Providence

[Belegarath]

So, half of the group is messing around on comms trying to figure out a Fraps issue. Another 1/4 of our group is just making fun of that half trying to figure out the Fraps thing. The rest all stated we weren't really "playing" tonight.

One of our inty pilots then begins to scream in a channel that he has a gang to fight. 20? -7- and 15-20? of sound mind. He ends up doing this for almost 15 minutes. Normally, once a target is seen it is a quick form up and people start undocking before we even have a game plan and fleet/dest set up. Apparently Fraps is more important?

Previously the provi guys had pulled a pretty clever trick of leaving half of their fleet in kbp7 and the rest a little off the 9-f gate in g-5. I wasn't there to witness it, but essentially, once their scout confirms us in warp they jump in the other half and warp over to the 9-f gate. Worked earlier and had caught a Drake of ours that couldn't get off fast enough. All in all a good move. "Fearing" this - we all warp off to a quickly made off-grid pounce in our standard Nano-set up. As we begin to land at the pounce it appears as though the provi fleet moves to their JB and jumps down to KBP.

A scout is already in system there and shows "CIA intel" (basically a quickly grabbed screen shot). We quickly come to the conclusion that jumping into it with nano stuff is highly questionable. Being a simple quick 100+AU warp and station dock to switch comps to actually take the fight, we go and reship to armor. As we're in warp across G-5 the gang in KBP is roughly 35 now with more on scan presumably at the JB.

Eventually we get onto the other side of the gate from them. Final calls were given; primary and secondary are called out from the images, Target calling is then handed over. Jump is called. DPS breaking first is called. And the fun begins. We brought a tempest with 2 large smart bombs in the highs to clear drones off the guardians. At one point as the guards were burning to smart bomb range 3 of the 4 are jammed - fuck ec-300s. I swear. One was cap'd out and couldn't even "burn" to the tempest. One of our guards drops to 60% structure at this point. Some of the DPS guys hearing the guards have some trouble are questioning the jump in in fleet chat at this point. Target calling is continued and as the drones are wiped off the field, guardian reps begin to stabilize. Then... our booster shouts on comms that we're going to lose our legion. First thought... that sucks, not much we can do to help that now. About 2 minutes later he is asking if we're going to save the booster. Confused why it isn't dead yet, we warp 2 guards over to put reps on it while the fleet continues it's own thing. Guards land and rep him up. At this point it is just a matter of cleaning up the respective fields and station.

Good probing was called out in local for them getting our boy. On comms... he then admits it isn't an "unprobeable" set up. Jeering is then done at him, limited though as it didn't backfire to much. None-the-less, they did a good job taking advantage of the situation and probing him out.

The entire fight turns the other way most likely if we lose the one guard. They did an excellent job of neuting the shit out of one of our guards, jamming the rest, and attempting to blap the one. Just didn't go their way last night. EASILY could have though. We like a 3-1 guard ratio... more like a 2.5-1, last night we had a 4-1 and even worse it was a 4-1 with a decent 4 or 5 ships that should have stood out like a sore-thumb. Provi guys did a good job and almost swung the fight to their side while our t3s/dps were 60k off gate... not a good place to be if logi starts to die!

Here is the BR: http://dog-net.org/brdoc/?brid=8251 -not sure why it isn't showing-lost an inty about 15 minutes before the fight in that system and a RFFT during the fight.
CIA intel? (3pics) http://imgur.com/l6wxM,azlI6,8MWIG

I'll update with Fraps as we go. I personally prefer fraps from the logi POV - but no logi was frapsing last night. Thus here is one of the POVs from one of the Lokis. If one of the other views give a more interesting perspective I'll edit this to the other POV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-3wrMfkCCE&feature=plcp

Video with comms/lovely background music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiLtorQyRmg&feature=plcp

[Suleiman Shouaa]

Nice BR.

When you say you like 2.5-1 ratio, is that DPS to Logi? That seems ridiculously logi huge to me.

[Belegarath]

3 dps ships to 1 logi yeah... pretty standard for an ahac group.... and I hate the onieros.

