Today marked the first time I could shoot stuff and submit them for scrutiny, so naturally, I bought 10 Kestrels and took one out.
Scram/Web/AB/MSE/Rage Rockets
I made a beeline for Ikoskio, and found a Tristan on d-scan, with a capsule. I warped and slid into the novice immediately, and the tristan followed soon after.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72789141/
I lost scram+web a couple of times during the fight, probably due to my overheated AB and auto-orbit at 7.5km but surprisingly, they didn't pull range and I got the kill. I warped to the top citadel nearby to rep heat damage, and saw there was a Hookbill at the novice, so I thought, eh, why not? I loaded inferno rockets slid the gate right into it and overheated everything.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72789175/
Of course, a Kestrel is no match for a Hookbill, and I only got it into hull w/o it repping before I died. (This was the fit) It amused me though. I warped off and self-destructed (should have stayed to get blapped)
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72789196/
I died anyways.
I headed out again after a short break and found a Catalyst in the same system at the small. They were 19-ish off when I landed, and managed to warp off before I got in range, so I went back to the top citadel, and found them at the small, again. This time, they were only 10km off, so I managed to land my scram.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72789709/
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72789723/
After repping heat at the citadel, I saw a thrasher on d-scan, so I warped to and slid the small. They followed and I tried to keep transversal up, but it was AB web and poof.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72789767/
I reshipped and died to a instalock svipul. Lesson learned, probably not safe in hisec while suspect.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72789859/
Out again in another kestrel and went for a corax. Hoped it was lml, but nope. I forgot to reload to Mjolnir missiles also.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72790118/
Reshipped and back out. I found a flashy comet on the gate and immediately engaged. Luckily, nova was the right ammo type. Unluckily, he was dual web fit and slowly reeled me in to blaster range.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72790354/
Annnnd here we go again. I saw two condors on d-scan and assumed at least one was at the novice, so I slid it. It was empty, but one followed soon after, and we brawled with rockets. Unfortunately for me, they were MASB fit and I lost the EHP war.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72790577/
Once more unto the breach. Back in Ikoskio, I found a Merlin at the novice this time. So I loaded Mjolnir and slid into a dual web SAAR rail merlin. Needless to say, I lost.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72790872/
And again. Ikoskio, just a Breacher at the novice. Mjolnir again...And it was dual web SAAR rocket fit. I probably wouldn't have won against most breacher fits, but eh. I certainly lost this one.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72791050/
I wandered out to Heydieles for a change of scenery and see if I could meet up with someone for smolgang pews. I couldn't and ended up sitting in a novice half afk. I didn't notice the Garmur until it was on top of me and had wrong ammo loaded. Short pews later and I was dead. Again.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72791369/
I got hella bored and decided to welp to the Tama gatecamp.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72791523/
I headed out again, this time in a triple rep AC punisher. Not the smartest fit, but I was hoping to have some fun with it. I sat in a novice for a few minutes before a daredevil landed on me. I aligned to the sun, everything on and tanked him until a GNI showed up and burned towards us. A short while later, the Daredevil was dead and I was 40mil richer for my unintended bait antics. The GNI then warped off, leaving me alone.
Kill? - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72791867/
I warped off and saw a Ishkur and a Comet at the same novice, so I warped back to hopefully, but the Comet died with the Ishkur 20km off and I was unable to warp off before I became the primary. My reps only delayed the inevitable.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72791927/
After another short break, I reshipped into a Hookbill. Dual-web, Dual-prop, scram, SAAR, rocket Hookbill. I had made the fit awhile ago and modified it so I had a little more dps with a new shiny t2 rig, and was looking forward to seeing it in action. I met up with Penelore in Ichoriya, where we agreed to shoot big stuff that was dangerous together, like AFs. We found ourselves in Asakai shortly and d-scan revealed a condor, so I immediately warped to and slid the only novice in range. Unfortunately it was empty, and I sat around for a short while, before another Hookbill decided to bite. I overheated my guns, SAAR and AB and orbited him at 7.5km down until we were both in structure, before Pen came in and helped finish him off. (Hookbill vs Hookbill vs Hookbill) It turns out that this fit is extremely cap hungry with everything running, and might consider turning off one of the webs earlier. Also, remember to turn off the auto reload and always re-heat the SAAR if I turn it off mid-fight.
