Empire fun

So my recent month in Eve has been both fun, action packed and quiet.

We were recently at war with the orphanage to which a number of us in CAIN decided we'd hop back to empire and have some fun with them for a while.
Fun it was. as predicted they mostly ran around in small gangs and we have a number of skirmishes with them.

The first night I jumped cloned down, Abel and Ladel and I (mega, mega and oneiros) decided to roam around the Nonni - Isinokka pipe ans see what we could find.
What we first came across was a solo neut fitted Legion off gate so we engaged. He ended up being well fit and was able to keep the cap of both of our megas drained (medium cap booster fail) and so we could not keep any dps on him but at the same time, he was barely hurting us.
We were fighting for a good 10 minutes and the fight was going nowhere so we broke off and decided that I would replace my lost ogre 2's with heavy ecm drones and go for him again.
Unfortunately, he had moved on by the time I was able to get the drones but some other targets had come into the area.
We engaged the lone Maelstrom sitting on the Piak gate, knowing he had at least a Myrmidon and Nighthawk as backup and that the Legion was next door in Piak. He engaged us back and called in his friends. We melted the Maelstrom (those things have a hell of a tank - I must try one out) and the Myrmidon before bugging out when Abel was deep in structure. My ecm drones managed to keep the Legion completely useless for the fight.

The orphanage war didn't last much longer but we snagged a few more kills including a Vagabond who thought it was safe to afk in space while mwding, only to come back to his computer to find himself in station.

We didn't immediately go back to Deklein though as we had been having fun doing some anti pirate ops.
Two of my favourite battles were an Ishkur who thought that he could tackle my blaster fitted Myrmidon long enough for his 10 friends to jump in and gank me. And these guys who initially warped away from my bait Megathron but then came back in one at a time to die.

After this we headed back into Deklein for the usual 0.0 business.

One ship that I really enjoyed while being in empire was the Myrmidon. I didn't have a Hurricane (current bc of choice) in empire and fancied using my 2 year old Myrmidon before buying one and I was very quickly reminded why I liked it so much before cross training to winmatar. Good tank, good utility and ok dps makes the Myrmidon a very good bc for small gang empire ops, even though it has been nerfed heavily (heavy drones + nos) since it first came out. I might just bring one out to 0.0.

Carebear Beginnings

So here i've decided that I am going to attempt my own blog about EVE.

I have been following other eve blogs for a while now ever since I got an iPhone thanks to the wonderful Capsuleer application.
I enjoy reading a number of them, my favourite has to be Kirith Darkblade's blog due to his interesting writing and decision to use winmatar ships exclusively for the time being.

My aims for this blog are to see if I can get onto CK's eve blog pack and hopefully see myself listed on my iPhone. You've got to have a goal, right?

So here's a bit about my EVE career.
When I first made my character back in 2004 I thought i'd try giving manufacturing/research a go as the character creation menu at the time made it sound quite interesting (normally I go for straight damage/tank in any kind of mmo.) I started off training mining skills and such and got myself into random corporation. I mined with them a few times bit then lost interest and stopped my sub after the first month.
A few months later I was still looking for some kind of game to fill the 'space' void and thought i'd give EVE a go again. This time again I joined a mostly industrial/carebear kind of corp and started enjoying the game more than the first time around. After a while though things within the leadership changed a lot and I left to join a splinter corp called Halfwits.

Halfwits stayed in empire for a bit carebearing and actively recruited members. After a while some of our members wanted to gain access to 0.0 and we started going out to Pure Blind - 5ZKK-K.
Once I first took the steps out into 5ZXX-K the game really started changing for the better. The learning curve raised for me and there was a lot of fun to be had in the first steps of learning to PVP.
As with a lot of corps though, things change a lot over time and it's hard to stay attached. I left Halfwits and joined the Privateers in empire while looking for a more suitable corp to join.

This lead me to CAIN, I had flown with them in 5Z and after speaking with a friend from Halfwits we decided to apply as they seemed to be a good corp to join.
We were both approved and to this day are still in the corp.
I have risen through the ranks of CAIN and am now the lead Quartermaster and on the command staff of the corporation.
I have seen through a lot of things with CAIN, from tuning my PVP skills to empire wars, alliance wars, 0.0 sov warfare to factional warfare as well as being the team captain for our alliance tournament teams the past 3 tournaments (2x 4th District, 1x OWN.)

So this leads me to today. I consider myself a good pvper with plenty of experience, I much preffer small skirmishes over boring 0.0 sov warfare blobs.
Right now i've been sat in empire fighting the Orphanage alliance who have wardecced OWN Alliance. As of today they've retracted their war dec and although normally a 0.0 alliance doesn't run to empire to fight, CAIN decided they were going to this time for fun.
It's a pity that they've dropped their war dec, I was enjoying the skirmishes they were giving and I know that Abel was as well (our resident empire war dec enthusiast.)
I always enjoy a good empire war, the next one I get I will be looking to give some details battle reports.

See you in space for now,
Trony