Crime & Punishment

I have never had a better fight in my life, in EVE or any other game for that matter.

Kubinen, ~0400 EVE time, 2013.11.29

I had just been chasing a Wolf around Enderailen in my long-point Ishkur which I call the Palustris. Trying to pinpoint him on dscan was difficult - he was jumping from belt to belt, planet to planet. Never landed on grid with him once. Then, he vanished from the system. On a hunch, I warped to Kubinen gate, and jumped in.

The sun in Kubinen is within dscan range of everything in system except one planet and one station. I wasn't looking at stations though, engaging him there or on gate would mean invoking the wrath of NPC guns. It was planet or belt, those were my options. His, too.

I find him, and warp to a planet. Not there. I pick the nearby asteroid field and scan - there he is, possibly still in warp, so I'm off, but I warp to zero on the belt. He warped to fifty. I had no idea how he was fit, but I was about to find out it was with an MWD and explosive ammo that could hit me from 15 km away. My disruptor could keep him from warping, so long as he decided he wanted to keep fighting instead of just micro out of range. I kept going anyway, all I could hit him with was drones though.

Although I did tank all his damage from that range, he decided to bail at half armour. I assumed he was passive armour, fit for kiting, and let him go. I went back to Enderailen to grab my other short-point Ishkur, the Skylark. I don't have an MWD fit for it ready to go, so this is the best I had available at the time.

I jumped back into Kubinen, and warped straight to the sun. I always warp to different ranges on that sun, just in case. I can't be the only one that knows how useful it is for dscanning.

He's not there, but he's on scan. I pick a belt that he's not at, and warp to 50 this time, not zero. A friend of mine is also tracking his movements, and tells me, "stay there, do not move, he's warping in your direction now."

I'm ready. My DC is on. This ship is not fit for fighting assault frigates, it's for fighting bigger stuff - cruisers and up. But I have a few tools I can use to my advantage. A tracking disruptor, ECM drones.... no, I decide not to use them immediately. I want to win this fight because I'm the better pilot, or lose it because he is.

He lands.... 50 km away. He warped to zero on the belt. I smile at the irony, and wait. I don't move. I invite him to come to me. I have to figure out how to coax him into scram range. I have it on overload already, and I have his Wolf locked. I launch drones, activate tracking disruptor, and fly straight at him. I have to keep him close to the asteroids. It's my only chance at foiling his pure speed.

We engage again, a dance of assault frigates, my guns silent at 15km range to target, his blazing with the fury of armour-tearing Quake ammunition. I have to think. I have to relax. I have to get transversal.

That's it! I have to get transversal! I realise all of a sudden that he's not orbiting, and I have zero transversal. I immediately double click in space to fly lateral to the asteroids. He's chewing through my armour, and I need to overheat my reps for a couple of cycles to keep my armour up, but not too much. I want him to think he's winning.

I position myself so that he's between me and the asteroids, and I fly right at him. I hit approach. Not orbit, not keep at range, approach. I take every hit, and I take them hard. I'm at half armour, so I overheat my reps again, just for one cycle.

Then, it happens. He runs into an asteroid. I close to 10.8km range and hit my scram, and the fight was one. He was hitting me for much more damage at that range, but I was chewing him up incredibly fast. I realised he wasn't passive armour tanked at all, he's no-tanked.

He explodes. I choose not to even target the pod, out of respect. GFs are offered in local, and we bid farewell as I realise my hands are shaking, my breathing is coming in gasps, there is sweat on my forehead and I cannot stand without my knees feeling like they are going to buckle.

I have never had a better fight in my life. I will never forget it, and I look forward to more like it.

This is PVP.

"When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad."

~ Tacitus

Is this better?

This is alot better. Thank you, sir!

Battleclinic is kind of horribad, I would let it's killboard die

Good report. Good fight. This is what EVE is all about.

Good fight, good read, good tactics, thank you for the post sir.

You probably didn't put your api in zkillboard then.

I approve of this. *sage nod*

Congrats. You must be the next garmon like no joke.

A very good pvp'er , or was dunno if he still around but u can find some vids of him on youtube from when he was hydra reloaded .. or is..or meh :p .

I for one prefer abaddon21

On topic , nice fight grats

Amazing report!