T RAYRAY
Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.11.13 01:16:00 -
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The Tengu that got away
Solo camping in Egglehend on the Jel gate in my oversebo'd Myrmidon, cloaky alt on the highsec side of of the gate sees a velator and tengu land on the gate at the same time. Velator jumps through and just sits there in Egg (I can see him on directional at the gate from a pounce). I don't bother with the veletor because I'm interested in that Tengu. 3-4 minutes pass, no activity on either side. I'm thinking this +5.0 sec status bear in his tengu used a brand-new alt made just that day to jump into low sec and scout out the way to make sure it's clear.
Minutes later that tengu actually jumps, and I'm in warp to meet him on the gate. Sebo'd myrm points him immediately and the fight is on, me with prior GCC already had a bit of shield damage (15%) and him sitting at 16km soaking up my hammerhead IIs and 425mms with republic EMP.
His shield hits 50% and I'm getting a chubby TBH, this is going better than I expected - he's redboxed me and the combination of his heavy missile precision whatevers and the gate guns are chewing through my plated tripple rig armor buffer. i've started losing drones, and I'm now regularly deploying replacement Warrior IIs to make up for the missing Hammerhead IIs.
His shield gone, 3/4 armor, i'm down to 1/4 armor and started deploying ECM drones to distract those ******* sentry guns and keep his damage off me if at all possible. Surprisingly we're probably 1 minute into this fight and none of the douchebags in local have landed on the gate either. I've started aligning to a planet in case this goes south, but his armor is dropping faster than my armor, i just don't know how it will play out.
Well, the last of my armor disappears and i'm in 95% hull, he's below 1/2 armor and I'm down to the last few ECM drones and the sentries are back on me more than the drones... I end up warping off with 1/2 hull, he's below 1/2 armor - I just didn't have enough buffer time to chew all the way through his tank.
I assume he was PVE fit, i saw target painter, but no point on me or he would have gottem my kill from him + gates. either way, I enjoyed the rush, i tried to chat in local but he was silent, so no obnoxious bear-comments from one that got away.
Lesson learned: 1) don't bother with noob ships, they may lead to juicy pinatas 2) bring a 2nd ship!!! (how fast could I have logged on an alt for more damage? - should have tried) 3) micro manage gun overheating - i started overheating and stopped 3/4 of the way through his shields to save my guns, but as soon as he was in armor I should have put the heat back on - he may have gone down faster that way, and if it had been closer I would have used the last bit of my hull for the final shots to end him. |