#brutix

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Brutix - Kana Minami - Minamike [colored]

Master tactician, who does now but thinks later.

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All Your Battlecruisers Are Belong To Us

One of my favourite targets when flying frigates, is the battlecruiser class hulls. There are all kinds of tactical challenges to consider when engaging such a beast. And the piloting requires the utmost attention as you will often find yourself attacked by energy neutralizers, hordes of drones or the consistent damage from an extremely well tanked missile boat. Here are five logged encounters with different battlecruisers: Hurry up, Hurricane On a rather boring routine patrol to a dead end system I came across something unusual for this particular system: A Hurricane class vessel was clearing the belts of their local residents. My Firetail managed to eradicate his drones after some very good drone management by the battlecruiser. But when turning my turrets against the hull itself, I met a repair system capable keeping up with my autocannons. So it was a stalemate. Thankfully I had fellow rebels nearby to help finish the job. But what happens? When my helping hands arrive, the battlecruiser’s commanding capsuleer ejects and abandons his crew! After some minor autocannon negotiations with the local belt inhabitants, I park my Firetail in space and eject my own capsule. The crew of the battlecruiser was very happy to pledge allegiance to yours truly, as they had totally lost faith in their former command. Understandable. The Hurricane is now reconfigured for more dirty work and it will be flown as a stolen ship. I guess the crew one day will realize their bad luck, because this hull is destined for death and destruction. Even You, Brutix? It seems that capsuleers in dead end systems like to cruise around in battlecruisers looking for battle with local belt inhabitants. This was another case of such behavior. This one, however, thought he was safe as he had chosen an anomaly rather than a belt. The capsuleer quickly contacted me through the local communications channel when I landed my scrambler on his big spaceship: “How did you find me so qickly?!” I explained that this is usual procedures in my line of work while I worked my way through his armor. He also made me an offer I definitely could refuse, before he proceeded to eject from his ship to save his capsule. So far, my quite good battlecruiser skills have been used mostly to board and dock battlecruisers that have been left for me in space. A Sugar Cane Oh, this was a sweet one. The pilot looked decent enough, but I was feeling sexy and wanted to test my firetail under medium neutralizers. I sure did get one hell of a test. The complexities of managing capacitor, scrambler, webifier, repair system and and killing drones that get launched and withdrawn all the time - well, that is a very intense experience! But once the drones were gone, the tracking disruptor did an excellent job of keeping my Firetail safe from the medium sized guns. However, it was a decent chance that it would get away if my capacitor was bleeding too much under his neutralizers. It was a game of capacitor management. My nosferatu and I, we won it. Then a few minutes later I tried again on another Hurricane-pilot and lost. Hurricane Downgraded to Light Breeze There is something about battlecruisers. They seem to be the most tempting ship for freshly graduated capsuleers. Battle. Cruisers. They sure sound scary. But, when flying a big ship, you need certain skills to do so effectively. And that is an important factor to evaluate when choosing battlecruisers for targets. This pilot stood out as an obvious target – and sure enough, it hardly fought back. Oh, it tried, but couldn’t land a solid hit. So I took it down with ease. In my Rifter. That is a lesson I have given many green pilots. An expensive lesson, but it should be good value for their ISK lost. To Drake Even The Drake. It is a beast for a single frigate. You seldom find your capacitor neutralized, but there are two major problems: It will do damage to you. And it has a tank that needs some serious damage – and time – to break. So there is no doubt you’re gonna need an active tank to hold out for a while and decent damage dealing capabilities. The tracking disruptor installed on Firetail-class frigate did not become very useful in this fight (allthough engineers and scientists are apparently working on making it useful against missiles as well). The nosferatu and the armour repairer, however, did their job: Buy time. And after the drones was taken care of, the Drakes shields very slowly withered away. My pulsed repairer managed to keep up with the damage from the heavy missiles. And the nosferatu kept feeding my capacitor with just enough energy for my scrambler the pulsed repair system. Once the Drake’s structure began to crumble, the commanding capsuleer agreed on paying me 66 millions in ISK to avoid a rather embarresing loss. I decided that was a good enough offer and let the burning beast warp away. Two kills. Two free ships. One ransom. This is why I love battlecruisers.

[androflight]

Bringing Battlecruisers Back

You may say my pirate life is not a focused one at the moment. I have ships in Bosberger and in Prism as well as our main HQ in Hevrice. I am tired of frigates and tend to grab whatever from the hangar and fly somewhat planlessly.

