The only things i've done have been station spinning, an assault frigate tournament and corp logistics.
The assault frigate tournament!
I have planned on doing a blog about this for a few weeks now but have been waiting for Suleiman Shouaa to finish the youtube videos for the tournament, he still hasn't finished them but i've decided i'm way too overdue for a blog anyway.
While reading other blogs about eve I stumbled across a pirate blogger who was running an assault frigate tournament and being a lover of AF's, I decided to enter.
The rules were simple, a round of 1v1 against another contestant, those who did not lose their ship then got put into groups of 3 and had a 3 way match against eachother then it was back to 1v1's.
I had decided to use a good old Wolf, fitted with my usual fit apart from a web instead of scrambler (since there was no need to have them scrambled for a tournament and a web would be more effective in more situations.)
My fit was :
[Wolf, Assault Frig Tournament]
Small Armor Repairer II
Damage Control II
Gyrostabilizer II
400mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
1MN Afterburner II
Fleeting Propulsion Inhibitor I
150mm Light AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
150mm Light AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
[empty high slot]
150mm Light AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
150mm Light AutoCannon II, Republic Fleet EMP S
Small Anti-Explosive Pump I
Small Projectile Burst Aerator II
This fit along with my high grade slave clone gave me 13,276 ehp and 249 dps along with a decent speed of 856 m/s.
The entry fee for the tournament was 10 mil along with 5m per t2 rig you fit so my total cost to enter was 15m.
I signed up a good two weeks in advance and decided it was more than a good enough reason to finally train small autocannon spec V so I swapped over my skill training.
I set myself up in the system it was being held a couple of days early and played around on sisi in the frigate arena in FD-.
My first match was against IEATCRAYONS who piloted a medium shield boosting ac/rocket Hawk.
I was surprised anyone would even bother with a hawk when I saw it land 3km from me in the arena. With a medium shield booster it has a decent active tank but that didn't stop my wolf from turning his ship into space dust within about 40 seconds.
The next match was the one I expected would be the hardest to get through, the 3 person FFA as I could easily be taken out if ganged on. I was keeping an eye on who got through as the worst thing would have been to go up against 2 people of the same corp - they would easily decide I was to be taken out first before fighting amongst themselves.
Luckily they were not in the same corp but they also both piloted a wolf!
I warped in at range to the arena to hopefully avoid being the first target and so did the other two. I was targetted and fired upon by one of them almost right away but he seemed to lose interest in me after a few moments and ran off to fight the other person. To which I simply kept my range and waited for them both to receive a lot of damage.
It didn't take long for one of them to be in low armor so I swopped in and stole the final blow and then turned on the last Wolf who exploded not long after.
My next fight was against a Retribution and unfortunately I can't remember who it was against.
The fight was a long one though, he was slightly faster than me but didn't have enough damage to break my tank while I had enough to whittle him down.
He kept on coming in, trying to do enough dps to me to break my tank then running away to repair once he got low on armor. While I was overloading quite a bit my dps still wasn't enough because of his speed and ability to get out of my range. While he was far away of course I used nanite repair paste to put my mods back into top order.
Eventually he fell as the arena was getting smaller and smaller due to time limits but as he needed his ship to determine who was going to come third, I was not allowed to destroy his ship - it was first to 75% structure.
So I had made it to the final and I was going up against Lachesis VII in a Retribution.
This was a very straight forward match, he had an mwd fitted with a completely passive armor tank. His dps wasn't able to break my tank at all and I just chased him around with barrage loaded and took his armor slither by slither until he decided to warp out of the arena deep in structure - no killmail for me.
So I had won the tournament! The prizes were pretty good, in total I got 218m (18m because the bookie made a profit from bets and so part of the winnings went to the tournament winner) 1 Daredevil, 2 Dramiels and a domination warp disrupter. Not bad for a fun evening!
Be sure to check out Suleiman's blog and when the vids go up, watch them.
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