The Red Circle Incorporated - From the depths of w-space

[Tendonor]

Time to bump our thread again, with another great WH fight story.
This time written by our very own Dialogical:



I logged into mumble to, err well actually to quickly slaughter some mobs in D3, telepathically respond to the scent of bloodshed in wh space.

Because my convivial "good evening guys" was met with a "keep silent" from Tendonor there were only 2 possibilities, he's either a dick or something is going down. Although not mutually exclusive it was definitely the latter as it was quickly followed by an "overheat on that harbi".

Apparently the guys were in the c3 in aaa ganking a couple of Russians with the eloquent corp name "Best of the best" and who've probably never heard of pride goes before the fall.

It wasn't enough that they were most likely caught in a matter similar to this



They thought to remedy the situation by warping in an archon. Great plan, only without backup or strategy it's as much use as this carrier right here


So when I heard "Archon on dscan" I reshipped to an armor curse hurrying to the target system, meanwhile Riithi jumped in a guard as did W. The original fleet was apparently more of a ragtag shield fleet without logi. This should be perfectly fine for some ganking although it was a wolf rayet.. With the baddon, tengu and harbi gone there was only the carrier on field and in the process of probably keeping point and some sleeper DPS we apparently lost a drake of the original fleet.

When I arrived on scene and with a pair of guards as companions and no noticeable DPS to speak of (both from us and them, err now just him) more and more people went back to switch to armor. The fact he was smartbombing didn't help, every bit of drone DPS was welcome. Not untill Devia switched to a full neut fallus, combined with the neuting prowess of my armor curse obviously, did we suck him completely dry.

In the meantime an alert mail was sent out and more people arrived to help and/or prostitute themselves. The Russian saw that he was cornered and initiated self destruct. We weren't going to make it. Luckily for Dev's local "har dar yar" or Walex's calling him someone who spreads AIDS to the detriment of all society and has trouble sitting down [Source: (urban) dictionary] he changed his mind and aborted. Then initiated again, and aborted and by then it was too late.

To this day we're left wondering what really made him change his mind. Kudos for manning up and seeing your carrier to a worthy end though.

http://treci.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=13509679

Right now the applications for Apprentenship 8 are open , check out our other workfair thread.

[Joran Jackson]

While we're up here, we're officially reopening US timezone recruitment as of June 20th.

[Hithalu]

A recent AAR of a fun little gank;

I might as well explain (not that there is much to.)

Alarm chain was hit, I logged in in my cloaky loki, and less than 2 minutes after I logged in, Valia (the noob) got himself uncloaked and popped.

After this, our options were limited, so I said F it, I'll check it out and see if they were still there. I warp to their wh, jump in, slow-boat through the large bubble that they had set up, warp to 100 on the site, and end up 4200m from one of those effing huge sleeper structures.

After letting Valia know he wasn't entirely a noob, I saw one of the tengus boating back from his wreck. That's right...

THEY WERE STILL THERE!

So, I followed the one that was moving, hoping that they would slow down so I could point 2 at once. All 3 came to a stop, with a 4th about 50km away. As soon as they did, I uncloaked, pointed 2 and MWD bumped the 3rd.

The fleet was just on the other side of their wh so the DIC was there fairly quick. Logi came in to save me and some fricking how, the 3rd tengu, the one I hadn't pointed, was still there. For that matter...

THEY WERE ALL EFFING SITTING STILL!

At this point fleet came in, we started shooting and quickly realized they were local tanked. We also quickly realized that they were not going down... At all. Right then another corpie logged on and was told, not asked, to bring neuts.

About 4-5 minutes in they brought in 2 more tengus, though I think 1 was the original 50km away one. Being slightly suicidal, I burned out and got one of them.

Sadly we did lose 3 ships (and a couple pods ), but considering that we came out with 97% efficiency and 18+ bil in ISK killed/dropped, I think I'll take it.