The other day I got jumped by a Brutix in my shield Gnosis. He had a perfect warpin and scrammed me right away. So I had a look at the Brutix i had in the very same system and refitted it from shields to dual web hull tank. Chose medium neut over nos for fighting active tanks and frigates and for lack of better ideas set course to Hevrice from Rens. Shoot some rats on the way in boredom in my buffer fit but entered Mormelot with full tank. Going to the outgate I noticed a Megathron in the ship scanners. A ship very similar to my Brutix but one size bigger. Technically a fuckbrained fight to take but I was restless, bored and noticed Tech1 drones in space next to the battleship.

So I warped in at zero, he was there, 10 km off. It took some time to get my BC ass in gear and claw myself into range to but my scram on him shutting down his main thrusters and jamming his warp drive power cores. Orbit 500 meters to get an advantage of my smaller guns and load Void M. Worked like a charm and luckily I was not shut down by a Heavy Neut so my Neutron blasters could freely apply their just short of 1000 dps  with the added damage from the 5 Hammerhead II's.

It looked like I had struck gold catching a noob in top belt – but then a Rook uncloaked. A trap or a rescue mission – the result would be the same. A Battleship specialized in frying out my targeting computers – the core systems for making my Battlecruiser a combat ship not a piece of useless metal hanging idle in space – my chances looked really slim.

The jams delayed – maybe slow targeting? - and the Megathron had lost all defensive systems, taking its right in the structure of its massive hull. Could I? Yes. One cycle of jams paralyzed my guns, but the drones kept going and suddenly the Mega popped! leaving me with an above class kill and another Battleship to worry about.

The Brutix' tank was doing well as dps was rather low and so it happened – targeting computers resurfaced and I could reapply hurt on the hated ECM boat. Jammed in the next cycle I figured I maybe could escape if I got another lock and dual webbed him so I aligned out and spammed target. I got lock a gain and saw him drop – or rather melt – once his shields had chipped away. So I re-approached and soon after was shaken by the unlikely shockwave blast as his main power core became unstable and the ship exploded in space.

I had killed two battleships in my Brutix. Yay!

I looted the Mega and shot down to station where I got bumped by a Loki who continued the hurt on my Super Reinforced He-man hardened Brutix hull – and even though he made an successful bump that shot me 4000 meters away from docking range I slowboated Ghandi-style back to safety and docked up just as my adversaries thought my ship died. They lol'ed out on local until the truth dawned on them:

tazz dimas > lol MCKen3311 Daugherty > LOLOLOLOL MCKen3311 Daugherty > god damnit dude, you were suppopsed to die lol Androxtar Nemsis > oh sorry missed that part MCKen3311 Daugherty > XD

OK after a little cool off time I undock and find the coast clear. So I hit warp to the wreck I had bookmarked and just before I shoot off I notice the Loki on scan. The infamous belt is out of scan range from the station but I pick up readings of a Caldari destroyer as I approach – and rightly so – I land on top of the Megathron pilot's looting Corax and he stays around till I get him locked and pinned down. Third kill in the sack but then the real dilemma: Do I stay for the Loki that appears on the directional scanner readings?

The answer of course would be: Hell yeah! My ship was all paid for and it just might be a shit fit like the others...

I decide to orbit really close and fire Faction Antimatter to maximize any advantage I'd have in tracking tho I was using Neutron Blasters, overheat and pray. His drones surprised me. Dragonflies! They had undocked a freakin' Carrier and drone-assisted him to make this fight comfortably one sided i his favor. Never the less – for some crazy reason, I think Hail ammo failed him when going as close as 37 meters – my Brutix held up in the last bits of bolts and bulkheads and his 700 mil Strategic Cruiser was reduced to rubble.

I warped out like a madman not looting or looking back – and this turned to be my undoing. I docked and repaired – looked at killmail and realized I had left two Fed Navy Webs on the field. Enough to pay for my ship 1½ times. After the Megathron pilot begging for peace I thought I had a slim chance. So I warped to 0 on the wreck again. Found a Garmur looting and landed within scram range. But by the time I had him locked he had danced away and put a long point on me.

5000 m/s Garmur vs 1200 m/s fat Brutix butt is a hard as hell slingshot so in the end they got their kill. But still.  The killboard overview calculated 0.7 loss but 1.16 destroyed for an 94% efficiency – that's acceptable :P

http://killboard.the-tuskers.info/?a=kill_related&kll_id=129884

I think I can say this was a very encouraging go at Bringing Battlecruisers Back!

EDIT:

The Rook is clearly not a battleship but a Tech II Combat Recon Cruiser and he did not uncloak but warped in under cover of his d-scan invisibility. Poor choice of jammers made his fit so ineffective and fitting a scram forced him to stay within blaster range once the Loki had evaporated.

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Brutix Navy Issue

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Just (Battle)Cruisin'