As the area is not yielding any targets we start to move back through Hevrice and up into Placid. I grab a shiny new Taranis (first time flying this beautiful ship) and we set out.
I probe a missioning Astarte out, and rush in to get a point...only to have the Astarte disappear from D-scan.
Slipping past a BS fleet in our little frigates we move though Oueletta (Spelling? Bloody Gallente with their strange system names) and into Intaki. After hopping around safes and spamming D-scan. Chris Wolf reports a Maller and Drake have landed near him and are burning in. Yeah, I know, 2 bait ships should have started alarm bells ringing. But, we were bored after 2 hours of fruitless roaming. So we warp in and go to work on the Drake. Then an Ishtar lands...uh oh. Our Hawk and Harpy succumb to the assault. I align out, remember to scoop my drones (for once!), overheat the AB and burn for freedom. The only problem is the Ishtar is staying glued to my ass and his Warrior 2's are chewing through my armor. A brief moment of lag, panic and spamming the warp button follows. The Ishtar pulls in close...so I scram and web him, then GTFO. I escape into warp with 3% structure left.
Traveling back to Hev, I spy a Drake missioing in Costolle. I quickly reship and probe the Drake down. My shiny new Cynabal (well, a bit less shiny since it was shot into 46% structure by 2 Hurricanes last week) lands 18KM off the Drake, gets point and starts chewing through his shields. The bloody EC-300's don't get a single jam on the Drake. As my shields fail and I dip into armor, the Drake explodes.
This was my first solo BC kill in my Cynabal. All in all, a good way to end the night.
Good job. Nice to see you're still out there pew pewing away. I can't wait until CCP nerf the dramiel and then the taranis will be the king of frigates once again :)
ReplyDeleteAbout the ec-300's... yeah that's the thing with ECM, it always seems to work for everyone else but me!
hey man! in a sanctum of ninveah you posted a comment about a dual web hookbill. now i want to try it, but how do you fly the beast. specially against drams.
ReplyDeleteThis is the fit I use in lowsec:
ReplyDelete[Caldari Navy Hookbill, Lowsec AB dual Web]
Ballistic Control System II
Pseudoelectron Containment Field I
Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
1MN Afterburner II
X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator
X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Thorn Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Thorn Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Thorn Rocket
Small Ancillary Current Router I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Core Defence Field Extender I
Which was modified from this 0.0 fit:
[Caldari Navy Hookbill, 0.0 Fookbill]
Ballistic Control System II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I
Catalyzed Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Thorn Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Thorn Rocket
Rocket Launcher II, Caldari Navy Thorn Rocket
Small Ancillary Current Router I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Core Defence Field Extender I
Tactics: overheat the launchers, use the webs to hold the dram at range and hope for the best...
Just kidding (apart from the overheating launchers).
Lowsec: try and orbit around 6-7 KM, OH launchers and burn through the dram. You can come across some strange dram fits in low. AB + Web drams, Armor + TD dram etc
0.0: the 0.0 fit will have superior range control to your standard dual prop dram fit. So, try and hold the dram around the edge of scram range and keep your transversal up, overheat and go hard.
Hope that helps. Oh and if any of the info I've given is wrong, please let me know.
Good hunting!