Today I tackled a Mach for over 12 minutes while under heavy assault from his Cerb buddy. Vengeance fit at end of post.
So I heard there was a Mach going about blapping my friends. So I undocked in the Bat Mobile, a variation of my “dread tackler” that I once posted in these forums as well. I found him a few systems out from where he last blapped my friend. I engaged and so did he.
I got under his guns after taking some serious hits to approach him. Now that I’m under his guns I start popping his drones. His neut activates (no surprise) and I activate the nosferatus to perma run my AB and Hardeners and point. Even grappled his guns can’t touch me. I can’t break his tank and he can’t break mine. I dialed my bat phone to alert the Horde! Naturally our frigates and dessies arrive first…a hostile Cerb enters the fray and swats them like flies…
Now I’m alone again while a grappling Mach deploys more drones and a Cerb is going full RLM on me…but that’s ok, I just pop the drones again and my reactive hardener gives me 93% resists against the Cerb’s damage type. The Cerb switches damage type and I start taking a beating…for about 2 cycles of my reactive hardener before I become virtually immune again. The Cerb keeps switching his damage type (mind you that’s a long relad time on RML’s that’s how I know I was tackling for over 10 minutes) and the Mach deploys a final set of drones…I blap them.
Finally some heavier ships come in and they blap the Cerb…they start attacking the Mach, but his tank still doesn’t fail even with my own rockets finally on him instead of drones. Others that come in to get another scram die…I told them not to lolol…I’m the only one holding a scram on him again for another 5 minutes…finally a manticore and a second orthrus made it to the field and brought him. Cerb pilot comes back in stabbed badger to attempt to loot the Mach…nah…I told my buddies to stop dps on the mach and blap that badger first…that loot is mine.
[Vengeance, The Bat Mobile]
Centii A-Type Small Armor Repairer
Armor Thermal Hardener II
Reactive Armor Hardener
200mm Rolled Tungsten Compact Plates
Coreli C-Type 1MN Afterburner
Warp Scrambler II
Small Capacitor Booster II, Navy Cap Booster 150
Small Ghoul Compact Energy Nosferatu
Rocket Launcher II
Rocket Launcher II
Rocket Launcher II
Small Ghoul Compact Energy Nosferatu
Small Anti-EM Pump II
Small Ancillary Current Router II
EDIT: I noticed that Cerb only had one damage type in cargo hold, I’m guessing he reloaded and my reactive hardener switched back to anti-macherial resists during the very long RLM reload time. I wish I had the combat log for that fight. Seems the Mach died with EMP loaded in his guns which is the complete opposite damage type of scourge missiles.
