Notorious Pirat Warlord

This evening I became locked in JUSTIC BATTAL with one of the most feared pirate warlords known to Eve, THE FEARSOME KANE RIZZEL. A while ago I'd requested a JAGAER ATTACK BOAT HONOUR BATTAL BETWEEN THE FORCES OF JUSTIC AND THE PIRAT WARLORD.

I was on patrol in Metropolis in my Jag when I noticed Mr Rizzel was online I immediately made my way to Gusandall, and we agreed on battle. I warped to a safe, we fleeted up, and Mr Rizzel warped his mighty boat to my police vessel. He landed 15k off and immediately we engaged in a brutal brawl, I had Barrage loaded fearing Mr Rizzel would kite me with a web. We brawled for what seemed like an eternity, my shields holding at around 50% while Kane's were bouncing up and down in a rather disturbing manner. At this point I deemed it a good idea to pop a Standard Blue Pill. Eventually what seemed like a breakthrough happened, Kane's armour started to bleed and was soon stripped.

BUT DANGER DANGER MY GUNS WERE WAY TOO HOT.

I was forced into turning the heat off, I managed to save them from burning out but as soon as I did Kane's shields shot up to almost full again.

However there was a glimmer of hope when fleet chat lit up with

Kane Rizzel > one gun burnt out already :P

Kane then changed ammo, I used the opportunity to fully recharge my shields, I SHOULD OF CHANGED TO FUSION HERE but didn't. Freshly loaded with Plasma ammo Kane's 200mm's began ripping huge chunks out of my shield with my booster barely being able to keep up, on top of this my cap was beginning to run dry as we were both using a Nosferatu. I had to begin pulsing my booster instead of perma running. Also it seemed that Kane was having to pulse his own booster less, and I was managing to take small slithers off of his structure between his boosts.

My own shield was dipping, even with one burnt out gun Kane's Jag was battering my shields and as I hit peak recharge I knew I wouldn't last as long in armour and hull as Kane. It was a race now, as Kane's hull slowly turned red. Then my afterburner turned off. I managed to turn it back on but with this low cap there would be know more boosting for me.

I HAD TO FINISH THIS NOW

I decided it was all or nothing, heated my guns and hoped the FORCES OF JUSTIC WILL LET THEM STAY ONLINE LONG ENOUGH.

ONE VOLLEY – Still online \o/

TWO VOLLEYS – STILL GOING, COME ON LIL 125's

THREE VOLLIES – BOOM!!!

MR RIZZELS JAEGAR ATTAK BOAT EXPLODED!

Taking a HUGE 18,141 damage

This was without a doubt the most intense and fun AF 1v1's I've ever had, and it could of very very easily gone the other way.

GF GF MR RIZZEL

OFFICER DOWN

Over a year ago I bought a Bellicose. I bought it because I could fly Minnie cruisers, I couldn't fly them very well, and I couldn't find a good use for the boat I'd christened “Income Support”, and so for a long time it gathered dust. Later on it took on the roll of go to comedy boat to be refit in strange ways for specific purposes. It spent considerable time with a 1600mm plate and small guns for ganking frigs. I even once gave it a full set of scrams to tackle a multi stabbed smart bombing Typhoon class boat camping a gate in Ardar.

After finally learning T2 medium Auto cannons Income Support took on a new roll, that of AN ELITE BATTLE WARRIOR JUSTICE BOAT. It was rigged and prepped for combat.

It had many skirmishes, and endeared itself to me when it dispatched of a Hurricane boat that attacked me on a station in Sirekur.

Last night Income Support fell in EPIC BATTLE, and possibly the best cruiser 1v1 I've ever been involved in. A honourable fellow named Owen Drakkar offered me a cruiser battle, in fact he actually offered me a battle between his Rupture and my Vagabond. But in 1v1s unless its really insisted I prefer to be in a boat of an equal or underestimated class.

