Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Witch Hunter: Episode 3

Hello all! It has been some time since my last witch hunt post. I've been hunting a lot lately and realized that it is very hard to talk about each engagement I have with my pilgrim. So, I decided to choose some of them, that are most memorable.

I engagement
So first engagement took place in Hykanima system in Medium plex. I sat it that plex for about 2 hours waiting for someone to come and capture it. At first, a Merlin WT came. I was frustrated. 2 hours and only a merlin? So I uncloaked and scared him off. After some time( ~20min), Merlin pilot came back with Dragoon and Eagle friend. Now when I saw Eagle coming in, I immediately asked for back-up. I did it,because it was hostile space and enemies could have brought reinforcements to save Eagle. As my backup team arrived,we were able to tackle that Eagle. After being tackled he had no chance of surviving.My purpose for this Eagle was simple: neut out his guns and wait for him to die.

http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17649407

II Engagement

Second one is more of a fun engagement. I was warping between systems when I saw a Algos on gate. As I land, he started to burn away from gate. He was 10km off me, but by overheating my faction scram I got him. Had to take gate guns, but he dropped very fast and I was already warping off within 12seconds.
It was an interesting algos pilot...

http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17677984


III Engagement

This one was the most fun I've ever had with my Pilgrim. Now Pilgrim is well known ship for killing ratters,right? But in Low sec, there are no ratters,right? Wrong. SO happened that my roam to South of Black Rise ended in Indregulle. Me and some neutral guys were the only people in system. For a second, I saw a Cerberus on scan. You don't see that every day. There were no plexes open. But Cerberus kept moving in system. I checked one of the belts with D-Scan. Bingo. He was in a belt. Wait what? Belt?
As I warped in, he was already gone.So i followed. Next belt. I was too late, he warped off. Then I warped to the third one. Landed 15km from him. Approached. Just as I was about to decloak, he started aligning to next belt. So instead of decloaking,i warped to next belt. I landed before him, decloaked, tackled.
It took me some time though,because Cerberus has a very high Thermal resist, and I was using Hammerhead IIs. But eventually he died. I never got lower than 80% armor. My local medium rep was able to rep all his damage. I lost 20% armor only because I did not want to get very low on Capacitor. It was a strong fight. I was constantly spamming D-Scan and I was ready to align out. 10MN afterburner did a great job reduicing missile damage.

Here is the kill: http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17679977