Dz was messing around with the Amarr in Kamela, per usual. So I hopped in my Jaguar and headed in that direction. I saw some War targets in Amamake as I was passing through, and two of them were sitting on the gate to Auga, one of the throughway's to Kamela. One of them was in a Pod, the other in a Catalyst.
I was on my way to help Dz, so I wasn't expecting to fight, but oh man, he was right there, being all dumb. The catalyst can do silly high damage, but my Jaguar is just silly-awesome. Dz wasn't in any real danger at the time, so I engaged the Catalyst.
No real excitement or tactics, just a quick little slugfest. Somewhat disappointingly, another militia mate in a vexor came up and got a round or two off right at the end to get on the kill-mail. So there goes another solokill gone gank.
It wasn't too bad, out of the 2700-ish damage, I did 2500 of it, so you might as well call it a Solo-kill.
I was glad for the militia mate who joined in though, he managed to scoop the loot before this neutral loot-thief could swoop in and take our spoils.
After my aggression timer finished off, I continued to Kamela.
Kel had logged in, and so we were getting ready for our usual dismantling of kamela war targets. A zealot had been monkeying about outside the station. I targeted me when I got there, and so I docked up. The Zealot than engaged Dz, which would have been dumb, if not for the undocking apoc. I undocked in my Hurricane, and we quickly dispatched the Zealot. The Apoc didn't look like he was engaging, but he must have since he didn't re-dock. And we popped him like a tin-can moments later.
It looked like another lol-gankfest night in Kamela. After we scooped the loot and docked up, I returned to my Jaguar. There was a vengeance warping around, and I thought it would be a fun little fight to be had.
After a bit of posturing, I managed to get a straight up fight out of him. But it turned into an eve-breaking duel of fail.
Neither of us could break each other's tank. We just sat there and slugged it out, but we weren't even close to tank breaking. I think the stupid battle went on for like 6 minutes. Dz docked up and was going to fit a neut to the Typhoon, so we could break his tank. But thats about when his buddies in an Arbitrator and a Ishtar showed up. Dz decided not to re-fit.
In hind sight, I wish he had, because then I might have been able to pop the vengeance and warp off, but meh, hind sight is 20-20. Dz's thought was that he needed to get out there asap to get the arbi and ishtar. Which never materialized.
Kel was warping in to save my ass from the three ships, but arrived a little too-late and pop went my Jaguar. I warped my Pod out, aptly named "Walk of Shame," and Dz was engaged on the station, where he managed to pop the arbitrator.
I returned and undocked my hurricane. I was going to Dual web that POS vengeance and lol as it exploded. But Then a megathron and abaddon undocked and Dz was still engaged. Awww hell. Dz wanted me to re-dock, and so I did. Kel didn't know what was going on, and Dz didn't give him instruction to come in and Jam.
On the field there was an ishtar, Vengeance, abaddon, and megathron.
If I undocked in the Hurricane and Kel came in to jam, we might have actually been able to win that fight, but the hesitation, coupled with the second battleship undocking, saw the opportunity for victory pass.
It wasn't a bad loss, and no one is really to blame. It was bound to happen at some point. We danced with death a few too many times.
But we can't really call it a bad night. Our KD ration was 2:1!
Graveyard:
Zealot <- I am fairly sure he just face-rolled to get this setup..
Arbitrator <- lol my jag took almost twice the damage this did!
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