I got very lucky and managed to kill a HAC with my Drake on Saturday. I was coming back from a fairly long and unproductive solo roam (I'd managed to pop an Osprey with some Tech 1 mining gear and nothing else) when I probed down a red HAC. He was initially there with a couple of corp mates, but they left so it was just the two of us in the system. I knew that taking on a HAC in my Drake might end badly, but I was itching for a fight and decided to risk it. When I warped to him I realized he was sitting right at a gate, which meant that once I started shooting I had to tank the gate guns as well. I should've lost that fight, but the HAC pilot must've gone AFK because he never even seemed to shoot back. He dropped some pretty nice loot, and I got to add a HAC to my killboard.
Nice job. I always enjoy taking out more expensive ships with my cheap ships.
You did much better than my last hunting experience, unfortunately. After a long roam (we killed 2 command ships, 1 HAC, 1 Recon, a T3 ship, and some T1 stuff), I took a long break. When I logged back on, I saw that we had killed a bunch of nice targets while I was gone, so I got jealous and went to work.
I started following a Covert Ops Legion around, but got bored with that, and started branching out. About 10 jumps later, I found this gate camp composed of 2 Megathrons, 1 Broadsword, 1 Blackbird, and 1 Drake. They had set-up about 150 shuttles at 12 km all around the gate to uncloak any ships that jumped in. I knew of few of these people, and they were total douchebags that smack in local, but never engage unless they can outnumber you 3-1. Anyway, I called out in intel about the gang, and managed to get together a small BC gang to kill the camp. On our way there, we were scouted by one of their corp mates that was lucky enough to be running through the same side systems we took. They all legged it, so we went to the gate and used their setup of shuttles for our own gatecamp. Since they must have taken hours to set this up, we wanted to make sure it got used. After about 30 minutes getting nothing but a Badger, we got bored and left (I really wanted to pop the shuttles to make them do all the work again, but it would have been a lot of work.)
We heard intel of 2 Proteus's and a Guardian in a system just a few jumps from our home. We took our gang to the gate, and I jumped in my prober. I found them quickly, and warped to their location. It was a L5 mission site, and they were not in the first room. Jumped my main in, along with a HIC and another BC. None of our MWD's worked, so we had to slow boat it to the gate. The other two tried BMing the gate, warping off, then warping back, but that just get them back to the beginning of the mission site. So I ended up getting to the gate first. To my surprise, they weren't paying attention to scans for the 5 minutes it took me to slow boat to the gate, and they were all still there. I pointed and webbed the nearest Proteus, and started shooting with my Ferox. The guardian stayed and repped the proteus, while the rest warped off. The rest of the gang warped in, but since they all had to slow boat to gate, I had to hold up to the heavy DPS of the Proteus until they got there. Finally the HIC pointed the Proteus just as I entered structure, so I warped off. The problem was that he did not have a web on him, and the proteus was able to burn out of point range and warp off before we were able to kill him.
I should have just hero tanked him until the basilisk got there to keep me alive. I might not have made it, but the risk was likely worth it. I had him webbed, and he wasn't going anywhere when I was next to him.