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Ariea Thellare ( Logi Commander )
ashahara ( Caracal )
B'aldrick Aivoras ( Bifrost )
Burak Oz ( Caracal )
Crane Aideron ( Caracal )
DeanSherman (Atron)
Decklin Quark Reiger ( Caracal, FC)
Dgdsgy Foobar ( Blackbird )
DonBasuno Ichosira ( Logi )
DonkeyPunch Udan ( Caracal, 2IC )
Gatt2111 ( Caracal )
Jason Eoner ( Hyena )
Jax Renalard ( Cepter )
Kirsi Isrik ( Caracal )
Ludvic Sulla ( Caracal, newbro! )
Muzzy Chuck ( Caracal )
Oh' Leeador ( Caracal )
Phaethonx Brutor ( Caracal, newbro! )
SketchyManDan Williams ( Caracal )
Tika On ( Caracal )
Tlymphocyte ( Logi )
Trillian Ituin ( Bellicose )
Troven Smalvard ( Cepter )
Two Ghosts ( Crucifier )
Union Pivo ( Logi )
Veever Yvormes ( Caracal )
Wokum ( Caracal )
Xana McBash ( Caracal )
Z0X Ambrye ( Caracal )
Zana Fehrnah ( Logi )
Zarquu Fussuhfusus ( Logi )
Zeerse Solaris ( Blackbird )
Only a small portion of the fleet caught the boosh, but Baldrick caught Megoste, and we finished him off.
(18:53) Dastryns
Osprey Navy Issue +103.32m
While we travelled up the pipe towards Vlillirier, one of our scouts spotted a gang of attack battlecruisers in Intaki. They turned out to be from Black Flag Synidcate, and were bashing either a POS or a POCO. GIven the Uni rules about structure warfare, we didn't interfere, but moved on. We did notice a number of Black Flag capsules heading in the same direction with us towards their home around Aubenall / Oulley.
In Oulley, Troven spotted a Gnosis, a couple Exequrors, and another cruiser or two who had been participating in a gate camp. The fleet was two jumps away in Renarelle, but I sent Baldrick and SketchyManDan into Aubenall. My plan was for Troven to tackle the Gnosis, and for Baldrick to boosh the Gnosis off the gate and hold him while the fleet simultaneously jumped into Aubenall, and warped to Baldrick (You'll notice here that I got mixed up at first about which side of the Aubenall / Oulley gate that the Gnosis was on. Thankfully, Troven clarified this while Baldrick was on the way. We amended the plan slightly, given that the Gnosis was in Oulley. In this case, what actually happened was Troven got tackle on the Gnosis, Baldrick and Sketchy jumped in to Oulley, and Baldrick attempted to boosh the Gnosis off the gate, while the rest of the fleet was in warp to the Oulley gate. (Un?)fortunatly both the Gnosis and Sketchy missed the boosh. The Gnosis crashed the gate, running away from Sketchy, and right into the fleet's waiting arms:
(19:10) Aubenall
Gnosis +69.26m
Capsule +43.68m
Shortly afterwards, another Black Flag Oracle got careless, and we caught him on a gate in Oulley, just barely popping him as he bounced off the gate trying to jump through:
(19:17) Oulley
Oracle +134.5m
After this, Black Flag were eager for a fight, and formed up for us, leading to a 30-minute, 3-round fleet brawl that spread across the full width of Renarelle:
Battle report: http://evf-eve.com/services/brcat/?s=38 ... 2&e=28&t=u
(most of the logi aren't shown - we had 5 Ospreys, and they had 2-3 Guardians)
At first, Troven reported that they were entering Renarelle from Aubenall. I didn't quite catch their fleet composition verbally, other than that there were Guardians, at least one Bhaalgorn, and some battlecruisers and cruisers. I took the fleet to a medium to more clearly assess their composition, and separate their fleet if they entered. I quickly realised that there was no way they would go for a fight inside the Medium, but if we were careful in our positioning, we should be able to disengage without too much difficulty.
