Overall it was a great fleet, the prolonged engagement in Kourmonen at the end was very satisfying. Our logi was OUTSTANDING. In many of the fights, I really felt invincible, such was the logi support. My confessor loss at the end was really more a factor of my own hubris than anything the logi did, I REALLY wanted to break that kiting T2D conga line, and we did
For this roam, I relied on the the following map:
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Amarr_VS_ ... #npc_delta
The area offers some wonderful opportunities for the fleet to chill on a gate while the scouts check out little pockets. At first it was very quiet:
Kills and Losses
(02:17:56) Tararan
Maulus +3.44m
Capsule +1.38m
(02:24:02) Arzad, Amamake
Talwar +5.27m
Thrasher +3.24m
And then we had alot of battlecruisers on D-scan around the Amamake ring. Finally we got a Hurricane on a gate, but he burned away and we lost 2 friends in the fray. Overall we did very well with gate guns, but not really in this specific engagement. Remember: If you engage a neutral on a gate with your prop mod on, you better be aligned, or at least have a plan to align to something close to your velocity vector!
(02:33:48) Auga
Sentinel -53.79m
Confessor -98.6m
Bifrost -114.55m
Hurricane +74.3m
Thrasher +12.32m
Then we chased 3 Battleships into Siseide, and worked on trying to get them. At the same time, there was a multiboxer(?) trying to alpha us with drive-bys. We did a good job first avoiding the Thrashers, then setting up to wreck them. We missed one Battleship by only a bit, and then got one off gate a little.
(02:47:49) Siseide, Egghelende
Thrasher +4.3m
Thrasher +3.23m
Thrasher +3.22m
Thrasher +4.17m
Thrasher +3.21m
Hyperion +313.66m
Capsule +20.15m
The very wise and competent Spectre Jr. FC, RT Cancer, was doing an excellent back-seat FC job keeping an eye on Dotlan and zkill. Basically scouting with other tools, I was impressed. He found alot of activity down in Arzad, so we moved quickly, but only found a Stabber to kill:
(03:13:18) Arzad
Stabber +44.38m
Then RT Cancer indicated there were some BNIs getting kills in Kamela, so we moved back that way. On the road, we got a Catalyst.
(03:19:20) Tzvi
Catalyst +13.48m
Then we were back in Kamela, and things were busy for quite a while. The action was heavy enough that I handed the fleet to Arashi / RT Cancer, and I got my Raven out. We started to pile on at the large, and then more things landed and we boogied. I think we could have stayed, but someone advised that it was too much, whatever it was. I think there was maybe an Armegeddon that we could have finished, but the whole idea here is smash and grab, so that's what we did. I reshipped to my confessor again, after getting on 2 BC kills with the Raven.
(03:25:10) Kamela
Hecate -78.98m
Thrasher +4.88m
Enyo -51.97m
Thrasher +5.55m
Arbitrator +28.24m
Svipul -95.18m
Enyo -52.16m
Brutix +80.59m
Thrasher +2.93m
Hecate -74m
Brutix +82.86m
Catalyst -10.29m
Hurricane +58.49m
Succubus -75.86m
Thrasher +3.23m
Thrasher +3.21m
Thrasher -20.07m
Kirin -56.04m
Capsule -0.01m
Stabber +23.44m
Algos +12.16m
Wolf +55.39m
Harpy -68.2m
Republic Fleet Firetail +30.66m
Wolf +57.84m
Rifter +11.83m
Harpy +56.63m
Malediction -54.84m
Rifter +10.09m
Brutix +80.94m
A few minutes after, we owned the Large and this BC landed among us.
(03:46:23) Kamela
Myrmidon +74.21m
Then I believe we slid into this group at the medium. I asked that the logi be primaried, then we spread tackle.
(03:51:54) Kamela
Inquisitor +4.11m
Inquisitor +4.13m
Atron -7.83m
Catalyst +6.26m
Thrasher +10.46m
Dragoon +14.41m
Inquisitor +7.83m
Algos +5.78m
Inquisitor +4.12m
Algos +7.95m
Thrasher +7.47m
Capsule +0.01m
A few minutes later a Punishers slid into us?
