I totally only JUST noticed this post- almost a month after it was written! xD Go figure :P But I keep re-reading it and, cause I love it and it makes me smile :D (and its totally making me look epic ;) hehehe) So here goes :P
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Hunting Deadly Cat in the Night
This is more than a tale about Jaguars. It is a story about Jaguar girl
power. If this causes hives and a burning sensation I can only advise
taking some diphenhydramine and some type of soothing cream before you try to read this.
Naughty Cargo was having a bad thrasher day. She is new to the corp.
She started with R1FTA and is focused into her smaller ships. However,
it was just a bad Thrasher day for her. She kept losing them. After
she lost the last one and was really down I looked at her problem and
decided I had a solution.
Jaguars.
See, Naughty was not losing her Thrashers because she is stupid. It
is because she needed a better align time, agility and speed then she
was getting. Destroyers are a great concept but for running as light,
fast tackle they leave a lot to be desired.
We were docked back up and resorting the fleet. I had done some
shopping the other day, so I tossed her my Jaguar in a buffered fit and
told her to give it a whirl. A few moments later she is in joy on coms
over the speed and agility. Yup, problem located and better ship
installed.
It was one of those days when fleets are in and out. With Naughty refit
we were back out and our first test was a group of Ishtar doing a site.
They ignored or did not see the combat probes. Ren was flying an
interceptor and he and a drake were sent in to pin them down. As he
established point Naughty and I hit warp, landed, burned through the
first room, landed, and established secondary points as the rest of the
fleet piled in. We lost one of the three and their logistics ship
bailed at full speed. Not bad considering the sheer amount of time it
took us to get to them.
Working with another Jaguar is fun. Naughty and I
have complementary flying styles. Working with more than just me as
tackle is amazing. With the interceptor and two assault frigs we
were ridiculously good at chasing things down. This came to light a bit
later. It was two in the morning for me, and I wanted to stay with the
fleet but I had to start to readjust my schedule for work on Monday.
I've been off for a week and the thought of a zombie Monday morning back
to work at six in the morning was unappealing. I had a mature moment.
Fortunaly, it was somewhat short lived. The fleet was reforming with a
few new additions and waiting for people to catch up. As I left to go
dock, I passed through a Talos, Tornado, Scythe fleet. It was only two
jumps away from the boys and it seemed to be heading towards them. I
turned around and they sent a scout to peek to find them at range from
the gate. The fleet went to the gate and started to work on a warp in
when they warped to the gate, turned around, and headed back to where I
was.
It was an unexpected pincer situation. I had planned on leaving but I
could not resist. The FC sent the interceptor and Naughty in her Jaguar
to try to catch them. As they raced across system the gate I was
sitting on fired and a Tornado decloaked 28k off of me. I had a point.
It was a very simple situation.
I pointed the Tornado and started to try to stay alive while the Talos
tried to blap me off. Ren came in his Ares with Naughty right behind in
the Jaguar. Suddenly, Ren made a mistake that lost him his ship. He
thought they were running so burned to chase, lost transversal and was
instapoped by the Tornado. Naughty grabbed the Talos and the fleet
started to burn them down. The Tornado started to burn and I was doing
all sorts of weird range things trying to avoid both him and the Talos.
Thankfully the Talos went down, the Scythe died at some bit and they
finished taking out the Tornado with me in low shields from a few lucky
shots.
I went off to bed and Naughty wound up having a fantastic night as the
primary tackle without losing her ship. What she had been trying to do
in the Thrasher the Thrasher just could not do for her. With a bit of a
ship change her entire fighting concept snapped into focus. When I
logged in it was to people telling me what an excellent tackle job she
did for the fleet, landing them several important kills and getting off
the field when she needed to.
Good job all around. This is the fun part. Even if the bitter vets,
with their crustiness complain that the Jaguar used to be better, its
what newer players have and we work with what we have. I think we are
finding success in it.
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