Hi EVE UNI!
First off: Thank you for the good fights! We really enjoyed it and would love to repeat this.
We scouted you ahead and our scout gave me this screenshot as intel:
https://prnt.sc/f8lgp8 (13 Vexor, 1 Maller, 1 Pontifex, 8 Augorors). Because we were outnumbered and I didn't see another way to break 8 Augorors with our 10 Moas and 5 Ospreys, we set up the ambush (or should i say the amboosh?
) you already discussed in detail. It worked perfectly. By the time your logistics catched up, we already cleared a good amount of DPS from the field and killed the Pontifex to get rid of enemy armor links.
As soon as your logistics were in rep range, we noticed, we couldn't break your Vexors anymore, so we switched fire to the Augorors. I think the impact of Breeze as a DPS anchor burning into them was minimal, because the Moas are about 2000 m/s fast with links and would have caught them anyway in a very short time. What enabled us to break the Augorors (despite their high numbers) were 2 things: First we immadiately pinned down the logi anchor. Although we couldn't break him this resulted in all Moas and your Logis clumping up. With all Moas in optimal of all Augorors we were able to kill them by fast target switching. Second: With the lack of armor links for higher buffer and faster repairer cycle time, the augorors went down, before fully catching reps (or catching reps at all). Breeze called the scatter shortly after.
Although we had no losses in this fight (because the boosh worked so good) I'm pretty sure we would have lost without the boosh. How to prevent beeing booshed has already been discussed, so i won't comment on that. Your EWAR Strategy worked perfectly and put a lot of pressure on our logis right of the bat and they had difficulties to keep up the cap chain. If you would have ECM drones avaible at that point, we most likely would brake. As you, Breeze, already stated, target switching also would have helped (our logis commented after the fight, that EWAR was a real pain, but luckily you also relaxed them a bit by staying on the same target for so long
). I'm also not sure, if we would have been able to break the Augorors if they had links. Would have made things a lot more difficult at least.
I also like to say, that i like your doctrine. Rails are very good for fast target switching and you had drone navs to make the drones at least decent at target switching. Also the EWAR was SO(!) annoying to our logis. Plus I have to congratulate you for the idea to kill ecm drones with smart bombs.
I also agree with Breeze's thoughts on calling primaries: Killing the Merlin or the Hyena would have changed nothing. Calling one of our logis primary would have been the most logical decision, because they had the weakest tank and if you shoot a logi, theres one less logi to rep him, because he can't rep himself.
The second fight was much more even. If i remember correctly, you had less logi during the 2nd fight? Our main problem during that fight was that the cynabals were swarming our logistics with ecm drones. We should really adapt your smartbomb strategy
Thanks again for the good content that evening, hope to hear from you soon o7
PS: Please excuse my very german english