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Roam members (17)
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Budda Sereda - Talwar
Calder Ormand - Sabre
De W Javqe - Atron
Eadrom Vintarus - Talwar
Gemma Solett - Talwar
Kontxesi Buchanan - Talwar
Mols Halleck - Talwar
Peter Pantaloons - Talwar
Reise Amatin - Talwar
Sagittarius Griffins - Condor
Satoshi Tomeii - Talwar
Space Warfare Development - ?
Vors Voorhorian - Talwar
Vrix Torqueo - Talwar
Xafen Katapi - Executioner
Xiqnorzcht - Talwar
Xivik Skord - Talwar
Calder Ormand - Sabre
De W Javqe - Atron
Eadrom Vintarus - Talwar
Gemma Solett - Talwar
Kontxesi Buchanan - Talwar
Mols Halleck - Talwar
Peter Pantaloons - Talwar
Reise Amatin - Talwar
Sagittarius Griffins - Condor
Satoshi Tomeii - Talwar
Space Warfare Development - ?
Vors Voorhorian - Talwar
Vrix Torqueo - Talwar
Xafen Katapi - Executioner
Xiqnorzcht - Talwar
Xivik Skord - Talwar
We had a bit of a slow start, as staging is pretty far off the beaten path for most unistas and people were burning here from their campuses in the west. We undocked at 0220. I did some explaining about how I intended to fly the fleet. I noted that "burn away" meant to burn towards system's star unless hostiles were in between star and us, then burn away from star (that leaves us w/o an instant warp off though so perhaps a different celestial could be a better default or I just need to keep awareness of system's geography and call specific to system.
The route we were going to take down through Akkio had a smartbombing battleship on it, and as fun as it would be to lose my first fleet to smartbombs, I checked the main route into Horde space via BFW-ZZ and it appeared to not have a gate camp, so I deleted the route I had planned and decided to wing it and go through that entrance.
We then spent around an hour warping around looking for ratters to poke to evoke a QRF we could haze. We went though the IPS-QB, N-K4Q0, ZYL-FT, UBPU-9, and then RJ-1R7 constellations looking for stuff to poke with nothing in site beyond an inty that we thought might be shadowing us and then a a pair of vindicators that were being very skittish (not sure we could have taken that fight even if we had found them).
We were in TZL-WT deciding where to go next, when Budda suggested O-VWPB due to the high ship kills reported on DOTLAN. I asked the fleet and we agreed to burn back that way for glorious explosions instead of looking for more ratters that seemed to be in short supply tonight. So we reset destination and started burning quickly in that direction.
It was quiet until we got to OEY-OR. Once there, we killed a catch bubble off the 2E- gate since we just hadn't shot anything yet and I felt like it would be good to see an explosion after over an hour of roaming. Sorry Snuff! It wasn't personal. =) We warped to the 39- gate and got caught in another bubble, which we also killed (sorry again lightnin990 Ahishatsu). Lightnin990 said there was a fleet of Merlins coming from behind us in O1- and then we found out about a stabber fleet coming from ahead of us in 39-. Finally, some content!
Very shortly afterwards, the PH stabber fleet jumped into us at the 39- gate. They were at a great range for us, around 30km or so away, IIRC. I started calling some frigate sized targets (BUT DIDN'T BROADCAST, doh!). I ordered fleet to align to the sun and prop mods on. We popped a couple frigates despite my lack of broadcasting. We started losing talwars and enemy fleet was closing, and drones were swarming, so I ordered fleet to warp off to the sun. We lost a few talwars, but still had our sabre and enough of talwars for another attempt.
We got eyes on their fleet, which had warped to the O1- gate. I ordered us to warp in at 30km and immediately turn around and burn towards sun with prop mods on. I started pretty unclearly calling targets and broadcasting. It was here that my multi-tasking broke down between flying my own ship and trying to broadcast and watch chat for losses and look at the battlefield. We popped a few of their small ships again, and then broke off and warped back to the sun after I noticed they had stopped chasing us, but their drones were killing us pretty fast. We lost more talwars and I think at this point we had a few left and still our sabre.
We decided a glorious final assault would be the only good resolution and so we warped back to their fleet at 0. I'm not sure if we killed anyone or not, but this is where I died. Scatter command given shortly after and a motley collection of our scout, our sabre, and two pods crashed the gate towards home and we burned back to staging without further incident. Good fights were exchanged in local and we left having sated our need for pew pew. It looks like Snuff and PH had a nice brawl after we left.
The Good:
- More people showed up than I expected! I had a backup plan to take out attack frigates if we didn't get 10 for talwars and we had plenty enough talwars to start popping small stuff.
- We got some kills and we didn't all die to a smartbombing battleship or something like that.
- Spirits were high, comm discipline was fantastic, and fleet moved around pretty much perfectly. I didn't see any lemmings and people held cloak when asked and so on.
- I think I did a decent job moving the fleet around.
- Our scout was a newbro to the role (if not in SP as well???) and he stepped up fantastically. Thank you specifically to Xafen for his hard work trying to find us content and helping us move around safely.
The Bad:
- There wasn't near as much content as I expected. I need to do better research on the geopgraphy of the region. Heading closer to PH region capital will allow us to get into fighting more quickly. We went away from there towards ratting pockets that ended up being basically empty. Perhaps as time goes on, PH will spead out more towards these other ratting pockets but they seem more concentrated in the east side of Geminate for now.
- My target calling + broadcasting needs work. While I did verbally call targets, I completely forgot about broadcasting in the first engagement. I didn't quite seize up, but I got close in the second engagement. I need to be a lot more vocal and clear about what I want everyone to be shooting.
- I completely forgot to ask if we had fleet newbros and so if I needed to give a newbro speech. >< I am very sorry if we had anyone with us that I didn't offer to explain core fleet concepts to!
Kills and Losses
(03:44:03) OEY-OR, O1-FTD
Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I +0.85m
Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I +0.85m
Merlin +0.62m
Talwar -5.98m
Talwar -8.09m
Talwar -9.55m
Capsule -0.01m
Capsule -0.01m
Talwar -10.44m
Vigil +1.79m
Talwar -17.39m
Merlin +0.68m
Talwar -11.81m
Capsule -0.73m
Talwar -10.51m
Capsule -0.7m
Condor -6.45m
Atron -4.46m
Merlin +22.44m
Talwar -7.33m
Talwar -10.41m
Merlin +13.23m
Talwar -12.93m
Capsule -0.01m
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 40,468,239.59
ISK Lost: 116,804,308.59
ISK Delta: -76,336,069
Efficiency: 25.731%
Thank you to Laser Skaron for excellent AAR tool!