https://zkillboard.com/kill/63038679/
https://zkillboard.com/kill/63038968/
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Death to the floaty structure things!
Yep, we bashed all POCOs unopposed!
MASSIVE Thank You to Everyone
We had a fantastic fleet composition – 70+, all of us in doctrine ships, with a great balance of Logi, DD, and all the special snowflakes requested. We formed up fast (30mins), moved well through space, and we were in a great shape to meet the fight we all expected was going to come our way.
Perhaps we were just TOO competent guys
It really speaks volumes for the Uni and our combat readiness that on a weeknight we were able to form up 70+ pilots in full doctrine ships for 2-3 hours at (fairly) short notice. Thats a great reflection on all of you, and also on the effectiveness of the BLAP programme. Nice work Titus! This bodes really well for more eventful operations in the future!
So, I wasn’t actually expecting to FC this, but the POCO timers overlapped perfectly with my Police Academy fleet (insert casual advertisement here), so Jacob asked me if I’d be interested in stepping up to Strat Op FC status
Everyone made this really easy though (including the WTs
). So much preparation went into this by the HSC guys, Jacob in particular, behind the scenes. Intel gathered, ships were seeded, cunning tactics discussed on a fully OpSec basis. We discussed it so much in the 24 hours leading up to it I was actually starting to get a bit nervous about this huge military force I was convinced would oppose us, with hundreds of OOC Logi, and T3Cs…I guess someone should have told the WTs that they were supposed to be so good!
In the absence of any fight, big thanks to our scouts who were excellent at gathering Intel for us. It’s a change of pace, for me at least, to be running a fleet where we are (mostly) static, and we’re checking for anything incoming. I think we did very nicely, we had eyes on all WTs (unaffiliated to IKR) in the area, and located the bulk of the IKR guys in Sivala fairly early on – and just kept tabs on them throughout.
We didn’t have a huge amount to do, but what we had to do we did really efficiently and effectively. Great work everyone!
Besides everyone already mentioned, additional thanks to Laser and Max for Logi FC’ing /DJ’ing, and Jax for 2IC. Second thanmks to Decklin who wasnt only a scout, but also helped me massively as he always does in thinking of tactics and strategy ahead of fleets. Big thanks to any of our third party friends who are reading this as well! Thanks for coming out, sorry we couldn’t offer you a fight.
One additional note: Early on, we had some other WTs encounter our fleet on a gate with a small gate camp composition (2x Gnosis + 2x Augorors). We could have set up better to kill them (split ourselves between the gate etc) but my concern at the time was still that I was expecting a larger fleet fight at some point, and I was keeping things very cautious – so when they ran I let them go. In retrospect guys, we could have caught them and got a couple of kills, but I was fairly focused on being prepared for the big fight I was “convinced” was coming
. Hindsight eh?We also went hunting for the WTs between timers, even heading to Sivala where they had 7 guys gate camping as usual, but there wasn't much content in the Low Sec systems on the way, and the WTs spotted us coming to Sivala miles away and docked up.
Oh, we did gank one WT Thrasher: https://zkillboard.com/kill/63039245/
So, there's that I guess
