Why?!

So very many skills required to gain Tech II medium sized guns. After medium energy weapons five completes I'll need medium pulse spec, for which I'll need to raise my light pulse spec from 3 to 4, and get another level in one of the gunnery subskills, forget which one.

All the missioning continues to raise the bank account at least! I've been missioning for a while rather than trying at Faction Warfare. Rather make isk than lose it, I guess. The reverse will probably be true soon, at which point I'll switch back over.

Skill Considerations

I've finally finished Amarr Cruisers V, and Medium Energy Turret is close to completion. After that's done I'm going to go into BattleCruisers, looking for that Harbinger and the promised land of Level III's.

After that I think I need to go back for a while, get up my core competency's, so I'm going to be looking into filling out my lowest level certificates for a while. Get my navigation, fitting, etc. skills up. Maybe even advanced learning. All the while missioning at level III.

Finally, once I'm satisfied about that I'm going to swap over to the lower level pvp skills to do more than plex in faction warfare.

Punished!

I was going around in the Punisher VIII, following the lead of a more senior pilot in the crusade. There was a fleet battle at a gate between Amarr and Minmatar.

Filled with zeal I fired on a Minmatar warrior vessel, blasting away it's shields. Unfortunately at this time the battle turned against us, and the remaining Amarr ships left. I was pointed and the Punisher VIII was quickly destroyed by enemy fire. Punisher IX shall have better luck.

Many thanks to Radon, if it wasn't for his advice I'd have been flying the Slicer I, the loss of which would have hurt far more.

Punishing...

I've gotten my clone skills up, gotten my clone and gone to work for the 24th IC full time. I've been flying a Punisher, plexing level 1's.

This is necessary, but not terribly glamorous work. In particular, I've been unable to defeat an enemy capsuleer. My candy taunts me.

I'll perservere, however, and I'm considering getting a Maller or two (my funds are currently stable after a bit of panhandling) and working on the larger plexes. Maybe someone will want to fight then?

In general, the enemy seem better organized than we. It's disturbing. Once I'm more experienced at this I think I shall try and take on something of a leadership role.