We undocked 1 ceptor (Z0X), Combat Probing Svipul (Glen), Keres (Will), anti-tackle (Skip), and 4 more Omen pilots:
Spoiler
Budda Sereda
Calder Ormand
Glen Burney
I Skip Legday
Raijin Naom
Will Musana
Wokum
Z0X Ambrye
Anathema +40.94m
Almost immediately after undock we spotted a Brutix
(03:20:20Z) Dastryns
Brutix +87.87m
Capsule +91.53m
A but later Vagabond. He pulled range, I believe our ceptor stayed at point range so while we landed Vaga slignshoted him and pulled the range. Z0x please share more details if you have anything to add.
Will lost Keres by not pulling far enough in time and was capped out... I knew I was taking a risk, first approached Vaga, and later pulled back to the fleet so Glen was able to land a scram, but I was killed quicker mainly due to being capped out as well (neuts ). Anyway, we killed a Vaga
Keres -56.75m
Omen -57.87m
Vagabond +296.01m
Hi-5 to our friend Daniel Essig who leaves in Dastryns and regularly gives us fights. Could we kill him without losing ships? Maybe... if we either had logies or if we kept the tackle and did not need to bait on DD But he was quicker than our Omens... so we needed a scram. From the other side, in this case (Vaga did not have scram/web) ceptor would be safe, but you never know.
Anyway, was a good fight.
We moved towards new Horde Space (C4C), on the way caught an ampty Wreathe:
(04:04:10Z) O-0HW8
Wreathe +1.03m
Capsule +0.01m
At some point, while scouts (Z0X and Glen) were trying to find ratting VNI, we got a spike in local: a solid set of destroyers with logies. The simplest option would be to just run away, but today I was intentionally looking for this type of fight. I called people to anchor up on myself, turn on prop mods, and pulled 50-70km from the gate. Unfortunately, people were slow to react and 2 of us were caught. I tried to shoot few things, but they had few Deacons and 3 DDs clearly could not kill them so we ran away.
(04:21:19Z) 8R-RTB
Omen -38.27m
Caracal -16.6m
Later Wokum admitted that by accident he sat into a wrong ship and instead of kiting self-rep one he flew buffer (hence slow).
In one of systems with ice belt Z0X found mining Procurer and Covetor. First appeared to be stabbed, but we caught the 2nd one.
(04:36:25Z) FIO1-8
Covetor +45.43m
Closer to the end of the fleet we met the same gang of destroyers who apparently were also looking for fight in a Horde space. Once Z0X confirmed they engaged in a fight with Horde I decided to 3rd party that.
It was a cool fight: we pulled throught the bubbled gate, anchored, and started picking targets at range. Unfortunately, even t1 dessies were catching reps and we could not reliable shoot thing down, but we got into a couple of kills.
(04:56:37Z) L-C3O7
Algos +16.95m
Capsule +0.01m
Crucifier +7.2m
Algos +11.91m
Stabber +14.84m
Deacon +86.96m
The fight gradually went down, we were still at solid range when I spotted an Astero quite far from the blob, I called it to be tackled and primary it. At some point I needed to run away (50% in hull), the rest of the fleet kept shooting Astero and Glen whent for short range scram. Apparently, Astero caught reps and we could not kill him. But they came closer and get Glen down. I returned to grid but appeared too close to opponents and was killed too.
Svipul -107.12m
Capsule -6.01m
Omen -50.09m
Capsule -0.01m
It looks, like we got on kill of another pricy ship
(05:11:14Z) L-C3O7
Orthrus +250.58m
Again, it was a great experience: 6 pilots, out of them 3 DDs only were fighting like 40 ships! As FC, it was a hard job to pick-proper targets and to an anchor at a proper range. From the other side, fleet was more or less close to me and I felt good we are in proximity to primaries. Few times though, I pulled too far.
After the fight, I realized that I did not control what Keres was doing. As an option, he could damp logies when we did fight that Astero. Maybe Keres should look on grid himself and pre-lock logies?
Nomatterwhat, I believe we should have communicated with Will more on what to do on the grid. Something to improve for future.
After the fight we still had a scout, EWar, and 2 DDs, but as I was killed I advised them to drop ships in the nearby NPC station and pod-express home. Next week going to do the same.
Final Stats:
ISK Destroyed: 951,275,235.07
ISK Lost: 332,718,386.46
ISK Delta: 618,556,848.61
Efficiency: 74.087%
Overall, I've achieved what I planned: we were kiting superior forces and did this pretty much successfully.
The only problem is a long travel distance.
Among other things, I've learned that going to Horde space we need to be ready to not only shoot small things, but also be able to break logies. So, maybe idea to go to Horde space in a small gang is not the best... Yet, I want to try the same one more time.
Come with me: https://forum.eveuniversity.org/viewtop ... 56#p879056
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