Aside from my Thrasher, my favorite ship of late has been the Arazu along with a new fit I have begun using that actually utilizes Remote Sensor Damp's (something I have been very reluctant to waste three mid slots on until now). Right now I am fitting my Arazu like so:
[Arazu, Logistics w/ Damps & MWD]The whole idea behind the ship is that I can locate pilots missioning in cruisers or battlecruisers, probe them out, tackle them from far and then slowly kill them with my pitiful DPS as they are unable to even target me. Certainly works better when I have a friend or two to provide more damage but otherwise it is wonderful having so many different capabilities within one ship. It seems almost improper that I should be able to warp cloaked, probe, tackle from 52 km, provide e-war support and still have a drone bay to put out some DPS all with one hull. If I had Recons V trained I would have additional CPU available to fit a couple railguns and increase my damage even further but that 30 days of training will have to wait until a later date. All-in-all, the Arazu has really, really grown on me over the past few months and I look forward to getting into a Pilgrim and trying it's take on cloaky combat in a few days as well.
Co-Processor II
Pseudoelectron Containment Field I
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Y-T8 Overcharged Hydrocarbon I Microwarpdrive
Warp Disruptor II
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening
Medium Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 800
Expanded Probe Launcher I, Core Scanner Probe I
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
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Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I
Gravity Capacitor Upgrade I
Hammerhead II x3
Hobgoblin II x2
Ratting in Amamake
It's never a strange site to see a variety of large ships tooling about in Amamake. A matter of fact, it feels eerie and uncomfortable, like the silence before the storm, whenever Amamake is not abuzz with pilots mauling the crap out of each other in the top belt of 3-1. So I was not surprised or alarmed to see an Abaddon on scan as I dropped into the system yesterday. I calibrated my directional scanner to verify that it was indeed sitting in the top belt or at a station but I was unable to locate it where I had expected. With a little bit of exploration I did find it... in a different belt? He was only a few months old and with several other young pilots in destroyers...
...ratting...?
Ratting in Amamake in a battleship. Probably comparable to swimming in shark infested waters with a baby seal tied to your back. This was the first time I could ever recall having run into a situation like this and I immediately moved in for the tackle along with my wingman Kyle Langdon. We did not have much firepower in the form of my Arazu and his Rifter but against unsuspecting ratters we felt we could probably get the upper hand. First one of the destroyers went down and then I tackled the Abaddon as the rest of his friends fled, leaving him to our mercy. It was quickly that I realized we could not break his armor tank with our low DPS so I made a desperation move and opened a channel to ransom the pilot for 300 million ISK. He made a counter offer of 250,000,000 ISK and I accepted. We let him warp away, amazed that no third parties had warped in to spoil our fun during the entire encounter.
BUYING A NEW CORMORANT BECAUSE PIRAETS KEELED YOURS
700,000 ISK
PAYING TO SAVE YOUR ABADDON FROM THE MEAN PIRAETS
250,000,000 ISK
LEARNING THE HARD LESSON ABOUT AMAMAKE FIRSTHAND
Priceless
700,000 ISK
PAYING TO SAVE YOUR ABADDON FROM THE MEAN PIRAETS
250,000,000 ISK
LEARNING THE HARD LESSON ABOUT AMAMAKE FIRSTHAND
Priceless
Ransom Boards
I noticed today that Flashfresh provided a link to the Bastards relatively new ransom board, developed by HappySan. Something I never actually posted about in my own blog was about how about a year ago I developed a pretty dinky (and ugly) ransom board for the Python Cartel and offered it out free to several other pirate corps as well. After a short while I passed the project onto another Eve pilot named Xasz who did some additional work and then dissapeared into the horrible void called "World of Warcraft". At this point, only two corporations are actually still using mine and Xasz's board (The Python Cartel and The Tuskers) but it has held up and done it's job pretty well. I am really happy to see that someone else has taken up the same idea and is going well beyond what we did in terms of aesthetics and functionality and I hope that eventually HappySan and the Bastards will offer their new board for download so that we (and other pirate corps) could use it as well. It is very cool looking so far... good work guys.
