Hot Dropping

So this month we've been on the pos and poco warpath. Our coalition, which still needs a name guys, has been knocking every wothwhile pos in our immediate vicinity. Sometimes with little to no resistance other times like throwing a hornets nest through a woodchipper. We are not the largest or toughest entity around but we ARE making a name for us. We didn't want your blues anyway seems to be our new motto, and a name we have made. Sometimes you do have to look at what you're about to poke and realize that you might need a hand.

People look down on batphoners but they are a necessary part of fight escalation. This was the case with our most recent pos knock. It was a less than ten man corp who owned this drug lab sitting on a pretty worthless moon. We expected little resistance but came prepared for a hotdrop anyways. When the pos hit about half structure we noticed a ninja unicorns cyno alt followed by ten of his friends into local. Now ten on 50 is bad odds for them which screamed escalation, and boy was that the understatement of the year.

Battle report

The battle report does not tell the whole story. Shogun Mayday is a member of Casoff but his alt is also in ninja unicorns. He dropped against us so we put him down. Once ninja dreads hit field we lit the cyno and the rest is very expensive tears.

Thanks black legion!

Fit of the Week: Abaddon

This is a nuts and bolts, hard and dirty, murder machine.  A timeless classic of Casoff and an old flagship we are shaking the dust off of. So without further adieu.

[Abaddon, Abaddon]
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II

ECCM - Radar II
Warp Disruptor II
Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution Script
Heavy Capacitor Booster II, Navy Cap Booster 800

Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Conflagration L

Large Trimark Armor Pump I
Large Trimark Armor Pump I
Large Trimark Armor Pump I

166.5k EHP before slaves and it pushes 1064 dps out to 25km or 804dps to 55km. The abaddon has serious stay on grid power, you can drop the heat sink and put a third plate to push this ship over 200k ehp if you have enough of them to push the dps, it'll cost you about 150.

The Win:
Scimitar
Moa
Dominix

The Fail:
Don't Take them 45  jumps through null to Faction Warfare space when no other battleships are present. (Drunk Roam)

Now that this is a new flagship maybe I'll find some new mails.

Fit of the week: Omen

The fit of the week comes from a corpie of mine again, actually, from the same one who brought you the original slasher fit. I've jokingly nicknamed it the ghetto ONI.

Focused Medium Pulse Laser II
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II

Warp Disruptor II
Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I
Expirimental 10mn Microwarpdrive I

Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer
Tracking Enhancer II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Damage Control II

Medium Energy Collision Accelerator I
Medium Polycarbon Engine Housing I
Medium Auxilary Thrusters I

Warrior II

This fit is a machine. Its pushes over 2300 m/s before snakes or links and can easily pull over 4k with them, while still applying 250 dps at 20km + 4 falloff. Set distance at 17km and kite all day. Stay away from fast frigates or ones that you land on top of, your warriors can only do so much. You can still manage to wreck slower tankier frigs like the hawk, but range is your friend and you have no defensive nuet.

I need to build some brawlers. I've noticed I've been flying a lot of kitey ships. If you have any suggestions you like top see post them below.

The Win
Hawk
Naga

The Fail
Scrammed

Fit of the week: Hookbill

When I first started playing eve I had this terrible habit of not flying ugly ships.  This is one of the ugliest. Like Toucan Sam's ugly brother.  I've recently gotten very sick of old man gang and their tendency to fly kite wolves, condors, and raildevils. This is a counter to these ships

Rocket Launcher II
Rocket Launcher II
Rocket Launchet II

Medium Ancillary Shield Booster
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator
Warp Scrambler II
1mn Afterburner II

Damage Control II
Ballistic Control Unit II

Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Small Anti-Thermic Screen Reinforcer I

This is built for faction warfare plex defense. A "we must defend this house" kinda fit. Upon entering a site drop a can with 1 ammo our whatever trash you are carrying as a frame of reference. Kill the rat then orbit your can. Should anything enter your site they must brawl you. Rockets plus dual web and an afterburner make you a brawling machine with range control boot.

The Win
Jaguar and Atrons gank I stopped. The guy from junk warped out in structure.
Nuet Slasher. Held up well even with Nuet pressure.

The Fail
Stay away from destroyers

Maut Invasion

I mentioned back in my previous SFI post that maut had been invaded. A group of aussies known as capital punishment killed a revelation of ours during off hours and set up a large pos while also rfing a number of pocos in our system. Not one to back down from a fight or take insults like these sitting back our alliance leader, lackofguilt, called for an immediate form up which led to a 7am coming out off reinforced pos.

I have to applaud my boys and blues for setting alarms and being there. The pos bashing was pretty uneventful. Capital punishment brought about 15 Megas while we were waiting to form up then they slowly trickled offline. The only note worthy fight of the day was an assault frigate ambush hoping to grab some of our tier 3s and har losing 4 ships. Sorry Har they really just didn't like you.

I spent most of the day in my Oracle but when it came to the bashing I got to fly a ship I haven't since it was retooled to a drone boat. This cruise missiles geddon isn't my fit but boy do I enjoy it. I even got to destroy a fleet of rr mryms (that mail is a bit jacked up) with it a few days later. Thanks for the fit Jester! I haven't decided the fit of the week yet. Leave me some suggestions in the comments section here or evemail ZIF W.

Sometimes Orcas Fail

So this whole venture stated with me running late to a null roam and hopping in an interceptor to catch up with the rest of my fleet.  25 jumps through goons space later we chased some miners but they all warped away before we could find them on grid so we decided that most of us were ready to take a break and grab some dinner.  When a corpie of mine came up with the brilliant idea of trying a log-off-ski. Always one to try silly shit, I was game for this. Besides I needed to plex a bit on my faction warfare alt anyways. So, after an hour of eating and bullshitting we decided to see if we could spring a trap.  We all logged in and I hit d-scan to find a mackinaw and an Orca in the belt I logged off in.  The mackinaw imeadiately warped when i hit grid but the orca delayed.

Voila

Unluckily enough I had landed 118km from him and burnt out my mwd closing the gap. Luckily I closed enough of the gap to still catch him. ^.^  This made my day because I almost never fly interceptors and who doesn't wanna shoot some goons.

Fit of the week: Gate camp Talos

I've been super busy with boring pos bashes this week. Snore. Here's an oldy but a goody. The Talos is a pretty versatile ship, it's tracking bonus makes it stand out over the other tier 3s to me. So this week I'll show the two different setups I use.

Talos
Neutron Blaster Cannon II Null
Neutron Blaster Cannon II Null
Neutron Blaster Cannon II Null
Neutron Blaster Cannon II Null
Neutron Blaster Cannon II Null
Neutron Blaster Cannon II Null
Neutron Blaster Cannon II Null
Neutron Blaster Cannon II Null

Sensor Booster II Scan resolution script
Sensor Booster II Scan resolution script
Sensor Booster II Scan resolution script
Warp Disruptor II

Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Tracking Enhancer II
Damage Control II

Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I

Very fun ship at just under 1000 scan res. This ship can volley most frigs. Stick at zero to the gate. If frigates try to burn back to gate they will have zero traversal, and if they burn away they'll be far enough and slow enough track. Align to some celestial and stop engines because this ship won't last more than 3-4 volleys of Gate guns . If you have a dedicated point ship swap your long point for an LSE II.

 For those of you wanting less of a "koombayah" fit.  Drop all the sensor boosters for two meta four shield extenders and a 10mn mwd. It becomes a monster kiting ship. Just watch out for blobs of frigs.

The Win:
Dual Omen Navy Issues

The Fail:
Retirement Club (womp wah)