We wandered around the area before Penelore found a Dramiel in a novice in Prism, we warped in together, but it fled. Penelore went to Elunala, but I stayed in the novice, where the Dramiel landed shortly after. I heated my guns, scram and AB and orbited at 7.5km but didn't manage to get him into hull before I died. I'm not sure what I could have done better in the fight. Although avoiding the Dramiel, and other pirate frigs, would probably be a good idea.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72792494/
Dragged another Hookbill out and decided to go out the Akidagi way from Ichoriya to do a loop around a few lowsec systems. I found a Tristan in a novice and managed to snag it. They didn't yellowbox the whole time, so they were probably an afk plexer?
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72793220/
Kept wandering around lowsec, and found nothing at novices, almost got caught by a ONI in a large. Eventually came across a flashy Atron on a gate and attacked. I kept dual webs on him with AB heated, but he somehow closed on me and I forgot to activate my SAAR earlier. Need to remember armour reps at end of cycle so activate in low shields. And don't underestimate Atrons.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72793615/
8/10
New day, new ships! I decided that rockets and frigs weren't exactly netting me the kill ratio I wanted, so I upshipped to a nasty hulltanked beam Coercer with dual webs. Theory was to keep them in range long enough to blap em and hope they don't notice they're not scrammed. I made my way to Murethand, where I was told there were a few flashies and 18 in local, but by the time I got there, 13 of them remained, none flashy. with a Crucifier and ... Another frigate I cannot remember on d-scan. Slightly disappointed, I decided to sit in a small for awhile in case there were any bloodthirsty enough to engage. And there was! The Crucifier slid into me, and I quickly had him webbed and laid into him with my Multifrequency beams. Unfortunately, they had prepared for this encounter, and had loaded optimal range disruption scripts in both his tracking disruptors, dropping my optimal down to 2km, while they pulled range somewhat to 7km. However, I loaded Aurora and was able to continue dpsing them, and they failed to pull additional range, so I managed to close to within 2km and reapply Multifrequency into their hull. They died just before all my guns burnt out, and I got out with 40% hull.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72811427/
Lessons to be learnt. Keep an eye on your guns as a dessie! It was only sheer luck that their tank failed before I lost all my firepower. I decided that solo wasn't entirely fun, so I met up with Lexi Dignity of EVE University for some co-op pews on his alt account, [REDACTED]. We roamed for a bit before we snagged a Punisher and Kestrel. I found a Tristan at a novice, and advised Lexi to try for it. Unfortunately, he died. I wandered a few systems alone and came across another Coercer when they landed on my outside a small I was sitting at. They were superior to me in skills and quite possibly fit/implants wise, so I was neatly trounced.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72811874/
It's probably best not to take 'equal' fights when your skills are absolutely subpar and I could have easily warped off before they landed. Anyways, I felt a hankering for kitey stuff next, so I decided a dual MASB Condor would be good. In hindsight, 60 dps is not good. Annnyways. I got a few jumps into low to try meet up with Lexi again when I happened across the Coercer who had killed me. Naturally, I warped the small they were at, at range. 100km was probably a bit far though, and by the time I burnt in, a few others had located us and they warped out shortly before a CrucifierNI and RFFiretail landed at 0. I burned away and played mouse for a little while with the CNI before it warped off, and I closed in on the Firetail with the intention of orbiting them at 20km while throwing missiles. I was okay for a few missile rounds, until the Firetail overheated their MWD, when I chose to stop overheating mine, and I was quickly webbed and scrammed. I managed to burn out one masb, and the other only prolonged my death.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72812084/
This one is probably a case of 'Don't use auto orbit while Kitey.' I might have been able to keep him at range better and had enough space to decide to re-overheat my mwd and get out before it burnt out and I was dead in space. Eh. New ship time! I decided that a Tristan was in order, as Lexi was flying one and quickly built a SAAR, dual neut Tristan with a cap booster. Lexi was plexing, and had hostiles in system, so I wandered over in his direction, and landed at the large, in the middle of a Jackdaw, ONI, Condor and another ship. (I forgot again) I managed to make it out, but Lexi died. While I waited for his return, I decided that sitting in a novice would be the right thing to do in order to convince the Condor to try for me. They did, and I was able to land the scram before they burnt away. It was a pretty one-sided fight from then on, and they died soon after.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72812391/
