T1 - Speed Kills Kestrel

Doctor Genocide was ready for a T1 tournament duel and came in a Rifter that landed 100km away. Starwalker started to move towards it but decided to lower the speed of his Kestrel to 1200m/s to see the effect on the capacitor rather than using full warp.

This was not the time to be messing about with the speed and more importantly – Starwalker forgot to reset it as the distance closed to combat range. Around 40km Starwalker’s attention was diverted to targeting the opponent’s Rifter and at 30km firing the first round of missiles. Then setting orbit to 19km. It was then that Starwalker noticed that the speed was still at 1200m/s and whilst it was reset to full speed it was too late.

Doctor Genocide was not one to miss an opportunity and took full advantage of the mistake to close the distance to less than 10km. The Kestrel had no tank worth speaking of and disintegrated (http://r1fta.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2756) quickly.

It was a silly loss that was the result of pure fail, not the type of error to repeat in the wild and not really one to repeat within the T1 tournament. Lack of speed killed the Kestrel or more accurately the silly time to experiment with its speed and worse forgetting to reset it until too late.