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Date: 28 JAN 2018
Form-up time: N/A
Departure time: 21:30
Return time: 23:30
Duration: 2h00m
Roam members (66)
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Aimsucks
Airsick Lowlander
Alf Saissore
Alto DeRaqwar
Ariea Thellare
Avalokitesvara Milarepa
Baro Gaar
Beavis Alland
Bethany Cartharsis
Blind Scion
Boris Doolaley
Budda Sereda
Calder Ormand
Coaxster
Darth Galifreia
DataSquid Nothappinen
DonBasuno Ichosira
Eddie Dante (Scout)
Erwin Madelung
Gatt2111 (Scout)
Gemma Solett
Gigabyte Ghekon
Gunman Aldent
Hideo Date
Iskarr Jarak
Ivika Starfury
Kaelph Audeles
Kontxesi Buchanan (FC)
Kora K (DPS Anchor)
Kordun Naskingar
Lazarus Tazinas
Loth Lorien
Maximus Hert (LC)
Megoste
Mols Halleck
Muzzy Chuck
Nathan Tamroc
Nuefrau Simalia
Padraic Musbrandt
Paranoya1 Aideron
Phaethonx Brutor
Professor Academiac
Raskyn
Rebulah Conundrum
Rider Isleman
Rolis Owlborne
Sone Eto
Sphere Thelon
Splodge Ernaga
Sunshine Gracchus
Tau Hopper
Teatimer ThePatient
Thelma Magent
Tiberius Auduin
Tyler Arnoux
Union Pivo (2IC)
Valen Kess
Vals Heluene
Vertxsees
Willow K
Wokum
Z0X Ambrye
Zako Maken
Zana Fehrnah
fengor Agittain
Breeze turned the fleet over to me at 21:25 and we headed to a citadel in Ostingele to allow people to reship and get some roles settled. As people who weren't interested in going to Tama left fleet, we ended up being very logi heavy. I was asked if some of them should reship, and I said "nah". This was a bad thing.
Gatt found a Rook, Stiletto, Omen Navy Issue, and Legion at the asteroid belt, so we headed over there to check it out. This was really the first fleet I've FCed that wasn't frigates fighting in plexes, so I was entirely unused to warping fleets around to people. It took me a bit to realize we could warp to Gatt, and then it took me three tries to finally get us in the right place to pop the Legion that he'd had tackled for almost two minutes.
(21:33:18) Ostingele
Blackbird -14.57m
Legion +961.19m
Our neighbors were getting a little grumpy about the size of our fleet:
[ 2018.01.28 21:36:52 ] Daniel Essig > you guys are making this system laggy to jump into and out of
[ 2018.01.28 21:36:57 ] Daniel Essig > do you mind? lol
[ 2018.01.28 21:37:23 ] Daniel Essig > its awfully inconvenient
The Rook warped to us as we jumped into Agoze. He warped off, but ended up coming back at range and then slowboating to the gate. He came to regret this.
(21:45:21) Ostingele
Rook +306.62m
Capsule +0.01m
Gatt tried to get us some fun, but they popped him pretty fast. We tried to track his killers down, plus a BNI somewhere.... Got a little overwhelmed by the amount of intel coming in at this stage, honestly.
(21:49:00) Loes
Malediction -241.13m
Jumping straight from frigates to battlecruisers, my brain is still in the "we can catch that" mode and we tried to chase a Phantasm across a couple systems. We didn't catch it, obviously, and lost some tackle.
(22:05:22) Hikkoken
Slasher -6.69m
We were trying to bait a group of Strats and a few other things in Tama, and I had to go AFK to feed some hangry doggos. Our non-bait group waiting on in Kedama got a Stabber while I was gone, but lost several frigates to gate guns.
