My “Heartseeker” and the Super Hornet(on loan) are my two favorite bounty hunting rides up through the High Risk Target(HRT) missions. Normally you might want to eliminate one or two of the wingmen first, but here I was able to avoid their fire and take down Chase’s Valkyrie with out much trouble. The gladius trio providing escort soon followed.
Stuck with the Eclipse chasing HRT targets to try to quickly bump my Crusader rep. Another bounty easily bagged. With thermal and magnetic signatures in the 4000-5000 range you can take your time, watch your kill and make your get away with ease. Approaching slowly allows your EM signature to fall after a QT.
While chasing bounties in an Eclipse may seem like easy money, torpedoes are expensive. Doesn’t hurt to get in a little practice for the big fish though. For the most part you can ignore the target’s wingmen, no sense wasting a torpedo on such a small reward. A set of 3 torpedoes will cost you around 10K creds.
Got jumped pretty good at the beginning of this bounty. Its dark and low altitude. Initially an Aurora LN (Floyd) and a Gladius (Jiro) appear on my HUD. As I targeted Jiro the HUD lit up, what 4 targets? Next some missiles, then the three bogeys flew by. Jiro’s wingmen closed in on me before I could nail Jiro. It was all I could do to fight for some altitude without getting shredded.
I looped around and found Neis flying a Gladius which I nearly took down before Toru and his friend were back on my tail. I needed to even the odds.
I quickly gained altitude, charged up the shields and once again looped back into action. Two targets now. Toru in an Avenger Stalker along with my bounty. I went for the bounty splash.
Climbing once again to the high ground I had two targets on me. I focused on Neis – splash. With Toru’s avenger my last target, the fight quickly ended.
Under the cover of darkness at low altitude, I approached the bounty with caution. After a quick exchange of missiles, I avoided Patrick’s wingman and picked off my target, a M50 on my second pass before rising out of the dark of night.
This high risk affair was led by Evan in a warden flying with his buddies in a hornet and a buccanneer. Lost my shields after meandering behind the slower warden, had I recharged them sooner I would have emerged without a scratch.
No sooner than I had taken down the first hornet, two new targets jumped in. We won’t be seeing that mantis again. 5 kills total.
This ERT bounty was going to be tough, a hammerhead.
As luck had it, coming in behind some asteroids, a PVP target “Mastrum” came under my pip first. Not my best flying with a bit of lag, still, I got in some nice hits before Mastrum knew I was there.
I switched off Mastrum to engage Les Shadwick, and while I got the kill – Mastrum made me pay registering Aggravated Criminal Damage against me.
My mistake, only thing left to do was to point my guns and pull the trigger.
Soon enough, Mastrum became a Citizen of Interest.
This affair must have caught Liam at a bad time, fretting over the echos of the many Valiant kills permeating the comms. When my Valiant appeared on radar, Liam knew he was dead before he was dead.
