Crime & Punishment

Welcome back.

was expecting to need to run him down...i didnt.

wasn't expecting to need to tank that much...i did.

oh well.
gf mate

that vigi went down fast leto and lan next i guess

Paper thin active tank, fit for speed, drunk pilot, I'm sure you can put it together

And Bronson nailed it, I misjudged what I would need and paid for it.

My BC match with Tengu was the biggest risk I had made to date. I was flying a paper-thin, speed-fit, kitey rail Talos. I based my whole fit on one thing: range. My fit was a pure, 100%, unadulterated range tank. Sure my fit was fast, but with the huge sig of a MWD-ing battlecruiser I had no notion of actually speed tanking. I was very fast for a BC so I wasn't worried about getting caught, and given that we were in BC hulls I wasn't too worried about tracking disruptors or ECM as they're not overly effective without hull bonuses. So my primary* Achilles Heel was anything with damps. Damps would kill my range in spite of my speed, and range was what I planned on using to keep me alive.

He was in a blaster-fit BNI and his self-acknowledged primary weakness was sniper fits.

I was rock, he was scissors, I won.


I think your odds of winning in Thunderdome are directly proportional to how much you can make your ship behave like a Swiss Army Knife. The more tools you have at your disposal, even if your tools all look surprisingly similar, the better your odds. In my case, range was the tool that solved most of my problems, and speed was the tool that let me maintain range. With these two tools, I wagered I could avoid most threats and probably counter most other BCs.


*I say "primary" because a drone boat or another sniper could have also ruined my day, but, unlike damps, I at least had something in mind to deal with them.

So, in the absence of new fights, I've been reviewing some of the past videos and I wanted to provide one piece of after-action commentary.

Said commentary is regarding my fight with Tengu.

To recap, he was in a Blaster Brutix, and I was in a fast rail Talos. Tengu never got into range, having burnt out his MWD trying to overheat and catch me, and I eventually won. He could have tried to slingshot me, but given the ranges involved, that likely wouldn't have worked.

There is one thing Tengu could have done differently that could have changed the outcome: fly away from me.

In my fight with Domino, you see Domino warping around on-grid a whole lot. He was burning away from me, knowing that he couldn't catch me, but he was dropping tactical bookmarks to warp to. Twice, he nearly tackled me, and that would have been the end of me.

If Tengu had flown in a straight line away from me, dropping tactical bookmarks all the way, I'd have likely ended up in a tail chase and been passing right over said bookmarks. He'd potentially have had a whole string of opportunities to land right on top of me and melt my face in the special kind of way that only a Brutix can do. The range would have been tight; I was trying to stay about 70-80km off and you need 150 to warp, but with some clever piloting and judicious MWD overheating it may have worked.


This is one of those tactics that would likely never work in a "real" fight. Outside of Thunderdome, Tengu would have simply warped off, or would have been pointed by someone else while I pelted him from range. But in Thunderdome...the rules of PvP go right out the window.

sorry ive been busy lately, i will probably need to drop out also, i go on holiday on friday and time has been tight. sorry guys

Updated.

http://challonge.com/3367hp47

No worries. I blame myself.

Next time we will have a more rigid schedule so things dont get out of whack.

It would be a long shot, but a shot nonetheless.

And who knows...maybe you'll get to try it in the battleship round.