The Drake Project

Caldari?

Solo?

Pirate?

Yarrr!

EVE-Files Links High Quality: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0907/The_Drake_Project.wmv Medium Quality: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0907/The_Drake_Project_Med_Quality.wmv Low Quality: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0907/The_Drake_Project_Low_Quality.wmv

HD Youtube version turned out pretty good, so I'd recommend that over the medium or at least the low quality.

When I started playing EVE in 2007 the general consensus among the old pirates I learned the game from was that although missile boats are a good place to start learning pvp as you needn't worry about complex tracking mechanics, I should get into something with turrets as soon as I was ready to really start pew pewing.

However, with the ambition to go against the grain and the cunning to see the potential advantages that missiles could posses in PVP I pushed forward. Combining the insights of those before me (RawrChristina, et al.) I crafted a Heavy Assault Missile (HAM) Drake with a wicked buffer tank and set off in search of victims.

The best part is that 75% of these encounters took place when my character was less than a year old.

What you WILL see:

-A half dozen or so quality PVP encounters, against formidable foes, all from the cockpit of my beloved HAM Drake!

-My being outnumbered or outgunned almost every time. (The gate guns always like me)

-Clever tactics and use of missile boats' specialties (range/ammo variation/versatility)

-THE POWER OF BEING UNDERESTIMATED.

What you WON'T see:

- Gangmates (or friendlies of ANY sort)

- Implants

- Uber high skills

- Mindless ganks (save one or two at the VERY end [:pirate:] )

I take on battleships, battlecruisers and gangs that contain at least one of the two for a fast paced look at the life of a (relatively) young missile-slingin' pirate.

Total isk inflicted in damage: approx 902,000,000 isk.

Cheers! [:pirate:]

-Daisy Blossom-

(also, the video "Drake Takes a Megathron" from forever ago on youtube is mine. It was just under my old youtube account.)

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[66Beanshit]

Missile-spam = best spam.

So as a newish missile-pilot (just built my first HAM-Drake, Minni ACs all the way till a few weeks ago), is it better to volley or keep your launchers ungrouped?

Or maybe split the difference, IE, 2 groups of 2 launchers, and 1 group of 3?

[DaisyBlossomPirate]

@66Beanshit

I group them now. This footage was from a long time ago when I was just starting out. "Grouped weapons" was a feature that hadn't even come out yet!

I do, however, keep them split in the middle on the fitting screen and offline a salvager or the like purely for use as a heat sink.

[assassin34563]

those t2 ham launcher/ammo?

[DaisyBlossomPirate]

@assassin34563 T2 launchers. Ammo is usually faction unless I lose range then I keep some javelins around :]

[razor650]

AWESOME WORK! And so many players smile at the litte "Mission Only-Caldari-Carebear-Boat" ;=) Great Job!

Btw.: T2 Launchers and Missiles or T1 and faction-ammo?? Em Missiles or do u use Kinetic cause of the bonus??

[DaisyBlossomPirate]

@razor650 Thanks! I usually use caldari navy kinetic but keep EM and EXP around for those tough shield tanks or gallente ships with the crazy KIN resistance.

[DaisyBlossomPirate]

@branman852 You are an idiot and clearly know nothing about the game.

Do you know offhand the difference between angular, radial and transversal velocity? Because any real pvper in EVE can tell you in 5 seconds.

EVE is to chess what your left4dead is to hungry hungry hippos.

"Me aim and fire at head FAST!"

Imbecile.

[Zyklonb81]

built my HAM drake after watchin this vid been kickin ass in it ever since Daisy is the man =)

[Zankaroo]

i love my drake and i loved the end with the raven

[Alexc3217]

Old shield effects = best shield effects.

[exiawave]

Im curious, what is the name of the module that makes your ship light up like that?

[dareapa1]

my best solo fight was my fleet firetail vs a rifter, i got away with 6% hull, i was about to say gf in local, you won, when i landed a nice hit and he popped

[bitemeifyoukan]

@Valkan4701 Thrice - Image of the Invisible

[armagheddonsgw2]

@Sharn0Poison unless this guy's some nutcase who can get a decent EHP without them, the rigs are medium core defence field extenders.

as for the fitting issues, a mwd should be fine with "decent" fitting skills (advanced weapons upgrades 3, shield upgrades 4, the like). it is a tight fit though, granted.

[Sharn0Poison]

whats ur rigs? and are you using mwd or ab? cause I am having a few powergrid/cpu probs when trying to do that setup =P

[Mrnentendoman]

yeah the battlecruiser in the right hands get take on a battleship and win easy i just get jammer probes micro warps and blasters

[kalashnikovdevil]

Alright... deff need the song list from this, taking notes for my own HAMdrake build! too!

[valcan321]

Drake, the Battlecrusier that thought it was a Battleship.