EPTOn September 12 2011 11:10 Warri wrote:
greatest roam everer!
greatest roam everer!
Roam my ass. We spent 2 hours hanging around 1 system just murdering everything.
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tofucake
Hyrule19178 Posts
Roam my ass. We spent 2 hours hanging around 1 system just murdering everything. | ||
KwarK
United States43350 Posts
Meanwhile an unrelated PODLA fleet was had been fucking around in C4C and was heading over to VFK. We had a broad familiarity with them having spent the last fortnight killing each other (-2 drakes and a harb on our side, -2b isk tengu on theirs) so we had a fair idea of what each other was capable and how we flew. We ran straight into each other and they killed one of our drakes. Some banter in local chat developed into a private convo and the appearance of a 40 man fleet nearby forced us together. Now just to clarify. The Hatchery doesn't blue. We have no blues. We want no blues. We see it, we shoot. However we're as opportunistic as the next man and just because they killed one of us thirty seconds ago doesn't necessarily stop us from working with someone. Our fleets merged and I was left in charge of a fleet twice the size of my usual smallgang shit (18 man) along with some pilots I didn't know who were undoubtedly more experienced than I. Funtimes -_-. We formed up in VFK and FA instantly fucked off leaving us massively blueballed. We were flying an awesome composition of web nanodrakes, tengus and dual links with huginn + lachesis and the area was dead. Fortunately we soon found a Fidelas Constans gang (which coincidentally had blueballed and trashtalked us not 24 hours ago). We jumped on in to their bubble but they immediately gtfoed and we weren't able to kill much. No losses so their fleet doesn't appear on the mail. http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=10623755 We were again out of targets and actually defleeted to go our separate ways after that fight. Half of PODLA went home but 90 seconds later the other half ran into a 20 man gatecamp in CR. They convoed me, we reformed the fleet and sized them up. On our side we had a huginn, lachesis, vaga, harb and six drakes. On theirs, broadsword, huginn, zealot, two sleipnirs, two lokis, thanatos, nidhoggur, approximately six drakes, six canes and some assorted cruisers and frigates. They also had a mael and scorpion placed 150k off gate to ruin our day further. Anyway, we jumped the gate into their bubble. Both sides immediately alphaed the huginn of the other side off. I am assured by our huginn pilot he was the narrowest margin imaginable from escape but alas he didn't make it. However once we were through the gate the worst part was over and we were out into open space where our nanodrakes could really make themselves felt. The blackbird and the scorpion went down in seconds with the maelstrom following it. Pilots who had burned off at strange angles due to bad spawns (next to a loki in my case) were able to merge back into the pack and in a tight group the webs defend all of them. We proceeded to drop canes while kiting the loki webs (made infinitely easier by a lachesis) and the hostiles seemed incapable of reforming themselves into a cohesive blob. Our scattered burn from the gate left them isolated while we were able to regroup and start smashing ships almost immediately. Our lachesis was forced off the field by fighters several times but where we were able to disengage and burn behind the rest of the pack they simply suffered mounting losses. A hostile hawk was able to land a scram on one of our drakes who got isolated while the rest of us were busy dropping a loki whose heated Fed Navy Webs were proving a bit of an issue. They warped everything they had to the hawk (including recently reshipped pilots) and although our vaga dropped it quickly they had secondary tackle and tore a drake down. To make matters worse the long burn combined with some neuts left the vaga hurting for cap some 80k from the rest of us and he dropped too. This left us with a lachesis, a harb and five drakes. Bad times. An ongoing skirmish for control of the field emerged, possibly as a result of a dozen t2 and t3 wrecks on the field with FN webs, domination webs and RF gyros among the loot (all dropped by them). The sheer quantity of wrecks in every direction made it hell to nano and we were forced to nano out and reform countless times as they swamped over us, although each time we sustained no losses and created several more wrecks. Fortunately we'd had the foresight to bring a covops with 1k nanite which we put in a can at a safespot and used to continually repair and redistribute ammo as the fight simply refused to end. We also emptied loot into it over and over, there was simply too much to carry. Eventually they slowed down, plussed local a bit and organised themselves. When they next threw themselves at us they had four scimitars, two basilisks, two huginns (complete with kin hardeners), an arazu, a linking claymore on the station at 0, a trio of scorpions (all caldari jams) and around a dozen each of canes and drakes. This caught us a little off guard so we dropped a huginn (somehow?!?!?) and mwded out, losing a cane (reshipped from lost drake) to the huginn arazu combo. We made a valiant attempt at alphaing the arazu and achieved armour damage but with the jams and six logis it just wasn't happening so, after ninety minutes, we were forced to concede the field. http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=10624213 | ||
