LSC moved into Heydieles completely and then left their previous office in Uphallant for good. Well I thought that would be nice to pay our respects to former LSC base and the region in general and say goodbye. Glen supported the idea and contracted me lots of frigates in Uphallant.
I planned a route, a very long route that covers majority of Placid lowsec systems and a bit of Verge Vendor lowsec system just before arriving to Heydieles (well at least that was the plan!)
Placid Region Map
Roam members (23)
Spoiler
Atticus Vex - Merlin, Nemesis
Durnik Risalo - Merlin
Ersin Oghuz - Merlin, Vexor
Falling Snow KumaMoto - Merlin
Ged Sinak - Federation Navy Comet, Brutix
Junmei Hucel-Ge
Kranamor Andedare - Merlin, Vexor
Laser Skaron - Burst
Maynard Orlenard - Republic Fleet Firetail
Mongo the Mechanic - Merlin
Nathan Tamroc - Augoror
Neemo Beer
Penelore - Burst, Augoror
Saylah Nebail - Merlin
Sir Tobias Helm
Space Warfare Development - Hyena, Nemesis
Vors Voorhorian - Merlin
Weadj - Merlin
Xanthys Pike - Merlin, Vexor
Zako Maken - Merlin, Augoror
Zero Defex - Tristan
xtx loki - Merlin
Kills and Losses
So first we flew the south back pocket and covered the Ratting/Ice Mining zone between Aidart - Stacmon. I hoped to find some belt ratters or combat anomaly runners as well as ice miners but sadly there was none. There was a non-flashy Stratios at gate and encouraged us to engage him but we did not since we would take the gate guns and it was too early to whelp the fleet. But giving a second thought maybe we could take that fight. Maybe next time.
Then we moved forward to the middle zone : Covryn - Grispire to cover another pve rich envrionment to catch something. But that was another big nothing for us. Bob clearly had other plans for us.
The original plan to move to the north following the route Aubenall => Maut => Vlillirier but when a Nereus reported to move to VLI from ABU we moved fast to catch him and even we could not catch him I decided to take the route from VLI to AUB backwards
The systems were either quiet or too populated but without anyone on d-scan. Luckily a Thorax reported to land on our camped gate and seconds later we caught it and quickly eliminated him. Svipul rushed back to gate before we caught him while working on Thorax.
(19:13:14) Alparena
Thorax +39.58m
Well Thorax had friends and tried to chase us with Loki and some other assorted ships. Thanks to our scouts we evaded those ships and safely retreated. We travelled almost all northern area until we arrived to Reschard where a Garmur camping gate at range. We decided to avoid it due to kiting speed of Garmur, and sadly we could not tackle any frigates passing by the gates we are holding. We gave a 10 min biobreak in Osmoden.
When we began the second part of our journey our scouts reported a lonely venture spotted in Frarie. He was AFK plexing probably or at least not paying attention to the local chat since he could not see 17 new pilots in system, he was alone before, and he could not see us coming his way by using d-scan
(19:34:39) Frarie
Venture +0.23m
He was truly amazed due to the big fleet scene and cheered We replied him by overheating our "Send ISK to Capsuleer" module. I asked everyone to donate him 100k ISK, and someone donated 25million ISK to him and probably gave him another shock
Our next route is systems between Frarie - Loes (east pocket) and from there we will travel from Loes to Heydieles
We found an Apocalpyse in Ouelleta and took our chance. Scorpion, Orthrus and Cynabal jumped on us as well. And while we were fighting fleet was told to bounce to shake the gate guns off. However, I screwed up big time and instead of warping myself to a gate tactical to bounce back I initiated the fleet warp to a safe 40 AU away! That basically caused the destruction of the half of our fleet. A very big mistake truly.
(19:46:04) Ouelletta
Merlin -7.46m
Merlin -6.25m
Merlin -4.6m
Republic Fleet Firetail -27.1m
Burst -6.51m
Federation Navy Comet -30.17m
Hyena -66.82m
Capsule -144.65m
Capsule -0.01m
Capsule -0.01m
Although I whelped half of the fleet including our snowflakes, I decided why not going forward and upship to cruisers to hunt them down. We reshipped in Amygnon. We now had 3 Augorors, 1 Brutix and rest was in Vexors. We brought the fight to them at Jufvitte gate in Ouelleta. However I must say this Ged moved forward too early and took some hit before we were ready and positioned. However, the fight went well, our great logistics saved the Ged's Brutix and we destroyed the Scorpion and while began working on Apoc. and Cynabal they jumped to Jufvitte, while Orthrus stayed at range and kiting the gate.
(20:03:14) Ouelletta
Scorpion +188.14m
We warped to tactical from there but Kronomor jumped into Jufvitte and trapped there apperantly since Cynabal camping the Jufvitte side of the gate. We were all suspects so they won't have issue to engage us and pick us one by one. I told Kronomor to warp to gate and jump to Ouelletta where we can take them. However he could not do that since Cynabal burned towards him and he panicked and warped to sun. He told us that he was engaged by Cynabal but at that time we did not know that he was not at gate. I warped the fleet to Juf gate and we jumped to Jufvitte. The plan is to repair the Vexor and jump back to Ouelletta without taking fight in highsec. When we could not see Kronomor's Vexor in Jufvitte side and he was not responding that time, we warped to him to save him (bad decision, very bad.) So he was there at sun, but died already before we arrived (50 AU warp) and we were trapped there at sun with Cynabal and then Orthrus joined. We lost cruisers there again before we managed to scatter.
(20:13:15) Jufvitte
Vexor -67.16m
Augoror -14.21m
Augoror -13.55m
Nemesis -159.35m
In overall the cruiser fight was good, but two major mistakes led the fleet into whelp. Wrong positioning & miscommunication. I also want to thank all people who joined the fleet and had the endurance to cope up with me 3 straight hours. I must say very few could have endure that challenging accent without having headaches. Thanks to Kronomor and Space Warfare for voluntering 2IC and 3ICs. Nathan, xtx loki and Mongo for scouting, Penelore and Laser for brining logistics!
DO NOT FORGET TO APPLY FOR SRP and FILL THIS FEEDBACK FORM!
And next time (yes, IT WILL BE A SECOND MAGIC MERLIN FLEET!) we will travel more specific areas for better content!
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 227,953,428.63
ISK Lost: 547,845,766.85
ISK Delta: -319,892,338.22
Efficiency: 29.383%
Overall evaluation
- ✔ (Positive stuff)
+ We travelled through almost all Placid lowsec systems to find content and to explain the importance of those systems and possible contents.
+ Scouts did a good job on finding us some content in a very very content poor time of the week.
+ We did a 3 hour lasting fleet !
✘ (Negative stuff)
- I should have take the chance on that Stratios!
- My mistake on using fleet warp at the beginning of the Ouelletta Apoc fight. I need to prevent myself to use fleet warps from now on.
- Miscommunication issues. Kronomor did not told us he was at sun, but I should have asked him again and wait for fleep warp until I got a response from him. That would have prevented the cruiser fleet losses.