BR - http://treci.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=13835144

*Edited for language, grammar and punctuation.


We are still recruiting for all timezones. Our AU TZ has been picking up quite a bit with several new active members which is a nice change. Both EU and US TZ's are still nice and active and creating a lot of fun opportunities. If you think you have what it takes to try your hand in W-Space (best space), then have a look at our recruitment info in the first post and drop us a line. As always, you can find us in the TRECI public channel if you have any questions.

[Omen Nihilo]

We had a good day yesterday.

We started off by killing a ratting Chimera in nullsec: http://treci.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detai ... d=13981852

Not satisfied with our carebear cleansing in nullsec, we turned our gaze to w-space and ganked a corp running sleeper site escalations: http://treci.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_relat ... d=13984851

Pleased by these good deeds, Bob granted us a connection to Adhocracy Incorporated, who always bring the gud fites. Over a long, drawn-out battle with many session changes and reships we managed to secure a few T3 kills: http://treci.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_relat ... d=13986336

No sooner had we closed that connection than we spot a random Proteus warping to an incoming k162 into our home. He never knew what hit him: http://treci.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detai ... d=13986676


If this at all sounds like what you want to do in EVE, check out our TRECI public channel. And unistas who aren't yet convinced that w-space = best space, don't forget to check out our Apprenticeship thread: viewtopic.php?f=66&t=54501
You'll never know until you experience it!

[Admiral Tomahawk]

Pleased by these good deeds, Bob granted us a connection to Adhocracy Incorporated, who always bring the gud fites.

When you link us http://soundcloud.com/davidkmagnus/fight-us-maybe Its hard to not bring the fight =)

[Yummy Tears]

Pleased by these good deeds, Bob granted us a connection to Adhocracy Incorporated, who always bring the gud fites.

When you link us http://soundcloud.com/davidkmagnus/fight-us-maybe Its hard to not bring the fight =)

Who would stoop so low to do such a thing?

>.>
<.<

[Hithalu]

The Summer Lull is in full effect for TRECI (and most every other corp I'm sure) right now, so we don't have any new and exciting AAR's to post this time around. We are, however, excited to begin our 8th TRECI Apprenticeship right around the corner which should ramp up activity levels significantly.

Right now we are still open for recruitment in all timezones, but with a bit more emphasis on US and AU zones. Have a look at the first post(s) in this thread for an idea of what we are looking for, skills-wise, in a new pilot. Keep in mind that these "requirements" are in place so that you, as a new member, will be able to participate capably in any and all activities that we find ourselves getting into. Life in a C5-C5 is just a lot more skill intensive and we want everybody that wants to become a part of our community to be able to enjoy your EVE time when you play.

If you don't meet everything listed in our requirements, but you believe that you are close to it (2-3 weeks or so), drop in an application anyways. There are always exceptions that can be made (within reason), so don't be afraid to throw your name in the hat. At the very least, we will leave you with a detailed skill-plan for you to follow to get you on track with the necessary skills.

Swing by our public channel, TRECI, if you have any questions.

Come see what it's like to be a part of the team that teaches folks like you what it's like to experience wormhole life. W-Space Best Space.

[Joran Jackson]

It's been about a month. The apprenticeship is halfway through and we're still working out the kinks of our new armor PvE, as not everyone is 100% on board yet.

We've been unlucky in finding any real good capital ganks this month, but have gone on a nullsec roaming craze that I've enjoyed thoroughly by losing a ton of ships and learning a lot from the guys that just know more stuff than I do. If you like shooting things, we can help with that.

[Hithalu]

The following is a series of posts that makes up one of, if not the most entertaining AAR I've ever read. I'm hoping that the sheer entertainment value of it will prevent the wrath of Smoogle, so here you go...