(04:00:14) Kamela
Punisher +6.46m
Capsule +0.01m
For a while we were in Kamela on the Choonka gate and things were happening. The group of thrashers that appeared to be multi-boxing (but could have been just a well trained group) kept trying to do drive-bys. They would land at 100 sometimes. And an Oprey Navy issues would do the same. I had a few pilots align and burn towards Kourmonen gate from our spot on the Choonka gate, and stop at 170. Then I had the fleet warp to them at 70, so that we were all sitting at 100 off the gate, aligned with Kourmonen. And then this happened, to the delight of all:
(04:06:25) Kamela
Osprey Navy Issue +117.13m
I think shortly after, the Maelstrom was at 0 at the medium?
Maelstrom +329.92m
Capsule +0.01m
Then. After a long time in Kamela, we were attracted to the Kourmonen gate where there was I think a BS or BC that we engaged. We jumped through and there were 2 Paladins landing, with a Vindicator and a Gnosis and another BC. I think they were all flashy. I didn't think we would be able to do much with the Paladins, but the Vindicator was a bit far from them, so we tried to work on it.
Mind you, this all was happening with many gate tacticals, so I was directing the fleet to warp to me alot. Or, "Scatter, then when you land, warp back to Glen." It was alot like swarming tactics, hit quick and get out, then reform.
So we warped down to around the Vindicator and were trying to scram / web / kill before he got back to the protection of the Nestors, who were at 0 on the gate. Then a few people told me there was a Typhoon Fleet Issue BS behind us, so I had us screech our tires, and get out to dispatch the wandering Battleship, which we did to the tune of 800M.
After that is a bit of a blur. The whole time, there was a gang of kitey Talwars and T2D, and they were dangrous to catch / engage, matter of fact they did kill my Confessor. But we used combat probes, alignments between tacticals, and smash / grab tactics in general to romp all over the field for quite a while. I'm not sure exactly who we were fighting, but thanks to them for not dropping caps. Some people in our fleet wanted to drop caps, but I'm not a huge fan of that, at least not at this stage in my career. I rather prefer the guerilla tactics. Or I rather prefer KILLING caps, rather than using them. At least for now.
But like I said I am thankful that caps were not brought to bear in this fight, it really made for a wonderful thunderdone for about 30-40 minutes:
(04:19:25) Kourmonen, Kamela
Algos -16.48m
Ares -38.98m
Drake +95.05m
Kirin -56.68m
Capsule +0.01m
Capsule -0.01m
Capsule -0.01m
Typhoon Fleet Issue +818.67m
Atron -7.38m
Merlin -8.11m
Typhoon +232.35m
Thrasher +3.16m
Slasher -5.25m
Manticore +50.56m
Naga -197.83m
Capsule +0.01m
Talwar +10.96m
Talwar +12.15m
Federation Navy Comet -78.05m
Slasher +6.53m
Confessor -59.52m
Thrasher +3.23m
Confessor -82.19m
Blackbird -21.29m
Talos +94.88m
Punisher +5.84m
Kirin -55.16m
Navitas -17.6m
Thalia -37.23m
Capsule -0.01m
Punisher +23.19m
After we were done in Kourmonen, and a bit of a break, we continued in Kamela and finally dispatched that T2D kitey gang by aiming for the head of their little conga-line dragon. I sent that guy an eve-mail after the fleet, he did a wonderful job kiting us around for a while.
(05:12:07) Kamela
Caracal +33.1m
Kirin -55.52m
Capsule +0.01m
Hawk +62.39m
Federation Navy Comet -38.38m
Algos -17.67m
Federation Navy Comet -54.32m
Capsule -0.92m
Talwar +10.02m
Algos +5.05m
Velator -0.08m
Flycatcher +110.4m
Bantam +10.56m
Flycatcher +110.1m
Talwar +9.81m
Talwar +10.01m
Talwar +10.37m
What a great fleet! The warzone on this side of New Eden is busy and fun! Thanks to all the logi, ewar, scouts, back-seat FCs, and all pilots in general. See you next time!
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 3,447,429,938.65
ISK Lost: 1,761,045,058.93
ISK Delta: 1,686,384,879.72
Efficiency: 66.189%
