can't wait for a BR on this fight
can't wait for a BR on this fight
A little battle report about a fight we had yesterday in Providence in KBP-7 by esteemed glorious leader FIRST GENERAL. I take no credit.
One with working links is available on the alliance homepage at www.lostobsession.com under Battle Reports and shortly on my blog located in the signature.
Appetizer
This fight had happened three days ago and had peaked our interest. Drunk and Disorderly, extremely capable pilots, had gotten, due to a lack of people and thus needing more people to dual- or multibox, overwhelmed in this fight and narrowly lost the edge that made the fight go south for them.
Entrée
Right as I got home and logged on after installing a new CPU into my Computer, people reported action all around The Bleak Lands. We started by dropping around some T3's with a single Triage (Capitol One) since we had at that point, only about 7 people ready to go in fleet.
After a few random kills we switched over to heavier gear, add a second Triage to the mix and sent some Cyno Recons into Providence while sitting on the Titan with the following:
Devoter/Loki/Proteus/Kronos/2 Vindicators/Navy Armageddon/Abaddon/Tempest
We snagged a terribly fit Abaddon and a Tornado on that first drop on the B-W gate in KBP-7. Sevrance & Co form up while we wait for our Triage to exit its cycle and as it does we warp the fleet to the Dital gate including the Carrier. Shortly after landing we jump the Triage out and get ready to travel home through highsec, but as we do, a hodge podge fleet of about 30-40 landed on the Dital gate in KBP-7 and started lighting us up. With no Cyno with us at that time, and in no proper setup to fight in Sevrance's home system I decided to jump us out, travel home, pick up a few more guys and reship to different gear.
While we switch to the other composition an unlucky Pilgrim of ours dies in Providence.
Pièce de résistance
While we reship to 2 Navy Apocs/4 Navy Geddons/2 Vindicators/Machariel/Firewall TFI we keep the Devoter/Damnation/Abaddon along and add a third Triage on standby.
In the meantime Sevrance & Co are still buzzing around in KBP-7 in a hodge podge fleet of about 40 shield ships, mainly a mix of Drakes/Hurricanes/Tempests.
In order to not make it too obvious who the bait is from we send a to FATE unrelated bait/cyno Dominix into Providence and sure enough, after lifting up the skirt and showing some leg, Sevrance & Co bites. Cyno goes up and while we initially wanted to jump only 4-5 people in, in order to get them to escalate it a bit more, as the cyno goes up a fleet of about 50 lands on the Dominix to take it out and we bridge all of our gang in including Capitol One in the first Triage.
He does a fabulous job at keeping everybody alive and for the better part of 15 minutes I am busy calling & broadcasting target after target like there's no tomorrow with Capitol only saying "Capacitor looking good, i've got it under control" despite a lot of Tempests and Hurricanes being on field. During the fight the number of hostiles increses to worrying somewhere around 70-80 hostile ships.
After about fifteen minutes of killing Tempests, Hurricanes and Scimitars alike as priority targets, Capitol gets primaried and we jump the second Triage (Senshi Maru) in. Capitol One refits, tanks, and coasts out without a hitch. At that point we've killed about 40-50 ships already and we're all starting to pant under the effort.
With my overview completely full the whole time, and staying completely filled up the whole time, despite us taking a ship out nearly every 5-10 seconds I'm starting to get worried about our extraction thinking that Sevrance & Co are merely playing for time and reshipping in order to gwin the time to get even more people in. With that in mind I have Starconquer212 cook up an extraction plan while I keep calling & broadcasting at best speed.
A mere two minutes (which is at about the 6th total Triage cycle) after I call for all ships to get on gate (B-W gate) and announce that we might have to leave Triage behind to extract the rest of the fleet, Sevrance & Co decide they have had enough losses for one day and perform a tactical retreat making it easy and painless for us to evacuate in the end.
Dessert
This is the total final tally for the second engagement (Eve-kill). (90 kills/ 0 Losses)
This is the fixed battlereport (Dog BR Doctor) which shows 15:100 although realistically because none of our ships was killed in that second engagement it doesn't show all of the hostiles which were probably at a total of 115.
