A Hunting We Will Go!

The gods favor you, Red is their color!

And favored me they did! Before the weekend hit and I sat down and watched a CONCORD marathon, this Black Jacket and his Rifter found some fights. Crack open your Quafe and sit back and enjoy the show!

Day One

First stop after Gultratren is Arnstur, quickly find a Breacher and warp to its location. Load up EMP and Mjolnir rockets, suck down my cigarette, and overheat everything! Let's do this! Breacher is 20km away from me and I head towards him full speed ahead. He does the same and I clock his speed at around 2k m/s .. immediately I question the tactic behind it. If he's that fast that means he's probably not tanked very well so he's fit for long range combat, so why is he flying towards me? I watch as the distance between our two Minmatar baby's closes, then I activate my web, scram and fire away. Without his MWD this guy is a sitting duck. I see I have no web slowing down my Rifter so I continue my fast tight orbit and listen to the symphony of my 200mm auto cannon's and rocket launchers pound away at the Breacher. The symphony ends with fireworks. Loot n scoot, throw a gf in local, and carry on.

Pass through my systems hunting for my next victim, instead I find a stabbed farmer or someone who leaves the plex as soon as I enter. Finally I hit Lulm. I check out the center of the system and see nothing. As I align to my outgate I hit D-Scan 1 more time and a Slicer appears. I halt the ship and do another search of the system but there are no plex's he can be at or at any belts.  I decide to open a Novice and sit outside the gate. Within moments of checking short scan I spot a slicer and prepare myself. Orders go out to the crew to load EMP and Mjolnir but have Fusion ammo and Nova rockets ready to go incase this Slicer is armor tanked. Slicer lands right on top of me, the fight already tipped heavily in my advantage. He hits me pretty hard as I close in from 5k meters away but my SAAR repairs the damage comfortably. I quickly break through his shields and begin to go to work on his armor making decent gains, but the gains disappear as he reps the damage. I maintain the assault hoping I can break through his armor tank with the current ammo but he successfully reps it back to full status. I cease fire and switch to my good 'ol Fusion and Nova rockets and go to work. The explosive armor punches through his tank without a fuss, leaving nothing but Amarr wreckage.

Nothing else was in Lulm or Bosbogger, definitely wasn't in the mood for Amamake so I decide to head back towards Egmar and go off towards the other side of the Neighborhood. I arrive at the Crossroads and poke around. There's a little too many people in the system for my liking so I decide to continue on my route, but then I'm flagged down in local for a 1v1. Wearing the Black Jacket, I got a reputation to uphold, even if I suspect a blob. I agree and the pilot and I work out the meeting place, which was a large plex. Yup red flag and sirens are screaming, but I'm already in warp and decide if there is a gang I'm gonna take this guy down with me. Autocannons and rocket launcher loaded for some shield blasting action, and he's right there waiting for me. We scram web and begin shooting each other immediately. I punch through his shields in two volleys as his armor starts taking damage. My shield is holding up with about 1/3 left but I have my armor repair crew ready to go! I check short scan, no gang. The Slasher's MASB kicks in as he activates the TD on my ship. I align towards the sun to mitigate the TD and help my autocannons get a better shot instead of just orbiting each other, at the same time I watch his distance to make sure he doesn't slip away. Check short scan again, still no gang. He breaks through my shield and my armor begins to take damage, but huge chunks of his armor blast away when my guns get through his shield repper. But with every good hit I land, I miss a lot more; and his guns are beginning to overwhelm my tank as the repper pumps out its last few cycles. We both reach low armor at the same time, and I begin to take hull damage. My hull hangs in there like a champion as I bring the Slasher into hull with me. My hearts beating! My hands are shaking! With one beautiful hit he's in deep hull as I'm reaching half structure; slowly but surely I'm catching up to him in the hull race. Miss .. miss .. miss! Shit! Another huge shot leaves him with the smallest sliver of structure remaining as the Slasher bears testament to the saying about Minmatar ships, flying and held together by duct tape! My autocannons fire true, and the Slasher explodes. Gf!! Man Mechanics V is definitely worth the train!



Watch out for Optimo and his Slasher!

We chatted afterwards about the fight and tactics and stuff and things. Man it was a close one. And there was no trap as well *smiley face*

After a good close fight like that, I decided to call it a night and return to Gultratren, Of course I search each system along the way, and find nothing but a cyno. Which of course, I dutifully exploded.

I docked up in Gultra, helped my crew restock my Rifter, gave them some ISK to enjoy themselves on the station, returned to my quarters and of course ... cracked open some Quafe and loafed on the nice sofa! More to come!