Changing Targets Quickly

Starwalker had been enjoying the May madness in New Eden and had achieved a personal record for the number of kills in one month - 73. He had also lost the most ships - 18, including his first ever Daredevil. Unfortunately the Daredevil had not died in glorious battle but to a gate camp, indeed it seemed that most of his losses when solo were to gate camps or getting attacked by more than one ship.

Notably he had died three times to a similar tactic, albeit each one in different situations and with different protagonists. He had engaged or been engaged and then a neuting ship had joined the fight. In each case (Sentinel, Pilgrim and Crucifier) he had quickly been bled dry of capacitor and from there the fight had finished badly for Starwalker.

However, he had realised afterwards that a key problem was that he had not changed targets fast enough. The neuting ship, like electronic warfare ships (Griffin...) represented the biggest danger and he had to do something about them immediately either fight or flight. When each neuting ship had arrived he had a small window of opportunity to react, to try and kill it before his capacitor was empty.

The first time it had happened he had not even switched targets to the greater threat (Sentinel). With the Crucifier he had switched targets but it had been just a little too slow and he had died anyway. So far, he had not tried to run but that would also have been an option. In short, if the fight changed with a new entrant then he needed to do a fast threat assessment and change targets as needed or make a run for freedom.

The month of May had also seen a lot of Rebel fleets out and about. Peri Simone still FC'd fleets but it was good to see that other pilots were also trying their hands at the reins. Patrick Kasper, Laassaalos Kiblos and Angron Vail had all been FCs recently and the various roams had been great fun. One of those fleets had been themed around the Rifter hull and Starwalker thought it was still a great looking ship, even though it had been eclipsed recently by combat improvements to the other T1 frigates.