First off, I would like to extend a tremendous thank you to all of our friends that came out from other corps to get some content with us, Hidden Flame and The Initiative especially. Hidden Flame helped with a couple key roles in the fleet; it was great to have their experience with us and and seeing INIT spike into system was a great moment! There were some others present as well, either to get content or help us and thanks for ya'll coming out as well. =) I would also like to thank all the Uni students and staff that came out and flew with me today, helped with logistics to prep for the fighting, and/or simply spread the word about the dank memes posted in the fleet post and so helped raise awareness for the fleet.
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The fighting was pretty straightforward. We took a travel fleet down from Stacmon to bring in pilots from Solitude and the high/low sec based campuses. That trip was blissfully uneventful.
The fighting in T22 started with a cyno. We managed to pop their cyno corvette, leading a few of them on station and the rest to bounce into the sun. We didn't stick around on station where they cyno'ed in because they had a couple logi on grid and could have just docked up after killing our boosher.
Hostile forces finished spiking into T22 and we regrouped on a tactical on the tatara and watched the SC and Arson fleets warp in to the structure at what looked like 0km (at least the nightmares did, not positive about the cerb fleet). The SC fleet had a HIC with a bubble up shortly after landing. We considered slowboating a tethered cdessie over and boosh them a piece of them away, but they pulled range. We started to look at taking a piece of Arson's cerb fleet when the system pop spiked again. You could hear the discouragement in the voices of the pilots reporting the spike...
SC decided to bail after a bit and headed off towards home, presumably. We chased after them, hoping to pick off stragglers. There was a brawl on the PC9 gate in JH-. We killed some of their tackle. Someone mentioned an INIT bubble went wrong and they lost a good number of their ships. Our own boosher had died a little earlier in T22 and with INIT's booshers gone, the snatch tactic was off the table and we didn't have enough dps to break their logi, so my fleet disengaged to a tactical on the gate.
The remaining INIT forces left grid. SC fleet jumped through to PC9 and headed back into the pocket, presumably to re-reinforce the tatara. We headed after them. We still had a combat prober or two and our tacticals so figured we would harass them best we could. Couple of bubbles later, we were all back on grid w/ the tatara, this time just us and SC.
We played some ping/tacticals games while they reffed the tatara again and then they warped off. We popped a Pinecone breacher and then we followed behind them to the PC9 gate in T22. We had some honorable third parties there trying out a few bombers (<3 Nomad). Jumping into PC9, they had a HIC that bubbled the gate and were probably looking to pick some of us off if we engaged. They managed to scram a few people but most of us held cloak and / or crashed the gate back into T22 and warp off.
Thus ends this tale of glorious fighting. GF to SC/Arson and big thanks to INIT. and Hidden Flame for coming out!
What went well:
* There was enough broadcast notice about the timers that a fleet could be coordinated. So we had time to get stuff rapidly shipped down (thank you JF pilot <333).
* Offers of content went out to a bunch of friends and some of them showed up for the fun!
* Lots of advice was given to us; big thanks to all the IVY Alumni that helped answer questions and allow us to be better prepared
* Analiese was extremely helpful in finding stuff for us to shoot in the furballs we got into, in advising on tactics, on providing warpins and other valuable contributions towards FC'ing the fleet. He did so without talking over me as well as without making me feel like he was taking over on FC'ing. He performed 2FC awesomely and I am personally very thankful he was there to help! I am confident we would not have performed near as well as we did without him helping to FC.
* I felt less overwhelmed than usual on fights with regards to information processing as people called out events happening on the battlefield. I think I can attribute a large part of that to being more comfortable fighting on home turf. I didn't really have to dedicate a lot of mental cycles to the geography of the three systems so I was able to pay better attention to the fights and information coming in.
* We had great turn out for a Tuesday early evening USTZ!
