Some of you may ask "Why?" Well, to that that question we would submit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5feooZtkw
and ask "Why you are not called The Velvet Fog?" High Fidelity, Low Anxiety - your silence will be our answer.
Item the Second: The Roam:
Members of this heroic endeavour were:
Spoiler
Rebulah Conundrum - Enyo
Trillian Ituin - Enyo, Federation Navy Comet
averoth trojan - Enyo
We undocked all in Enyos, resplendent in our ADCII mods and checked plexes and belts as we progressed across the silence of space. Nothing. We were clearly too awesome and intimidating, sometimes a server tick or two away from glory on gates. Our belief is that CCP needed to balance the playing field.
Eventually we arrived at Heydiles and became aware of an Atron on a plex. It was not at all suspicious or in any way baity, so we went for it - Trillian was first on grid and heroically tackled as the rest of the warriors (pilots, not drones. Although we had Warrior drones, It's complicated) warped in and sent the Atron to Valhalla. As that was happening, however, loads of really nasty ships from R.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N warped in and shot at us. They managed - through evil intention - to kill some of us, but our revenge was complete as we set in chain a number of events that culminated in the Hookbill kill as seen below. "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry" as a person said once. We totally planned that kill, honest.
(19:03:10) Heydieles
Atron +0.45m
Enyo -46.12m
Enyo -61.49m
Caldari Navy Hookbill +183.29m
After our complete victory in Heydiles we chilled in a Station as Trillian and Iskarr reshipped and when they rejoined we headed out to Pynekastoh, as we were aware that the system was short of regular heroes. At this point Trillian reshipped into a Fed Navy Comet, which is not reflected in the fleet make-up above - that is clearly a CCP bias against us but we shall, as always, rise above such aggression. While in Heydiles however, we were assailed by a rag-tag bunch of yahoos who, quite frankly, lowered the tone across the region. After passing a few pleasantries we moved on, as to treat more with such types would have been social suicide. Such types as them speak of things like cheese and moose, and are not to be encouraged.
As we jumped into Pyne we discovered a Wolf on gate - he or she was dispatched without care as we went about our business, a poor Atron also had to find the sweet bliss of eternal damnation as it got in our way. Unfortunately we lost Averoth in this encounter, CCP having once again loaded the dice against us by allowing gate guns to destroy him. Sad times indeed.
(19:49:23) Pynekastoh
Wolf +46.97m
Enyo -45.91m
Atron +18.12m
Onwards to Pynekastoh!!:
In Pyne we did a fair bit of pinging from plex to gate, to belt and iHub, as our prey was at turns wiley and elusive. On again, On again sailed the four (hundred) and we eventually identified a Worm on a plex. Having learned the lesson from Heydiles about bait we utterly ignored it and full on went for the worm and engaged at zero.
Reader, dear reader, I died. The Goons got me. Its not a bad killmail in all fairness, Goonswarm. I have died to lesser Corps.
(20:06:37) Pynekastoh
Enyo -50.02m
At this stage we decided to give Space a chance and gracefully retire from the field. We did have a lot of fun on the roam and got used to each other. This was the first fleet/gang i even tried to FC and i am utterly astounded that i didn't make people biomass in disgust.
Item the Third:
Learnings are that we need to focus on tackle - as in all small gangs - or come up with a composition that will function without it (isn't going to happen, we abhor the kiters) . Ass Frigs are utterly awesome in general, but the risk/reward on ISK is in balance as they can kill big but at the same time cost big.
The Velvet Fog are thus far ISK positive.
Peace.
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 248,822,304.19
ISK Lost: 203,547,725.62
ISK Delta: 45,274,578.57
Efficiency: 55.004%