The plan was for the day was:
1. Get NSC to undock.
2. Help newbros learning PvP.
3. Find content in Syndicate.
Disclarimer: as usually, I consider each fleet to me is a learning point: I learn to be a better pilot and FC and trying to give a learning opportunity to others. I will be identifying mistakes which I did. The same I will be pointing on mistakes which I believe were done by other pilots. I don't try to either blame anybody or remove responsibility from myself, but I hope to help pilots to learn.
Fleet Comp.
It is a rare case when I am able to
* Nothing triggered my attention, that there are no good Shield fit for Maulus
Spoiler
Archemide - Osprey
Arrek Lemmont - Osprey
BatFC - Caracal
Budda Sereda - Caracal
Cuentin Torino - Caracal
E Fyre - Caracal
Jackson Millenius - Caracal
Kento Auffrie - Maulus
Metti ar Virksen - Caracal
Micah McCain - Caracal
Mols Halleck - Stork
Neemo Beer - Caracal
Philbro Kishunuba - Caracal
Prince Tojo - Sabre
Regulus Dural - Griffin
Satoshi Tomeii - Raptor
Space Warfare Development - Nemesis (I believe)
Wokum - Caracal
Xafen Katapi - Osprey
Zephyr Sails - Ares, Maulus
* 2 logies, 1 DD were in Stacmon, and one of the pilots in Stacmon had his Sabre in PC9.
* quite a few pilots had the optimal range with faction missiles in range of 37-44km Keep training missile skills guys.
So the plan was to get fleet together in PC9 and harass whatever we can find.
Camp in OST.
It was a "lucky" day and somebody was camping OST. I got intel about Analiese and Coaxter and 2 ships on d-scan. I got the impression, they are from the same corp. Considering 2 out of 3 cap-chain logies were in PC9 and our only tackle were Satoshi in the Raptor and Mols in a Stork we would be lose many ships starting with a Stork, but would not be able to hold tackle on anything, so I decided to not engage.
Later Space reported that all flashies on OST are killed (Analiese's and Coaxster's job I guess)... which made realize they were from different corps and we would be able to engage and maybe survive... but without logies, with newbros and lack of tackle, I decided to continue going through the plan.
Coming to PC9.
I needed to hold in Harroule for 5 minutes (had some RL emergency sorry about that) and we continued moving towards PC9. After one of warps I was pointed that I don't let fleet enough time to align so I did slow down.
In MHC we have noticed a ceptor (or another small ship, don't remember the hull) and Leshak. There were some thoughts on engaging them, but with no logies, engaging a new BS which I don't have much clue about how they can be fit was not a good option.
It was a BS, we were able to jump through and align to outgate (EZA) when I heard from the scout about some more ships on d-scan. I gave fleet enough time to align (hopefully) and wanted to warp fleet to a EZA tactical but warped myself only. Some pilots did warp as they realized what's going on, but 3 left behind and did not realize what's going on and were killed.
(02:44:58) 6E-578
Caracal -13.92m
Caracal -14.03m
Caracal -37.02m
Metti and Micah received extra SRP from FC for doing stupid mistakes. What you could do to stay alive is to warp to FC. You would not land on the point I warped the whole fleet, but you would run out of danger.
Wokum: I'm sorry, you have enough experience to realize what's going on and run. Yup, my fault for not warping the fleet too.
Impacted by our slowness and loses ... I heard from a scout that some people are already in ZVN on 6E- gate. That confused me: why would people from PC9 be hear so fast? Did they move ahead of us? Why not waiting for fleet...? Dunno... But fine, if they are hear, then lets join.
But the moment we landed we got 2 Leshaks catch up, so I've asked fleet to algin to 6-C and warped (this time whole fleet) to 6-C tactical.
One of the infrequent good points for today: this time we were able to successfully disengage. Whoever was in ZVN I called to come back to PC9 (as the path looked clear).
Fight in JH-.
With some troubles, but with no losses we got into JH- on tactical. Gate was camped by Heretic and 2 Leshaks from 1 corp and Analiese(Confessor) and his corp-mate in Omen.
We were sitting on a gate at solid range, don't remember all details, but I believe that I confirmed all people in PC9 are ready to undock, warped fleet to a gate and warped fleet to a tactical with the goal to join the fleet.
We were engaged.
I did not teach and Regulus probably did not know that Griffins should fly at LONG range from opponents, aligned out, and warp away when in danger...
(02:59:21) JH-M2W, PC9-AY
Griffin -1.06m
Newbros: Griffin is not the best ship to learn PvP. Start with mainline DD ships, you will have logies backing you up.
Dunno how Micah died in PC9. I guess he warped to gate, did not hear command to jump, was engaged, probably started shooting back and was killed.
Caracal -14.03m
@Micah: can you share more details?
We could not kill those folks: Confessor was too fast and maintaining the range, Omen hid on the other side of the gate(?), Leshaks... don't remember details already, I believe 1 logy was still in PC9, we could not join somehow so I decided to regroup, called fleet to align to ZVN and when I felt it is safe warped us to a tactical. It looks like, logies were not that far from opponents and maybe did not complete the alignment... so Arrek was caught:
Osprey -19.29m
Velator -0.05m
I guess I should be able to get fleet closer to each other and warp afterwards... don't recall what forced me to rush with warp.
