I log in one day and I feel the urge to go
HED-GP. A true magnet for every kind of adrenaline seeker capsuleer. Solo,
small gang, large blobs, cloaky campers, hotdroppers, hi-sec suiciders, “elite”
linked kiters, 3 day old brawlers… You name it, they go there! On top of that,
local station was Freeport, so great way to repair my Hull Brutix fast.
Upon arrival I jump in with my Tank Brutix and cloak
up my DPS Brutix at the HED-GP gate, orbiting at 5km. It might indeed get
decloaked by some random traveller or gang, but being close by to provide fast
backup surpasses that risk.
Inside HED-GP scan shows around 20 in local and
about 10 frigates towards Kebers gate, as well as a crapload of bubbles. I warp
to a ping in order to draw their attention. As expected they are camping the
gate with bubbles, and as soon as I arrive, some of them start warping to their
own pings close to mine to catch me. These guys are in full out in blind
bloodlust! Good… Bloodlust people are prone to overconfidence and mistakes.
Enyo, Enyo, Rifter, Crusader, Worm, Hawk,
Stilleto and I think they also had a Garmur as well as a couple more
interceptors. I don’t want to be caught at this location, so need to act fast.
Option A – Warp to the safety of station and
take a few more minutes to play cat and mouse games, in order to see if there
is more than meets the eye, like a Falcon, Recon or just plain DPS ships
holding back;
Option B – Warp to the SV5 gate at 0km, try to
split them and get hostilities going as I decloak my backup Brutix.
Taking in account they looked completely
disorganized, I went for option B. Let’s go to the gate and see what happens.
Surely enough, they were already at the gate when I arrive, but with them comes
a Tengu!! Oh crap…
A properly PVP fitted Tengu can, alone, engage
head on both my Brutix with ease… I might be in bigger problems that I
expected. Some of the frigates have already Scrammed me but keeping cool for a
few extra seconds I look at the Tengu’s weapons. There aren’t any! Ufff… that’s
a relief… It’s a Links Tengu… Sure Links will be annoying to deal with, but
nowhere compared to a beastly faction fitted Neutron Blaster Tengu or a Heavy
Assault Missile Tengu.
Ok so, all on gate, some aggressing me. I jump
out, most of them follow. Some aggress me too inside SV5- as I burn back to
gate. Good, now they’re split among both systems. I jump back into HED-GP and
it’s on! Primary targets are the Scrambling frigates to make sure my MJD can
activate properly when the time comes. I bring in my backup Brutix and then….
Greed takes over me… What if I used my Backup DPS Brutix to kill the Link Tengu
orbiting the gate? The hell with some crappy frigates, I’d prefer to have a T3
Cruiser kill any day!
I split my own fire… Tank Brutix focus on
frigates, DPS Brutix focus on Link Tengu… But the frigates don’t go down fast
enough. The Link Tengu pilot is also probably realizing he’s under fire and he
can just jump it out at any time. With this much going on, there’s no way I got
the awareness to try bump him off gate. If I continue down this path, there’s a
good chance I’ll lose 1 Brutix over nothing! I must control my greed with a
strong leash or it’ll get the best of me.
As the Tengu was reaching 50% shields I decide
it’s time to get back to the original plan and focus on teaming up both Brutix
properly for maximum effect. From this point onward I focus both Brutix into
the same target and surely enough, the frigates start to go down at good pace.
Eventually my Tank Brutix reaches around 10% structure, but having killed all
the Scramming frigates, I MJD and get him safe while my DPS Brutix kept on
field clearing the rest of the fellas that didn’t warped off already. I was
able to kill 2 Enyo, Rifter, Crusader, Worm, Hawk and Stilleto, but most of
all, I was pleased with my decision in mid-fight of keeping my bloodlust under
control and ignore the Tengu, assuring a better outcome of the battle.
From here I went to run the Catch-Querious
pipe. Usually a slow place, but map showed some dots, so went to investigate.
Warping at range on a random system belonging to Infamous guys (when Infamous
lived in Catch), I see that a Hurricane Fleet Issue is undocked. There’s about
10 in local and I know some of the local names. They usually like to fight and
tend to organize fairly fast, but at same time they are also prone to make
mistakes fairly easy. This combination means that I might have a chance of
scoring a good kill here.
The Hurricane Fleet Issue is aligning towards
me, and slowboating away from station. This is a sign of aggressive stance, and
knowing these guys, he will not engage me alone. I warp off to a gate, but keep
spamming D-Scan. As I warp off, I see in D-Scan a Falcon and a Crusader. Auch..
ECM… Even with 2 Brutix this could go wrong, but I’m still willing to engage.
Let’s see what develops. I land on the gate with the Crusader and decide to try
ninja it. I aggress it on the gate and he aggresses back, but unfortunately
Falcon lands and jamms me before I kill it. As the Crusader gets safe, the
Hurricane Fleet Issue and a Curse land on the gate, both aggressing me too.