And here's a look onto the field which shows about 90+ wrecks & corpses after the fight was over.
Credits
Severance & Co, who irrespective of losses, kept coming back again and again to fight. You guys are real troopers. +1
Capitol One for excellent Triage work.
Star for backing me up when needed.
All the other guys who don't have their name mentioned.
The thrill of this fight was definitely fighting huge numbers with only two hands full of people. The initial numbers of Tempest and Hurricanes had me worried they would cap out our Triage very quick (that was what had happened to Drunk and Disorderly the other day) but we managed to kill them fast enough in order to avoid it becoming a problem for Capitol.
Although the base fleet comp of Tempests & Hurricanes that Severance & Co used can be very deadly for Triage gangs if used effectively by the hostile FC.
All in all a great fight providing a great rush for all pilots involved.
Last edited by Daniel L'Siata; August 2 2012 at 01:31:47 PM.
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
The last time something dropped this hard.
It ended World War Two.
Now operating http://starsofneweden.wordpress.com/
Daniel... fix your links bud. Good read. Well done.
Providence really picked up while Ive been out
Should be good times picking it up next week
I tried to be cool and all I got was a lousy warning about my sig being too big.
This should be a more accurate link to the numbers.
http://dog-net.org/brdoc/?brid=9973
Sad I missed the fight.
So with some 401K duders, I reinforced some CVA POCO's a few nights ago, hoping to get a fight.
We showed up in 20 Muninns plus support. CVA had 100+ Shield Battleships and BC's. UNTHINKABLES brought 40 Tengus and 20 Support.
We left, because no one would jump into us in Assah (despite taking GCC to make us an even juicier target).
But, I come back later, seeing that CVA has killed more Tengus than we ever did fighting in Scalding Pass, and there a shitton of third parties on the BR:
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14229106
Factions to me looked like:
CVA + Friends
UNTHINKABLES and Why So Serious
Lost Obsession plus Lowsec Bros
But then I'm not sure where to place some others:
-A- and SOCO
Outbreak.
Can people from CVA and Lost Obsession (and possibly other areas) fill me in?
We'll get you guys a battle report + video (from FATE) as soon as our better writers write the battle report.
One is being worked on presently by the BR slaves! Will update this post when it's ready.
EDIT - Yes, that's right. My BR slave is the alliance leader, I'm just that good.
As before, versions with working links, pictures and fraps are available at the Alliance homepage at http://www.lostobsession.com/index.p...=41&Itemid=409 and my blog in the signature
Credit again to FIRST GENERAL for another excellent BR and stealing my job.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
After this report on Wednesday, we got another great, albeit shorter, fight yesterday in Providence, this time in G-5EN2.
Prologue
We had intelligence up about several things coming up yesterday which however didn't turn out to give anything. We hadn't undocked but most of us were ready to travel to midpoints and we were in no actual fleet comp yet to fight anything. After our planned ops didn't pan out and not willing to stand down we sent out a couple of scouts and kept continuously checking the Eve map.
We quickly had scouts in Providence and got eyes on a 120+ man CVA & Co fleet with a dozen+ logistics, mixed basilisks as well as scimitars and heavy on Tempests, Hurricanes and Drakes.
Since the fight on Wednesday, CVA & Co had been keeping eyes on us in Kamela constantly and we knew that it would be hard if not impossible to get a fight,let alone to force it.
CVA & Co fought with the fleet comp above a THE UNTHINKABLES Tengu setup of about 40 Tengu's and 35 scimitars. While we had eyes, we didn't get our own full fleet with the optimal composition onto the Titan in time to drop their fight. CVA & co surprisingly did very well against the Tengu's scoring kills and coming out on top efficiency wise (note that the Sev3rance killboard shows us on that fight too despite the fight with THE UNTHINKABLES happening notably earlier).
