The Battle with a God.

Sat Sep 27, 2003 4:59 am by F/A-18 Hornet

-----------Boston Freelancer Server, Cambridge System------------
Today I decided I didn't like AR's handling of the server pirates. So I declared war on AR, and hunted down two members in the Omega Systems. [RNEarendil (also admin of the server), as a true ally, came to help them.

He caught up with me in Cambridge. The battle was intense. I ran through all my shield bats and nanobots very quickly, but I held on. Earendil later told me he ran out of 'bats and nearly ran out nanos. The battle lasted a good 10 minutes or so. IT WAS THE MOST FUN I'VE EVER HAD. The battle went back and forth back and forth back and forth. At one point I almost had him...brought him down to somewhere around 5% or 10% hull health, but he repaired and came back strong. Eventually, he wore me down and I was sent back to Cadiz Base in Omega 5 in a flash. Earendil is the most challenging and the most skilled player I have fought to date. Consequently, I worship him as a God of PVP.

See ya'll around.

Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:40 am by moby

Good to see people who still knows how to enjoy war games.

Moby

Sat Sep 27, 2003 3:55 pm by F/A-18 Hornet

Thanks for seeing my point, Moby.

Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:22 am by DJscratchman

cool, what was he flying?

Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:18 pm by F/A-18 Hornet

We were both flying in Eagles, fully decked with Nomads, Tizonas, so on. I had cannonballs, and he had a type of missle, either cannonballs or lancers I'm not sure. I used up 25 cannonballs trying to hit him. They impacted uselessly on his shields, never hit his hull. NONE of his missles hit me. It boiled down to a guns only fight when both of us gave up on missles.

Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:53 pm by |Shodan|

Nice!!
This is how the game should or could be played.

Hats off!

Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:59 pm by Earendil

Hehe! If he had come back against me I don't think I could have hit the broad side of a barn! We were both pretty wiped, adrenalien pumping, etc.

For those who were curious I had an Eagle with no middle wing (left unrepaired), four Nomad cannons, a TdC and the Firestalker, all other equipment (ripper mines and CMs) I never used. I had Firestalkers because they are faster and turned them on during the fight. After about firing 15 and seeing no effect (obviously I stink with missles) I turned them off and returned to what I do best, guns only. When Hornet didn't nano his hull near the end, I thought I had him but that last quarter hull left was nearly as hard as the entire fight before that since he wouldn't give up! I never use nanos and batts but this one time I did so the fight lasted far longer than others I have fought even with guns only. I had about 12 nanos left and no batts.

Hornet meant "god" with a little g because of what it says in my signature.

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Earendil
SysAdmin of Boston Freelancer server

Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:52 am by F/A-18 Hornet

No, I meant God of PVP. Heh heh.

Thu Oct 02, 2003 10:57 pm by F/A-18 Hornet

UPDATE: Boston Freelancer Server; Freeport 9, Omicron Theta.

I met up with Earendil again, and challenged him to another duel. He was in his Eagle again...but I had switched to a Drake. By some miracle, I won.

Thanks for the battle, Earendil. It was a lot of fun.

Sat Oct 04, 2003 3:40 am by Earendil

Ahh, but you didn't tell them how I had duelled at least five times before that with others. Also the first time you dueled me you won but I was using only TdC, Skyblast B and a Skyblast B turret. You used lots of missles but had no significant gun hits.

After a few more duels with others I duelled him again with my full compliment which includes two blasters and two cannons. Had to do a lot of engine kill just to bring guns on him as he was slippery as a greased pig (remember, the Drake is the most manueverable fighter in an unmodded game). I shot down over half his missles (his guns were useless) but enough got through to bring me down. He admitted later he had only one missle left!

I hate missles!

Guess I should have used CMs. :/

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Earendil
SysAdmin of Boston Freelancer server

Sun Oct 05, 2003 4:52 pm by moby

I liked if you leaved the first two post in place, it was poetic.

Moby

Edited by - Moby on 05-10-2003 17:52:21

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