LSC Pick-up Roam
Posted: 2017.09.06 07:46
A couple of us late-night North Americans have been flying together pretty consistently over the last week or two out at LSC, and tonight we had an eventful enough roam that it seemed worth writing about.
A bunch of us were spread out around UPH so form-up was slow and casual. During the process we had spotted a Daredevil bouncing through systems and sitting in novices. In UPH we were able to converge on him outside the gate for our first kill of the evening. Once more than one of us got on grid he put up surprisingly little fight.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64501775/ +76.63mil
From here we traveled into Verge Vendor and up into the Melmaniel - Costolle - Muetralle pipe. I’d been encountering a trio of faction warfare pilots there over the last few days who seemed up to fight and thought it worth a look. All was quiet until Muetralle but there we saw a Corax and a Rupture sitting in a Large. I warped in first and called the Rupture primary. The Corax got spooked off pretty quickly leaving his poor buddy to go it alone. The Rupture was applying decent damage to my Comet with his webs applied but was splitting his DPS to my drones as well and failed to bring me down before we secured the kill.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64501946/ +40.03mil
We roamed into Essence from there and had a few eventful encounters with a Garmur that was soon joined by a buddy. This culminated with a bunch of us warping to a novice at different distances in the hopes of catching them. At one point I was pointed by one but managed to overheat my AB out of their range; in general they were not too good at applying tackle and piloting and managed to let us slip away more often than they should have (I should have been dead to rights there). Finally however they got on the same page and both pointed Rider unfortunately and took him down.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64502254/ -34.87mil
Shortly thereafter Jyo found a Vexor at a safe and combat probed him down like a champ. When we arrived on grid it was already in bad shape, apparently from gate guns. Jyo, Kraez, and I brought him down easily, with Kraez netting his first ever kill. A good first one!
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64502319/ +17.37mil
Shortly thereafter we spotted a Maulus bouncing around system. We chased it a bit and managed to catch it outside a novice. With a Legion combat probing and presumably other buddies there as well we worked to bring it down quickly and get the heck out of there.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64502348/ +8.83mil
At this point an hour and a half into flying we started to head back to UPH looking for content on the way. Jyo found it in the form of a flashy Svipul in Ouelletta I believe. After a bit of cat and mouse including some back and forth at the gates I landed on the Loes gate and found him sitting 100 off. Jyo wisely advised us to burn away so that we could warp when he land at 100 off the gate. Jyo worked it perfectly landing near the Svipul and went in for hard tackle so he could apply his web. Unfortunately it took us a few precious seconds to pull enough range to warp; in retrospect I could have been much clearer in how far I was from being at warp range, but we were all eager to lock the Svipul down after an extended time chasing it. We managed to get on the Svipul shortly before Jyo went down; at least his loss was not in vain!
https://zkillboard.com/character/96809164/ -137.69mil
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64502519/ +107.51mil
This encounter made for a great end to a successful evening despite the bummer of a loss.
Kills: +250.37mil
Losses: -172.56mil
Efficiency: 59.2%
What stuck out to me about this roam was the variety of ways in which we found fights: YOLO warping to plexes, combat scanning things down, your basic D-scan-and-warp into a plex, and some gate games that involved following a highly mobile target throughout a system and coordinating warp-ins. In this way this roam personally felt like a small culmination of all the skills I’ve been learning in the last few months as I spend more and more time PvPing. The loose, informal structure of this roam with everyone sharing roles made for a free-wheeling, spider-type fleet that enabled us to find content as quickly as we could. As an added bonus we had pilots with a range of PvP experience with us, and got someone their first and second kills (a Vexor and a Svipul; not bad, Kraez!). In general this outing seemed to me to encapsulate what being in LSC is all about: learning from each other in the process of finding fights and having a good time in a casual setting. And, more and more, seeing that our time in Uni teaches us a lot: I'm increasingly running into pilots with equal or better fittings that I can tell just haven't been taught how to pilot their ships or coordinate their tactics. It's a good feeling to slowly but surely see my experiences and "education" giving me the upper hand. Which presumably is why we all joined Eve Uni.
