So I have finally given in to the pressure and also signed up to twitter. Find me as NashhKadavr and add me so I can add you and then we can tweet? I think.
I still have to master the twittering skills but I have a pirate-twitter-hat sorted thanks to Rixx Javix so I guess nothing can go wrong right?
Did I mention I am recruiting yet today? maybe not, come check out our website here;
Every once and a while you need to spoil yourself and splash out on some fresh artwork. So our Forum, killboard and my blog got some new banners, courtesy of Mr Rixx Javix.
Rixxy has kindly agreed to disband his fail-cascading corp and join up his remaining members to The Kadavr Black Guard, very nice of him as my I am in desperate need of some numbers...
Other than finding me on Facebook I am now also available on MSN messenger, find me through my email address; nshhkdvr@gmail.com.
..and YES Kadavr Black Guard is recruiting so roll up you salty dogs of war!
Disclaimer; Rixx Javix's corp Lucifers Hammer is not fail-cascading, and no he is not joining my corp, although I will keep presuring him to do so. Every day untill he does.
All Racers! Rally will be Amarr Prime Region, please make sure to be in this general area of the universe for the race. Launch system will be announced at 17:00 on Sunday in the in-game channel Death Race 2010. Race will start promptly at 18:00! Between 17-18 we will be fleeting up in the launch system, only those racers registered and in the race fleet will be awarded prizes.
I wish all particpants the very best of luck and hope you all have a great time! More than any other pilots I'd hope the pilots in team Nashh Kadavr go kick some serious ass!
Team Nashh Kadavr Pilots are;
1 ; Chimagia
2 ; El Tea
3 ; Jartren
4 ; Brother Murphy
5 ; JEK3
6 ; Zen'tau
7 ; astral dominix
8 ; Admiral Norbank
9 ; Flafnir
10; ArhKeNez
11; Mea VI
12; Mord Fiddle
13; Vallorie
14; Azohauler
15; evanv04
16; Skippermonkey
17; Hardreign
18; Max Ursa
19; Angelus Infirim
20; Amnatar Kyaan
I hope you get to take home some of these;
• First Place > 600m isk! > Choice of Faction Frigate + Domination Warp Scrambler (Sponsored by MissX934) > Astarte Hull (Sponsored by Dissonance Corporation)
• Second Place > 300m isk! > Dominix Hull (Sponsored by Dissonance Corporation)
• Third Place > 100m isk! > Drake Hull (Sponsored by Dissonance Corporation)
• Fourth thru Tenth Place > 10m isk! (Double the entrance fee)
OTHER PRIZES!
> "Most Kills" - 100m isk (Sponsored by Rixx Javix) and 10 Rocket Rifters (Sponsored by Nashh Kadavr)
> "First Kill" - Firetail and Deadspace MWD (Sponsored by Roo at Depth's Unknown)
> FREE HOSTING - EVEstuff.net is offering 3 Standard Hosting Packages Free for One Year! These will be offered in order of finish until satisfied.
> EON Magazine - In addition to donating 1 Billion ISK to the prize pot, EON will be publishing a FEATURE on the Death Race in an upcoming issue! So make sure you take some UI-Less Screen Shots during the race and send them to RixxJavix@gmail.com
(Make sure to put in a good word for me Mr Javix!)
Cometh and see the spectacle to be known as DeathRace! Organized by Rixx Javix the first DeathRace event is going to be EPIC and shall be written into EVE History!
Right, are you back? Excellent, now that you are up to speed; please note that I have donated 10 Rocket Rifters for the pilot scoring the most kills in the race I wish to further extend my support to this fantastic idea by sponsoring 20 pilots to participate in the event.
That’s right, you can fly and race in DeathRace2010 and win a whole horde of fantastic prizes for absolutely free!
The next 20 pilots leaving a comment below this post will have their entry fee paid for by myself! Simply leave your participating Characters name in the comments below and I shall forward your details to Rixx and pay your entry fee!
Celebrity Death Match #22; Rixx Javix - EVE artist Exraordinair
The Celebrity I had intended to ask Mr. Javix for a CDM some time ago, his arrival into the blog pack made him an easy addition to my wish list. I started following him and with every post he made my desire to fight him become stronger and stronger. His space-comic jokes make me chuckle and his art work astounds me every time he does something new.
Browsing his folder of previously made pieces related to EVE, it dawned on me I would love to own a Rixx Javix piece for myself or for my corporation the Bastards. His work clearly very popular I wasn’t sure if he would make time for me or even would do any work for me at all. Our first contact was pretty easy going, Rixx responded to my emails and after a quick convo 3 jobs were taken on...
The first was a Bastard promo poster, and I have to say it is one of his best to date;
Secondly I requested a new blog banner and another fine piece was delivered, and at a very good price too;
The third and final job is still secret but for those that may know me a little better or have me as a RL facebook friend will know what’s coming. I hope to be posting more on that later this month.
With our business completed I could finally ask him to join me in a CDM. Rixx accepted immediately and after we discussed some of the standard rules for CDM I offered for him to take his time in deciding what ships he would like to fly, where and under what restrictions.
