Fight!

Decided to go on a different roam for a change. A couple of corpies had recently posted up some successful hunting grounds, so I thought I'd give them a go as the MH Loop seems more or less dead whenever I am online.

I also decided to take out a Thrasher too, as I'm only about 4 days from Destroyers V.

I decided upon an armour fit Thrasher with 150mm ACs and a NOZ, standard web, scram and AB setup in the mids, only 2 lowslots though so armour plate and damage control II, no armour repper. 3 trimark rigs.

my trip took me up to Bogelek, I had some fun trying to chase down a couple of russians (seperately) without success, so I moved on to Todifrauan and bounced around trying to find one of the younger pilots in local as some of the older guys looked a tad scary.

Anyway, I ended up at the sun, swiftly followed by Kingzolo in a Retribution (Assault Frigate) - one of the guys I was hoping to avoid!

ah well, I was after a fight so why not? He'd landed pretty close and was definitley up for the fight so I targetted him, set orbit at 500m, activated AB, web, scram, guns & NOS and then sat back to watch the fireworks.

My shield went pretty quickly, but so had his, we were both taking longer to get through armour and I realised that it was going to be pretty close...if only I had a repper I'd probably win, as it was I just crossed my fingers and hoped.

We both entered structure about the same time, then I remembered - I hadn't overheated my guns! Just as I was reaching for the OH control FLASH! was it me or him?

It was me - gf's in local then Kingzolo asked me if I wanted to keep my pod. Ordinarily I would have kept it, only had cheap implants in, but it would be an awfully long trip back to HQ in just a pod, so I asked for the express trip home.

I later received an email from Kingzolo congratulating me on my Thrasher fit and reminding me to always OH my guns.

so, another loss but man I was >< that close to getting that one.

can't get in a fight for love nor money

I've been out and about every other day around the MH loop, but can't seem to find a fight wherever I go! I don't know if the loop is just quieter during my game times or what, but most of the times I take a trip around the loop, most systems are either empty or else there are maybe half a dozen pilots showing in local, either in station, at a POS or sat together in Lokis.

I did see a Sleipnir last night, but by the time I decided to engage, he was gone :(

So I've been in this Rifter for about a month now, last night I had to abandon it in mid flight (poorly 2 year old daughter needed attention), when I returned from cleaning up toddler and changing her bed i expected to find myself in a new clone in Heild...but nope, there I was sat in my Rifter, just outside the station, unscathed.

The Rebels are going on vacation soon to The North - I hadn't planned to go along (as I have a large stack of Rifters and Thrashers to burn through in Heild), but if I don't find some action soon I may well be taking a trip.

so, turning over a new leaf - no more trying to avoid Lokis, BS, AFs etc in my Rifter - If I see it I engage it....just got to try and find anything now