(22:18:38) Kedama
Stabber +39.36m
Griffin -1.07m
Maulus -2.2m
Griffin -6.35m
Griffin -1.25m
Once I got back, it was clear that they weren't going to take the bait. So into Tama for gate camping we went! We got a couple of kills, and more importantly, gave several people a nice little practical on how to gatecamp. And, like any proper Uni fleet, we had someone tackle the gate.
(22:25:30) Tama
Arbitrator +15.28m
Thorax +16.11m
Then we got hotdropped by Shadow Cartel with a bunch of Nightmares and Scimitars. No, thank you. Tyler managed to get their cyno Anathema a little later.
(22:38:14) Tama
Anathema +58.49m
When we were still in Ostingele, I'd received intel that there was a Moros tackled in Asakai. I didn't think there was any way we were getting there in battlecruisers before the fun was over, so I wasn't super worried about it. Once we got chased out of Tama, I figured we might as well see what was hanging around up there. Lo and behold, there was the Moros, sitting at zero in a large. "We can't take a Moros with what we have, can we?" I asked. I was assured that we could, so in we went.
Well, we could not break a Moros with what we had. :p If I'd asked some of our logi to reship while we were in Ostingele, it would have been a different story. But of our fleet of approximately 55 at that point, I believe fewer than 20 were in Feroxes.
His Dirt 'n' Glitter friends came in to mess with us in VNIs and Guardians, but they took off once we knocked their logis' teeth in. They then returned in Tornadoes and started blapping and then warping off a few times. Budda was trying to get Spectre formed to come help us, I was trying to get GalMil to come in, Wokum was poking Bombers Bar.... Meanwhile we just kept plinking away, warping off occasionally, slowly bleeding ships.
Right as we were warping off to wait until I heard from Budda, a POS Party fleet warped in. Once I got confirmation that they were in fact engaging the Moros and not helping it, we warped back. They targeted a few of us, jammed some folks, but I've honestly not clicked through the killmails to see if they killed anyone.
(22:45:56) Asakai, Nisuwa
Caracal -29.03m
Osprey -8.76m
Griffin -1.28m
Griffin -1.34m
Griffin -1.08m
Daredevil -119.13m
Guardian +420.63m
Caracal -23.3m
Guardian +359.42m
Guardian +362.17m
Jackdaw -69.43m
Talwar -6.35m
Caracal -13.9m
Atron -3.85m
Federation Navy Comet -25.84m
Caracal -16.27m
Caracal -13.53m
Capsule -0.01m
Stiletto -43.73m
Impairor -0.48m
Slasher -10.51m
Capsule -0.01m
Capsule -0.01m
Cerberus -383.22m
Capsule -0.41m
Ferox -84.16m
Caracal -35.41m
Federation Navy Comet -28.66m
Moros +2520.19m
Maulus -1.52m
Slasher -6.15m
And so ended my first actual non-whoring dread fight. I think these guys got popped trying to loot or something, not sure.
(23:21:00) Asakai
Atron -9.69m
Ares -36.03m
It seemed like the POS Party guys were chasing us, but I think they might have been heading towards Zarvox in Rakapas. I was pretty exhausted after that Moros fight, so we headed home.
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 5,059,476,956.09
ISK Lost: 1,246,360,115.8
ISK Delta: 3,813,116,840.29
Efficiency: 80.235%
We had a lot of people who were pretty new to fleets in this group, and it was great. Everyone did a great job following instructions for the most part. Didn't lose anyone to gate guns while camping, most everyone was anchoring well. I also learned a whole lot here, as got thrown into a comp and fleet size that was way out of my comfort range. I haven't actually FCed a real fleet since about November, so it was interesting to grab this one and take it for a spin.
Thank you to everyone who stayed with us after the CTA, and I hope you all had fun. I'm sorry I don't have the attention span to watch my recording closely enough to get fun quotes.
Please apply for reimbursement from the Ship Replacement Program
Once you've applied for SRP, send me your killmail and copy the reimbursement specifics from the SRP page. I will use our loot proceeds to give you guys some extra monies where the SRP falls short.