[NoP] BLAP Caracals practice in Dastryns

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[NoP] BLAP Caracals practice in Dastryns

Post by Budda Sereda »

Funny enough, I rarely join NoP fleets. This I was going to, but Reise got sick... :(

I learned about this too late, and when I learned somebody asked in alliance "Maybe somebody will pick-it up", so I thought "Why not" and make a set of standard pings to slack. Maybe should have sent an email that fleet will go indeed? Please share your opinion guys: was it worth "spamming" whole corporation on that matter?

Anyway, we got 9 people in fleet. I was a bit undecisive with a doctrine, this impacted form-up time I believe, but we did eventually undock with 1 ceptor (James Rider), 6 Caracals (some standard BLAP, some with points), few t1 frigates and destroyer of those who could not fly cruisers yet.
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GaleBread
Harai Rex
James Krividus
Jehoshaphat Ambraelle
Mr Huggy Carebear
Razer Thukkerkin
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We undocked and while we were in Dastryns waiting for intel from scout, I've noticed "o hai" in local... from Daniel Essig. At the same time somebody from fleet when for some reasons to station so I knew Daniel was in a Vagabond. I asked if he wants a fight, he answered sure and warped to the son.

I thought "He seems to brave, maybe that's a trap"? But, apparently it was not:

(03:12:38Z) Dastryns
Vagabond +407.48m

I assume nobody would be happy to be killed in 20 seconds while offering a fight... To Daniel's credit he was not salty, but only asked to wait for follow up. Now it was my turn to give him a fight on his conditions. Honestly, I expected that will be more tough fight, but I thought: we are in BLAP Caracals, let's practice kiting and unless he undocks a dread or carrier we are going to engage.
Daniel brought 2 RR Dominixes. That meant our chances breaking them are slim, but if after killing drones we will jam 1 we can kill them both. Eventually :) So that was the plan.

I recorded first part of the fight and second got corrupted :( ( need to learn that stuff, should not be harder than FCing I guess? ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qpuAq1 ... e=youtu.be

So things were OK for a while: we were picking up drones, controlling range, at some point I felt it is time to bring jams to the field. We were just 1 jump from the Stacmon so should be a trivial thing. Unfortunately, nobody from fleet decided to reship, but I believe Razer called he will take 2IC and manage the fleet, so I did reship myself. Unfortunately, while I came back in a Blackbird we had only 1 Caracal left (+ceptor), 1 more came back with reship... so I had some hope to jam Domies, and eventually kill them. That only required to dispatch the rest of the drones, jam BSs and bring pretty much anything... even Merlins.

But, I made mistake: I did not realize that some sentries can hit from 60km and lost few precious seconds understanding why I'm taking damage when there is nothing in a range of 60km from me and was killed. With this I called it a fight.

