[AAR] Blue structure defence in Solitude pt.I

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Hirmuolio Pine
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[AAR] Blue structure defence in Solitude pt.I

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Fleet thread

So some "Angry Feminist" guys had reinforced structures that belong to an UNI alt. Of course we couldn't let them destroy them.

The fleet planning was done hastily. Ed mentions the reinforced structures on Tuesday and the first timer is already on Wednesday. Though it was only armor timer so defending on wednesday wasn't mandatory.

But we formed anyways. The structures are located in high sec so UNI characters can't direclty attack the war targets. The plan was to use our alts to join Phoenix Enterprises Unlimited and fight the war targets while UNI characters had supporting roles: Warpin and neutral logi.

The fleet doctrine was kitchen sink with recommendations on armor tank and logi.

We got decent number of UNI chars and out of UNI alts in the fleet. The formup was slightly confusing too as not everyone knew how this kind of mixed war/not war operation would play out. We form the UNI logi wing, UNI combat prober warpin and mysterious alt wing that was still logged off.

Soon after the structure became vulnurable the war targets logged in their Oracles and started bashing the structure. Our combat prober probed them down, alts logged in and people started warping on the enemy Oracles.

We have a short "fight" on the structure (they didn't fight back very much). Most of the oracles managed to warp off but we caught two oracles and the pods of the pilots. No losses were taken.

After the Oracles left and docked in GW (should/could we ban them from docking?) one WT came out in executioner and flew around for a while. We didn't have anything that could even dream of catching it. After the structure had repaired its armor we docked.

The Angry Feiminists seemed to be quite suprised that UNI was helping with the structure defence. They even asked "Would Eve University like to formally join the war?". We won't. There is no need to when we can just abuse use neutral logi and alts for combat.

Kills:
Oracle https://zkillboard.com/kill/69582466/
Oracle: https://zkillboard.com/kill/69582484/
Capsule: https://zkillboard.com/kill/69582493/
Capsule: https://zkillboard.com/kill/69582518/

The usual afk bashing fits of someone who did not expect any resistance.

Wen't well:
-Very short notice formup was succesful.

What could be improved:
-This kind of high sec mechanic abuse play could do with a whole class. Many aren't familiar with all the timers of mixed engagement.
-More small ships. We had one destroyer, some vexors and something else maybe (the else were too slow and missed killmails). Most of the oracles had warped off before the cruisers got to the field. I should be clearer on what ships would be good to bring on the fleet post. With mysterious alts I can't give any specific requests but more frigates/destroyers would have been good.

There is still the second structure timer that we need to defend. Doubtful that they would come there but it is the final structure timer and failure to defend would mean pretty fireworks and no structure.
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Re: [AAR] Blue structure defence in Solitude pt.I

Post by Budda Sereda »

Hirmuolio Pine wrote:-This kind of high sec mechanic abuse play could do with a whole class. Many aren't familiar with all the timers of mixed engagement.
Thanks a lot for volunteering Hirmuolio!!!

P.S. On a serious note, I do encourage you to run a class a share what you know/learned. Also invited other players to share their experience, will be VERY educational!
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