So, Battlecruisers it was to be, brilliant, one of my favourite ship classes. The restrictions where; no ECM and only one faction module if we'd choose to use any… Brief chats were exchanged in the days before the fight, chats where we sneakily tried to find out who would be flying what ship but cards were kept close to our chests. I still had not decided at this stage as I have a few fitted Battlecruisers about, all of which I like but serve a different purpose. None where really suitable for 1v1's but their base fitting would suffice…
Preparations On the last night before the fight the final details were exchanged. Mr Rixx explained his troubles getting his ship together through war-target-infested trade hubs, even being shot at when he attempted to dock up and get fittings together. As a joke and final attempt to find out what he would be bring is asked; 'its a Drake, isn’t it?'… I didn’t get a response and we continued our conversation. As we completed our chat and went our separate ways I read over the chat log again... why didn’t he respond? He could have just joked, laughed it off, agreed it was and double bluffed me… He could have triple bluffed me or what not... but he didn’t respond. Mmm…
Don’t get me wrong, I suck at poker but his poker-face was rubbish, he was so deffo gonna fly a drake... right?
With Hulkageddon 3 in full swing and I found myself deep into high-sec on the day of the fight. In the morning I raced back to Evati to look at the available vessels. I didn’t care too much to be honest as I had already decided to fly a buffer Myrm, the very same one that once took out two T2 fitted Hurricanes in a single sitting. With confidence I intended to land myself right on top of him, rip up any drones he may have then slug him to death with a selection of mixed sized drones of my own.
To my horror (I literally broke into a cold sweat) I discovered at the last pod loss my clone grade was insufficient in size for the skills now in my head. I had lost 13 full days off of heavy drones V and thus would be unable to use T2 Ogres. Shit, crap, now what? Go into battle with T1 ogres? And make a fool out of myself? i don’t think so, I need a different ship.
Quickly browsing through the available ships I discovered all my drakes have been either destroyed or moved to different hangars, the closest being in Ardar, 6 jumps out.
On route I spotted a familiar face in the local communications channel, with some other chap shouting GF! GF! I chuckled as I warped on top of Lady Shaniqua's Rifter and quickly proceeded through the gate, not sure if my pod would be safe. At the next gate I found an Ishtar and some friends clearly making the return trip home much more difficult. Now sharing multiple channels with LS I requested if he would be so kind to scout me back to Evati.
As the mentor for Project Rifter, I already know of Shaniqua’s fitting expertise so it only seemed sensible to discuss the upcoming fight and my intended fit. As I now decided to fly a Drake into combat myself, I took a Podla-Drake fit as the base, but instead of a point I intended to use a target painter and T2 Fury missiles. We talked and talked and ideas were exchanged, eventually agreeing that perhaps the Drake was not the way to go and another BC hull would give me a better chance.
In the mean time on planet earth wife aggro made me rage log and move to the spare room. A cigarette and a beer later I calmed down sufficiently to get a fit together for the pending fight. I don’t like making people wait and was thus relieved when I checked my emails and found a message from Rixx explaining his connection issues, possibly delaying the flight. Speeding back to Evati, again in my pod, Rixx logged in. shit...
I kept quiet and didn’t speak to him in the bloggers channel, on entering Evati I hoped to be able to slip in unnoticed but with just 3 other pilots in local he was sure to see me online and check up on me. I was not ready, not even close. I didn’t even have a hull sorted let alone the fitting...
With no Drake available to me and with more and more doubt that Rixx would actually come in a drake himself I decided to pick up the Myrmidon with a 109k buffer. A good base as long as I could get close enough to my opponent to make the rest of the fitting work.
I stripped the high slots of their small Blasters and replaced them with small Auto Cannons to save a minute worth of Capacitor, took of the second webifier and the Sensor Booster and frantically tried to decide what to replace them with. I needed to get close to my opponent and there was still the risk he would warp in at range and slowly break my tank, leaving me powerless to respond if he would take out my gimped drones.
Targeting range dampeners! Two targeting range dampeners may force him close enough for me to cut off his MWD and my superior tank would certainly give me enough time to kill him. Brilliant idea! I finalised my fit and responded to the convo request now sent by my foe.
‘Ready?’ Mr Rixx requested… ‘yes’ was the hesitant response. We agreed to warp to a bookmark made by Mr Javix earlier that day. ‘Are we to warp at range or to 0?’ I requested. ‘..well that’s the beauty of bookmarks’ Rixx started, ‘you can’t warp at range…’
‘Ok sweet… Quick bio and let’s get it on..’ I made use of the brief delay to quickly relieve my bladder and have a smoke to settle the building nerves. As I inhaled the delicious cancerous smoke into my warming lungs, reality hit me… Can’t warp at range? I didn’t know that… Holy shit he is not in a Drake! He is prepared to warp in close so he must be Blaster fit something... Brutix? Myrm? Ferox? Certainly not a Cane, too piraty for this pirate hater… Either way or anyhoe, he is turret based. For sure… right?