Magnum's Illustrated AAR


Preface

So most of you would be looking at our killboard for August 26th and be all like:


But some of you might be all like:


And in fact even some of us that were there were like that too. So i'm gonna go ahead and explain what went on, but pretty much it was like this:

[Hithalu]

Act 1: cat and Mouse

So im about to log off for the night and relax, maybe catch up on the mountainous pile of lecture recordings i need to get through, when someone calls that theres a cloaky proteus in the pipe and he's gonna come back towards the main fleet. I say i'll bring an inty and a hic, and someone's all like:


so naturally:


i set up the covops trap and shortly i heer the *vwooorp* of an activation. Here comes the proteus... turns out its a loki


*bubble*

*point*

he jumps

i jump

*bubble*

*point*

"ive got him, jump in and kill him, i dont have long"

*Notice: Secure Commerce Commission...*

"havent landed yet"


Oh well, didn't want that Malediction Anyway.


Disgruntled i park my chars at the POS and log to go do stuff on my trade alt for a bit.

About 10 minutes later Mr. I gets on comms:


Then Mr. J gets all Captain of the Enterprise on us and calls up an armor fleet:


So i log with my hic and my guardian and move to the static. Just as we land we get the activation and the loki appears, i quickly bubble up. He kills Mr. Ji's Inty who grabbed initial point, but realizes hes got nowhere to go and jumps back. By this time Mr. Ty has jumped his own hic on the other side of our static and bubbles up, so we've got him well and truly stuck:


Mr. I has eyes down the pipe a ways, Exhale's home system, and calls out that they're bringing a t3 and guardian fleet up, about 5 or so pilots.
With our numbers increasing as the people finish shipping up, Mr. J calls us to jump in and set phasers to kill:


The loki is heavily tanked, and even in a Magnetar system it takes us ages to eat through his armor. But just before his guardian buddies land on grid he goes down.

We loot him and check the KM to find out that he was nicely pimped:


Somehow or other Mr. J's covops got decloaked on grid, so as the loki realized its fate, it went for a target of opportunity. Mr. J heard the shield and armor alarms and was all:



but quickly died, managing to get his pod out:


I should mention that its at this point that i realize i have a target painter fitted in my 2nd mid slot. I know is should (and normally do) fit ECCM or RECCM. I had it to help with armor pve and forgot to change it out before the fight

Also:


So i just ran with it.

[Hithalu]

Act 2: Dont Hold Your Breath (c wut i did thar? "exhale" - get it?)

After killing the Loki his buddies land on grid, a fairly even fight for us, but we've got hole control, so we've got the advantage. They start burning towards us and we regroup on the hole.
I quickly put out an alert and rally the troops:


We were initially going to regroup on our static then have at them again quickly, but some people got stuck with polarization. We waited for too long and the exhale gang warped off.


In the mean time our Newsteam assembles. Including:

Mr. D


Mr. T


......and .........Mr. F


In all fairness Mr. F did bring a bhaalgorn and a vindicator to the party, so i guess that makes up for him being.... well... you know....


So by this point we've got 3 guardians, two hic's, a bhaal, a vindi, half a dozen T3/T3 cruisers and a smattering of apprentices in Canes or N-Omens.
We're hoping that exhale havent completely retreated, when Mr. I comes on comms saying they've shipped up and might be bringing a Nidhoggur:


we quickly move up the pipe to the c3 in the chain (the door to this system goes to first shrink bringing the BS's through). We want to fight them there so they cant pursue us with the carrier. While we wait for someone to make a move, Mr. I reports a proteus uncloaked on closer to home.
The fleet's like:


So we warp back to the hole to try catch the proteus. That's when the fecal matter rocketed decidedly fanward...

[Hithalu]

Act 3: Dr. Fullerite or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FAP

The Proteus jumps through the wormhole and does a runner just as we hear that theres more hostile ships in bound. We see on the corp ticker that theyre a German corp, Feuer Schwerter, which means Fire Swords.


