Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Roamin' Solo

I went for a solo roam early this week and thought I'd document it. It can be a pain to find solo targets in my TZ but I was up late giving that I had a late start at work the next day. I was hopeful that I was nearing EU prime-time (I'm GMT +4) and there might be someone to fight!

I fitted up the following Breacher and went to see what I could find...


From local I could see Nisuwa was clear. To be honest its a brave squid that plexs in the home of the QCats. So I went over to Hirri which is a more popular system. Or should I say can be. As the only guy in system, I didn't stick around.

As I jumped into Pyne I saw local pop up with absolutely full of suspect players. As grid loaded I breathed a sigh of releaf that I had not just jumped into a massive gate camp. I warped to a safe quickly and started scanning. It appeared the suspects were a large Moa and Caracal gang with logi and fast tackle sat at the Rakapas gate. I scanned two Tristans at a plex but they appeared to be together. Me verse a 20-man gang or even just two Tristans was too much. Time to move on.

Hikkoken had a few neuts. I was only able to find an Algos in a plex. An Algos should splatter a Breacher easily, and doubly so if I had to warp into him. Others appeared to be deep safed or cloaked. So I decided to move on.


Next stop was Nennamalia, There were 20 in local, none spotted in space, I assumed most were docked up. Given the numbers of neuts and some squids kicking about I decided to sit in a plex for a while. Whilst 5AU scanning over the course of five minutes I saw Harpy, Thrasher, Algos... IN Slicer. I reduced scan range and the Slicer was coming for me! Faction Frigate verse T1 frigate? As he was warping into me I decided I'd take it. I launched my T2 warriors and pre-over heated my web and scram. The trick with IN Slicers is to stop them from kiting you. I sat on the warp in and waited. A few seconds later a neutral Imperial Navy Slicer entered the plex. I locked him up, activated the web and scram as well as the rocket launchers and burnt after him as he tried to make range. I pulsed the MWD and he only got to 6k maximum, easily within range of my over-heated web and scram, before I closed in on him. I stopped the overheat and then it was a nose-to-nose slug fest. My active tank was far superior to his DPS and he exploded in a fireball. GF's in local. I scooped the loot and headed to the station to repair my module damage from the overheating. Quick shout out from another player, tbh I was worried by the first line but the second made me smile.

18:04:30 ] Drackarn > gf
18:09:13 ] Mr John Steer > Drackarn i read your shit
18:09:29 ] Mr John Steer > its good
18:09:32 ] Drackarn > :) Thanks

Enaluri was next stop and all very blue so I didn't hang around. Hallanan had several neuts. Nothing in space that I could find. Moved on quickly.

Back to Hikkoken and I found a Squid in system. I did a wide scan and found a couple of ships in space. I looked the squid up on Eve-Kill and it looked like he flew Rocket Kessies. There was a Kestrel somewhere in system. Rocket Kessie vs Rocket Breacher, sounded a good fight. I scanned one plex but that was empty, the other plex was just out of scan range. I thought sod it, I'll take a chance and warped direct to the plex. I landed into a fight. The Kessie was there, fighting a neutral Cruor. I had to make a quick decision. The value of the faction frigate made me forget my Gallente Militia principals and I engaged the Cruor hoping to kill him jointly with the Kessie and then catch the Kessie and polish him off too. As I got in range the Kestrel exploded. Shit!


Cruor verse Breacher is not a good fight if you are the Breacher. Its even less of a good fight if you've loaded EMP ammo expecting to fight a Kestrel. I was capped out and supremely buggered before I could get out. I was able to last longer than I should by pulsing the ASB. However that meant I couldn't fire back, it was a choice of pulsing the shield booster or the weapons, and that Cruor was repping like there was no tomorrow. Knowing it was useless I aligned out and was spamming warp as my ship exploded. GF in local and podded back to Nis.

One Imperial Navy Slicer killed, one Breacher lost due to me taking a risk. I do hope these Nulli guys show up soon! It was a lot of work for one kill!

3 comments:

  1. Us squids are also having a hell of a time finding targets in the US time zone as well. It seems most of the frogs are off in amarr space right now.

    I also wouldn't say it's a it's a brave squid that plexes in nisuwa. A bored squid who just wants to shoot something is probably better

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  2. I had a hunch the Cruor was Oma even before looking it up.

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  3. Why couldn't you fire rockets while using the ASB? ASB has its own cap charges and rockets don't use cap.

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