You guys had almost 3-1 yourselves via gal fed the other night. Basically 4-1 like we had going in there. Just because I "like" a 3-1 doesn't mean we have it often. Our normal nano-roaming gang consists of 1 scimi. Just one. But the armor... once in, you're stuck.

(those that know me better in game will get the 2.5-1 running joke that I'm a coward)

[Armeggeda]

Nice BR.

When you say you like 2.5-1 ratio, is that DPS to Logi? That seems ridiculously huge to me.

Would be more considering the normal gaurdian to T3 ratio of armor T3 fleets , which is 5 gaurds to every 20 or so T3's. but we wanted a fight and we dont have the #'s to field more then 20 or so peeps. this gang is made to take on gangs 3-5 times its size and still come out ontop because we cant exactly nano away from people. hence the logi ratio.

[Raze Zindonas]

This was my first time flying a T3 armor Loki. I built the thing 10 minutes before rolling out on the field of battle.

New video...Comms now in video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiLtorQyRmg

[StevieTopSiders]

Elite PVP op in Provi tonight. Killed shitfits.

Storyline RCU Drake
Unfit Apoc
Cyno Prophecy - he lit cyno but nothing jumped through. vOv
Another Drake

Exodus. camped our way out. I thought they weren't ballsy enough to take gate gun aggro. They did. We lost stuff, and almost killed a Nado, but no one had point. :v

Battrureport

Not shown are a Jagged Cane and Naga (that died).

[Belegarath]

Quick Posting - partially in response to Stevie - partially because people asked that I put this up.
First fight:
Jockey time on the gate. They had 34 (or so says fraps on the decloak) including 4 scimis to our 15 in fleet - not everyone was actually in system. Exodus. fleet warps sun. Retirement follows but warps at 0. Dram dies in Sendaya off sun roughly 120? off their gang. Retirement club and Jag bounce around in Sendaya for a while. One of our ceptors catches a vaga, they come back, we burn after jumping into them. Explosions begin to occur.
Battle Report: http://exodus.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_r...ll_id=13817637
Chasing them back "home" we catch two more canes.

2nd Fight - Responding to Stevie there:
14 in fleet for us.
For them - best guess from piecing it together. 1 Nado, 2 Nagas, 6 Canes, 1 Drake, 1 Slicer, 2 Scimis.

Basically what Stevie said kind of. Difference though - the Exodus. gang wasn't camping them in. They were on their way to a Severance camp in KBP. Retirement club just happened to get in the way. Here is the BR including those two other kills: http://exodus.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_r...ll_id=13817865

And this... isn't exactly the worlds Greatest comms ever. Nothing was added in - this literally was someone not muting the "FagBot" - our music playing connection on comms. Normally one of the FCs will do this - apparently missed it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIGDP052Oto&feature=plcp

[Armeggeda]

That audio file shows just how bad we are , please everyone don't think were good

[StevieTopSiders]

Tonight, I bravely solo'ed into Providence in my Sleipnir. I entered through G-5, popped into KBP, saw nothing, and then began to move to Y-MP. Jumping into H6, I was tackled by a Vagabond. I attempted the ol' Slingshot, but he didn't fall for it, so I jumped through into 9UY. His unaggro'ed Drake friend jumped with me. He got tackle before I could warp off, so I turned my guns onto him. Overheating 100%. He popped. By the time he died, however, the Vagabond had jumped into us. To make matters worse, a Rupture appeared. Using the power of OP LASB's, I was able to deaggress and jump through. After reloading cap boosters and ammo, I was prepared to jump back into the fray...

When local jumped by like 10 dudes. :/ Dishonoure Provi. I logoffski'd when the Buzzard put out probes. I went to play Halo for like an hour, and when I logged back on, another 10 man gang took their place.

[XavierVE]

When local jumped by like 10 dudes. :/ Dishonoure Provi.

