A while back I wrote a post about the Enyo, a fun little assault frigate that is overshadowed by its more popular brethren. For fifteen million ISK, or a little more if you want to add a T2 rig, you can have a whole lot of fun in these guys. Last night was a good example of this.

Keen to go find something to do I set off for Curse in trusty Enyo looking for adventure. Immediately upon jumping in B-VIP9 I spied a hostile camp. An Abaddon, Drake, Drake, Raven, Onyx, and Falcon were waiting, split between the gate and a sling bubble aligned towards the 9SNK-O. There was nothing I could do in a simple frigate so I pointed them out in our intel channel and moved along my way. A gang formed up so I turned back to go get eyes on them and, once my support was next door in Egbinger, warped to the gate at range to draw their aggression. I warped in a bit too cautiously (I’ve had bad experiences with Abaddons) and only the Raven aggressed. No worries, the gang jumped in and the Abaddon and Raven fell to them. I made a dash for the Falcon but he warped before I could lock him down so no mails for me in this skirmish.

While the gang were mopping things up a Republic Fleet Firetail appeared and I gave chase. He led me on a merry dance around the planets and belts of several systems before, braver for the presence of a friend in a Rifter, he allowed me to get a point on him. With Null in my blasters he was unable to out-range me and I tore through his shields, armour, and structure. The Rifter was also upon me and with his friend down I turned my guns on him and made short work of him. My humble little Enyo had acquitted himself well and was already ahead on the ISK war.

I continued my roam, moving into NIH-02 where, as I prepared to warp away, two Dramiels landed on the grid. I reported them to my corpmates and the told them I was going to fight them. “Do you need Rapier support?” xxxAlloxxx asked. No response, I was already working on my battle plan. I warped to the M-MD3B at 100km and aligned back the way I had come. A few seconds of hammering the directional scanner and I was rewarded by the sight of a single Dramiel in warp to me. Perfect. He landed at zero on the gate and, having pulled plenty of range, I cut my speed and watch to see what he’d do. He turned for me and began to burn. It was all going to plan. The second Dramiel landed and seemed to be content with hovering on the gate while his friend came for me. To make sure they didn’t get to warp range I turned back and charged towards him. My guns span up and hot rounds of plasma tore into his shields. It took him a while to react and before he got into a comfortable orbit I’d reduced him to half shields. A few seconds later it was all over and the first Dramiel was reduced to scrap. His mate didn’t seem keen to get involved after watching the mauling and warped off. I looted and warped to the gate only to see the second Dramiel return to the wreckage of his colleague. I hit warp and got on top of him. This time there was more of a fight and I actually had to use my armour repairer when he got into a close, stable orbit. Thanks to my tracking enhancer I was still landing hits and he didn’t turn to escape. My wonderful little Enyo had done it, she’d killed two Dramiels. Good girl. I grabbed as much loot as I could and returned home to drop it off safely.

With the loot safe I turned back and continued my journey. This time it was uneventful until I got as far as E02-IK. There I found the usual suspects hanging around on the station and I hung around allowing them to snipe at me from the safety of the docking ring. A bit of banter in local later and they undocked a Stiletto. Game on! I warped to a belt and the Stiletto followed, landing 100km away from me. Time to take him down. I span up my microwarp drive and charged towards the interceptor who began to do the same to me. It was all going perfectly until I bounced off an asteroid at 40km. Damn damn damn! I was now pointed by the Stiletto and was going to have a hard time trapping or shaking him. I made twists and turns, bursts of acceleration, and just straight line dashes but never quite managed to latch onto him or break free. At the same time support was landing and I had a Drake, Brutix, and Cerberus shooting at me. Stuck with the Stiletto I decided instead to focus on taking down the Cerberus instead. I spread them out as best as I could and then dove in to land my scram and open up on the heavy assault cruiser. Sadly the advanced Caldari ships have high resists against blaster ammunition and it was taking a long time. In the meanwhile the Stiletto came into scrambler range and I switched to him instead only to change my mind again and lose both targets. Drat.

More Benny Hill-style burning around ensued and I was eventually able to land a second scram. This time I meant business and began to pound at the interceptor. Extra support had arrived in the form of a Celestis and I was eyeing it nervously as it approached. I was already being tracking disrupted but the Stiletto had dropped into hull. With just a slither left the Celestis got into scrambler range and allowed the Stiletto to burn free. Never mind, I locked up the Celestis and turned my attention to that instead. I burnt through his shields and was into his armour by the time the whole gang landed on me. The game was up and my brave little Enyo had finally had her time.

I didn’t get any killmails to show for the last battle but my little girl did an excellent job. She was up against several much heavier ships and gave three of them good reason to worry. May she rest in peace!

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