The Captains Log 8/3
Solar system: Doril
Station: Archangels Assembly Plant
After running some reactions in my Wormhole I had a 100mill to spare, which I decided to use to buy some more ships for PvP. With 100mill there is a wide option of ships that I can procure, but I decided to go back to basics and bought myself 10 Rifters with fittings.
High Slot
3 x 200mm Autocannon II’s
1 x OE-5200 Rocket Launcher
Mid Slot
1 x 1MN Afterburner II
1 x Warp Scrambler II
1 x Stasis Webifier II
Low Slot
1 x Damage Control II
1 x 100mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
1 x Small Armour Rep
Rigs
2 x Small Trimark Armour Pumps
1 x Projectile Collision Accelerator I
One they had all being procured I transported them down to Doril for a bit of fun.
Rifter 1
Battles:
Rifter vs Punisher – Defeat
A few of us OUCH members were camping the Sendaya gate in Doril when a Punisher flown BullMastiff, a member of Outbreak, warped on grid onto a perch spot above the gate. Before we go on, a little information about our relationship with Outbreak. OUCH members and Outbreak are friends but we will shot each other on sight, we just do it nicely. We have had a few organised fights against Outbreak when neither of us could find targets to shoot and Outbreak will often provide us with advice and will even set up bubbles for us. So when BullMasitiff asked in local if anyone wanted a 1 vs 1 I knew I could trust him enough that I would not get blobbed.
As soon as we engaged I knew I was in for a rough fight as BullMastiff was using a Projectile fitted Punisher, which offers a few distinct advantages over a Rifter, namely more cap. As the fight proceeded we entered a stage where it was a stale mate as I was able to speed tank the majority of his damage and what I couldn’t my armour rep was able to fix. Unfortunately for me BullMastiff was able to do the same thing. Then I ran out of cap. My Afterburner shut down increasing the damage I was tacking and of course I couldn’t repair it. The first Rifter died.
Rifter 2
Battles
Thrasher, Rifter vs Caracal, Megathron – Defeat
Once again I was in Doril with a fellow corp member who was flying a Thrasher. On D-Scan we located a Caracal, Piloted by Rambo7 another Outbreak member, who was flying around a plant. We decided to engage him. Upon engaging him we ran into one problem, the Caracal had ECM drones, so my Thrasher wingman wasn’t able to apply DPS, until I was able to kill the drones, by which it was too late for him as the Caracal killed him. It was just me and the Caracal and things were going fine until Vanakov Mek’lanavar lands on grid in a Megathron and puts his drones and a neut onto me resulting in the death of Rifter number 2.
Rifter 3
Battles
Rifiter vs Caracal – Defeat
I wasn’t about to let the loss of Rifter 2 stop me from going out and trying again. While checking out the gates in Doril I came across Rambo7 in his Caracal again on the Utopia gate. Time for round two. I turned on my Afterburner and proceeded to orbit Rambo7 at high enough speeds that his missiles were doing minimal damage to me. Additionally, his lack of drones, since I had already destroyed them, made this battle a fair bit easier. However, my damage output wasn’t that great so I asked Aliee Ross who was in system with me in Manticore to give me hand. Bad move. As soon as Aliee engaged Rambo7’s friends jumped in and proceeded to reduce my Rifter to shiny space dust.
Rifter 4
This Rifter and its crew were also sold into slavery where they died a painful death without the benefit of my presence.
Rifter 5
Battles
Rifiter vs Rifter and Manticore – Victory
Rifter vs Crusader – Defeat
Once again I was sitting on the Sendaya gate waiting for a potential target when a Rifter, flown by Carebear715, and Manticore jumped in and the held on the gate. Hmm 2 vs 1, but that Manticore wasn’t going to be doing too much damage to me while using torpedos and the Rifter pilot was evidently a Carebear. Engage it was then. The battle was short and quick resulting in the destruction of the Rifter while the Manticore was to faraway to get a point on him, thus allowing him to escape. I consider this to be my first proper solo kill.
This Rifters final battle was against Crusader piloted by Cordarouy Pants who was sitting on the Sendaya gate looking for a fight. Well I was game; a Rifter should a least be able to hold its own against a Interceptor, or maybe not. By the time I had him in half armour I was in deep structure. At least this time I didn’t cap out.