Well, I had already faced a Rook and Curse some
time ago, and it went terribly wrong. Even with 2 Brutix I would have very slim
chances to score a kill, especially considering the Crusader pilot is probably
going to reship into something sturdier. I deagress, jump out into safety and
go repair in a quiet system. I might not be able to kill them, but they also
messed up a perfectly good chance to bait me properly and kill me.
Moving on to Querious, I dwelled into a pocket
in the south. For me, the biggest problem in entering these closed pockets is
their ability to control intel. If I show up I have 2 Brutix I lose my edge,
but if my backup is too far away I miss on good kills or I die.
Anyway I move in the pocket and an Ishtar
follows me at range and warping to pings on my gates. Me and Ishtar pilot talk
a bit and he was always polite. He tells me to leave the area because they
would not fight and I’d be wasting my time in an area with no content. In my
experience, people will fight if they think they can properly overpower you, so
I press on around. After all, they had more than 50 people among 2/3 systems…
Eventually, while jumping a random gate, I’m
greeted by a Kestrel, Crow and Crucificier, all at range. They aggress me
without coming close to me, so I warp off to station at range. This seems
promising but I need to see what they have prepared for me. Archon, Myrmidon
and Vexor at the undock. Good. I start to think where I want the engagement to
take place, and best spot seems to be at the ingate for several reasons:
1: From station to the ingate it’s about 60AU,
so somewhat far. Any heavy backup incoming from station will take a bit to
arrive;
2: Previous system was empty. I can cloak my
backup Brutix really close to the ingate for a fast backup. I can only hope for
their intel toons to not spot him while he gets in position.
While my backup Brutix gets indeed in position
they post in local something in the lines of “hey, tell your mate to come in”
and “your mate is lonely out there”. Unwillingly, they’re giving me some
insight. The fact they are calling my backup Brutix my “mate” means they don’t
realize it’s my alt, so aren’t probably researching my killboard, and the fact
they did not bragged about knowing he’s also in a Brutix, convinces me they
don’t know what he’s in. Most likely only saw one guy in their local moving
around and that’s it. Good enough for me.
Once I’m ready on both toons, I go sit with
Tank Brutix at the ingate and wait. Kestrel, Crucificier, Crow and Atron engage
me and I kill the Atron pretty easily. Meanwhile, in the previous system, my
cloaked DPS Brutix sees the Ishtar pilot jumping into fray. It’s the perfect opportunity
for a juicy kill. I stop messing with those kitting crappy frigates, reaproach
gate, load void, recall my drones back, overload my mids and prepare for the
Ishtar to decloak. As it decloaks I manage to catch him, easily. I bring in my
DPS Brutix and also join for a quick kill.
As the Ishtar is about to go down, Myrmidon and
Vexor arrive at range and hit my Tank Brutix with sentries. As the Ishtar dies
I MDJ and warp my Tank Brutix away, but I need to decide what to with my DPS
Brutix.
The Myrmidon was exactly 100km away from Rtb in
the DPS Brutix… I could just MJD on top of him and kill him fast! I mean… he’s
EXACTLY at 100km from me. The Universe wants me to kill it for sure! They don’t
have anyone with Scrams in the field, I expect that Vexor and Mymidon to be PVE
and range fitted, and these guys are fairly inexperienced, so what could possibly
go wrong!? I play the “Cocky” card and MJD on top of the Myrmidon.
He’s completely taken off guard and he does not
even tries to move. Then I realize he actually has a 1600mm Plate on that
Myrmidon, my “ninja” kill is taking a bit longer than I’d hoped for… Then a
Hawk lands just on top of me and Scrams me… Somehow I have the sense this is
all going downhill... Even though I cannot MJD anytime soon, I might need my
MWD mobility sooner than later, so I change focus from the Myrmidon into the
Hawk and hit D-Scan as they might have more backup incoming.
Archon on scan… Just wonderful… I keep my focus
into the Hawk, but he’s not dying fast enough. How did I manage to get myself
in this mess again?! Ah yes, I remember, I got cocky…
Archon arrives and the Hawk pulls some range on
me, enough to drops is Scram. I use this opportunity to start kiting with my
MWD overloaded towards a random celestial, but I still need to survive for more
than a minute as my MJD cools down while I’m long pointed by the Crow. Fortunately
their inexperience surfaces once more and the Crow fails to maintain a long
point on so I’m able to warp off.
It was getting late, and with my surprise
advantage gone, an Archon in the field, and 1 Brutix in low structure, It was
time to call it a day and log off. I chatted with the locals a bit as I moved
away, but even though they were not happy for me to be there (after all I was
harassing them in their home) they kept it civil.
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