Last night we welcomed the AMC to Low Sec with open arms and a crate of Antimatter! Battle Ventures HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Despite the FC being almost as rusty as some of the Ventures we were flying, much content was had, much ISK was destroyed, and surprisingly little salt was mined! All we found was solid gold killmails! And Omber...
Hope you had fun AMC! Come down to join our fleets whenever you like!
So, we got some early content here with a flashy Zealot jumping into Vey from Agoze. He saw us and crashed gate, then sat at zero on the other side. We set up the trap, with our Scouts and bait Neuruses on one side of the gate, and the fleet on the other, but he elected to stay at 0, hoping we'd make a mistake. Meanwhile he had friends in a Navy Harbinger (flashy) and Guardian (not flashy) come join. The Guardian pulled range from the gate while the Harbinger sat at 0
While we each stared each other down, waiting for someone to make their move, a Taranis landed on the fleets side of the gate and for some reason decided not to jump through. We did the honorable thing and mined our first skull!
Taranis +30.93m
The Harbinger then engaged one of our forward party, and we leapt through the gate like a pack of hungry bananas to try and burn him down before his weapons timer expired. He de-aggressed and tried to tank it, but his Guardian friend was forced to rep him - going suspect as a result. I sent our fast tackle out to grab the Guardian while we tried to break the Harbinger. He jumped out at 5% structure or something, but thereby abandoned his faithful Logi to the Venture Death Blob
ISK Positive already!
Stiletto -37.07m
Guardian +285.02m
Our glorious victory seemed to bring out the worst in the locals, and we had a Caracal fleet undock, along with a random assortment of odds and ends. We let the Caracals move on, then followed the gang of random others up into Fraire, where scouts got a great tackle to isolate and split off a Vexor who died horribly but happily, taking with him the moral victory of a dead Griffin
Griffin -2.12m
Vexor +33.22m
Our friend in the Navy Harbinger now reappeared, jumping back into Vey - still flashy. We jumped, he tried to crash gate, but this time we got enough webs and scrams on him to hold him JUST shy of the jump range. We strip mined that pretty golden hull and left him in an Antimatter coffin
Harbinger Navy Issue +305.72m
In Renarelle, Budda got tackled by a Comet outside a plex. We raced over like only a mining ship can race, but our industrial grade agility wasn't fast enough to save him. Thankfully we were able to avenge his glorious death
Stiletto -37.07m
Federation Navy Comet +25.03m
Getting up the business end of Blackrise, we had all manner of fleets and gangs zipping around. None as cool as us though...
We third partied a big fight between a gang of Feroxes and others, against a Hurricane Fleet Issue Gang. We landed at range, and were able to pick off one of the Feroxes who was sniping from range. By the time we killed our Foxy friend the HFIs had finished off most of the rest of the gang, and rather than have their attention turn to us, we skipped away into the void, giggling like murderous schoolchildren with their Dad's mining pickaxes
Griffin -1.86m
Venture -22.92m
Ferox +118.51m
We headed up towards Kinakka, then suddenly realised that burst of activity I'd seen on Dotlan was actually a Holy Cookie Retribution fleet, who I had no interest in playing with, so we ran away screaming like scared schoolchildren who'd just realised that pickaxes, while cool, are not as effective weapons as M16s
Kore got caught in his Battle Neurus, but somehow escaped through witchcraft (sorry I didn't pay attention to what the witchcraft was...)
Moving towards Hikkoken, a Caracal fleet landed on top of us on a gate. They went for a boosh to get us off the gate, missed horribly, and just jumped themselves 100km off, with just one of our Ventures. We laughed. Then we cried. But only a little bit.
Venture -6.63m
We floated around the Eastern part of Blackrise dodging the Caracal gang for a bit until Budda got a fantastic set of eyes on a Gila in Kedama! We burned over, and Budda went for the hero tackle. He managed to heroically hold tackle long enough that we got secondary, and secured the kill. Great shout and great work Budda!