I wanted the fight to happen in a deadspace pocket so they wouldn't be able to warp on top of us, so We bounced out to a nearby FW complex (a small I think), and aligned back to the medium where Black Flag was outside. Troven confirmed their position at zero on the acceleration gate, with their Guardians slightly in the direction of the Aubenall gate, which was away from us. I mentally debated the value of bouncing to the Aubenall gate and back to the medium, but discarded that thought when Troven said their Guardians were re-positioning anyway.
I warped our fleet at about 40 to the medium, and Round 1 was on!
In this round of the fight, they quickly eliminated our Atron and Hyena, as well as two of the Caracals. We struggled initially to break their reps - tried a couple different Hurricanes, putting our drones on one of their Guards, to distract logi a bit, and swapping between targets that got within our 40km range. Eventually we managed to break a hurricane.
At this point, our fleet was getting slightly out of position. One of our Blackbird pilots was doing silly things in brawling range of their fleet, and some of the Caracals were lagging behind a bit, struggling to maintain capacitor to catch up. We were also getting low on remaining heat, so I warped us away to a celestial near the center of the system, to recover cap, repair heat damage, and regroup the fleet.
(19:30) Renarelle round 1:
Caracal -25.69m
Hyena -26.43m
Atron -2.34m
Caracal -28.04m
Hurricane +77.43m
Blackbird -24.08m
Caracal -29.91m
Caracal -12.97m
Just as we were finishing repairing and reloading, their scout found us ( I think I had taken us to an asteroid belt). I didn't want them to be able to warp on-grid, so I took us to a nearby drone swarm, and prepared for the fight. Unfortunately, I anchored the Caracals in the opposite direction from where Zarquu took the Logi, so the logi warped off and back in, to reposition. To make this work, I pulled the Caracals off in the direction that the logi warped, so they could warp back to us at range. During this engagement, we quickly killed off their Vexor Navy Issue that had joined in. After that, we stayed just at the edge of our max range, and basically repeated the same tactics as before - keeping our Caracals positioned between their fleet and our Logi. After melting the VNI, we again traded a Blackbird, Caracal and Hyena for one of their Hurricanes, before we had to warp off to reposition the fleet, since some people had gotten out of position.
Renarelle round 2:
Vexor Navy Issue +108.6m
Blackbird -10.68m
Caracal -13m
Hyena -25.47m
Hurricane +98.71m
We warped out and repositioned for round 3:
This time, we made sure both the caracals and ospreys moved the same direction off the warp in, and anchored up well. Unfortunately as we were going for our first target, our command destroyer accidentally jumped our FC away, so Xana took over temporarily as anchor, and we got the fleet back together.
This time around, we were lower on numbers, and we weren't able to break anything. We tried to use the command destroyer to jump their guardians away from their fleet, but it didn't quite work. After several losses, we disengaged and gave GF's in local:
Renarelle round 3:
Caracal -17.14m
Caracal -28.58m
Caracal -13.98m
Caracal -13.38m
Caracal -28.46m
Caracal -36.08m
While we were looting the field at one of our battle locations, Jax learned that he should orbit a rail-fit Cormorant close, not at range:
(20:11) Renarelle
Stiletto -43.05m
Troven caught a Gnosis at a drone site in Nennamaila:
(20:47) Nennamaila
Gnosis +72.62m
Capsule +0.01m
A Snuffed Out gate camp caught Troven in Rakapas:
(20:57) Rakapas
Stiletto -39.98m
We blobbed an RDRAW Ishkur in Indregulle
(21:09) Indregulle
Ishkur +62.18m
And then we bravely ran away from the pursuing Hurricane fleet - it was late sorry RDRAW - next time!
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 770,315,175.96
ISK Lost: 419,234,302.39
ISK Delta: 351,080,873.57
Efficiency: 64.757%