Sunday, December 12, 2010

A Daredevil Comedy of Errors

While EVE taught me the peaceful way of the velour warrior (by force!) it also teaches me a lot of other things. I would really appreciate an exclusive lesson in interstellar voodoo (some of my opponents seem to have that!) but I got one I'm getting quite a few in humility instead.

I hate that ugly funk of heat damaged mods!
Now on to the subject of humility, my dear reader, I didn't mean to tease you with idle chatter.

After a rather half-assed Rifter roam with lots of cooking in between scan sessions I ran into a cooperating Punisher with an extremely upbeat attitude that required correction. While landing nicely at 20 km I somehow missed to set an appropriate orbit (I personally like 13 kilometers) so 20 seconds into the fight I was at 800m and without armor. Now kids, one important aspect when flying a long range fit is range! So I overheated my afterburner and got out to a nice orbit where the punisher wasn't hitting me at all. Phew for a minute there I saw myself sitting in a pod. Instead the Punisher guy was.

15 minutes later I found a Daredevil, a Thorax and a Myrmidon in a belt and warped in just to take a look. The Daredevil was immediately turning towards me. I was flattered and watching its speed I figured I'd be able to kite and hurt it a little before warping out. Unfortunately I was so excited about that Daredevil that I didn't check the cruisers at all, they were still not moving much. The errors:
  1.  Not checking the pilots in the belt.
  2.  While kiting the Daredevil I didn't notice that the battlecruisers were now at about 150kms and 150 kilometers is damn much closer than 100 kilometers!
Now everything worked fine with that Daredevil, he was webbed and scrambled and obviously very uncomfortable within my falloff when suddenly I noticed the battlecruisers were close. Very close! Within 10 km! With the Daredevil in structure I started aligning to warp out the second he exploded. And here's the next error:
  1. Aligning to a station while flagged as criminal.
So with the Myrmidon and the Thorax very close, my heart and pancreas and Rifter close to meltdown the Daredevil exploded and I thought I had exploded too, so I started spamming the warp button. At least I would get with my pod out. I was feeling like a porn film star in the eighties! I had solo-ed a Daredevil! That was pretty close to soloing a Dramiel, but let's not go crazy here. Dizzy as a frog I warped out and arrived at the station and to my surprise: I was still in my Rifter! Hurray!

But not for long: Friendly sentry gun fire killed my baby.

Anyway, still a very satisfying kill. GF everybody.
Eingestellt von Sobczynski um 12:29 AM
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3 comments:

  1. Panthe TekDecember 14, 2010 at 9:51 AM

    The main aspect of a long range fit is range, I concur! Always gets the adrenaline pumping when overloaded scrambler range is getting too close for comfort. I then fear for my first Navy Slicer loss (= coward = fly what you can lose) but why not fly in what I can win easily? On that note, how's your first Navy Comet doing? Waiting to read about your spins with that baby for some time now :)

    That Punisher needed to die, he fitted a nosferatu but no small repper? He was the perfect prey for a slow death from high orbit _and really needed to die_.

    Not sure though that 150km is closer than 100km but I'm trying to interpret it right, inverse psychology and all that :D

    Grats on the Daredevil kill!! The awesome sums of money needed to purchase that thing ... man, 133mil in my favorite setup! Very suitable for (illegal) 0.0 ratting due to it's insane dps. That's 358dps btw, how _on god's green earth_ did you survive that combined with his -90% bonus on webifier speed? Sound impossible to get a high orbit there.

    The answer: insane skillz! GF

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  2. SobczynskiDecember 14, 2010 at 11:30 AM

    The Comet: It's just sitting in a hangar and calling me a coward. I'm thinking about selling it now for 10 million profit.

    150km is closer than 150km: Fighting 100km away from cruisers is usually safe. At 150km they can warp to their fleet mate's assistence and they're within range immediately. That's what they did and that's what spooked me into warping to the station. Dammit. If I had checked their age before I would have stayed and tried to get them too.

    The Daredevil: It was an AB fit and just 100m/s faster than me. One volley stripped the shields (at 16km), and when he was webbed I was able to land a few more. The blasters were mostly missing but when they hit they hit hard. It was just a matter of staying outside that Daredevil's falloff as long as possible.

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  3. Panthe TekDecember 14, 2010 at 11:59 AM

    Well if you don't dare to fly it better get rid of it, one way or another. Looking at Wensley and how often he goes back to Rifters after having tried fancy ships, maybe it's not even half bad selling the Comet before it pops without satisfaction.

    Now I get the 150km remark - my god I lost mental practice too. Not much ingame action going on in my corner of space while I wait for T2 rockets to finally finish (Malediction time).

    Here's my shamelessly stolen Daredevil dream fit. EFT import and enjoy the shit out of the DPS. He has a MWD to heat to get close btw, unlike the guy you fought, and increased falloff. Price: around 130mio, and 9mio for the faction repper.

    [Daredevil, Jay Pi's Daredevil]
    Internal Force Field Array I
    Corpii C-Type Small Armor Repairer
    Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
    Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

    Catalyzed Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
    J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
    X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator

    Light Neutron Blaster II, Void S
    Light Neutron Blaster II, Void S
    [empty high slot]

    Small Ancillary Current Router I
    Small Hybrid Ambit Extension I
    Small Hybrid Ambit Extension I

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