I do this I notice a legion fly pass my Loki. OH COOL. They have links to. And it was probably cloaky. I sadly didn't catch the name of the Legion, as the Germans started throwing Rep Fleet EMP into my face.

So the thing with triple boxing. I'm new at it. And I make mistakes sometimes. I managed to get all my mods active. BUT I managed to split my dps between the two Cyna's. and don't notices until about halfway through the armor of both of them. Two Gila's shooting two different Cyna's. You can see how it's easily confused? Both where losing HP about the same rate...so...yeah. WHOOPS.

By his point, one of the GIla's in about 75% Shields, and is quickly being neuted out. I focus my DPS onto a single Cyna. Which allows the second Cyna to pull range from me. Now Gila's DPS is absolutely horrible to deal with. Specially a 900 DPS HAM gila and another 700 DPS RLML Gila. The Cyna melts, as it hits hull I have enough presence of mind to point the Tengu.

Now the second Cyna has wisely pulled range to 70km and the Tengu deargo's and start slowly burning towards the gate which during the fight we have manage to pull about 15km away from it. I throw both my webs on it and being to chew into it's shield. It's shooting back at me, and surprisingly neuting me to. One of my Gila's Cap is dry and I lose tackle on it, but my second alt is still happily pointing and webbing away.

So then I remember to overheat. *facepalms*

RIGHT

SO

Overheat Missile launchers.

Oh..

My RLML is about to reload.

So the Tengu is clawing it's way to the gate. Repping as best it can, but like I said before. Gila DPS is like having an extra cruiser with you.

The Tengu dies. And I am sitting with about 40% shield and the other Gila untouched. WOO. Good fights are exchanged, no **** talk or anything which was really nice. I leave the loot for the Germans to pick up as I am a nice guy like that. And Dock up in system. Feeling pretty good about myself. And suddenly coming under the understanding on how overpowered the GIla's are. Like really 3v2 in any other ship I probably would have lost at least one ship. But 70k EHP 1000/800 DPS Overheated and 1800m/sec.

Regardless, GF ^.^

https://zkillboard.com/related/30004972/201506231200/ < Battle report.