Saturday 30 July 2011

Rifter vs. Punisher

My fit:

3x150mm Light Autocannon II w/ Republic Fleet Phased Plasma + Barrage
1xE5 Prototype Energy Vampire

Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator
J5B Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I

Gyrostabiliser II
Small Armour Repairer I
200mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plate


Whilst roaming my usual haunts after downtime I found a Rifter and a Punisher on d-scan. The Rifter pilot hadn't bothered to change his ships name so I easily pulled up his character info from local and did some quick research. He was a couple of months younger than I am and didn't seem to have much of a PvP record. The Punisher on the other hand was aptly named 'derp' and having pinned both ships down to one belt I decided to warp in and try my luck. Hopefully they'd both be fighting each other and I'd get at least one kill should they both turn on me.

I warped to the belt at 0 and the two frigates appeared on my overview. Unfortunately I was about 20km away from the pair who seemed to be locked in combat. Firing up my afterburner I soon got up to max speed but before I could get within scram range the Punisher warped away (though why he wasn't pointed is beyond me!) and upon seeing a new threat the Rifter did as well.

Slightly disheartened I warped back to a safe and booted up d-scan again. Both ships were still showing up but I couldn't pin them down - they must have gone to their respective safes. Fast forward about ten minutes of belt searching and d-scan whoring and I finally pinned the Punisher down at a belt. I warped in and pretty much landed right on top of him.

Within seconds I had him scrammed, webbed and Nos'd and had started a steady orbit of 1000m. At the time I had RF Phased Plasma in my guns and despite coming across a laser boat I didn't think there much point in wasting 10 seconds reloading Barrage so I could open my orbit and get the range advantage. The first thing I noticed about the Punisher was the damage. It was pretty much nonexistant. Throughout the entirety of the fight I never dipped below 90% shields and that's saying something considering I'm armour tanked.

My transversal must have been too high for the Amarrian lasers to track because my opponent only had a handful of volleys hit me throughout the fight. I know that Punishers only have two midslots and it was plain to see that this one had a prop mod and a scram on so my speed wasn't being gimped by a web, which I imagine will have fallen into my favour greatly.

My guns made short work of the Punishers shields and I was soon chewing through his armour although a little slower than his shields. His armour repper was doing its best to stop the molten plasma from my autocannons eating through the Punishers defenses but before long the Amarrian frigate succumbed.

I gave the pilot a gf in local and noticed that not long earlier he'd said "haha oh no" in the channel. That must have been when I pointed him. One thing I noticed immediately after his ship popped was the lack of movement or urgency to flee in his pod. Seeing the opportunity I spun my guns up, locked and pointed the pod and blew it into oblivion.

Overall I was happy with the fight. I checked the pilots details after the fight and found he's only been playing for a couple of months and was only using T1 modules but I still think it was a good kill.


2011.07.30 12:10:00


Victim: Viscer Raholan
Corp: Universal Freelance
Alliance: CONSORTIUM UNIVERSALIS
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Aeschee
Security: 0.2
Damage Taken: 4329


Involved parties:


Name: Cable Udan (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.5
Corp: Kagan-Kincaid Enterprises
Alliance: Subspace Exploration Agency
Faction: NONE
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon II
Damage Done: 4329


Destroyed items:


Small Nosferatu I
Small Armor Repairer I
1MN Afterburner I
Y-S8 Hydrocarbon I Afterburners (Cargo)
Warp Disruptor I
Adaptive Nano Plating I
Multifrequency S
Dual Light Beam Laser I


Dropped items:


Damage Control I
Standard S, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
Medium Remote Armor Repair System I (Cargo)
Medium Capacitor Booster I (Cargo)
Cargo Scanner I (Cargo)
Capacitor Power Relay I
Multifrequency S, Qty: 2
Dual Light Beam Laser I, Qty: 2


And the pod:


2011.07.30 12:11:00


Victim: Viscer Raholan
Corp: Universal Freelance
Alliance: CONSORTIUM UNIVERSALIS
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Aeschee
Security: 0.2
Damage Taken: 250


Involved parties:


Name: Cable Udan (laid the final blow)
Security: -3.4
Corp: Kagan-Kincaid Enterprises
Alliance: Subspace Exploration Agency
Faction: NONE
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon II
Damage Done: 250



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