Cleaning up

An Omen and Caracal pair in Okkamon. I was keeping an eye on them on d-scan and when I saw the Caracal heading to the other side of the system I jumped into the plex to say hello to the Omen. He wasn't very friendly.

Purely in self defence I activated my, um, offensive modules and we tried to kite each other. I'm not very good at kiting so he got out of point range a few times. But eventually he hit structure and tried to warp out. Not in time! Mua ha ha!

I have noticed that the kill report notification often pops up before I see the opponent actually pop. Maybe it is because I live in Australia and inevitably suffer from lag. So it was in this case:

Omen: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24519229

Video: http://youtu.be/MRGOEUiZ_jw

On my way back to Ishomilken my d-scan was overwhelmed by a swarm of farmers. I decided that the local systems needed to be tidied up so I fit my trusty kite-scrub catcher MWD Incursus with double scram.

It is important to carry a web and afterburner in your cargo just in case you see a real pilot and want to fight them after hastily switching in a station. The first one I came across was in Vaaralen:

Condor: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24551016

I actually should have died horribly to that fit. He wasn’t stabbed and should have kited me with his web. But he didn’t, so I killed him. And I feel justified in including him in the ‘farmer’ category because of the cloak.

It was a similar story with my next victim, although instead of a farming fit this was just a kite-scrub fit which was caught by my MWD:

Tristan: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24551542

Third on the list was UNARGUABLY a farmer:

Merlin: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24552573

Zero fittings. He should be ashamed. And podded. Which he was, even though that was probably just helping him reship faster:

Pod: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24552794

A little later I came across a Breacher, Keres and Malediction in system. The Breacher and Keres were both Skyfighters who have been hanging around the Cal/Gal zone recently. I played tag in my Incursus with the Breacher for a while but he was kitescrub fit and didn't warp to a gate at range for me to catch him.

He got bored after a while and warped to another plex. I followed when I saw the Malediction heading in that direction and managed to catch him on the gate before he could warp or get out of scram range:

Malediction: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24668039

Unfortunately, by the time he had died the Breacher and Keres both landed on me. The Breacher was indeed kitescrub fit and orbited me with a long point. He wasn't very good at it - while I was waiting to die I practiced the slingshot with my afterburner and managed to get him into scram range four times. Maybe that is why he needed the Keres' ECM. He certainly would have died without it.

Incursus: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24749157

As I said, I don't like ECM. It is frustrating. Game mechanics should not be frustrating. ECM is somehow much worse than being blobbed - at least when you are swamped you can overheat everything and try desperately to take one of them with you. Not so with ECM. I tend to just turn everything off and sit there, waiting.

Still, it was worth it. The humble Incursus claimed an Interceptor. I just won't fight Skyfighters any more.