Looking for Miners

I'm getting another Megathron on scan, sketching me out a little bit, but I'm also getting an Omen and a Vexor, which would be fun kills. My alt's shuttle happens upon all three of them mining at a belt, I warp away as quick as possible to not spook them. Now I'm thinking. If that megathron is mining and the cruisers are protection, we could kill at least the cruisers before we bug out. It's prudent at this point to mention that this constellation is rife with anti-pirates, who not only have a defense force alliance set up, but who are very, very angry with me because I have been killing and ransoming their miners. Basically, I always have to look out for 4 battleships and a few HACs jumping in and warping right to a distress call. That's why I wasn't thinking much about killing the megathron; if it had any sort of tank at all, the chances were we'd end up getting ganked. I send the shuttle back at 70km quickly just to see what is going on. There is now an industrial there picking up ore from a can too; I warp away again.

I figure the megathron is mining. There is no barge there, and it wouldn't make very much sense (or at least I thought at the time) for the cruisers to be mining. So I tell my friend who the primary is (the Omen), tell him to warp to 0, warp scram and web him. I start warping and I tell him to wait a few seconds before he goes, as I want to warp in at around the same time and battleships warp significantly slower than cruisers. So we warp in, guns blazing eager to get a quick cruiser kill and bug out before the cavalry arrive.

Apparentally, the Omen had all his lows fitted with cargo expanders, and I took him out with two volleys of my guns; the Vexor warps away in the meantime. The other Megathron was at optimal range, so I thought, 'Screw it', told my friend to lock down the Megathron as soon as he could, and started blasting at it. I noticed something odd about it though: it's shields were going down very slowly, or slower than they should have been at least. I wondered at it for a second, then decided it wasn't important, since he was doing about 100 damage every time I fired all my 7 guns, sending around 1500 damage his way. I was surpised that he fit guns onto a miner at all. No drones attacking my friend in the cruiser was a plus, too.

It went down very quick after the shields were gone, and when you see the kill mail I think you'll know why. As the Megathron is exploding, the Vexor warps in again. I really don't know why. He ended up dying too. I warped off to a safe spot, my friend collected the loot, warped to me, and we ended up laughing our heads off when the other Megathron pilot told me he didn't have any insurance, and we were "evil bastards."

In the end, I think they all had a sort of hybrid combat/miner set up going. The worst part? The Megathron pilot was from 2004.

Here's the Vexor:
2007.05.09 02:45

Victim: Malinda Hays
Alliance: None
Corp: Scorpio Whirlwind Cluster
Destroyed: Vexor
System: Keshirou
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:

Name: Moridin920 (laid the final blow)
Security: -8.8
Alliance: FREGE Alliance
Corp: Dust Echoes
Ship: Megathron
Weapon: 425mm Compressed Coil Gun I


Destroyed items:

Miner I, Qty: 3
Hammerhead I, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)

---- Here's the Omen: ----

2007.05.09 02:43

Victim: Secret Mercenary
Alliance: None
Corp: Scorpio Whirlwind Cluster
Destroyed: Omen
System: Keshirou
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:

Name: Moridin920 (laid the final blow)
Security: -8.8
Alliance: FREGE Alliance
Corp: Dust Echoes
Ship: Megathron
Weapon: 425mm Compressed Coil Gun I


Destroyed items:

Miner II, Qty: 2
Hobgoblin I, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)


--- And here's the worst Megathron fitting I have ever seen in my life. Shield tanked, guns with different optimals (making at least half of them useless while the other half are hitting), and mining lasers equipped also. I think he couldn't decide what he wanted to do: mine or protect. ---

2007.05.09 02:44

Victim: Tolan Heldar
Alliance: None
Corp: Scorpio Whirlwind Cluster
Destroyed: Megathron
System: Keshirou
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:

Name: Moridin920
Security: -8.8
Alliance: FREGE Alliance
Corp: Dust Echoes
Ship: Megathron
Weapon: Hammerhead I

Name: OfficerFarva (laid the final blow)
Security: -0.2
Alliance: FREGE Alliance
Corp: Dust Echoes
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Dual 180mm Prototype I Automatic Cannon


Destroyed items:

Miner I, Qty: 2
425mm Railgun I
Small Tractor Beam I
Large Shield Extender I
Large Clarity Ward Booster I
Barton Reactor Capacitor Recharger I
10MN Afterburner I
Magnetic Vortex Stabilizer
Medium Shield Extender I (Cargo)
Small Hull Repairer I (Cargo)
Asymmetric Energy Succor I (Cargo)
Lead Charge L, Qty: 2097 (Cargo)
Reflective Plating I (Cargo)
Explosion Dampening Amplifier I (Cargo)


Here's the killboard link, a little more organized if you don't want to go through all that text and try to figure out what was fitted.

http://j-op.tickyticky.net/killboard/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7422

Also, if anyone could please tell me why he thought a 10mn AB would be good for a battleship's mid slot, that would be appreciated.