Missile boats

[Dantrithor]

Oh, great, again. Oh well, it was me, again.

This was the situation:
- I am informed about the presence of 4 xeno ships in system. I'm given names, and by the names (some with the typical "." in name used for secondary characters, a.k.a. usually bombers) i guess it is two bombers and two/three fighters.

- I spot the xenos, 4, i scan them, no bombers. I request them to leave the area. I stop at 3.5 kilometres of the enemy fighters, not firing, not moving, and at that moment i'm alone there.

- One of the fighters proceeds to engage me, the others begin moving towards, so, yes, after they engage, i fire back. Image

- I see there are a couple fighters (LPI & indep) in the area. I proceed to ONLY unshield targets for the fighters. When LPI tells me to avoid shooting a single shot to the fighter he was jousting, i do.

- I completely stop, no shooting, not moving, expecting the fighters to take their chance. THis last about a minute and a half, in which they ram/shoot at me.

- New fighter arrives, black.mamba, to enemy group.

- After that fighter LPI fought is dead, i issue a second warning, warning them that if they do not retreat following shots will be to kill. (check my b/b count, huh, they actually did a dent, don't you think so?) Image

- I focus on black mamba, who didn't dodge, use cm's, use cd's, or whatever, just was jousting me, and killed him after 4-5 passes. He is the first casualty made by the gunboat in the 18 minutes that had been of fight, acording to the timestamps on the screenshots. Image

- The rest of xenos retreat, but for spear, who fights the LPI agent one-on-one, and i stay around there watching. leaving later, after a crash to desktop attacked me, and on relogging i left system.

I issued two warnings to the xenos, first one while stopped not engaging till they engaged first, second while fighting, and a full stop in-between. They did not answer a single word, neither tried to get a peaceful exit first time, when not a single shot was fired from any part. I thought there were bombers, which would have made this better for all, but if as seeing there are no bombers, i do not engage, and try to get a "peaceful" solution to the event, and you engage, that's not exactly all my fault, don't you think so?



PD: Really, i would understand this if i went guns-blazing without warning or anything towards your fighters. But having, now that i read Jihadjoe's last post, five fighters and a sixth one in the way, and engaging FIRST my stopped and pasive ship while i was requesting your intentions and basically giving you an easy chance to leave system/move away of the lane, after having surely scanned me, isn't very intelligent. Well, i guess it's better to fight in fighters a cerberus+infernos+razor gunboats.

*grabs his head and smashes it against the wall, then grabs it from the floor and puts it on his neck again*


PD2: And i was eddie in the fight about xenos + HF. I asked HF if they requested any assistance, they replied affirmatively, so eddie engaged. If an ally requests support, i should just say "no, sorry, it's unfair. Please, die, we will make sure we bury the remains of your corpses with flowers over it"?

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