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.