Rifter 6
Battles
Rifter, Ishtar vs Incursus, Typhoon – Victory
Rifter vs Harbinger, Vagabond vs Drake – Victory and Defeat
OUCH used to be friends with another corporation called Quality Control until for various reasons our relationship broke down, so now we shoot each out instead of being friends. So when we see ForgedLiberty sitting on the Sendaya gate in a Incursus we figure that he is bait for Kevees, another QC member in local. In this knowledge Quintaki, flying an Ishtar, and I decided to kill him, which was done rather quickly. As soon as he was dead Kevees warped in with his Typhoon and we all warped out.
Punisher004 was flying around in Doril in his Drake looking for a kill. Unfortunately for him so were BullMastiff, Harbinger, and Vanakov Mek’lanavar, Vagabond, both of whom are Outbreak members. Punisher004 got caught by BullMastiff as he jumped into Doril from Utopia and was quickly engaged by Vanakov as well. I decided to jump into the fray as well making it three way fight in which everyone else targeted me and then promptly killed me. Ah well at least Punisher004 was also quick to die.
Rifter 7
Battles
Rifter, Thrasher vs Drake – Defeat
Crorono, in a Thrasher, and I had a set up a Drag Bubble on the Sendaya gate to see what we could catch. As it turned out we caught a Drake piloted by OLEKBOLEK who quickly reduced Crorono’s Thrasher to space dust. Me in all my good sense decided to warp out and fight another day, only for me to engage him latter on only to be neuted once again and reduced to scrap metal myself. Next time I should just die fighting at the side of my corp mates.
Rifter 8
Battles
OUCH; U’K vs Waterboard – Defeat
Rifter vs Claw – Defeat
This Rifter went on a 20 man roam with our fleet consisting of mostly Frigates with a few Battlecruisers. While travelling through Curse we ran into a Ushra’Khan gang who requested our help in killing a Waterboard fleet consisting of mostly Battleships. Well we were game for this. Unfortunately, for us this battle took place on station where they undocked a Thanatos and used logistics ships to repair their fleet, preventing us from killing any of them. Fortunately, for me though my Rifter got out alive.
Later that day though I watched Dazamin, flying a Claw, jump into Doril from Sendaya so I went to engage him. The fight was going well enough apart from the simple fact that the damage I was tacking was to consistent for me to simply pulse my small armour rep, so I had keep it online until I ran out of cap and got my ship destroyed once more.
Rifter 9
Battles
Rifter vs Crusader - Defeat
Phejet warped onto the Sendaya gate while I was patrolling a bubble, so closed in on him hoping I would have better luck against this crusader unlike the last one. This time the Crusader managed to stay at range and destroy Rifter 9 from afar. I feel though if I had being able to close in on him I would have won as I still managed to take him into half armour despite being at the edge of my fall off.
Rifter 10
Battle
Rifter vs Hurricane, Hurricane, Manticore, Manticore – Defeat
Negotium Alliance had set up a Camp on the Sendaya gate that involved lots of bubbles so I decided to sit on top of it and watch the fun from afar. Unfortunately for me I wasn’t paying attention and a Hurricane got close enough to get a point on me and ruin this Rifters day.
Rifter 11
Battle
Rifter vs Dramiel x 3, Malediction, Nemsis, Purifier – Defeat
Outbreak saw Negotium’s little gate camp and crashed it scoring some nice kills. While they were looting the wreaks I noticed that a Malediction was a little off from the others so I decided to take it on and hope that I killed it before the Dramiels that were also flying around were able to destroy my last Rifter. Unfortunately, the best laid plans never work and the Malediction survived while my poor Rifter joined the other 10 Rifters in Rifter heaven.
So there we have it the life and times of 11 Rifters pressed into my service. They one and all died painful deaths, but it was allot of fun. I have to say though that I think I need to tweak my fit a little bit as I would like to make it a bit more cap stable as well as making it a little faster then what it is and maybe see if I can fit war disrupter instead of the war scrambler. Or I could just use a similar set up on some Punishers. I am still tossing up what I should buy with the next batch of ISK, Punishers, Thoraxs or a Sabre. Personally I’m leaning towards the Sabre at the moment but we will see what happens.
Now my challenge to all you Industrialists and Carebears out there; go do what I have just done. Go buy yourself 10 Rifters, Punishers, Kesterals or something else and go PvP in them till you lose them. You will have fun and you won’t regret it.