Better cap management might have been in order, as I chugged 3 navy 400s during that short brawl. Neuts could probably have been turned off once I saw that he had no web, and I would have been okay cap-wise with my AB and scram running, and the occasional SAAR burst. I could also have orbited at 5km in order to get to full speed on my AB in order to mitigate his missile damage. Lexi and I wandered a several systems after that (read 'at least 20 jumps') with Lexi going on slightly ahead as I lagged behind to check plexes for easy kills like this one that I d-scanned at a medium.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72812523/
We ended up sitting in plexes and letting things slide into us to kill, until he had to go. After a short break to compile the second day of this increasingly length AAR, I went back out again. It had quieted down, so I headed to where I knew a lotta action was, Asakai and surrounds. No sooner had I gotten into Asakai, I spotted a Kestrel at the novice, so I warped and slid. However, they warped off as soon as I landed, and a Dramiel had suddenly appeared within 1au, so I decided to warp out. I spent a few minutes tethered to a citadel before I warped to the sun to check all the plexes, and there was a Breacher at the novice this time. I decided to go for it, and landed on a tristan, with a Hookbill and Breacher on d-scan in the direction of the plex. I was unable to tackle the Tristan before it slid the gate into them, and I hung back debating whether to dive into a possible 3 way fight. I decided to throw caution to the winds and slid, but by the time I landed, the Hookbill was gone and the Tristan and Breacher appeared to be fleeted. I tried to warp out but was tackled, and burned down shortly after.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72813485/
I guess the Breacher was just baiting people like me. I could have checked zkill for recent kills in Asakai to see if there were any involving a Breacher and Tristan next time, and not throw myself into fights where there are multiple ships that are potentially allied.
9/10
After blowing up a coupla ships in a fleet, I decided I liked the dual neut Tristan and went roaming for a short while with it. I tried for an Algos, then a Corax a few systems later but both warped off before I was able to even see them on grid. Somewhat annoyed, I decided to sit in a small plex where the ingame mapper suggested there was activity (2 people undocked/30 min). A Breacher landed a short while later and slid into me where I made my first mistake in not locking them up immediately and instead choosing to try setting up a close orbit first. The Breacher was able to burn away, and soon was in a steady orbit around me, with my hobgoblins not quite being able to catch up to them. I failed to switch them out for the warriors I had in my drone bay until near the end of the fight. Lastly, I had forgotten to set 'auto-reload off' for my SAAR, so once I was reloading, they just had my hulltank to deal with. I would have been able to tank until my cap boosters ran out, given their low-ish DPS, although my loss was probably assured once they had gotten out of range of my scram.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72829120/
10/10
Decided bubble camping would be a good idea since the ceptors changed and I might catch a few unawares. Chose a system on the path between stations for the Guristas Epic Arc. Unfortunately, most people were heading the opposite way to the gate I predicted, and very few were in unnullified ceptors. Eventually, locals passed by and a Harpy removed me from null.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72843187/
Moved on back to lowsec in hopes of kills, with a questionably fit active repped Breacher, played with a Garmur and Comet for awhile before they got bored and left me alone. Eventually found a Comet, Hookbill and Dragoon somewhere in Asakai, so I holed up in the novice and waited. A Slicer showed up before the Dragoon was 3v1ed and none of them slid. They left and a Worm showed up, and I took the fight. I lost.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72844201/
Both of those fights were needless losses, I could have easily escaped as I saw them on d-scan at multiple distances. Maybe I should be less willing to just get blown up.
11/10
Industrial day. ^_^ First time trying to bait on gates and such. Theoretically, some frig/cruiser would take the bait and go die to gate guns. Practically, big ships just came along and wtf pwned me. First loss was to a Mach who handily bumped my autopiloting Sigil off gate.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72855688/
We ended up chatting in local, and they helped me theory craft a Nereus baiting fit, and provided a kitey Magnate for future usage. I bought the Nereus a bit later and went system hopping for awhile, before going flashy in Asakai loot wrecks to try get small stuff to go for me. At first, everything went brilliantly; A solo Kestrel engaged and I started shooting back when a Hurricane jumped into system. The Kestrel fled, but I was unable to align in time and dieded.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72858460/
tl:dr Don't use industrials for peeveepee.
