Stupid Is As Stupid Does

Action Summary

Task: Camp a gate near our home system.

Problem: Boredom. No really, there's not a problem this time.

Enemies: One solo Cynabal - the same one we caught in "To Catch a Cynabal."

Friendlies: Arty Hurricane, Stiletto, Kitsune.

My ship of choice: Cynabal.

Reasoning for choice: A Cynabal is a great gate-camping ship because of its agility and relatively high scan resolution. It can sit 30km off a gate and apply damage reliably with barrage, and can also assign drones to fast tackle. To be honest, there's nothing much to be learned from this post other than "don't be stupid," but that in itself may be worth the read.

Killmails

Cynabal kill: http://redc.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13278651

After Action Report

We were camping a gate with (lots of) bubbles with an arty Hurricane, a tackle Stiletto, an EWAR Kitsune, and me in my Cynabal. A hostile Cynabal was reported on the opposite side of our gate and jumped through into us.

However, instead of burning back for the gate and running, he chose to burn away from us and attempt to kite/kill us. I don't think he realized we had a Kitsune on the field until too late, and he ended up being pretty much permajammed.

The Stiletto and I chased him down and poked him to death slowly. Again, as before, he refused to respond to "gf" in local. Also as before, his Cynabal had T1 guns on it. He got his pod away nearly instantly (probably with ridiculously expensive implants, since he apparently has more ISK than sense) so we were unfortunately unable to see what he had in his head, but rest assured it was nothing intelligent.

Lessons Learned

Don't be stupid. I did some research after the fight, and found out this character was less than 3 months old. This was the third Cynabal he lost in our pipe over the last 3 days, all fit equally terribly with T1 guns. Unfortunately, I have to blast him here for his horrible decisionmaking - pirate ships (especially something as expensive as a Cynabal) should never be flown with T1 guns, period. If you don't have the training to use T2 guns, you don't have the training to fly a pirate ship effectively. I started flying my own Cynabal only yesterday, strictly because my T2 gun training did not finish until then. 

That said, if this guy decides to come back yet again, I'd be more than happy to solo him. :)

Oh well, eventful Saturday mornings are always nice, I suppose.

Take care, and fly safe!

o/

-Sarah "Numi" Ichinumi