Main Event
We were sitting on the Titan with :
9 Navpocs /1 Navgeddon (there's always that guy) / 4 Mach's / 2 Bhaalgorns / 4 Loki's / 2 Proteii / 1 Firewall Phoon / 1 Dictor (Hero Sabre) / 2 Heavy Dictors / 4 Triage Carriers
The CVA fleet, was consistently running around in G-5EN2 and jumping occasionally into Assah for a Poco R/F timer of theirs. Building on that our Hero Sabre placed himself 100 off their station in G-5EN2 inline with the Assah gate and as soon as their gang jumped in he uncloaked and dropped a bubble. The warp from Assah to the G-5EN2 station is a 115 AU warp which had all of us sitting on the Titan crossing our fingers and toes.
"First Tempest landed in the bubble" reports Talana (the Hero Sabre). "Cyno-recon in place?" "Confirmed". We waited till more of their fleet started landing, lit the cyno and bridged in.
First target that goes down is a Basilisk which gets alpha'ed. After that I broadcast & call Tempests like there's no tomorrow in order to get rid of any potential neuting that the CVA & Co fleet had brought and to minmise any cap pressure on the Triage Carriers. Irrespective of their logistics, the Tempests all dropped like flies, only this Tempest actually ever received any reps. The hostile fleet's incoming DPS was, as opposed to last Wednesday, much better focused and 2 of our Triage carriers had to enter Triage to keep our own ships alive.
Our Firewall TFI (Benzkie) did an excellent job as usual at eliminating not only hostile ECM Drones and toning down the missile spam from the Drakes but he also rid us of pesky frigates and, helpful lad that he is, immediately sent all the pods straight to station:
After most of the Tempests are vaporized we get to work on the Hurricanes.
This is about 4 minutes into the fight and at about 4min30s into the fight the CVA & Co fleet operate a tactical retreat because a -A- gang is incoming with 100 Rokhs and 35 Scimitars.
As the last people get off field we're coming up on the 5 minute Triage cycle timer and all Triage pilots get to hit red before going into their next cycle.
As soon as all the Archons are out of Triage we jump them out and head off into low-sec, Assah, not wanting to take on or get shot by -A-'s Rokh setup.
Here's the fraps from the fight as well, another a-bit-worked-up video will follow later as soon as I get a chance to work on it.
This is the alliance kill report and this is the fixed report. I put -A- on the other side of the report since we found out, a posteriori, that they were going to come shoot us too. (They did score a few kills on the CVA fleet after we had left though).
Total tally: 33 vs 120+ for 46 kills and 1 loss.
Credits
Talana Mershie for perfect bubble timing.
SenshiMaru and Hilfe for excellent Triage work.
All other pilots not mentioned here who did other essential jobs for the fleet.
Benzkie for the screenshots, Senshi for the first fraps and Hilfe for the second one.
Special thanks also to Lock Out and Amymuffmuff for coming along.
Fraps can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXKq9...layer_embedded from the PoV of Triage pilot SenshiMaru
BR can be found at http://www.fate.eve-kill.net/?a=kill...ll_id=14230902
As above, versions with working links and piccies on alliance homepage and my blog!
Last edited by Daniel L'Siata; August 5 2012 at 04:51:46 PM.
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
The last time something dropped this hard.
It ended World War Two.
Now operating http://starsofneweden.wordpress.com/
Lost ships to Tyrus and Co. yesterday. I had everyone go for a sick Wolf kill, because he wasn't in an NRDS alliance. Damn those roleplayers! *shakes fist*
I was just passing through and podded you conveniently.Originally Posted by StevieTopSiders
I went on to camp HED,
Scored faction tengu kill, loki, dominix, jaguar, drake, cane, and nighthawk kills before getting my proteus stick on a gate and dying of to a geddon and abaddon untackled. Easily won ISK war so I'm happy with the night
I tried to be cool and all I got was a lousy warning about my sig being too big.
New FC took out a roam today. We dunked on T1 cruisers (see Curse thread), and then continued onto Provi, seeing blobs in XHQ, YMP, and KBP.
We headed towards Y-M first, when we ran into Xavier and Co. There was a bit of a Mexican standoff on the H6<->9UY gate, with our FC eventually deciding to pull back towards low-sec. This didn't end too well, because it gave -7- and -E-E- time to form up mad EWAR blob.