Was just my t1 cruiser gang heading back from Catch. JB's mate, you were just in the middle of the best path back home. Killed an Orca and a bunch of other stuff that should be deployed to Delve while avoiding GENTS titan bridges all night long. Good times, love it when -A- deploys.

[XavierVE]

After dishonorably blobbing Stevietopsiders in his Deimos, we had a fun brawl with Thorn/401K in 9UY on the ZQ- gate. They had 22 in a mix of BC's/t1 cruisers/ewar/tackle frigs. Actually, quite heavy on the tackle. We had 15 in our mid-range BC comp including two logistics. Fight started on gate, but Thorn/401K hit a celestial and got fairly close to our position with good probing. Burned away, once we cleared their blackbirds and DPS, was mostly tackle left which cleared field. Good coordinated target swapping to try to probe the reaction time of our scimis. Our scrubby arses finally used logistics well for once and was able to hold.

Props to 401K/Thorn for jumping in, they had more numbers but we had a 'weightier' gang so the fight was in our favor, definitely. Was impressed at the scrap overall, much respect and here's to more, need something to liven up USTZ in Provi.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=13839612 - Includes us doing PROVI DISHONOR upon a wayward Typhoon and Deimos earlier in the night, our numbers were down by the time we had the fight and we had no Falcon.

[Lex Arson]

Went on a small roam chasing down some provi gangs tonight, found virtually nothing but a few ganks and a few gangs that ran. We did find a rev that was unsieged or something bashing a POS with some minor BS support. Once again Provi theorycrafters pump out great fits for the front line: Nightmare, unrigged, with cloak and salvager; mission-fit Abaddon with meta 0 guns, and Lord Tyrus himself flying a Domi with missing lows and a cloak. Apparently also forgot to swap out of his LG crystal set as well vOv whoops.

[Tyrus Tenebros]

We were bashing POCOs actually, in order to put up our own.

The domi was PvE fit and all the lows were fit thank you http://kb.cva-eve.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=237045) As it happens the domi also makes a great AFK shooter since sentries put out about 700 dps or so.

Our rev WAS sieged and coasted out right as Exodus came by (we got intel while they were a few out), so that part went pretty well. Exodus scout tackled our viator but we were able to free him up. I sacrificed my domi in the process, forgetting I was in my LG-crystal clone.

As it happens, I had JC'd in to the clone last night for my Claymore, and then went to retrieve a LASB-fit eagle from assah that i had (ironically, it turns out) bought from OrangeAfroMan, an exodus pilot, so I kept the crystals in expecting to fight my way out. I docked the eagle and jumped in to the dominix for what I assumed would be a boring structure shoot, and ended up derping my crystal set instead. (As it happens, i also did not have to fight my way out, but i did fight my way IN, taking a vaga just barely in to armor while flying a vengeance, before his buddy in a harbinger landed to kill me... dishonoUr). Also a cynabal escaped the wrath of the eagle due to dishonour drones.

Props to exodus inty for the on-the-ball pod tackle, and fail for me not JCing out of the crystals :just to be safe:

Our abaddon pilot is one of our new guys, and again we were just shooting a PoCo and screwed up with the viator getting caught. (not that it makes it any better, but it DOES make the apparent failfits less stupid, it's not like we were roaming around trying to shoot other ships in them)

edit: I take no responsibility for the nightmare fit though, not one of ours

[Lex Arson]

We were bashing POCOs actually

Damnit. That's what I meant

We seriously had the worst luck with the timing on that rev. First time we enter system, it had (assumedly) just left siege and warped to POS. So we bugger off for a bit chasing some other lights hoping you'd go back to it. The nightmare in 9UY distracted us, so when our scout landed back on the CO the Rev was in warp just as he landed

And eve-kill really needs to fix/add the new modules. Usually they still show at the bottom (hint; they didn't), but I checked the mail in-game and I guess you had T2 drone damage amps vOv Still an *interesting* fit.

