I think all of us who do pvp at times got our fight we wont ever forget, those just amazing fights that make you smile just thinking about it.
I'm going to share this story with anyone who finds stuff like this interesting to read. If you don't like it, please just move on.
Me, Pius Frater and Nazgu'l had a fight maybe an hour before this fight happend. We lost terribly vs a 2004.04 Pirate in a Blasterthron who engaged us at a gate. We thought, what the hell, lets try it.
Due to the lack of EW (imo), we lost the battle. We were Stabber, Thorax and me in Wolf. I believe Thorax popped first, then stabber and lastly me, only a couple of km's left to get out of his scramble range. However, shit happens and I died aswell.
With our heads down, we all went back to wiskeber and surroundings to fit some new ships. Nazgu'l went afk while me and Pius decided to continue. Now he being in the Wolf, and me in the Rupture.
We decided to move up the Katugumur 'pipe' to see if we'd find any rathunters.
Aralgrund & Bogelek was as expected, dead empty. Some guy sitting in station as always so we just ignored him, and went on towards Katugumur.
Katugumur being known to hold a number of mission/complex runners, and also Anti-pirates to protect the runners, we decided that I should head in first in my rupture to scout, since my ship was all T1 and less expensive to loose.
Gate was clear, Pius jumped in. Pius warped to planet 5 to scan that large belt cluster and I went to planet 6 to do the same. On my way towards planet 6 i scanned the cluster, saw a Ferox and 2 Ravens. The ravens I took for granted being in the complex, so I was hoping for the Ferox to be in a belt.
A couple of seconds later after arriving at my planet 6 scan spot, I find the ferox in a belt with a 5 degree scan. Telling Pius to warp in to the belt to start tackling and let me know when he's in range. In the meanwhile I started to align myself, starting up "Imperial march" on winamp and getting ready for the kill.
Being aligned and waiting for that "warp in now", I'm a bit annoyed to hear "No target in belt", oh crap. I pretty much thought that he'd seen me on scanner and warped to SS. But, being optimistic I quickly changed scanner settings to 360 degrees, 150,000,000 range and hit "scan". Ferox still here! Great, started to pin him down to a 5 degree. Few seconds later I saw that he was in another belt!
Getting Pius to warp in and start scramble, me warping in just a second later we start to orbit the ferox who started locking us and sent his drones towards me. He decided to attack Pius with his Heavy missiles. We come through his shields without too much trouble, thinking of how tough they normally can tank.
Pius starts to take some heavy damage, I believe the ferox set his drones on him, the drones who had taken my shields down to about 50% at the time.
Some more volleys of heavy missiles were headed towards Pius, I see how his armor wents "poof" and he's into structure and I can hear his voice saying that he's going down and he's dead. With the recent loss of a gang just an hour earlier, it would feel hard to loose yet another wolf, another 20M or so.
The last volley hits him just as he manage to warp out, with not much structure left at all, from what I can see on his health-bar. He got out safely.
The ferox pilot quickly changes target towards me - first volley takes out the shields on my rupture, and armor down to 70%. It seems I had forgot to turn on my armor hardeners! DOH! Quickly turning them on and starting my med repairer, I also notice that he started to Nos me. One cycle of his Nos and I was drained, unable to repair anything more, and armor hardeners manages to run atleast one more cycle.
At this time, he's at 70%'ish armor, so am I. Another volley hits me and I'm down to 30%, during the time before his next volley, I manage to get him down to about the same 30% armor. Starting to think it's time to get the hell out of there. The other volley hits just as I manage to get another armor rep cycle in and i'm down to 70% structure.
Oh shit I'm screwed.
One more rep cycle, boosts my armor up to maybe 20% armor, but is quickly reduced down to 50% structure when his next volley hits me. His armor is now gone and he's into structure, 50% he aswell. Figuring I must be scrambled, I give up the idea of trying to escape. I'm going to fight untill the last second, and then have Pius warp in and finish him off and we'll still go out as victorius.
Being even at 50% structure, I manage to get enough cap between his NOS cycles to get another armor rep cycle in, before his next volley hits me, taking me down to maybe 10% structure. My guns slowly takes away his structure. I start screaming on ventrilo "die fucker, die!"
Somewhere at this point, I see his ship, and I'm loosing target. Something seems to be exploding. Is it he, or is it me?
A second of sudden silence mixed with lag, and I see his pod and can. OMGWTFPWN! I quickly start approaching his can, still seeing his drones in space around me flashing yellow, just hoping they wont keep attacking me. I don't bother trying to target his pod. He's old enough to get away quickly anyway.
Getting to the can, opening it up and I see small yellow corners on almost everything in the can. Whatever feeling I just had of Victory and joy, it got multiplied by 10.
Quickly cleaning the loot and warping to safe spot, some fast calculation of the value of the loot I now have in my rupture which has around 5% shield, 0% armor and 5-10% structure.