We're called to jump through the hole as they're likely to follow their proteus through. Most of our DPS jumps, then Mr. F brings his two battleships back through the hole...


promptly crashing it, trapping most of our DPS on the other side along with our FC:


As the reality of our situation ensues, we take stock of our chances:


We're left with 3 guardians, two devoters, a legion, a zealot, a navy omen and a hurricane. As well as Mr. I's alt in a covops.
They've got 3 guardians, a phobos, two proteuses, a legion, and an Absolution.

Well, we're not going anywhere...


Mr. T steps up as FC (and no, i dont have an equivalent star trek reference for Mr. T... except maybe Spock when he talks about his PI and Indy stuff) as Guardians form up the cap chain. Mr. Ty bubbles up in the Devoter, and we have at them. With our somewhat anemic dps we dont really have much effect. On the other hand, they cant break us either. Our only close calls are when their ecm drones land a hit on one of our guardians, but we quickly primary the ecm hornets and things stabilize.

At this point, I take the opportunity to individually lock each and every hostile ship and whore with my target painter just in case we manage to pull through this #YOLO.

At this point we realize we have both a hi-sec and Lowsec exit a couple jumps from home, and there's a Hi-sec in Home. Someone checks and finds a 17 jump route from home to the lowsec, so we call everyone to make best speed and bring support:


The hostiles know we're at a stand still, so they start bringing in reinforcements of their own. My guess is that a guardian must have been multi-boxing because he strays too close to us whereas the others were keeping range, we web him and paint him (km-whoring-TP ftw) and he goes down along with [urlhttp://treci.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14447802]his pod[/url] for our first kill.

Soon after, their reinforcements begin to arrive. Including a tengu and an oracle, and possibly some other stuff i don't remember. Even with one less enemy guardian, things didnt look great for us. Especially with what we figured to be a prick-gu come to jam our reps:


I had a close look at the Tengu, and as it turns out, it wasnt a prick-gu at all. Just some random kitey shield tengu trying to tip the dps scale in their favor. Sadly it kept range so we couldn't hit it effectively.
Furthermore, it seems the oracle tried to warp to range, but its warp was aligned with the bubble and it got dragged to the edge of the bubble, about 15km from the fleet, we quickly tore the ship up and its occupant.


At this point, Mr. I has the brilliant idea to get in touch with Exhale, and see if we can set aside our differences and work together against the common enemy.. the Germans.


So as Mr. I plays diplomat, our guardians are busy keeping up our fleet, and our DPS are trying to outsmart the enemy guardians. At one point, they primary Mr. Ty's Devoter, no big deal, he goes bubble-red, i put mine up, and we wait for his bubble timer to turn off so we can rep him. Little did we know he was also still infini-pointing a hostile, so we still couldn't rep him even after his bubble came down. he went down, and took the pod express.



Shortly afterward, the cavalry arrived:


Exhale joins our fleet and bring us a Proteus an Abso and three lokis, one of which is the loki that i tried to tackle not half an hour earlier, and who killed my inty:


Regardless, i lock them up for reps and they start melting face. Jerry sees whats going on and try to GTFO, we hold down everything we can, but the tengu and one of the Proteus's slip away.


Their legion is out of the bubble, but pointed, so he ejects and saves his pod. but other than that everything else dies in short order.


We loot the field, and gift the Legion to Exhale in good faith to say sorry for the other Loki we ganked earlier, then pop out to the hi-sec, repair our overheated modules in station then make the trek back to Home feeling pretty damn pleased with ourselves


Summary

First Fight
Second Fight
Third Fight















.......And then Van Slyke logged in.

[Klarion Sythis]

Lol Epic.

As a former member of TRECI I support this product. Join today, or die tomorrow.

[Omen Nihilo]

LOL!

Love me some TRECI

Literally sprayed coffee all over my screen when I got to the van slake ending

[Van Slyke]

That was an outrageous slander. I will have you know that I logged in as the devoter popped, and raced across K space to join the fight...

(OK, it ended while I was still 3 jumps out)