Yaoi Corp and Our War's First Fight

The other day I resubscribed to EVE, finals being over and so on. Having thought much over my break, I decided to leave the blobs and drama of other people's 0.0 alliances behind, and founded my own corp: Yaoi Corp. On the first day, I recruited a promising guy called Angel Rodriguez, who was quite new to the game but had a bunch of resolve. Then I decided to have some fun PVPing in highsec before starting my move down to 0.0.

Bored, I clicked show info on random people passing me in space until I found an alliance-less corp with about 100 members: Space Marine Academy. As it turns out, they are a training corp for a corporation in Gentlemens Club, but I didn't know that at the time. I shoved in 2 million isk for the wardec and patiently waited 48 hours.

Two days later, I logged on to find myself alone in a system with 9 war targets next door. Using my newly obtained ISK from an epic arc, I bought a triple-rep Myrmidon in Amarr and returned to the system. The following fight proved that against superior numbers, few things can compete in efficiency with a Myrmidon. The wartargets must have been shocked at my seeming stupidity as I knowingly jumped a battlecruiser into a 9 man gatecamp. 

Instantly, I decloaked and burned away from the Youl stargate, expecting tacklers to come burning after me. They did, and in short order my autocannons and trusty Warriors made scrap metal after the first Rifter. Immediately, I targeted, scrammed, and webbed the next frigate, a juicy Taranis. He made the fatal mistake of trying to escape once the drones began hitting him. Here is a word of advice if you are in a frigate engaging a Myrmidon with autocannons: it is better to brave only the drones than to give the six medium-sized autocannons a clear shot at you.

In just a minute, another two tech 1 tacklers, a Condor and Rifter popped, and the large ships began to evacuate the field. Then, inexplicably, a Crusader came into close range, after watching 4 of his frigate-sized compatriots die, and was instantly scrammed, webbed, and taken apart in a matter of seconds. Running out of boosters, I sighted a Caracal sitting still 20 kilometers away. Shoving in the last few 800 charges, I blasted over to him and killed him while aligning out. This turned out to be a good idea as a Drake landed only a few kilometers away and began blasting heavy assault missiles as I joyfully warped away to the sun. 

But wait! It's not quite over yet. Instead of resting on my laurels, I decided it would be a bright idea to restock my charges and come back again. Of course, they knew exactly what I was flying now and the element of surprise at having a 800 dps omnitank was gone. Upon jumping in, I managed to kill a Rupture before succumbing to a tidal wave of fire.

Still, despite my stupidity, I was glad of having taken on so many and done as relatively well as I did. It is more a testament to the power of the ship than to my piloting skills that I was able to destroy as much as I did. That sturdy Myrmidon took, wait for this, over 92,000 damage before dying. And this was all during round two in which my opponents had reshipped!

Here is the final battle report.

If you ever needed more evidence to use the fit I suggested a few posts ago, this is it. Tons of DPS, tons of tank, all in one little cheap package. 

The new (and not so new) pilots of the Space Marine Academy have my respect for not only engaging a pilot much older than most of them, but also killing him. It is more than I can say for many war targets.

Here's to many more good fights!

Securitas

PS: (or SP rather) Shameless Plug! Yaoi Corp is recruiting anybody and everybody that is willing to be part of a just-for-fun pure PVP corp! That is, if you're willing to stand a CEO like me. Here is our recruitment thread.