This was a good operation. Thanks to all people who organized this for their logistics and tactical efforts. This kind of operations generally involves some intense preparation period generally not seen to public eyes
So good job.
I was in a logistics squad in this fleet and chosen as anchor. It was not my first time in logistics but probably my first time as an anchor. Logistics itself generally is very intense but being an anchor seems to add more to it
Mike, logistics squad FC, generally reminded people to keep their anchor on me so people followed it and we had no problem of having drifting ships out of our range. Although at the final moments of the fleet I did a mistake, probably misclicked in space and drifted away from the combat fleet hence took the whole logistics with me
When I noticed it, we were almost at our range to apply logistics and thankfully we have returned to our optimals fast ! Please notify if you saw any other manual piloting / anchor lead mistakes from me.
Devola emphasized several good points in his post as well. I, myself, used the fleet channel for regular chat as well, but never continue when someone ask for help. So I think best to extend combat comms for fleet chat as well as voice comms. So when FC calls for combat comms that also applies to fleet chat as well. Also best to ask questions prior to the fleet departure time while everyone has more time to answer questions as well. Right after newbro speech is generally the best time. Also yes, please do not answer any question that you don't know the 100% correct answer. That will lead further confusion if the answer was not true. Help your fleetmates for sure, but make sure that you are passing the correct answer
An alternative to this maybe to implement a channel specifically for fleet preparation for big operations, such as x-ing up, questions and newbro speech. Or move this to already built in Alliance chat where we do advert our fleets and such. And for chatter using Corp channel. Since that channel is mostly not used due to campus chat channels.
Also the lost ships from WHC fleet was noted. I really do appreciate the WHC coming out to HS , after tireless efforts on their part to roll a good wormhole and etc, and really liked the idea of having an auxilary fleet to add more spice to the operation! Although I need to say, the loss of those ships did not serve any purpose against a single structure without any defense fleet. ABCs are great tools. But while using them you should take necessary precautions to evacuate from the battlefield when you are under heavy attack. Pre align and then shoot. We had a large squad of logistics and yet it seems EUNI fleet lost BCs. The lost Griffin that I do not have any objection since Griffins can be accepted as ammo rather then ships and you can always bring EWAR to fleet and it won't hurt. Having ECM on field may come in handy always. They could jam the structure fighters
I particulary liked how the fleet members travel in such organized manner and followed the FCs command at the structure bash. No one broke any gate cloak until FC told them to align and etc. And all ships followed the commands on grid. The fleet discipline I can say was good on that part.
Overally, my evaluations, this fleet , even though there were some minor issues, was a good and succesful one ! Congratulations to FCs, organizers (managers & directors) , haulers, and all fleet members, including combat, logistics, and ewar.