Stiletto -37.07m
Helios -44.93m
Gila +307.75m
Capsule -5.81m
While we played with the Gila, a Vexor landed nearby, and we snatched a good tackle on this for a nice addition to our growing pile of corpses. The Taranis was in the plex with the Vexor, but made the error of not escaping while he could. Scouts chased him down, jammed him out, killed his drones, then held him in space while we all went to whore on the kill
Vexor +59.46m
Taranis +49.74m
Zarquu got ganked trying to re-join fleet in a Kitsune
Kitsune -47.92m
We had a small Harpy fleet hanging around who I originally tried to avoid, then after we waited 10mins for the Gila pilot to reship to a Battleship, only for him to get ganked in High Sec coming back to fight us, I got bored and decided to fight the Harpys. Adrien's Neurus went first to bait a fight on a gate, then we jumped in to see what we could grab. A Kirin was nearby and vulnerable, so we ganked it fast, then tried to snatch a Harpy, but they had one Logi, and their attention was turning from Adrien back to us, so I bailed us out while Adrien escaped. Smash and grab folks! Smash and grab!
Executioner -7.81m
Kirin +92.4m
Venture -4.31m
Venture -4.74m
Venture -5.3m
Venture -6.51m
We'd had constant intel of an Enyo gang earlier, and we finally caught up to them here. Adrien went in first again, to the outside of a plex in Nennamaila, then we followed up. I was in a pod at this stage directing events, until I realised that wasnt very viable and handed it over to Decklin. We killed an Enyo first, while a Magus and Dragoon tackled Adrien. Adrien managed to last long enough that the fleet were able to finish the Enyo then switch back to first the Dragoon, and then finally finish off the Magus, before a Vargur landed (!) and we bailed out! Great work all round guys!
Somehow we also got on a Gila kill here!? DJ Unahoo you have some weird magical drone powers!
Condor -3.61m
Punisher -7.42m
Venture -10.48m
Enyo +53.98m
Venture -7.19m
Venture -8.79m
Venture -3.49m
Venture -5.61m
Inquisitor +13.78m
Nereus -26.49m
Dragoon +8.85m
Magus +92.2m
Venture -3.7m
Gila +253.04m
We reshipped in Ichoriya, then Budda went for tackle on a Wolf. He was Artillery fit though, and JUST managed to kill Budda before the fleet landed. SAD FACE
Imperial Navy Slicer -23.7m
Back in Nennamaila, we jumped onto a plex with a bunch of kitey stuff wizzing around, including a couple of Garmurs, and our Wolf friend. I originally went for the Wolf, but when a Caracal landed at 0 on us I switched us to that as the bigger threat. We took down the Caracal, but the Wolf had escaped, and with the Garmurs etc looking at us all evil I had us slide the gate into the plex. We waited there while Decklin gave us a lovely commentary of the events outside the plex, but there was never really a fight we could take, so eventually we just extracted, and moved home with no further events
Imperial Navy Slicer -23.09m
Griffin -12.38m
Venture -3.7m
Caracal +38.76m
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 1,768,412,217.71
ISK Lost: 427,438,589.86
ISK Delta: 1,340,973,627.85
Efficiency: 80.534%
Great fleet, great fun guys! Thanks very much coming out, many thanks to the scouts!
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Adrien Claremont
Alya Ahashion
Anthony Fenrir
Ashley Sokolov
B'aldrick Aivoras
Breeze One
Budda Sereda
DeanSherman
Decklin Quark Reiger
Dj UNOHOO
EricZor Xadi
Etchard Yarghol
JohnPlayerNotSpecial
Kora K
Korm Rayh
Kristopher Evans
Laser Skaron
Rider Isleman
Savannah Tokila
Shiro Neutronica
Space Warfare Development
Stasia Ohau
Trillian Ituin
Union Pivo
Yuri Levnik
Zarquu Fussuhfusus
Zeerse Solaris
ashahara
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