My Loot, Your Tears

A great Sunday afternoon for some mayhem and tears in Dodixie. I was all set for some solo salvage and bait-gank, but an impromptu fleet formed out of members of The Ninja Alliance channel.

After a successful but boring Dominix kill, I was looking for better blood. We got this in the form of a Vagabond who arrived on top of us while salvaging a field. This being his mission he was none too happy, and opened fire on me. While the fleet was keeping him busy I went for the Gank Abbadon (aka “Goodbye, Mr. Bond”).

I knew this was going to be a challenge, since the Vagabond has massive speed advantage and 90% base EM shield resist – not good against my large beam lasers! One of our ninja fleet members craftily lured GR3VER close to the gate warp-in, allowing me to drop in on him inside web range.

Much to my surprise, instead of getting well the hell outside web range and shooting me from a distance, he started orbiting me at close range. I put drones out and killed all his drones, then sat them on him. We then entered a stalemate – I could not hit him with lasers and my drones wouldn’t break his shield tank. Meanwhile he was picking away slowly at my buffer tank. Fleet member Zarago brought some RR. GR3VER’s next bad idea was to shoot at Zarago – who promptly went to get some guns of his own.

At this point it was getting a little tense, because I was almost through my armor buffer. We were further complicated because this was a mission which required the Imperial Navy Gate Permit and we kept not having one on the right person. Much yelling on Vent. =)

Zarago finally got back to the fight and put a second web and guns on the Vagabond. Soon things looked like this:

and then very shortly like this – click image for killmail:

Rifter pilot (and great picture) is Captain Charismatic. Charismatic did an excellent follow up job on getting tears from GR3VER.

In all, an exciting and enjoyable fight. We all had a great time.

One thing I’m left thinking: GR3VER was a horrible Vagabond pilot. He could have easily pointed away from me, overheated his afterburner, and gotten out of web range. After that, easy sailing to get out of point and warp. Why to fools fly fall in love fly HACs?

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