Saturday 26 October 2013

Surviving the Bomb

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)


A quick roam through to Bamamake sees me watching everything in a faction warfare plex cloak as I land on the acceleration gate. I sensed a frustrating evening as this seems to be SOP for faction warfare. Perhaps a beacon inside the plexes that stopped all cloaking?

Anyways, I digress, I plan to pop into Bamamake before heading to Bosena, in Gulmogrod I'm in warp to the Ama gate, spamming the on-board scanner as is my way, a Panther appears on scan at the gate, a quick check of local confirms my suspicion, an old cloaky dramiel flying plex farmer now gate bomber waits for my arrival.

I turn on my damage control, overload my repper, turn it on as I land on the gate:

22:27:29    Combat    159 from Santo Trafficante[CODE8](Panther) - Imperial Navy Large EMP Smartbomb - Hits
22:27:29    Combat    159 from Santo Trafficante[CODE8](Panther) - Imperial Navy Large EMP Smartbomb - Hits
22:27:29    Combat    159 from Santo Trafficante[CODE8](Panther) - Imperial Navy Large EMP Smartbomb - Hits
22:27:29    Combat    216 from Santo Trafficante[CODE8](Panther) - Imperial Navy Large EMP Smartbomb - Hits
22:27:29    Combat    328 from Santo Trafficante[CODE8](Panther) - Imperial Navy Large EMP Smartbomb - Hits
22:27:30    Combat    159 from Santo Trafficante[CODE8](Panther) - Imperial Navy Large EMP Smartbomb - Hits
22:27:30    Combat    159 from Santo Trafficante[CODE8](Panther) - Imperial Navy Large EMP Smartbomb - Hits

At half armour I jump through into Amamake.

Got my heart racing for a second.

I did get to have a great little 2v1 on the way to Bosena, an Atron and Slasher that didn't cloak as I warped to the small plex in Egmar, they killed three of my drones though, I do hate losing drones, but I love a good fight. Thumbs up to these guys for standing and fighting.

Nothing else for the evening so I headed back to Gusandall.

2 comments:

Orson said...

Yes FW is full of cloaks and stabb fitted frigs, but I do tend to find quite a few people who will actually fight. Even if the majority of them won't do so without a few extra friends or some form of ecm/damps to ensure their win.


I'm all for banning stabbs and cloaks in fw plexes but it won't fix the problem they will just run perma mwd fits and warp/burn off when they see you on the gate

Kaeda Maxwell said...

Presuming the new warp speed changes affect acceleration gates the time to get into plexes should go down drastically. So the dscan trick is about to become a little less neat hopefully.