I log in and look at the map, wondering where I
could go roam close to Curse. During previous couple weeks I had roamed around
Pandemic Legion space, Infamous space, Inglorious space, Methodical Alliance
space, Short Bus Syndicate space, Horde space, Black Core space, Slyce space,
Test Space, RANE Space, Zero-Four Ops Space… Who was I missing nearby?... Ah yes,
Only Pixels space! Why not?!
About 2 jumps away from their home system I
spot one of their FC’s in local and an Orthrus on D-Scan. I just hold on ingate
and cloak up my DPS Brutix in the previous system, close to the gate. Orthrus
make range on me and aggresses at 50km away. Of course I’m not going to try
catch him, but knowing he’s an FC, I’m sure he’d call for backup. I jump out
and back in to avoid getting too damaged. After all, I cannot really repair mid
fight, so need to preserve the most of my EHP possible.
As I jump in an Onyx arrives the gate. Both the
Onyx and Orthrus aggress me, but I’m able to burn back to gate easy and jump
out. Too bad they both aggressed me. I was hoping for the Onyx to jump with me
and engage it, away from the gate, with my 2 Brutix. Engaging an Onyx 0km on
the gate is useless as it can probably deaggress and jump out.
Nevertheless I was willing to engage those 2
guys at same time. The plan: jump back into them, kite 1 MWD cycle away from
the gate in order to lure the Onyx away from the gate, bring in DPS Brutix,
kill Onxy, MJD away from Orthrus. If needed, I could even put my ECM drones on
the Onyx to mitigate incoming DPS and warp off before I even killed it.
As I jump into the Onyx and Orthus with my Tank
Brutix a Devoter shows up… Ah crap… My beautiful plan just got washed away into
the dirt… I hate when this happens. Upon a better look the Devoter is not a
Only Pixels guy, but is a Memento guy, so blue to them, as they talk in local
about teaming up to kill me. I need to re-assess this whole mess, and as more
time passes by, the worse for me it will be… I probably missed the engagement
opportunity window already…
Anyway, right now it’s time to get safe. I
don’t want to get scrammed by 2 HIC away from the gate, so I pull the “Burn
back to gate and cloak trick”. Once they saw me cloak, local exploded! Oh boy,
they start to call me all sort of names and insult me… I got to the gate and
jumped out while the Orthus follows me. Here I messed up...
The Orthrus follows me and sees my backup
Brutix decloaked. I had forgotten to re-cloak it once I decided to not engage
due to the Devoter arrival. In fact, during the previous local smack talk they
asked where my “Remote Repairing Alt” was. They were expecting for me to bring
my old traditional Augoror backup, but now they could see I had 2 Brutix
instead.
What really surprised me now was the Orthrus
warping away in a hurry, instead of pulling range and tackling me! Were they
afraid of my 2 Brutix having 2 HIC and an Orthrus themselves?! I mean, they
could easily scram me 25km+ away from my Blasters and still apply DPS, but I
decided to take on the opportunity!
I jumped back into the 2 HIC, only to see the
Onyx warp off in a hurry and the Devoter to sit on the gate unwilling to
aggress me! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! As I was trying to think on what to do, both my
ships stopped responding to my commands... Sigh… Here we go again…
SOCKET CLOSED!
Hell of timing as always… It would be a matter
of time before they’d call for a prober, so I better get back in fast!
Fortunately my machine was not lagging too much and I log in before they probe
me. As I land back onto the gate with both toons, I realise they brought a
couple more guys…
Now they had 2 Orthrus, 1 Onyx, 1 Devoter, 1
Cerberus and 1 Cynabal. I land 6km away from the gate, but they fail to bump me
as some of them aggress me, so I reach the gate, jump and even managed to warp
off. It really shows how disorganized these guys were, because there’s no way I
should have been able to get out of that mess so easily. Unfortunately it was
way too much for me to handle, even considering I had managed to split some on
the gate.
I happened to warp off to a ping at the LBC-
gate and the ones that were un-aggressed
follow me to that same gate. As I land on the ping I cloak up. I was
really not comfortable on how fast all this had turned around, and needed a few
moments to settle down.
My foes see me cloak and local smack talk
explodes again, with no insults on my person being spared. I should point out
that not everyone insulted me, it was really only a couple guys in their fleet,
rest kept it civil. I also confess… it feels well to piss of people sometimes,
and after a day’s work, some venting in local actually feels nice, so I also
flamed away a bit too… The flesh is weak XD.
During this time I noticed an important factor.
Cynabal and Devoter were Memento guys, rest were Pixels guys. Pixels guys soon
realized it was not worth staying around with me cloaked, so left local back to
their home. On the LBC gate, away from the direction Pixels left to, I had the
Cynabal at 0km on the gate and the Devoter at around 30km away from the gate. A
plan quickly formed in my head.
The Plan: Deloak, warp down to LBC gate, jump
out, wait for Cynabal to follow, catch it, bring in backup Brutix, apply ECM
drones on the Devoter and warp off before Pixels guys (who would be burning
back to my location from almost reaching their home system once these Memento
guys cried for help), had the chance to catch me! Simple huh?! What could go
wrong?!
So I set the Plan in motion and you know what… it
freaking worked!!!!! MUHAHAHAHA. I managed to kill the Cynabal and warp off
before backup arrived, but some details developed indeed a bit differently than
planned:
1 – Cynabal was lightly tanked and only 1
Brutix was used to kill it;
2 – The Devoter NEVER EVER aggressed me… He targeted me for ages and I was well within
his “Focused Mega Scram” range. I was really puzzled on that one! Was he afraid
that my 2 Brutix would kill him before backup arrived?
3 – Backup arrived faster than expected and I
even got long pointed by an Orthrus, but my MJD saved the day before all the
other guys showed up.
In the end, my safety was achieved due to the
Devoter’s unwillingness to aggress. Had he Scrammed me, there’s a good chance I
would have lost one of my Brutix, but even then, it would have been a decent
trade for an Arty Cynabal.
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