Hauling 100 tons of Gold in my T6, heading back to my friendly local station I was interdicted by an NPC. I was winning the 'evade' game, and then suddenly lost the evade target (yes, I know I can submit, boost, boost, jump), and lost the interdiction.
I'm face to face with an Expert grade Sidey, but figuring the T6 is like an armadillo (Mil Spec bulkheads, A grade throughout, Shield Cell Bank, Chaff, Point Defence, Mines and a Pew-Pew C1 Gimbal Pulse). I also had a tilt at ramming the little pest, but missed by this much.
The little fellow does the yo-ho-ho routine and opens fire. Ohhh... ouch... no... stop.
I've never used mines before but ordered them up and started to drop a few. I figure they fall away behind me, so turned to get the Sidey behind me and dropped a few more. I see its shields go down and hull down to 21%. Yee-haa, must be working. But then despite dropping more mines similarly I couldn't finish it off. So I turned on the pulse laser (for energy mgmt it's usually off). By this point the cops showed up, and I'd had to use the SCB a couple of times as the Sidey was landing some punches. With some twists and turns (T6 not that nimble) I got on the Sidey, removed the shields again, and with a few pops from the cops too, killed him off, although I was well on the way to winning on my own.
6k bounty credit. I wonder if my combat rating should reflect I used a cargo ship to kill a pirate? hmmmm.
I'm face to face with an Expert grade Sidey, but figuring the T6 is like an armadillo (Mil Spec bulkheads, A grade throughout, Shield Cell Bank, Chaff, Point Defence, Mines and a Pew-Pew C1 Gimbal Pulse). I also had a tilt at ramming the little pest, but missed by this much.
The little fellow does the yo-ho-ho routine and opens fire. Ohhh... ouch... no... stop.
I've never used mines before but ordered them up and started to drop a few. I figure they fall away behind me, so turned to get the Sidey behind me and dropped a few more. I see its shields go down and hull down to 21%. Yee-haa, must be working. But then despite dropping more mines similarly I couldn't finish it off. So I turned on the pulse laser (for energy mgmt it's usually off). By this point the cops showed up, and I'd had to use the SCB a couple of times as the Sidey was landing some punches. With some twists and turns (T6 not that nimble) I got on the Sidey, removed the shields again, and with a few pops from the cops too, killed him off, although I was well on the way to winning on my own.
6k bounty credit. I wonder if my combat rating should reflect I used a cargo ship to kill a pirate? hmmmm.