Thanks for the fun, fellas! Looking forward to flying with you again. If anyone else is ever out at LSC we'd love to have you join us. The more the merrier, and the bigger the kills.
A bunch of us were spread out around UPH so form-up was slow and casual. During the process we had spotted a Daredevil bouncing through systems and sitting in novices. In UPH we were able to converge on him outside the gate for our first kill of the evening. Once more than one of us got on grid he put up surprisingly little fight.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64501775/ +76.63mil
From here we traveled into Verge Vendor and up into the Melmaniel - Costolle - Muetralle pipe. I’d been encountering a trio of faction warfare pilots there over the last few days who seemed up to fight and thought it worth a look. All was quiet until Muetralle but there we saw a Corax and a Rupture sitting in a Large. I warped in first and called the Rupture primary. The Corax got spooked off pretty quickly leaving his poor buddy to go it alone. The Rupture was applying decent damage to my Comet with his webs applied but was splitting his DPS to my drones as well and failed to bring me down before we secured the kill.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64501946/ +40.03mil
We roamed into Essence from there and had a few eventful encounters with a Garmur that was soon joined by a buddy. This culminated with a bunch of us warping to a novice at different distances in the hopes of catching them. At one point I was pointed by one but managed to overheat my AB out of their range; in general they were not too good at applying tackle and piloting and managed to let us slip away more often than they should have (I should have been dead to rights there). Finally however they got on the same page and both pointed Rider unfortunately and took him down.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64502254/ -34.87mil
Shortly thereafter Jyo found a Vexor at a safe and combat probed him down like a champ. When we arrived on grid it was already in bad shape, apparently from gate guns. Jyo, Kraez, and I brought him down easily, with Kraez netting his first ever kill. A good first one!
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64502319/ +17.37mil
Shortly thereafter we spotted a Maulus bouncing around system. We chased it a bit and managed to catch it outside a novice. With a Legion combat probing and presumably other buddies there as well we worked to bring it down quickly and get the heck out of there.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64502348/ +8.83mil
At this point an hour and a half into flying we started to head back to UPH looking for content on the way. Jyo found it in the form of a flashy Svipul in Ouelletta I believe. After a bit of cat and mouse including some back and forth at the gates I landed on the Loes gate and found him sitting 100 off. Jyo wisely advised us to burn away so that we could warp when he land at 100 off the gate. Jyo worked it perfectly landing near the Svipul and went in for hard tackle so he could apply his web. Unfortunately it took us a few precious seconds to pull enough range to warp; in retrospect I could have been much clearer in how far I was from being at warp range, but we were all eager to lock the Svipul down after an extended time chasing it. We managed to get on the Svipul shortly before Jyo went down; at least his loss was not in vain!
https://zkillboard.com/character/96809164/ -137.69mil
https://zkillboard.com/kill/64502519/ +107.51mil
This encounter made for a great end to a successful evening despite the bummer of a loss.
Kills: +250.37mil
Losses: -172.56mil
Efficiency: 59.2%
What stuck out to me about this roam was the variety of ways in which we found fights: YOLO warping to plexes, combat scanning things down, your basic D-scan-and-warp into a plex, and some gate games that involved following a highly mobile target throughout a system and coordinating warp-ins. In this way this roam personally felt like a small culmination of all the skills I’ve been learning in the last few months as I spend more and more time PvPing. The loose, informal structure of this roam with everyone sharing roles made for a free-wheeling, spider-type fleet that enabled us to find content as quickly as we could. As an added bonus we had pilots with a range of PvP experience with us, and got someone their first and second kills (a Vexor and a Svipul; not bad, Kraez!). In general this outing seemed to me to encapsulate what being in LSC is all about: learning from each other in the process of finding fights and having a good time in a casual setting. And, more and more, seeing that our time in Uni teaches us a lot: I'm increasingly running into pilots with equal or better fittings that I can tell just haven't been taught how to pilot their ships or coordinate their tactics. It's a good feeling to slowly but surely see my experiences and "education" giving me the upper hand. Which presumably is why we all joined Eve Uni.
Thanks for the fun, fellas! Looking forward to flying with you again. If anyone else is ever out at LSC we'd love to have you join us. The more the merrier, and the bigger the kills.