A Duel at Sundown - A tale of 2 Battleships

Gather 'round travelers! Today I present to you a tale of my adventures in New Eden! Several weeks ago, I met a fellow here on r/eve. This fellow goes by the name of u/Killar-12 . This fellow challenged me to a battleship duel.

Being the honorable fellow I am, I naturally accepted. Now, the past few weeks have been a bit chaotic for me, but on this evening, I finally met the challenger on the fields of battle!

We warped in, and both locked up the other. His typhoon was locked and loaded, ready to burn his way across the stars. I had prepared the only battleship i could fly: A Raven. Being not the most ideal ship (and having low skills, being a noob and all), i still had honor to uphold! I WOULD NOT RUN! I WOULD FIGHT!

Missiles flew back and forth, and beams of energy flashed between the ships as neuts were used. At first, all seemed fine, my shields were holding even to his, despite my cap falling rather quickly.

Then both ships entered armor. I was breaking quickly, and he was not, his ship approached mine as my cap failed, and he mercilessly let loose barrage after barrage of missiles.

A flash as my ship exploded, and I was in my pod, with the victorious Typhoon sitting over me. Being the gentleman he is, he allowed me to live, and I flew off, vowing to return someday (with a better ship+fit) for a rematch.

Here is a screenshot of my cap having failed and the typhoon ramming me. http://imgur.com/6kH8uwR

And here is the killmail: https://zkillboard.com/kill/50799615/

Note: I know im knew, no mock my fit :P

GF to u/Killar-12 t'was a good time! :D

Posted Dec 19, 2015, 2:19 AM UTC

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Dex_Maddock•

Try scrapping one of the shield extenders and using a heavy cap booster + another invul.

Then go try him again. Good for you for not being a puss.

o7

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SemiMagSerpentis•

Obligatory: Low Tier Trash Shit Fit.

Happy you had fun mate <3

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Killar-12Dirt 'n' Glitter•
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RetributionZeroOPGet Off My Lawn•

:'( Way to shatter my dreams!

I SHOW YOU LOVE AND THIS IS HOW YOU REACT! :(

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Killar-12Dirt 'n' Glitter•

I had to, T1 cruisers next time though, you came, which is the big thing. that a lot of folks wouldn't do.

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RetributionZeroOPGet Off My Lawn•

Yeah, T1 cruisers. And i wont tell you which one im bringing in advanced :P

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Killar-12Dirt 'n' Glitter•

if it's DnG you can do a little research to figure what we're bringing if it's Incident Command, expect shitty stuff, honestly we'd probably be best to do it in T1 frigs/dessies with how many newbies we have.

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jeffraiderREBEL WARRIOR•

gf!!

hmu if u want an elite 1v1 raven for next time boi

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Killar-12Dirt 'n' Glitter•

I'll share what I was using since we both knew what the other was bringing

http://i.imgur.com/kQWcmhd.png

Let's just ignore the fact that I had a T1 passive defense link.

kinda feel bad for using such a hard counter, and drugs, and links

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jeffraiderREBEL WARRIOR•

Very nice fit, no shame in that

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Killar-12Dirt 'n' Glitter•

true, and to be quite honest, I've other fits I prefer for fleet and solo work but I know that one would work well.

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jeffraiderREBEL WARRIOR•

def bud

one time i agreed to brawl my buddy who was in a drake, i was in a harby, i totally had 2x kin hardeners. ALL'S FAIR MATE

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former_firefly•

Don't go buffer and active tank at the same time. Also, where the tackle be at for your honorable duel?

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RetributionZeroOPGet Off My Lawn•

Tackle? What tackle? T'was HONORABLE! no tackle needed! Fleeing was NEVER AN OPTION! NEVER SURRENDER! NEVER GIVE IN!

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s0berrGoonswarm Federation•

Just so you know if you are not bubbled its basically impossible to have your pod caught by a battleship, when you are going down you click a warpout point and spam warp to it, your pod will take off before they lock it up.

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former_firefly•

They should have podded you for fucking up the Stork...

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173rdComancheLegion of xXDEATHXx•

Man now I wanna get in a battleship duel.

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RetributionZeroOPGet Off My Lawn•

I mean, obviously ppl wanna do it occasionally!

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