Friendly Games

War 1 – Day 14
2 weeks we have had war with another corp. For me it’s been the best 2 weeks of the game so far.

Me and Andy played cat and mouse a lot today. His drake tries to close the gap on my rupture - No chance. Liam undocks in a executor, MWDing towards me. I think he caps out a few times trying to close the gap. But he gets here. I set drones on him when he’s in range but it warps out when Andy gets in range. I warp to another bookmark making the distance between us 200km.

We had a friendly 1 v 1 with Andy that night. Had a few spectators too, Jon was there, Liam, and a neutral I never paid attention too. Andy’s choice of ship was a caracal, so I switched to EMP weapons. His shields weren’t too bad, took me a little while to get past its peak recharge. One his shields were collapsing though, it dropped easily. I smile when I look at my armour, 97%. :)

Later that evening warp jumper logged on. Was tempted for a 2 v 2 with them, the Brutix I’m sure we could handle, probably take it out before it and the drake take us out. Overall though I’m sure we would lose both our ships of we can’t clear disruptor/scram distance.

2 more hostiles log in. they undock, we got 2 battlecruisers, a frigate, and a blackbird. They appear to be setting themselves up to warp to us when the frigate gets in range, so we try and jump the blackbird. We warp towards them, and are about 20km away. I tell Jon to set drones on him now while he still can, and away they go. 10km out and his shields are more or less gone, and he warps out. I was too far away to scram him still. :(

We warp back to our 200km safe spots and watch them from safety while our shields recharge. They try the same frigate tactic and we move away when we are threatened, looking for a hole we could pounce on.

The blackbird and the frigate pilot log off, and we’ve back to a 2 v 2. Typhoon boy logs on though, but is near Jita. We hang around system waiting for him to get near. He’s in his tech 2 rupture, so we are overall quite manoeuvrable.

Andy and warp jumper dock up and we move to the station. Dawood is a few jumps out now so we go to poke the bear. We are at the station at 0km now. Asking if they want to come out. No joy. This goes on for a little while and Dawood arrives 1 jump from system. I tell him to hold there, they aren’t going to undock of they see him in local, in case he’s got his “typhoon of unholy death”.

We discover that our war targets have gotten sneaky, by either paying neutrals, or by using alts to spy on us. We have noticed king Stevie afk outside stations that we are at when we are at them. We confirmed him as a spy alt when they Andy and warp jumper said Dawood is 1 jump out in his T2 cruiser. Cats out of the bag now, they aren’t going to come out at all me thinks, so Dawood goes shopping while we continue to entice them to come out and play, can still get the Brutix me thinks.

In the end we camped them in station. It is at this time one of my Jon reminds me on an earlier quote from one of my previous blogs:

• [ 2010.08.18 22:06:05 ] Andy bobo > u guys run while u should chase uss ^^
  Patience Andy, soon you will be camped in a station.

We laugh and call it a night, moving to safe zones and log off.

Tokish