I sucked down the last remains of nicotine and ran back up the stairs, crashed through the bedroom door and jumped into the pilot seat. Quickly opening the ‘EWAR’ station container revealed the last two available tracking disrupters…
In a flash my ship was stripped of the MWD as it would be shut down immediately anyway by his scram, replaced it with an Afterburner, ripped out the Targeting Range Dampeners and wacked on two Tracking Disrupters. The changes left me plenty of grid to replace a small Energy Neutraliser with a Medium variety and now I was ready… Bring it on Mr Rixx and suck up the pain!
The Fight ‘DIE RIXX DIE’ smoothly sailed into the Evati night sky, aligned to a Station at moon X to pick up the bookmark needed to get to our fight location, and set off.
The Gallente vessel turned slowly and took its time to get up to warp speed, enough time for me to re-arrange my drone bay. One full rack of Warrior II Drones, one full rack of Hammerhead II’s and then the heavy damage set; one Hobgoblin II, 2 Hammerhead II’s and the embarrassing addition of two T1 Ogres…
With the location registered into my onboard systems Rixx Javix started the count-down…
‘You are gonna need it sucker!’ I laughed out loud to myself, confident that I could better my standings in this whole CDM adventure…
My glorious ship had undocked and initialised its warp drives… with the distance closing down rapidly I primed my mid slots and waited for my enemy to land right on top of me…
I couldn’t wait, tension built up… Primed Web and scram would stop him dead in his tracks, Tracking Disrupters already overheated would render his Turrets useless and…
WTF?!
O crap, I fucked up, blood rushed to my head as embarrassment already filled me from the gut up. My heart sank as his ship exited the warp tunnel…
A Drake? But but… why? I thought…
I switched of the TD’s and as soon as I could get a lock attempted to scram out his MWD. His speed didn’t reduce until the web started cycling, now clearly making 3 modules in my mid-slots completely useless…
And holy crap his tank is immense! My drones barely scratched him! Stick to the plan, I convinced myself as I targeted his 5 Warrior II’s… 4?
This was not going well at all, in the minute this fight had been going on my Drones had been attacking his Drones; hence his shields were looking so healthy. Quickly redirected drones started chewing into the Drake whilst my web and small Auto Cannons made short work of the remaining Warriors.
The Myrm’s Armour had already taken a steady beating by this point and without any active repairs this was just a matter of time…
With Frapps running I burned out the high slots when trying to get a pretty picture of my pending demise…
Thanks to Rixx for this Video;
I fail, and suck at EVE… My fitting was wrong, my tactics where wrong and my opponent had well and truly beaten me.
In a daze I floated in space, only surrounded by the fragile shell of my escape pod… Slowly being circled by the ‘DIE NASHH DIE’ baptised Drake. Bobbing up and down gently near the remains of my fail Myrm…
Alarms flared up as my pod got targeted and a warp disrupter prevented my escape.
Rixx Javix> hands up this is a ransom!
We both laughed it off as the pirate hating combat pilot couldn’t complete his ransom. With probes out in the system (not the Bastards) it was time to part ways…
It has been my pleasure and honour meeting Mr Rixx Javix and hope to keep in contact for the duration of my EVE life. Please also read his side of the story and don’t forget to check out his art!
Some weeks ago I requested for Rixx Javix to do some art work for me. To be honest I wasn't even sure if he would make time for me at all, so I was pleasantly surprised he took on the work with both hands.
Job number 1 was a poster for my beloved corp, the Bastards. I have had the poster in my possesion for a few weeks now but simply have not had an oppertunity to post it with something relevant. So here it is, in a non Bastard related post;
Feel free to check out the other sizes on this link, I had to use a smaller size to ensure it fits in this post but please take a moment to check out the link to see the amazing detail.
Job number 2 was a long overdue new blog banner. as you can see the new banner is live, scaled to size the new layout of my blog. The request was for some Bastard affiliation and perhaps a logo, something also related to job number 3. More on that one later...
For the i-podder's out there scared to come visit my blog here is the banner you will never see;
Job number 3 has been completed on Rixx's part, and a job completed very much to my liking. many thanks again Mr Javix, it means a lot to me.
Over the months gone by I have become aware of having readers and I have grown to like it, even crave it. I want more all the time. Rixx however doesnt even use tools like Google Analitycs to see if anyone reads his stuff. Just a small testament to his nature as a giving/not taking man.
A great deal of his time and effort goes into EVE and eve-related activities. His artwork and posters are spread across our universe. I had already wanted to ask him earlier but it didnt seem appropriate. With our business now completed the time was right to ask him to please join me in a CDM adventure.
Mr Rixx Javix has accepted my duel request and I await his choice of rules eagerly, cant wait to meet him face to face (in space)....
I have given my blog a bit of a facelift and added some videos to the side-bar. A new blog banner is well over-due and the brilliant RixxJavix is working hard on a new one, cant wait to see what he comes up with!
Hope you like what I have done to the place, leave me a comment!