[Tyrus Tenebros]

We were bashing POCOs actually

Damnit. That's what I meant

We seriously had the worst luck with the timing on that rev. First time we enter system, it had (assumedly) just left siege and warped to POS. So we bugger off for a bit chasing some other lights hoping you'd go back to it. The nightmare in 9UY distracted us, so when our scout landed back on the CO the Rev was in warp just as he landed

And eve-kill really needs to fix/add the new modules. Usually they still show at the bottom (hint; they didn't), but I checked the mail in-game and I guess you had T2 drone damage amps vOv Still an *interesting* fit.

Works good with my legion probing and salvaging mag containers, runs up to a 6/10 with generally limited problems and handles all mag/radar/ladar sites. Stupid dying in it, but fit itself is great given how cheap the hull and fit are still

[Brullig]

After rumbling around Minmatar FW space trying to scout/point with an Onyx,I led a Fweddit lolfleet from Kamela through Providence looking for fun. After basically touring the whole region, with a slight detour into Catch, we never really found much fun besides bombing drakes on a station. On our way out the other side of Providence into Misaba, we ran into EVOL and other Retirement Club duders in a frigate fleet. Normally we at Fweddit would be completely overjoyed to engage something like this, except we were derping around in the only fleet comp we have that is shit against frigates -- mostly stealth bombers for giggles. We kinda figured something bad was about to happen when we bubbled ourselves on gate and the Taranis 200km off started burning in to it...

It was pretty much a massacre, we didn't even try to fight. Most were able to jump through and burn off, but we did lose a few bombers and other stuff. Our Onyx got tackled and was tanking like a boss, which kept them interested long enough for a few of the bombers to line up a few launches -- I think we even scored a couple headshots, including a Sentinel on a possible double-kill.

GG StevieTopSiders + crew, and I hope you enjoyed that Onyx kill.

Bonus points go to this thrasher pilot we found: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14138781 Nice loot, bro.

[StevieTopSiders]

Whelp.

http://kb.eve-401k.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14147883

Scout error had us expectring "a few" BC's.

[Lex Arson]

Whelp.

http://kb.eve-401k.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14147883

Scout error had us expectring "a few" BC's.

: providence :

[StevieTopSiders]

I logged on after a trip to the hookah bar with my hott caucasian girlfriend to find that we had a drunk roam heading to Providence. I clone-jumped to our nearby hi-sec staging system and fit up a baller Taranis.

When I met up with the fleet, they were ganking a pirate Hurricane. A neutral Punisher and Vaga warped off to a planet, so I gave chase, away from the gate guns. I tackled the Punisher and engaged brawl mode, x'ing up in fleet so that people could warp to me. I was finishing off the Punisher when the Vaga landed, neuting out my guns and depriving me of my kill. Luckily, we got a point on the Vaga, and he died.

http://kb.eve-401k.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14159031

Minus one Taranis.

I warped my pod back to my stock of Taranii, intending to outrun the police. When I undocked from station however, which was an insta-warp to the outgate, I was told I couldn't engage my engines due to criminal activity. Herp.

Minus two Taranis.

By this time, the fleet had made it to KBP-7 and found itself stuck between a 20-man Severance gang with Falcons and dual-Logi in KBP. In YSW, Of Sound Mind was waiting with a single Scimi and a blackbird and rail Brutices. I was scouting the Of Sound Mind gang when I decided to save our scout Malediction by brawling an Incursus. Well, the Incursus was getting mad shield reps, and then I found myself jammed, pointed, and painted. :Provi:

Minus three Taranis.

Anyway, we had some Tempests leave fleet due to butthurt, and they decided to brave the Severance gang. We took this opportunity to engage Of Sound Mind. Stuff happened, and stuff died. Was a good fight.

http://kb.eve-401k.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14159220

We kinda want to bring a proper gang to Providence, but we know they won't engage if we bring a unified comp and Logi of our own. :/

[XavierVE]

Thanks for the fight, 401K. And stop hating on the Rail Brutixes.

Also, tell your two mad Tempest pilots that we appreciated them leaving. Had they stayed, you guys would have wiped us to a man and warped off before -7- hit the scene. Not to mention wherever your Scimitar pilot made off to.