Red v Blue

Well the Eve bug has taken me again. After a while exploring Placid I signed up for Red v Blue and have gotten about 300k worth of ships blown up for not a single kill mail in return. I have downsized to ships I can afford, then downsized again to ships that are cheaper - not much mind you, the fittings cost more than the hull when you are dealing with small ships.
I have some nicely fitted Thorax ready to go, lost the first to a blob, lost the second to not having my overview correctly set up, (always helps if you can see the person shooting at you!) and the third to a insta-hurricane gate camp in the Bleak Lands while in a public fleet. I then bought a bunch of ships of contract,a REALLY nice feature of RvB. They are fit for low skill toons so I am losing out on Slays skill points but for giggles it works well.
Tonight I went and took up an offer of a 1 on 1 frigate fight. My first Incursus went pop very quickly so I fitted the second with tech 2 and had a good fight. Unfortunately I didn't bring enough cap boosters and went poof not after a good long fight, I suspect he would have gone soon after but he linked his fit and this is the analysis of his fit:

1. He was afterburner fit;
2. He used his disruptor to close off my MWD;
3. He used an energy neutralizer on me: because of my cap boosters i don't think this had a material effect on the fight;
4. He used 3 x neutron blasters which, when at optimal, went through my armor very quickly, a single repair unit would not have kept me alive;

This is the analysis of my fit:

1. I was MWD fight, this used up power grid that would have been better used on fitting bigger guns (I had ion blasters II);
2. I didn't bring enough boosters for my cap booster - this ultimately lost me the fight;
3. My MWD was no use;
4. No idea if the hobgoblin II caused any pressure on him;

I have refitted the two remaining Incursus with 3 x neutron blasters, afterburner, LAR x2 with the rigs to support this. (Tried to insert EFT XML but blogger does funny things to the XML)

I flew over to Blue Head Quarters (bhq), got into a fight on their on dock with several people and survived. Destroyed a merlin that aggressed me, the wolf was a tad harder but he ended up warping away.

Eve Online MkIV

Eve Online is a drug, you play it to death, go cold turkey, quit. A few months later you read about a new change, a new mechanic a twist on exploration or you view the new trailer... Hmm, now that gate looks promising.

So Slayfoe's Bull signed up again, he was in Jita with a Vindicator hull and a pile of cash. I looked up the new Sisters of Eve ship the Astero, stuck Amarr frigate into my training queue and bought the required goodies to scan down some sites. Total cost of ship plus fittings ~144million. Not cheap.

Saturday evening I jumped into my new toy and had a look at the map. I had picked Solitude as my target, noticed lots of kills on the main route in so went south via Aridia. Jumped into Solitude, scanned down a few anomalies to get back in the swing of it and eventually found myself a data site. Second hack and a Sacrilege appears beside me. I hit the cloak button but he is already targeting me. I let go of my ECM drones and align for the sun, too late, his mates jump into system and begin arriving. It takes them a surprising amount of time to start shooting, but the end result is the same, my pod is winging its way to the nearest station.

Lessons learnt.

1. Be aligned;
2. Be checking for probes on d-scan;
3. Simply don't bother running a site when some one else is in system!
4. Switch automatic targeting back on! When part of a large alliance you switch this feature off for space battles so you don't end up shooting your own logistics, as it was, I suspect my ECM drones hung round waiting for me to tell them what to do.

So Slay is on the way back to Jita to re-ship. This time I am going out in a Helios, a damn site cheaper to do the same thing!