The Third Roam: I am still bad at titles
Roam members (4)
Endaras Oramara - Punisher
Gemma Solett - Punisher, Minmatar Shuttle
Mols Halleck - Punisher
Trixie Lapin - Punisher
We decided to go with 2 scram and 2 web Punishers on this roam, following some discussion after the last one. The webs turned out to be a massive help in taking down frigs, and should definitely be included on later roams.
Kills and Losses
(21:42:56) Eugales
Merlin +0.33m
Caught a plexer
Killed a plexer
(22:18:56) Pynekastoh
Cormorant +18.1m
We saw a corm at a small and decided to go for it. It turned out to be a longbow corm sitting 100 off in the direction of the plex that Endaras was still at. A short warp later and it was tackled, myself and Endaras quickly reduced it into space debris.
(22:23:39) Pynekastoh
Svipul +77.07m
Capsule +6.27m
A couple of minutes later we found a Svipul at a medium. I thought that we may have had some trouble if it was autocannon fit, but Trixie assured it would be an easy kill either way. We slid into it together, thinking it would probably just warp out. Fortunately for us it was still sitting on the beacon at 0. It took Trixie into about half armour before it made the magical transformation into a capsule.
(22:44:33) Reitsato
Punisher -8.9m
Punisher -9.03m
Punisher -7.61m
Capsule -0.01m
Capsule -0.7m
We weren't quite sure if we could take a Drake with 4 frigates, but decided to go for the fight. Initially it was just the one Drake on grid outside a medium, and we were making good progress through its shields. We were planning to rotate tackle, as the Drake wasn't doing masses of damage to us, but being buffer tanked did mean we would eventually need to warp off. As I was calling for Mols to warp off several tackle frigs landed on grid with us and started grabbing point on us all. Local spiked and soon we had 10 Drakes instead of the 1 that we expected. Mols managed to escape, but unfortunately the rest of us did not. I did manage to kite out of point range of the Drakes, but a scram pass from their inty allowed their missiles and drones to catch up.
We likely could've killed the Drake if it didn't have a fleet behind it, but should've realised something was fishy after a Drake warped to a plex while we were following it through several systems.
(22:57:38) Onatoh
Minmatar Shuttle -0.02m
While enroute to reship in Stac Mols found 2 smartbombing Rokhs in Onatoh. Being the smart lad that I am I made the excellent decision to warp directly to the gate with 2 smartbombing Rokhs
In a shuttle
In a brand new 1B pod
I don't think I have ever spammed warp more in those few seconds. The pod managed to escape with 20% structure, but my sanity was not in the best state. Following a brief discussion in which I expressed my desire to be the fastest dual plate punisher there ever was, and the other members of the roam telling me that I would still be overtaken by an arthritic sloth I decided it was probably for the best to jump clone back to Stac, and grab the pod later.
(23:31:45) Oinasiken
Rifter +5.24m
Capsule +0.01m
Slid into an arty Rifter (sitting at 0?). The web was annoying until we got our own on it, had to keep pulsing MWD to keep up allowing it to get the odd hit in. We bounced out and landed on top his pod by chance, so we tackled it. Feeling a little bad we asked if he would like to be podded home, or let go. The response we got was not the happiest:
[ 2018.06.03 23:32:48 ] Alosander > lol
[ 2018.06.03 23:32:50 ] Alosander > turds
Rage descended upon Trixie, and he smote young Alosander with extreme prejudice, and 4 Light Neutron Blasters.
(23:42:31) Oinasiken
Punisher -10.09m
Punisher -10.77m
Punisher -7.41m
This was actually a really fun fight against a Stratios. It started shortly after Trixie had calmed down from his previous rage. The Strat had tried to engage us previously, but unfortunately a Confessor warped in at 100 from us and we were forced to scatter. We attempted to bounce back onto the Confessor but it was long gone by the time we even started aligning back. We decided to slide straight into a medium, as the Confessor or Strat would have to Slide into us at our optimal. The Strat slid in and we started our plan, to defang the Strat and then attempt to burn through its reps when it couldn't damage us. The pilot was good, only letting the drones take a minimal amount of damage each time, but it also meant it was taking a good while to damage us. We were making slow progress, dealing damage to the Strat when it recalled drones then switching to the most damaged drone we could find as soon as they were locked. Unfortunately it started to stagger neuts properly, effectively nullifying 2 of our ships at a time. I called to overheat and switch all DPS to the Strat when it reached about 25% armour, managing to burn it down to 10% structure before it killed Mols. With one of our scrams down and another Punisher close to going down we tried with everything to break it, but it was just about holding in low armour. Eventually the neuts were on me, the other scram fit punisher. I called that my scram was down and to try bumping the Strat, which worked for all of 10s before it warped off to an Astrahus. I followed hoping for some kind of miracle, but was subsequently shown the error of my ways.
A bit of a tactical blunder on my part, I assumed that the Stratios would only have 2 sets of light drones but this turned out to be a grave mistake. We chatted with the pilot in local for a little after the fight, both having come away from the fight satisfied, even if we had lost. The pilot let us know that his reppers were 90% overheated, even just a little more DPS or a little more time and we would have had him. It was a really close fight and honestly some of the most fun I've had in the past few months.
(23:54:11) Heydieles
Punisher -9.09m
The lone survivor of our Stratios fight discovered the rules about gatecamping
Do: Not jump into a gatecamp
Don't: Jump into a gatecamp
Unfortunately these rules were not followed, leading to the untimely disassembly of Endaras' Punisher
Stats
ISK Destroyed:
107,022,729.21
ISK Lost:
63,630,492.35
ISK Delta:
43,392,236.86
Efficiency:
62.714%
Again, a really fun roam. In both the Drake and Stratios fight we decided 'what do we have to lose' and just jumped into it, something that would be a little harder to do in Faction/Pirate/T2 ships.