Piracy in numbers. Something I am greatly new to due to my tactics that rely on speed, stealth, and individual piloting philosophy. But yet I took the step foward and allied with others last night, under the names of Cerberal, Kumq uat, and Desolatus. The four of us made a trip to meet within the Sagain system and raise hell. The locals were not let down.
During a system scanning, we spotted a few anti-pirate/looking for a fight pilots that posed trouble, possible, for our small ships. Myself in the usual punisher, Cerberal in a Wolf, Kumq uat in a Taranis, and Desolatus also in a punisher. The targets? An arbitrator, stabber, and thrasher. Both the stabber and thrasher spelled trouble for our frigates, but that didn't stop us. No, in fact we had no idea that we were going to engage them in the first place.
Waiting for the group to reform within one of the system belts, the arbitrator warped right in on top of us, along with the thrasher. It had begun. Cerberal's wolf and my punisher immediatally locked and scrambled the thrasher, quickly wiping him off the map before he posed a threat to either of us. However during the fight the arbitrator warped in as well, 15k away from our frigates. I disengaged and refocused on the arbitrator after a quick visual ID proved that he did not have guns fitted, meaning medium noses were about to hit us hard while we waited for our backup. I screamed off in his direction, quickly webbing the arbitrator in hopes of slowing him down before he got in nos range for the wolf.
Even with his 400mm steel plate, he did not last long. Kumq uat and Desolatus warped in for assistance and the arbitrator was quickly melting. Until the stabber warped on top of us. Knowing the arb was close to death I again disengaged and refocused on the stabber, determined to not allow his ACs to reach the rest of the team. Webbed, nossed, and damaged. While they were organizing themselves for after the suprise events, I lured the stabber further away, buying them time to reengage on TeamSpeak. Alas, my tank broke and I was left in a pod. But the cost of a cheap punisher in comparison to the terror that the stabber pilot was feeling... he did not last long. The actions of the crew I flew with tonight and the quick tactical thinking in unexpected situations kept us all alive. Three ships down for the price of one frigate.
It was good to fly with them, and it reaffirmed my belief in tactics over ganking. You can outdamage your opponent all you wish, but without planning and manual navigation to control your enemies trajectory, you risk losing many ships in the process.
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Vash xOUTLAWxLEGEND·
Wow!! that was so well put I was almost there watching. Man if someone made a book on eve about their career and encounters I would buy 2 of em. 1 to put in a frame and 1 to read every day. Then I would reccomend it to every friend I know with intentions of them joining the eve universe.