There we were Mac “MaceZero” Ezero and I, sitting at the local pub enjoying a fresh brew, both of us fresh from flight training when we overheard this pair of older gents making a ruckus about how they were the toughest pair in the galaxy. Mac decides to get up and invite them over to talk about pirates and battle stories. Well this went on for a bit until they had to leave. Said they were heading out to the Erila system for a bit of pirate hunting, which piqued our interests since we were a bit on the wrong side of the lay when it came to heists and all. It wasn’t before long that the two of us found our selves running pre-checks on our rusty old rifters and rocketing out the hangar, headed for Erila.
Upon arrival I ran up the ship scanner as Mace warped to the systems only star. I tracked them down with my onboard scanner to the system’s second asteroid belt. Establishing a comm link with Mace, I let him know that we had a Dominix and a Megthron together in belt 2. We discussed our chances of taking out both of them, coming to the same conclusion that we’d kill off their drones and try a double ransom. Instantaneously, Mace swoops in and snags the Domi while I grabbed the Mega. Both ships were roughly 60Km apart and proceeded to drop Ogre II’s. Not the best choice to take out frigs but they made good target practice. The pair of battleships closed with each other to roughly 15Km when I took a lucky hit from an ogre and dropped to 25% armor. Deciding to bug out and run a few cycles of my armor rep, Mace kept them both busy. Just as I land back in the fight Mace over comms asking “This is starting to get tough you got one jammed?” to which I responded “Of course what do you think this is my first time in the ring”. This was ironic because it actually was. Turned out he had to cut and rep. This cycle continued until we killed off every last Ogre II. Mace and I agreed that it was now or never while they had no drones and their rails kept missing. “150mil and we let you sports go, or we wait for the cavalry to get here and you both die” I said. “The choice is yours, they’re two jumps out” added Mace. This was shortly followed by my blinking wallet, and us dropping our points on them.
Mace and I flew back home, popped open our beers and Quafes, and began planning on what we would be purchasing with the money from our new anti-pirate friends.
-V- o_x
The Makings of Pirates!
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This is probably an old story like the other one. But I got another tip for newer pirates with rifters or ceptors. Like V said ogres, even t2 ones aren't much of a threat to frigs because of their poor tracking. But they could get a lucky shot in on ya while your ship lazilly orbits the bs. If ya don't have a friend with ya to pick up the slack when ya warp out to repair your target could get away, or rather will get away. If ya want to eliminate the chance of a lucky hit from a heavy drone, pick a drone to orbit instead of the bs. The drone is naturally a much object so that means tighter orbit and higher transversal against the drones, which equals much less chance of a hit from a drone. Yes it takes more skill because you gotta pay more attention to your distance from the bs. If you bump him or he bumps you the drones will kill you more than likely. You can do the same thing with med and light drones but you'll need to use your web on those. Just remember don't web the one you orbit. Until he's the last one to kill.
It isn't fool proof mind you. Don't try this against a BC or HAC you could get smacked. This is strickly against lumbering a bs with drones as a defence. One other thing to keep in mind. If the guy recalls his drones while you're orbiting one of them and you're away from the bs, say 20km, your ship is going to follow that drone directly back to that BS. And that means you lose your transversial and opens you up to get insta-popped by the BS's guns.