25M, that's great.
But, the damn battle is something I wont ever forget.
I had a look at my HP, 215 on structure. That would be 1 Heavy missile of his to take me out.
Shit, it was close.
Asked Pius about his HP, and it was 200.
Shit, close again!
A couple of minutes later, I have a look at my guns. My 4 tech 1 220mm Vulcans has 2 bullets left in each gun. Oh my, that was bloody real close. a little bit more than two more seconds, and I'd be a sitting duck, he being at a couple of HP on structure, but a killmail richer.
From the log:
Started fight at 19:33:27 - Ended fight at 19:36:03
Acted for 02 min 36 sec
Skybar stats:
Damage Dealt:
Best hit: 168.3 (prob structure hit)
Average dps: 80.55
Total: 12565
Damage received :
From Decon Krueger (Ferox)[ : 4876.5
Total : 4876.5
Damage dealed for each weapon :
With 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I : 10234.3 (65.6 dmg/sec)
With Thunderbolt Heavy Missile : 2331.4 (14.94 dmg/sec)
Total : 12565.7 (80.55 dmg/sec)
Accuracy for each weapon :
With 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I : 286 / 311 (91.0%)
With Thunderbolt Heavy Missile : 24 / 24 (100.0%)
Total : 310 / 335 (92.0%)
Decon Krueger
Damage dealed for each ennemies:
Best hit : 245.0
To Skybar : 4876.5 (31.26 dmg/sec)
Total : 4876.5 (31.26 dmg/sec)
Damage received :
From Skybar : 12565.7
Total : 12565.7
Damage dealed for each weapon : .
With Thunderbolt Fury Heavy Missile : 613.8 (3.93 dmg/sec) .
With Havoc Fury Heavy Missile : 1136.8 (7.29 dmg/sec)
With Widowmaker Fury Heavy Missile : 1694.7 (10.86 dmg/sec) .
With Warrior I : 1431.2 (9.17 dmg/sec)
Total : 4876.5 (31.26 dmg/sec)
Accuracy on ennemies : .
On Skybar : 201 / 207 (97.0%)
Total : 201 / 207 (97.0%)
Accuracy for each weapon :
With Thunderbolt Fury Heavy Missile : 4 / 4 (100.0%) .
With Havoc Fury Heavy Missile : 9 / 9 (100.0%)
With Widowmaker Fury Heavy Missile : 10 / 10 (100.0%)
With Warrior I : 178 / 184 (96.0%) Total : 201 / 207 (97.0%)
Destroyed
Fitted Items:
Medium Nosferatu I 1
Large Shield Extender II 1
Quantum Co-Processor I 1
Large C5-L Emergency Shield Overload I 1
Mark I Generator Refitting: Reaction Control 1
Viscoelastic EM Ward Salubrity I 1
Widowmaker Fury Heavy Missile 50
Heavy Missile Launcher II 3
Muon Coil Bolt Array I 2
Cargo:
Widowmaker Fury Heavy Missile 94
Total value of his entire fitting would go beyond 50M, and with the ship around 25M, considering possible low-sec prices.
Some thoughts on this matter, is that he had atleast 2 more corp members in the system at the end of the fight. I would guess they were there the whole time, but who knows, perhaps afk. Too bad for him, and also a reminder of the importance of communication, and ability to contact corp members quickly.
Good fight.
Cleared for publication by: Ander
5 Comments
B·
Very good fight. You did very well to defeat a ferox with a T2 fitting. You didn\'t mention the pilot\'s reaction, though.
Skybar(not logged in)·
The pilots reaction? In terms of, after the fight or during the fight?
The pilots reaction after the fight was that he told his friends (who were in local) who told their friends, and they started hunting me in my damaged rupture.
While me and my friend (wolf pilot)tried jumping towards our home, he CTD'd after jumping in to the next system. This made me go to a safespot to scan the gate if it was safe for him to log in (ventrilo communication). While he was logging in to Eve, local went from 1 (me) to 12-13. I made a couple of extra safespots that I warped between in order to make sure they didn't probe me.
The system which only has two stargates were being camped. I wasn't sure my instas were 100% and didn't want to risk to loose my ship (or perhaps the loot). It was getting late anyway and I logged for the night.
In terms of how he reacted during the fight, he was just pretty much doing as much damage as he could, and he did a good job at it. He was scrambled for atleast 1 one point the entire time and he did not have any WCS.
Xenios·
Nice fight! Glad to see the art of belt hunting is still very much alive and well. You might see me around there soon.. I used to hunt a bit around Wiskeber when i had my own corp for a while.
Gratz on the kill again.
-Xenios Alfar
Skybar(not logged in)·
Your name do sound familiar. However, I believe there are a couple of similiar ones. I'll wave if I see you ;)
Samantha·
Where do you think you're going today?