(03:22:52Z) Dastryns
Caracal -14.97m
Breacher -0.71m
Caracal -15.28m
Caracal -21.15m
Caracal -23.57m
Blackbird -16.56m
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[ 2017.11.14 03:07:55 ] Daniel Essig > o hai
[ 2017.11.14 03:08:33 ] Budda Sereda > Daniel Essig wanna fight?
[ 2017.11.14 03:09:06 ] Daniel Essig > sure
[ 2017.11.14 03:09:11 ] Budda Sereda > where?
[ 2017.11.14 03:09:43 ] Daniel Essig > follow
[ 2017.11.14 03:10:37 ] Daniel Essig > ??
[ 2017.11.14 03:10:50 ] Budda Sereda > coming...
[ 2017.11.14 03:10:57 ] Budda Sereda > we are slow
[ 2017.11.14 03:12:44 ] Daniel Essig > ...
[ 2017.11.14 03:12:49 ] Budda Sereda > thanks for fight!
[ 2017.11.14 03:12:50 ] Daniel Essig > not what i expected when you asked me if i wanted to fight
[ 2017.11.14 03:12:52 ] Daniel Essig > but thats cool
[ 2017.11.14 03:12:54 ] Daniel Essig > stick around
[ 2017.11.14 03:12:55 ] Daniel Essig > for more
[ 2017.11.14 03:13:01 ] Budda Sereda > ... ok
[ 2017.11.14 03:13:47 ] James Krividus > Daniel Essig I did wonder what you had up your sleeve, agreeing to fight with that many of us in system :-)
[ 2017.11.14 03:13:55 ] Budda Sereda > not a capital please though :)
[ 2017.11.14 03:14:02 ] Daniel Essig > not going to bring any caps on you
[ 2017.11.14 03:14:12 ] Budda Sereda > good, we will try to break you
[ 2017.11.14 03:14:53 ] Budda Sereda > we have 9 in fleet, so please get something we can theoreticaly break tank of
[ 2017.11.14 03:15:15 ] Daniel Essig > you got it
[ 2017.11.14 03:15:58 ] Daniel Essig > just fitting up real quick, one moment
[ 2017.11.14 03:18:03 ] Budda Sereda > not a marauder i hope?
[ 2017.11.14 03:18:04 ] Budda Sereda > :)
[ 2017.11.14 03:18:07 ] Daniel Essig > nope
[ 2017.11.14 03:19:09 ] Budda Sereda > 2? both yours?
[ 2017.11.14 03:19:27 ] Daniel Essig > hai
[ 2017.11.14 03:19:30 ] Daniel Essig > anytime
[ 2017.11.14 03:26:15 ] EVE System > Channel changed to Local : Stacmon
[ 2017.11.14 03:29:38 ] EVE System > Channel changed to Local : Dastryns
[ 2017.11.14 03:30:00 ] Daniel Essig > gf
[ 2017.11.14 03:32:57 ] James Krividus > gf!
[ 2017.11.14 03:32:58 ] Budda Sereda > gf
[ 2017.11.14 03:33:01 ] Jehoshaphat Ambraelle > gf
[ 2017.11.14 03:33:02 ] Harai Rex > gf gf!
[ 2017.11.14 03:33:35 ] Daniel Essig > really good fight ! =)
[ 2017.11.14 03:33:36 ] Daniel Essig > anytime
[ 2017.11.14 03:33:37 ] stizzle > gf
I'm sure it was a very interesting fight and fruitful practice.

After that we decided to go into low in brawly frigates, but it was not really successful.

First, Harai tackled Atron, but was killed 1st
(04:14:35Z) Vlillirier
Atron -6m
Tristan +8.37m

Though, there was a good and interesting moment to share.
Later we spotted a Thorax in Medium, I warped and tackled him, called fleet to join, but as soon as I was tackled a bunch of other ships decloaked.
What cool about this and what I'm really proud of is that even though I was scrammed/pointed/webbed/neuted, I did not lose composure, aligned out, overheated afterburner, pulled out of scram and web range, stopped AB, after and turned on MWD... got out of scram range and voulya! :) warped away :)

In Nen I spotted few frigates sittig at 100km from Aki gate aligned to Hik.

I called fleet to warp to Him, warped myself to Aki at 100, got point, and called fleet to follow. Mistake I made is I forgot we are in nul on the gate and those guys were not flashy:
(04:27:41Z) Nennamaila, Aldranette
Federation Navy Comet -29.19m
Incursus -5.7m
Merlin -9.63m
Tristan -13.86m
Condor -3.36m
Capsule -0.01m
Capsule -0.01m
Rifter -0.51m

Apparently, one of those frigates pilots was Megoste. And only after I was killed, I noticed he offered a fight.. :(

On the way back, Razer killed a rookie :)
Ibis +0.36m

Anyway, was an eventful, fun and educational day, thanks all for joining!

ISK Destroyed: 416,211,538.32
ISK Lost: 160,516,605.42
ISK Delta: 255,694,932.9
Efficiency: 72.168%

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Re: [NoP] BLAP Caracals practice in Dastryns

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Harai and Gale killed something too on their way back, but my memory of what it was has faded. I know it was way better than the Ibis I killed! I only shot the Ibis because he just kept sitting at 16km off gate, not moving in Lowsec and that offended me somehow. Mainly I wanted the practice of engaging under gate guns which I got. :) All-in-all it was a good fleet experience for the content that was available to us. During my time as 2IC, I failed to call out specific drones to target and that's when the Sentries welped the fleet. Black Rise and Placid seemed abandoned compared to times past. Hopefully that will change. If not, I guess we'll be going to null a lot more!
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Post by Budda Sereda »

I guess that's the kill you are speaking about? https://zkillboard.com/kill/65961623/ Blaster fit destroyer by 2 brawly frigates and do not die - Good job!
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Re: [NoP] BLAP Caracals practice in Dastryns

Post by Daniel Essig »

I'm not sure if i have any advice on what could have been done better. It was a fun fight. You probably would have been able to win if you were able to completely defang the domi's of all drones.
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