Tactics: Base hugging/running

[Fletcher]

What just happened:

I just logged off the server after a quite long and quite fun with annoyance when I chased a Hacker into the Pittsburgh field, to my surprise, there was an NPC Rogue Destroyer. I always wondered where it went, but I NEVER knew it was there until earlier, imagine my surprise.

Still with gusto and confidence after an easy PvP from earlier in the day, my agility, I felt I could take this Hacker on without support, even though there was a lovely destroyer.

After a while and a few missiles, I was wearing him down, he seemed to have a bit of a bad aim, then a rogue came out of nowhere. I in a Libby against a Falcata and a Broadsword now. Still, I was cocky, and kept on plugging away when I got some help, which I was thankful for. An LSF pilot, sadly, that Falcata Rogue blew him up in no longer than 30 seconds... I think the destroyer helped.

After a while, I ran out of all my Firestalkers, then my CD's... I was running on three Magma Hammers and some Screamers... Still, I kept plugging away, and dropping his shields and chipping at his hull.

Then the annoyance began... He circles the destroyer, every single time I drop his shields, and he kept dropping nuke mines, forcing me to stop tailing. This is the only thing that annoyed me to the point of actually calling in support on system chat, I wasn't going to ALT-TAB and Skype in this situation. After a while and more evading and fighting, a LN gunboat came to help but wisely stayed out of it, that destroyer would have killed him, but I couldn't run to him, since it would be fleeing.

Then more came... this time it was LR, after a while, we kept fighting, and thank god those two LR Baghests stayed out of it, we eventually killed that Hacker, that started the whole mess, and circled the destroyer to recharge.

After a bit more fighting and whittling down that rogue falcata, I decided to call everyone away, it was getting to big too fast and would have drawn the Keepers in sooner or later.

So, all in all, 1 LSF down, 1 Hacker down. While up close and personal to a Liberty Rogue Destroyer NPC.

I think in essence, we won tactically.

Now to the point after the story.

Is running in circles around a base a cowardly tactic?

EDIT: Also, that is one of the best fights I've ever done despite the penalties against me, inaccurate weapons, NPC spamming missiles. That is the longest too for me... 25 minutes I think it was. Great fun to all!

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