What could have gone better:
* I could have had reships posted before the travel fleet; that would have given more time to answer questions and helped slow the pace down on the travel fleet a bit
* More cdessies. We only had one show up on our side (thank you Talman!) so even if we wanted to try snatching by ourselves, it would have been very difficult to pull off w/ just one, very likely very short lived, cdessie. We had a number of people that could have reshipped into them, but I only brought punisher and inquisitor hulls. Next time I'm FC'ing a fleet and doing my own reshipping setup, I should probably include the critical to our success ships as well as mainline dps/logi.
* It was very difficult to try and find targets throughout much of the fighting between the various fleets. This was primarily because a portion of the fleet was non-blue INIT as well as most of the hostile fleet was stuff we wouldn't be able to take down ourselves. I realized after the fighting that I could have just sorted my PVP overview by Alliance and been able to have a much easier time finding targets.
* I didn't make use of the structure's defenses and just let Greagan command it as he felt best. There were a few times where I could have used the structure's tackle to help pin down a straggler.
I would love for anyone else to post their experiences, suggestions for improvements, what they saw go well, as well as input from any third party groups (like Nomad's).
Thank you again to everyone that came out! Fly courageously! = )
Roam members (42)
Spoiler
Analiese Aubernet - Retribution
Athena Firefly - Retribution
Atomsk Agittain - Punisher
Batil Shabh - Punisher
Budda Sereda - Nemesis, Punisher
Calder Ormand - Punisher
Coaxster - Raptor
Cryptic Sharvas - Retribution
Dal Cais - Punisher, Atron
Devoros Vyndiver - Punisher
Drebin 679
Eadrom Vintarus - Retribution
Earl Reneshan - Griffin
Fergus Echerie - Punisher
Flack Keikira - Inquisitor
Ged Sinak - Punisher
Gemma Solett - Confessor
Imad Gratia - Enyo
John Jones - Punisher
Jon Musk
Jorj Onzo - Retribution
Kontxesi Buchanan - Ferox
Marn Vermuldir - Malediction
Metti ar Virksen - Punisher
Ramong Pares - Retribution
Reed Gryphon
Reembody - Retribution
Reichat Oughto
Rohan Amadeus - Retribution
SpankUVRYMuch
Staberinde - Scorpion
Talman Drak - Magus, Punisher
Taqukaq Agayar - Hyena
Vladimir Antonovich - Punisher
Vors Voorhorian - Retribution
Williamine - Retribution
Xafen Katapi - Retribution
Xavian Brightly - Punisher
Zkadon Estemaire - Punisher
Zoltan Irvam
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(00:04:09) T22-QI
Velator +1.22m
(00:10:47) T22-QI
Punisher -11m
(00:20:31) T22-QI
Nemesis -45.99m
Nightmare +703.17m
Capsule +0.01m
(00:29:18) JH-M2W
Nightmare +713.18m
Magus -108.51m
Stiletto +48.57m
Punisher -8.34m
Punisher -5.01m
Stiletto +43.27m
Capsule -0.01m
Hyena -55.9m
Velator +1.23m
Capsule +0.01m
(00:45:13) T22-QI
Vigil +11.64m
Ferox -75.22m
Punisher -13.03m
Punisher -10.5m
(00:57:35) T22-QI
Inquisitor -4.66m
Punisher -18.32m
(01:12:55) T22-QI, PC9-AY
Breacher +20.19m
Griffin -1.65m
Capsule -0.01m
Punisher -8.12m
Retribution -58.79m
Retribution -61.57m
Retribution -57.87m
Atron -3.48m
Capsule -0.01m
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 1,542,489,065.19
ISK Lost: 547,980,130.39
ISK Delta: 994,508,934.8
Efficiency: 73.787%
Shadow Cartel posted on r/eve about the fight if anyone wants their PoV and what looks like a good combined battle report:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/8 ... _fleet_is/
https://br.inyour.space/?s=3285,3287,32 ... 10&t=rwfaf
INIT's FC posted there as well with some corrects from their end:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/8 ... s/e0wtjvf/