I decided to massively upship and fit out a torp XLASB Raven. I had always used RHMLs before, so I thought it would be interesting. There was a flashy Praxis sitting outside near a mobile depot, and I warped to them, but they warped off and we repeated this a few times until I gave up and landed back at the station. He resumed his previous spot by the depot, and a Garmur managed to tackle then. I landed slightly off the Praxis and laid into them, and they went down surprisingly fast. (Untanked with...range scripts? Sniper Praxis killing off flashies?)
Anyways, I decided to wander into low via Tama, as there was not usually a gatecamp at this time. Suprisingly, there was one. Jackdaw, Caracal, Vexor. They didn't redbox and I warped off into Kedama. I saw a Gnosis on d-scan and poked around for awhile before heading back into Tama to see if I could tangle with the gatecamp. I warped to an on-grid citadel at the Nourv gate, and saw that an Arazu had joined them, so I waited for it to go flashy before I warped down to try to snag it. I missed by a mile, and took the gate into Nourv, where I saw two t1 industrials autopiloting into Tama. So I jumped back in after them, and the gatecamp chose to aggress me instead of the industrials. The Arazu warped off, but the other 3 stayed, So I decided to focus the scramming Vexor while aligning to the sun. I think the Megathron landed on grid before the Vexor dropped into hull and managed to tackle me as well, The Vexor died pretty quickly, and I ended up slowboating while scrammed and webbed. This placed me well within the Megathron's optimal and I died when I capped out from using the XLASBs.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72859096/
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72859109/
Mmmkay. Main thing for me to try focus on is awareness. I have no idea when the Megathron showed up, only that when the Vexor died I was still scrammed. It wouldn't have helped much overall though. Also need to remember to overheat weapons + release the drones! I completely forgot at the start of the fight. The jackdaw died to gateguns, but I was unable to get on the kill. Remember to lock everything up. >_< And mayhaps don't poke the hornet's nest.
12/10
Battle Procurer. ^_^ Tried baiting for hours and finally got to tango with a Tormentor before DT. They couldn't break my tank and we left with gfs in local. Ended up in Tama after DT and landed on a Garmur at the novice, who warped off. Heron landed soon after and I tackled and killed them.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72874222/
Warped off before the Garmur returned. And warped back after a coupla minutes and landed on the Garmur and a Punisher whom had been caught. Deleted the Punisher and aligned out, but was tackled by the Garmur. Managed to annoy them enough with my drones to warp out.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72874292/
Flew around and played with a smol fleet on gate before they got bored. Tried to catch Comets and the Garmur from earlier at the novice. Failed. Ended up sitting at a medium watching them pew each other, before I spotted the stiletto/scout from the smol fleet within 1 au. I was already aligned to the novice, so off I went, but they were either able to watch me warp off or d-scanned me down quickly and arrived before I did. Was tackled and blobbed. Sad days.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72874551/
14/10
I was on the way to join a Zarvox fleet when I found an Anathema sitting off a gate in slow. Aligned to the sun, heated guns and pew. Managed to get out before dying, for a change.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72908403/
On the way back, found a couple of procurers off an Athanor, mining at different locations at the moon belt. Warped to one and tackle, and was tackled in return. Was killing his drones before his friend warped out and back in without my noticing, and joined in with the tackle.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72911052/
Don't go for procurers unless appropriately fit. Kronos suspect baiting in Jita. I engaged, and they docked after awhile. When they came back out, I had my drones out and they auto aggressed when red-boxed and I was unable to dock just after my weapons timer ran out for some reason.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72913992/
Keep drones in until ready to engage on stations and gates. ^_^
Took a weirdly fit Magnate out to Tama to try make iskies through salvaging. c: Played with an Atron, before a Tristan warped to me outside the small, managed to tackle and keep them at range until they hit hull, at which point I managed to lose point twice. Somehow still got the kill.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72916447/
Need to make sure to manual pilot, especially when they're pulling range. Orbit is not okay. And overheat point earlier.
15/10
On the way back from another roam, spotted a Merlin at a novice in Ostingele, so I reshipped into the only t1 frig I had handy in Stacmon and went for them. Managed to land scram and it was over. They only yellow boxed...
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72934346/
Probably because they had no ammo. Weird.
16/10
No solo things. I did managed to get a fleet killed, so that's something.