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tofucake
Hyrule19178 Posts
so close | ||
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Invol2ver
United States330 Posts
That makes me mad I went and was social and watched football all day. Amazing. | ||
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Pufftrees
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So, just using today as an example, what would you rather have added to that fleet? A. BC V Harb B. Hac V Zealot C. Recon V Curse | ||
Antoine
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Russian Federation3631 Posts
On September 12 2011 13:21 Pufftrees wrote: Just got back from the wedding trip, glad to read an epic battle report. Hatchery too ballin :D So, just using today as an example, what would you rather have added to that fleet? A. BC V Harb B. Hac V Zealot C. Recon V Curse D. BC V Drake B) Also I just realized that our rifter survived, which might be the most impressive feat of the entire battle... | ||
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tofucake
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pahndah
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On September 12 2011 13:21 Pufftrees wrote: Just got back from the wedding trip, glad to read an epic battle report. Hatchery too ballin :D So, just using today as an example, what would you rather have added to that fleet? A. BC V Harb B. Hac V Zealot C. Recon V Curse Recon V, Cross train into all 4 race cruisers to access all the recons. Do it up. | ||
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KwarK
United States43350 Posts
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DiracMonopole
United States1555 Posts
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Pufftrees
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Thanks for more answers, tough decision either way, because whichever I get has it's own supports to cap out at 5 after. | ||
Firebolt145
Lalalaland34498 Posts
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Firebolt145
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KwarK
United States43350 Posts
]VidrA 1 point 2 minutes ago Sadly you can only engage drakes with a BS fleet trololololol | ||
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TobZero
Germany493 Posts
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Johnny Business
Sweden1251 Posts
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TritaN
United States406 Posts
Sigh. | ||
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NathanEO
Germany254 Posts
Also like these Interstellar Coresspondents news about stuff happening in our yard. EC-P8R, Pure Blind - On 03.09.113, the Fuzzy Logec alliance lost a convoy of freighters full of capital ship construction equipment to a permutation of an old scam by Goonswarm Federation. Weeks ago Fuzzy Logec CEO Nekumi negotiated with Akara Ito of the Goonswarm Federation and believed that she had "bought 3JN9-Q, O-2RNZ and AGG-NR" for 30bn ISK and an agreement to supply Goonswarm with a number of capital ships per month. Goonswarm had even offered Nekumi an escort fleet to keep Fuzzy Logec's capital production equipment secure. Fuzzy Logec jumped into EC-P8R from Torrinos, where they were met by their "escort" and summarily destroyed. Referencing an alleged lack of discipline in Goonswarm fleets, Akara Ito noted that "Everybody remembered not to shoot the first neutral appearing and we held our fire until the very last freighter was trapped." Nekumi estimated Fuzzy Logec's losses at 8 freighters and 2 Orcas, all full of equipment. After the rout, Akara claimed that Goonswarm faced an internal issue, with pilots dropping from the fleet to loot wrecks away from the eyes of their FC. Facing this insubordination, Akara Ito says "blues were shot at." While some pilots still managed to loot and escape unlogged, Akara notes two Chimera BPOs as some of the higher value items captured. Nekumi said she knew very well of Goonswarm's reputation but believed the deal to be fair. Her alliance is still seeking an agreement for ownership of a few nullsec systems, saying "If [anyone] needs an alliance who build caps (if they're used to kill Goons, they're cheaper), we just need a few nice quiet systems." Akara Ito commented "I'd sell systems anytime." | ||
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