This fleet was a heap and a half of fun. We undocked from GW, had an uneventful trip up to PC9-AY and picked up a number of NSC friends. We rambled our way up to PF-346 and traded a Bifrost for a Raven on the way, then chased off a gate camp in PF-346. We came back to 6-CZ49, blapping some small stuff on the way, and caught Project Harvest anchoring their bubbles for a couple of kills. We made our way back to PC9, blapping another fleet's tackled on the way, and called it a night. Overall, the Cormorants were lots of fun and super trolly. We also have some truly excellent tackle to thank for our kills - hats off to our tacklers!
Roam members (21)
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Crimson Herring - DD, Scout
Derek Jalarr - Tackle
Etchard Yarghol - DD
Garm Zandor - Bait/Tackle
Hillybilly Hinken - DD
Imad Gratia - DD
Kive Dian - DD
Lanik Solette - DD
Mongo the Mechanic - DD
Omnicious Shardani - DD
Rohan Amadeus - DD
Saanguinee - Tackle/Boosts
Space Warfare Development - DD, Scout
Sturym - Interdictor
Thrane Moraius - DD
Tyler Arnoux - EWAR
Wokum - DD
Yuri Levnik - DD. FC
gaheris Anninen - DD
lswjnek Oxkold - DD
(23:59:32Z) MHC-R3
Bifrost -105.38m
Raven +260.28m
Capsule +0.01m
We went toward PF- looking for content. Our scout found a gate camp on the Orvolle gate but they had containers scattered around that decloaked him.
(00:10:43Z) PF-346
Manticore -64.16m
We made our way up to avenge him, catching a hapless Kestrel on the way.
(00:19:39Z) FD-MLJ
Kestrel +2.32m
Capsule +0.01m
The campers ran away, so we killed their bubble and their containers and headed back toward PC9-AY.
(00:29:27Z) PF-346
Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I +1.02m
A couple more hapless frigates jumped into us and got deleted. Cormorants are lovely for shooting frigates. Such interdiction!
(00:36:06Z) FD-MLJ, Poitot
Tristan +5.54m
Capsule +0.01m
Condor +19.09m
Capsule +0.01m
We were flying back to our "home" part of Syndicate based on intel that Project Harvest was anchoring their bubbles in 6-C. We waited for them to finish anchoring, and a hapless Uni Venture pilot who was trying to join our fleet jumped into system and got caught in a bubble. We took the opportunity to land our bait/tackle Procurer on the anchoring Hurricane and blapped 'em. Sturym landed a bubble on the Cane and we got a valuable pod kill too. A Jackdaw came in shortly thereafter and assumed his sniper mode was better than our 15+ T1 dessies. He was tragically wrong and got blown up. We killed all of the bubbles too.
(00:50:26Z) 6-CZ49
Hurricane +96.97m
Capsule +209.98m
Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I +1.02m
Jackdaw +86.97m
Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I +1.02m
Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I +1.02m
Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I +1.02m
Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I +1.02m
Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I +1.02m
We fooled around for a while and Project Harvest formed a response fleet. They brought battleships and landed all over the gate we were sitting off. We fought them, but our Cormorants were not going to break a battleship anytime soon and there was enough warping around that we were going to start losing people. Our brave bait/tackle pilot got caught and exploded as I warped us to the wrong gate, and a persistent bombing pilot managed to catch Crimson with his MWD on. Everyone warped off to figure out what was going on. We decided to move on and rage-murdered a couple of their faction drones that got left behind and then left system before we lost anyone else.
(01:26:27Z) 6-CZ49
Procurer -34.37m
Cormorant -13.01m
Capsule -0.01m
There was a small Moa fleet with a Flycatcher and some scouts in JH-. They moved into PC9 on our arrival, probably hoping that we would follow them. We chased around a Cynabal to no avail, but they eventually came back through to us. We snagged a tackle ship before they got away, running back home to wherever they came from. Also, Crimson hero scouted in his pod to confirm the gatecamp was still up (;
(01:40:20Z) PC9-AY, JH-M2W
Capsule -0.01m
Stiletto +44.23m
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 732,560,285.12
ISK Lost: 216,943,384.11
ISK Delta: 515,616,901.01
Efficiency: 77.152%
What went well:
- -We flew very well overall. We kept together and landed in the right spot most of the time (and most of the missed landings were my fault for wing warping to the wrong spot). Longbows are harder to fly than the usual brawling blob and we handled them well. Great work y'all.
-From Saanguinee's great catch at the start of the fleet to Garm and Sturym's team catch on the Hurricane pilot, we saw some truly excellent tackle on this fleet. Great tackle means great kills. Very nice work y'all - the combination of Hyena, Interdictor, Command Destroyer and Procurer (yes, for realz) worked.
-Great attendance meant lots of guns and lots of damage to get us shiny kills. I like the combined Soli/NSC crew.
-I didn't get our interdictor killed.
-We trolled PjH pretty hard in 6-C (;
-Lots of kills, solid efficiency.
-I had fun!
- -I got bogged down in tacs and warps in 6-C and put us out of place a couple times. Also, I didn't consistently call fleet location which was tough for the people who were not in the damage wing and weren't catching my wing warps.
-I'm still learning how to use tackle properly in Nullsec. Today I was helped enormously by folks flying the right ships and flying them well. Hopefully next time I can take some credit for tackle (;
-There were some points where I wasn't sure what to do. The fleet helped out with strategic advice, thanks y'all!
Yuri