So Jack Dancer woke up in Hek and checked to see if his R&D agent needed anything. Nope. But he did have another datacore ready. So I put that on the market for about 200k isk.
Then I looked at local and saw that there was one of the Enemies of the Black Rebel Rifter Club in the system - Dilenium Tremens of a bunch of obvious bad guys by the name of EvilMoon Akademiya. I checked to see if he was docked in station and he wasn't, so I left the station to see if I could find this lowlife and give him a taste of Black Rebel vengence.
No luck. He wasn't sitting outside.
I turned on all my defensive equipment and the overheating buttons of all the modules just to be sure, and warped off to a spot nearby to sit and wait. But just as I entered warp, I saw that Mr. Tremens had arrived at the station. Argh! SCOTTY! ALL ENGINES STOP! Too late. Off I went.
I immediately turned around when I came out of warp and screamed back to the station. I was in luck! The rascal was still there. I targeted him, set my orbit for 500 meters, hit the guns, warp scrambler, web, and nos buttons. He was flying a wolf (which is like an upscale rifter). But with him scrambled and webbed he wasn't getting away!
My guns were tearing through his shields pretty nicely. I was ahead! Then we got to the armor and things started going a bit slower. I turned on my armor repper II (and turned the dial up to 11 - "Overheat") and it did a yeoman's job of repairing the incoming damage (when I looked over the remains of his wrecked wolf I noted that he did not have an armor repper - maybe a mistake on his part...).
Eventually, there was an explosion - but this time it wasn't me! \o/
I scooped up the loot from his wreck (actually, since this isn't part of my usual post-fight procedure, I forgot about this and had to return from a safe spot where I was repairing the massive damage to all my systems). Then I headed off again.
And just in time - corp mates of his had shown up and I don't think they were in a good mood. A hurricane, thrasher, maller, drake, and another hurricane were at the station. YOW! Even more than my Rifter of Fury could take on. I casually headed to low sec where I would feel a bit safer...
Awesome kill Jack! Dude had an interesting but tanky fit. I can imagine how slow it was cutting through it. You did right by orbiting at 500. I think that's the best way to kill a Wolf.
ReplyDeleteThanks Duke!
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough from start -
[ 2011.12.03 18:49:41 ] Orbiting ТипаRifter (500m)
to finish - [ 2011.12.03 18:50:46 ] E5 Prototype Energy Vampire deactivates as ТипаRifter begins to explode.
It was just a minute and 5 seconds.
I think the unusual tank, the wolf not having rigs, and the wolf using Titanium Sabot ammo while I was using the high-priced Republic Fleet Fusion ammo all spelled his doom (from the battle log I see I was doing about 150+ damage with each salvo and he was doing 50+ damage - and he had 4 150mm autocannons II while I had just 3 of the same autocannons!).
Still nice to finally run up against a poorly fit opponent and actually get a kill...
Thanks again and good luck with Hells Revenge (except when the Black Rebels declare war on you guys...).
Thanks PG.
ReplyDeleteIn honor of this fight, I renamed this particular rifter "Wolfbane" and have retired it to a place of honor in my hangar.