Ievos provided Crows for himself and the other scout, Rysdan, who had never scouted before. While the Stiletto is generally preferred over the Crow, I authorized any interceptor fit covered by Uni SRP.
Space Warfare Development initially showed up in a stealth bomber, as usual. I requested that he reship into something which could be more beneficial to the fleet. Since the only other kind of ship that I've ever seen him fly is a Bifrost and that is something which could be really useful to the fleet, I requested that he fly it.
Ithugor Wells, the LC, has flown much more logi than I have, so I delegated to him the task of explaining cap-chains and things like that to the new logi pilot Paddy Alfrir.
After explaining to everyone a newbro speech which focused on responding to fleet commands and anchoring, I undocked and set out.
We found a fight in VLI after the scouts found some substantial activity from Rogue Caldari Union. I decided to take the fight before heading into Oicx. First, on the gate to ALD. Scout found some flashies, I warped the fleet in at 30 to try getting a range advantage. We warped off to a safe because I thought that the situation was untenable when a Legion came through the gate. I fleet-warped everyone off to a planet and Ievos made us a safe which we warped us to. My next plan was to go through the gate to Oicx and attempt to get some distance when they came through the gate. We didn't get enough distance from the gate before they came through behind us. A Crow, all logi, and a few Caracals went down fast. I ordered everyone to align out and scatter after depleting their magazines and Ievos got another safe, but we got a few kills.
After this, we took a loop around before heading back to Eugales. Two stragglers joined, Space Warfare Development caught up with us in his Bifrost and Kirsid Tanaway in his Hawk, but we did not encounter a fight on the way home. One of the people who had never flown in a fleet before, aints, got separated from us because he didn't have his overview configured properly and didn't know where I was telling us to warp to (I think he also missed the route link in fleet chat) and got picked off.
Roam members (13)
Spoiler
Gergoran Moussou - Caracal
Gramad Aideron - Caracal
Ievos - Crow
Ithugor Wells - Osprey
Paddy Alfrir - Osprey
Rogue Ozran - Caracal
Rysdan - Crow
Space Warfare Development
Tyrion Edwardes - Caracal
Valeria Rammstein - Caracal
Zako Maken - Caracal
aints - Caracal
(01:30:12) Vlillirier
Crow -41.3m
(01:36:04) Oicx
Tormentor +18.37m
Osprey -20.35m
Vexor +60.03m
Jaguar +46.1m
Caracal -30.67m
Osprey -20.35m
Osprey -9.91m
Caracal -14.12m
Capsule -0.01m
Capsule -0.94m
Caracal -28.06m
Capsule -0.01m
Capsule -0.01m
(01:50:49) Innia
Caracal -13.74m
Stats
ISK Destroyed: 124,499,915.57
ISK Lost: 179,484,513.53
ISK Delta: -54,984,597.96
Efficiency: 40.956%
Overall evaluation
- ✔ (Positive stuff)
Was a fun fight. Fast-paced and exciting. It might have been the most adrenaline-filled fight I've ever FCed since I haven't had many experiences of commanding actual fleet fights (usually, it's either that we gank lone targets with too large numbers for any resistance to be feasible or that our slow, brawling T1 ships get torn apart by nano-kite ships with a lot of T2 and faction stuff).
We got a few kills.
Surprisingly good ISK-efficiency ratio for having never FCed a skirmish doctrine and only FCed one cruiser fleet before. I don't think the Thorax fleet that I ran last would have been as ISK-efficient as this one had I not arranged a fight with a lone Talos when we got back to Eugales.
✘ (Negative stuff)
I'm still thinking of fleet movements ways that would require ships to align and warp as fast as frigates do. Ievos had to remind me that I couldn't just fly back through the gate where we just fought them and escape them that way in cruiser.
I had trouble calling targets, serving as anchor, and making sure that I was actually shooting all at the same time. In the future, I'd like to try delegating the anchor role to someone else who can focus more on maintaining a good distance from the enemy while not having to call targets and do FC stuff because I over-focused on calling targets and ended up taking too long to adjust to controlling range for the new primary. I already run fleet with the 2IC broadcasting movement commands, so it seems reasonable to do something similar here.
I should probably cover overview and route settings more in the newbro speech so that people don't get separated like happened in this fleet.