17/10
Little bit solo today. ^_^ After ganking a tasty Guardian (10mil well spent on the killright), I proceeded to Akidagi, where I managed to arrive at a medium plex with a Tristan at the same time. The Tristan slid, I slid after and sat on the beacon. They were skittish at first, but eventually set drones on me, before pulling closer when I didn't react. Once within scram range, I scrammed and webbed them, and it was just a matter of shooting them until they popped. They started going for my drones, and died after killing 3 of them. Not nice.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72964322/
I could've pulled my drones once I saw them taking damage. I'll probably do that next time. Saw a Stabber on d-scan. Was hoping they weren't neut fit, and maybe I could tank them? Probably not. And they ended up neut fit.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72964344/
Should assume ships with utility highs are neut/nos fit. RIP battle-exeq.
18/10
Coercer again. ^_^ Decided to upgrade the lasers. Found a Dramiel and Condor at a small, and thought, why not?
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72977404/
Didn't even get the Dramiel into hull. Basically, don't go for pirate frigs when they have friends.
19/10
Had a Thorax sitting around in my hangar so I decided to get it blown up. Tried for some kitey Tornadoes, but they left by the time I got backup. Warped to the medium plex blindly, and landed on an ENI and Phantasm. Death followed shortly afterwards.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72993649/
I should have warped to the sun or something similar to check plexes, especially in a busy system.
Praxis time! Went out from Ichoriya and set a route to Asakai, prefer less secure. Nothing much until the system itself, where a small flashy frig/dessie gang was trickling to the Okka gate. I aligned to a citadel, and looked at them exiting for awhile before shooting the slicer that had yellow boxed me. They jumped.
I then warped to a large, watching a Ferox decloak and warp in the exact same direction. Sure enough, I landed on top of him. I started shooting, and suddenly flashies respiked into local. It appeared that they were with the Ferox, and they soon were on-grid with 3 BS. I popped both drugs, and managed to roll the capacitor amount penalty again... I probably wouldn't have lasted long under their neuts anyway, but it was hella annoying. I'll probably try a cap boosted fit next time.Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/72993868/
20/10
Took a newly fit Trasher to Tama. Saw things at a small, warped at 50 and landed 17 off a Dragoon, so I started pewing. Accidentally burnt out my guns when they hit hull.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73009178/
Annnnd new fit time. I still had the Gnosis and Sunesis somewhere, so I fitted them up. Rather badly. c: Still somehow managed to kill a Hurricane who accepted my duel. Burnt out my weapons at the end. n.n'
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73009614/
Same pilot reshipped, and I accepted the duel again. They won this time.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73009679/
Oookay. So the first time, I pulled range to around 7km before I dueled them and also remembered to heat my weapons. I survived at around half armour. The second time, I was point blank, so his ACs were not in fall-off, also forgot to overheat for most of the fight. :c Need to remember to watch my weapons heat closely. x.x I've burnt out the weapons on at least 5 ships recently. (Potential work around, fly drone boats?)
Sunesis vs Coercer! Coercer wins.
Not really surprised. I shouldn't have taken that fight.Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73010125/
Decided to take my Magnate out again. c: Unfortunately, Snuffed had formed a gatecamp in the time I was reshipping.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73010238/
22/10
How not to get your Scorpion killed for insurance
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73050837/
Afk plexer. :/
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73051427/
Not so afk plexer
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73051427/
I was capped out during the end of the fight. Need to watch cap, and fly ships that I actually have skills for.
25/10
Another day, another loss. This time was....slightly more expensive than the rest.
Loss - https://zkillboard.com/character/2112824861/
Was getting a Raven down to HSC to hold for pews, when I spotted a flashy in system. Saw that there were things at the Crimson Harvest site, so warped there, and came across a flashy Gnosis, with a Vexor and Rattle watching them. Engaged the Gnosis expecting the others to lay in, they didn't and I died slowly. Could have been avoided by checking the guys killboard. Is full of cap stable pith-x XL blaster Gnosii. Also don't assume others want to kill flashies. I am slightly annoyed that the first time I try a cap-boosted fit, I get beaten by cap-stable one.
28/10
Last day, decided to try something new. c: Smurt bombing Rokh. \o/ I set up on the Tierjev-Onatoh pipe in Tannolen, on the hi-sec gate, and well, tried for a few things. Astero survived, Ares survived, Incursus survived, Cheetah didn't.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73156846/
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73156848/
After a few more fail smartbomb attempts, and a missed pod (idekhow) I finally caught an autopiloting Tayra.
Kill - https://zkillboard.com/kill/73158382/
