But this was no regular dirtbag thrasher gatecamp!
Roam members (17)
Spoiler
Auric Fulcrum - Ashimmu
Cpn Reynolds - Svipul
Enigmatic Online - Vexor
Esca Sinak
Glen Burney - Magus
John Parmelee - Vexor
Kaluma Asanari - Celestis
KraK Oziane - Keres
Neemo Beer - Vexor
Penelore - Vexor
Savannah Tokila - Vexor
Sone Eto - Vexor
XScornX - Rifter
YooJin Moon - Vexor
Zaragam Ardishapur - Omen Navy Issue
lobevaser - Vexor
Kills and Losses
(00:52:45) Abune
Catalyst +16.31m
Cormorant +5.6m
Incursus +10.56m
Then we started poking our way up the pipe, getting a line to a bunch of cruisers from various groups killing stuff in VLI, so we turned left at Pynekastoh and moved toward Nenn. There, things got a bit hairy. I was kind of scouting for the fleet myself in Nenn, while the fleet waited in HIK. First, our fleet killed a tristan, good enough. Then there was a Stabber and a Brutix on the gate, and that seemed excellent. The Stabber jumped in to our setup camp. I did order the camp to kill the stabber, but then 1, 2, and 3 carriers landed on gate. And a Bhalgorn. And whatnot. It was clearly too much so I ordered the fleet to NOT shoot the stabber and standby. When I heard someone say "redbox" I asked the fleet to jump through from HIK into NEN.
But a few people misunderstood, and had already engage in HIK I guess, because not everyone made it through into NEN, we lost 2 ships there (Rifter and ONI). We held cloak in NEN and I gave us a fleetwarp (there wasn't much tackle on the gate) and all of us got out except our awesome webber, the Ashimmu. Our fleetwarp took us to a ping, and I was bouncing us around pings on-gate with the enemy, trying to get a target of opportunity, but that resulted in 1 more Vexor getting caught.
I have replayed the scenario a bunch. I was shocked to see 3 carriers on grid there. The situation went from "here's some stuff we can fight" to "oh man, we need to clear out of here". My usual "Clear out of here" is wait at a ping on the gate, and that was not really a good idea with our big cruisers. So my immediate improvement for next time is to take better care of my fleet. It's alot easier to do that with destroyers!
The other improvement is that I was actually in a boosher. If we had stayed balled up, we could have done some damage. The carrier response time is pretty slow, so we maybe could have yolod into that bhalgorn / ashimmu / kikimora before the carriers got out there, then we could have booshed away? I was definitely in a "smash and grab" mindset, and I would have benefited from considering more "fleet fight" concepts?
Uni SRP is available for the lost Vexors, and for the Ashimmu and ONI, if you didn't get UNI SRP , and you want some, just message me in-game and i'll throw some isk.
(01:21:05) Hikkoken, Nennamaila
Tristan +16.12m
Rifter -11.62m
Vexor -44.55m
Omen Navy Issue -150.53m
Ashimmu -100.03m
Vexor -43.85m
Vexor -33.19m
Capsule -0.01m
In Okkamon, we did some classic Vanguard baiting in a medium, but the fight never escalated.
(01:48:52) Okkamon
Cormorant +5.46m
Moa +17.52m
We went back to Tama to take a break then see what we could fight, but I actually ran into some IRL business and I could not come back for about 40 minutes, which I am sorry for, but I was indeed torn away.... I WILL do this fleet again though, with the goal of getting an actual goodfite out of it. Looks like some people lost Vexors on the way home:
(02:56:08) Tannolen
Vexor -43.12m
Vexor -43.14m
Bah... Also for next time, I won't abandon everyone in Tama... Overall I wish we had just posted up in a medium in NENN and just waited for some action, or like I said, just stood our ground in the Hikkoken gate in Nenn, carriers be damned.
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 71,565,767.42
ISK Lost: 470,049,848.19
ISK Delta: -398,484,080.77
Efficiency: 13.213%