My Loot, Your Tears

When it rains, it pours. On this Sunday night in Dodixie we had the pleasure of ganking two entire missionrunner fleets. This is about the first – the pilots of Twilight Labs.

As it usually happens this began with some ninja salvaging. I scanned down a Dominix and arrived with my Vigil, to be surprised to find the Dominix had friends – a Megatron, a Brutix, an Exequror and an Onerios. With this many guys I was sure they would shoot when I looted. With Paul and Captain Charismatic – now in Honorless Internet Jerks – providing remote rep I figured we could take one or two and then warp off.

I started looting large wrecks and without much delay the Dominix and Brutix open fire on me. Off I go for the Abbadon. A minute later I land back on the mission with Paul and Charismatic right behind me with support ships. I point the Dominix and open fire. Now things get interesting – the Megathron, Brutix and Dominix all return fire, and my armor is taking a beating. The Dominix appears to going down until the Exequror and Onerios start repping it.

Paul starts to receive fire from the Megathron and warps out to get his Tengu. I change fire to the Exequror, who goes down quickly, and then onto the Onerios. The Onerios takes longer to kill and tries to get out of range, but without success.

Charismatic has now started taking fire and warps off for his own gank ship. This leaves me alone versus the Dominix, Brutix and Megathron. I focus fire back on the Dominix and align toward station; my armor is nearly gone. Paul is in warp back to me with the Raven, but I start going into hull. I hold out just long enough for the Dominix to pop and warp off with 50% structure remaining. The Brutix pilot decides today is not his day and leaves the field.

As I dock for repairs, Paul arrives on scene followed right behind by Charismatic, locks up the Megathron and turns it to scrap. The Twilight Labs guys stay docked up and we loot and salvage the field.

Compared to the fleet you’ll read about in part II, this fleet was not so much made of fail as they failed in other ways. They stuck around at all to fight me in a PvP ship with their PvE ships; this allowed me to control when I could leave and prevent them from doing so with a point. Their logistic ships pilots were close enough for me to easily destroy and they used them both at the same time – staggering them would have prevented me from shooting the logistics until more damage had been done to me. They opened fire on our own logistics ships without having the means to keep them on the field (points) which meant both Paul and Charismatic were able to go get DPS-dealing ships.

The main failure in all mission runner ganks is the mission runner remaining at his mission after having opened fire. PvE ships versus PvP ships are an unfair fight. This is exactly the kind of fight I like – as the banner says “Always cheat. Always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.”

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