(Don't get me wrong if I'm roaming in a HAC and encounter a cruiser/frig/destroyer or whatever I'd be the first to engage.)

Owen agrees to battle my mighty Bellicose, and goes to get his Rupture.

By the fact he'd offered to fight my Vagabond, I was assuming fall-off Rupture. I was further assured of this when we both warped to 50 at the agreed planet of battle and landed on each other.

I had a range script loaded into my Tracking Disrupter and Barrage in my guns. We quickly zoomed to range of each other. I was faster than him so made sure to stay at the edge of point range, and tried to keep angular high with the TD turned on to reduce incoming damage while the great battle of the drones began.

Owen's bay was full of Warrior 2's, my Bellicose contained a max damage set up of 3x Hammerheads and 2x Hobgoblins. Warriors being faster and better at tracking other drones, meant I had to pull drones in more often, and if we continued as such I would surely lose the drone battle. So I changed tactics, we were rather far apart so every time he sent out a drone after recalling, I flew away from him kiting the drone and turning my guns on it. After a considerable amount of time all his Warriors were down and I had 2x Hobgoblins remaining. However I'd taken several Wrecking shots and I was in deep armour, I used my speed advantage to fly far off to recover shield, Owen burnt out his mwd, I suspect chasing me at this point but I'm not 100% sure. The fight had been very long, and in our private chat Owen had suggested that maybe it was a draw. But the BELLICOSE DEMANDED THAT ONE OF US EXPLODED. Having recovered about 30% shield I turned and went back in. Keeping angular up at about 20k we slugged it out, and it looked like I was just edging it, I needed his shields to fall first as I had no armour. And they did. Then DISASTER the heat from my point burnt out my mwd, this made it considerably harder to keep a high angular and although my TD was reducing damage, his damage on me increased, my shield fell when he was in about half armour, and it became a race he was ahead in, guns blazing hot my hull started to take damage, one of my gun cycles later his hull started to turn red. I hit half hull before him. Then inevitably I exploded with Owen in deep hull.

GF GF OWEN DRAKKAR

and R.I.P Income Support

Needless to say, after such an epic, long, and fun battle, I immediately bought a new Bellicose, and Welfare Check has been added to the Kenssy fleet.

HALLO MR EXENTHAL

Now I'm not one for going to a huge amount of effort to fight eve celebrities like fellow blogger Mr Kadavr is, However, if one happens to fly by I'll willingly offer them a 1v1 if I can match there ship class. The other day I was all chillin' at Thukker Mix in my home system of Ardar, and who should enter local but Prometheus Exenthal, most known for his FRIGANK series which if you haven't seen check it out, its got some pretty fly music, and in one he bumps a Rupture in an Enyo which is like totally awesome. Anyway, after enquiring as to the nature of his boat, I find out he's in a Cyclone so I offer him a battlecruiser 1v1, unfortunately I don't have any of the cool tier 1 battlecruisers fit up, only a Hurricane and a Myrmidon so I offer him the choice and he opts to fight my cane.

Annoyingly there is a lame Amarr gang camping Thukker Mix when I undock, fortunately though THEIR CRIMINAL WAYS WILL NEVER PROVAIL and they fail to tackle myself or Prometheus, they do have probes out though, and they had seen in local that we were gunna have some boat violence in a safe.

Using all of our internet spaceship cunning we manage to lose them with the in genius plan of jumping into the next system to fight, Prometheus safes up and I warp to him to commence battle, I land right on top of him and we immediately scram each other, Caldari Navy Hellfire Assault Missiles start tearing through my shields, thermal ay seems he'd wrongly assumed me of being a FOTM shield cane \o/

I switch on the tracking disruptor, web him, start staggering my 2x medium neuts and settle into an orbit. His boosting is pretty mighty at first but then the effects of the Neuts become glaringly obvious. Prometheus's shields fade and his Cyclone is not long for this universe. GF GF