Analiese followed us on tactical. As we had a few pilots in PC9 reshipping (AGAIN, ) I needed to keep fleet in JH-. I probably should have called fleet to dock-up (at least some time ago there was a freeport citadel), but I intentionally warped us to a SAFE. We aligned to PC9 gate, and... while giving time for pilots in PC9 to reship, I was expecting somebody WILL combat scan us, land at 0 and we kill it.
I saw Zephyr in a ceptor quite FAR from our BLOB and asked him to come closer so he can tackle, but ...
Analiese is not that bad. He warped at 100, Zephyr was too far from logies and did not run away in time:
Ares -47.08m
Analiese bounced, but could not kill anything and disengaged.
Fight in PC9.
This time, I decided to jump fleet into PC9, join forces and after that come back.
And this time it went more organized. It happened that PC9 gate in JH- was clear, I landed fleet called fleet from PC9 to undock and warp to the gate. and when they were close we jumped.
There was an interesting fight, we had already 3 logies, enough DD and tackles.
Sabre -96.17m
Caracal -25.98m
Omen +43.45m
Prince Tojo: I believe that in a dictor you should not engage in a brawl, your goal is to drop the bubble and hide (cloak, jump through the gate, etc).
Or at least broadcast for reps. That was not too bad trade... we focused on Leshak, but we were bleeding:
Caracal -13.84m
Caracal -35.7m
We would may break it, but they lit a cyno, and jumped capitals.
Caracal -13.95m
Caracal -13.93m
We lost it in ISK and amount of kills, but that was a fight against overwhelming forces. 2 things about this engagement:
* I believe I was late reacting on cyno
* we probably stayed too close to Leshaks to run away in case of cyno drop.
Regroup in PC9.
We were bouncing between gates (why I did not call to dock-up?), Analiese was combat scanning us, I forgot we have small ships that could not catch reps:
(03:23:02) PC9-AY
Maulus -9.08m
@Xafen: no, Maulus was not alphaed by Analies, he got 3k ehp and was possible to be saved by logies (if broadcasted?)
Kento, why armor fit in a fleet with BLAP Caracals?
After this, we EVENTUALLY, from the 3rd try joined forces and moved on.
Analiese followed.
(03:33:33) EZA-FM
Atron -3.49m
Don't remember when and how he picked up this Atron: most likely somebody just left behind...
Satoshi tried to tackle Analiese and approached him:
Raptor -58.36m
But Analiese eventually made a mistake and died. Huh, at least something positive:
Confessor +60.3m
@Analiese: did you REALLY make a mistake? I feel you could just let us kill you, but this does not sound like a really reasonable argument.
Titan drop (2nd cyno).
We docked up and took a bio to wait for Satoshi to reship and catch up with us. At the same time, I've noticed few small ships around. I decided to bait them on station, kill small things and when they lit the cyno - run away.
But I missed 2 things:
* Devoter is a moving bubble
* Big Smart Bob can jump through the cyno.
So first I've baited Caracal on station. He was not shooting me, but instead got support. I was forced to kill fleet to undock. Caracal docked up, so we only killed Corax.
(03:46:25) EZA-FM
Corax +9.73m
At this moment we should probably have 'scored the frag' and disengaged, but I wanted to try Devoter's tank. Yes, it is tanky, but... if you are in a kity ship, warned about cyno, algined out... what can possible go wrong?
Devoter turned on his 'buble scram' (what's the proper name of that module+charge), so we could not warp away immediately. I did not worry to much at that time, just asked fleet to turn on MWD... But in few seconds my screen blinked and I appeared in Uphallant...
they dropped Titan and it demonstrated how doomsday works.
Osprey -9.31m
Caracal -38.28m
Caracal -32.01m
Caracal -35.61m
Caracal -38.47m
Caracal -35.82m
Caracal -13.88m
Caracal -14.78m
Caracal -13.77m
Osprey -20.28m
I've removed capsule losses to reduce the amount of redness on the board.
ISK Destroyed: 53,181,835.67
ISK Lost: 669,208,473.61
ISK Delta: -616,026,637.94
Efficiency: 7.362%
Please do submit your SRPs: https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Ship_Replacement_Program, yes, even if you received extended SRP from myself.
After the fleet, few of us had a practice Sisi and tried tackling a T3D with a ceptor. Ceptor can survive for some time by orbiting at some 25-27km, but not too long, but could not reliably hold it for quite awhile. At least we were not able to make it work before cluster shutdown forces us to disconnect.
Overall evaluation
- ✔ (Positive stuff)
* Quite a bit of content in Syndicate, I would definitely repeat it, but: it is my time to leave
* Quite a lot of learning
✘ (Negative stuff)
* Quite a lot of mistakes from my side (I've identified them above)
* Slow reaction from the fleet on aligning. I do accept few times I was too quick. At the same time, few time pilots just did not react on commands.