Warfare & Tactics

LOL - Just hit self destruct now dude.

Learning by doing (making mistakes and learning from them) is highly recommended.

I went through a gate in a cyno rookie ship and found myself in a bubble guarded by an Oracle. I decided to slow-boat out of the bubble, because the Oracle was close enough that he'd have to get rather lucky to hit me with any traversal. Sure enough, the Oracle couldn't touch me.

I was about half-way out when a Hound arrived on grid and started firing torps at me. He actually hit me for a few points of shield damage of course, but I wasn't really worried about him, and continued out of the bubble.

Then an Ares landed on grid and at that moment I figured I was screwed. He of course quickly took me into deep structure.

However through all this, none of them pointed me, and I managed to get out of the bubble and warp away

I then made my biggest mistake: I bounced around safes for a while before heading to the next gate (I wanted my shield to recharge as I only had a sliver of structure), allowing their timers to expire. Later as I landed on grid at the outbound gate and jumped, so did the Ares land on grid and jump, and I knew the chase was over at that point. I was podded on a bubble-free gate.

Looking back, I'm guessing both the cloaked Hound and the Ares were based at the outbound gate, hence they weren't on-grid at the inbound gate with the bubble when I first came through. They were probably trying to catch me bouncing around safes, hence we landed on-grid at the outbound gate at the same time.

I went at least 35 jumps through nulsec, avoiding many drag bubbles, only to blow it on the first bubble I hit directly on a gate.

Its really quite foolish to argue with tundragon when it comes to gatecamps.