Of Sound Mind warped into us, allowing us to score some kills against their rangey comp. Our reps were holding, and we were chewing through ships, when suddenly -7- blob, damping and jamming our Logis. At this point, we lost a lot of our fleet, while I overheated my guns through an ASB boosting Ferox.
http://kb.eve-401k.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14306462
I'd like to hear Xavier's side of the story, if he'll deign to post. xD
gf o7
TL-DR - helped -7- blob a gang
'Lo Mr. TopSiders!
Formed up our usual Saturday night gang of dishonorable newbies (mid-range assemblage of hurricanes, brutixes, a bubbler, recon and claymore, 15 in total) and roamed around Providence as always. Nobody was around, not a hostile in the entire region for about two hours. Blobbed out a brave knight in a Nighthawk using our typical PROVI DISHONOR style. We were getting the loot when someone reported seeing you in 4B. Which was odd, because usually we see you guys coming when you hit G-5.
So I got eyes on the 4B gate in 9UY while we burned towards H6, hopeful that you weren't loaded up with Scimitars so we could fight you mano-a-mano. Your gang had three, we had our usual one and your comp was tighter and laden with far more SP (we're newbie scrubs as always). We knew of a -7- gang around where we were and our comms started lamenting that you'd probably be blobbed out again by the combined forces of Sev3rance Sound. Truly, I felt bad since I knew it would happen eventually and unlike most entities in the game, we almost kind of like you guys. Then I saw it.
You guys killed FuriousPig on the 4B gate.
Man, you can't come rollin' up to Providence, kill FuriousPig (Or as he's better known, the only legitimately nice person in Providence) and not get blobbed out to kingdom come. That just isn't happening. Sympathy to your eventual plight turned to righteous justice talk and things! We tried baiting you guys by watching you move across 9UY to H6, even had one of our Drakes pretend to screw up and get stuck on the gate so you'd jump in and aggress. Only two of you jumped in and aggressed, which let us down. We warped back, figuring the rest of your gang would jump in and start slaughtering us. Tried going all Grima Wormtongue on you in H6 local to get you to jump in, but you saw through that shit like Gandalf. Our bait failed hard and our lies did not sway you, the shame of it all.
Once you moved back to 4B gate in 9UY, we followed trying to bait you guys back to the H6 gate. When you jumped out, we knew the -7- gang was only a jump'ish behind us. As proper meatshield terrible pets, we decided to follow you into 4B and try to have our interceptor catch a scimitar to force an engagement knowing that we'd lose a chunk of our gang in order to slow you for the eventual -7- blobbage. We figured you only weren't engaging due to the fact that you somehow got smart to the second gang in the area. Instead, you guys held on the 9FOB gate, chewed our inferior gang up like we knew would happen, right before the SHINING HORSES OF BLOBBING arrived in the form of -7- to bail our newbie arses out yet again.
And normally, I'd feel somewhat bad about all that, but you guys killed FuriousPig so you had it coming.
Last edited by XavierVE; August 12 2012 at 07:00:22 AM.
Never change, Providence - oh, how I miss thee.
I'm going to make sure that title is added to all of our pilots now. It's too epic not to.
Yeah...
Think I'm gonna turn off the 401K Free Kill fountain.
TBH you should have stayed and engaged the original gang instead of rolling over to die
Also ftr I primaried you only because you were the closest and most in range target.
Content-wise, our fleet was far more successful rolling the -a- draekfleet that came through... losing a scorp/eris for numerous kills (and scorp was one of those random "decloaked first lol-nope" kills)
http://kb.cva-eve.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=242295
Stevie welping his muninns (finally! goddamn muninns) was moar better for K.
I tried to be cool and all I got was a lousy warning about my sig being too big.
I felt slightly bad about it, if it helps anything. Slightly.
FWIW, that was three independently FC'd gangs converging at once on you, not some great master plan to roll you guys. Yeah, that's probably not worth much, come to think of it.
But it's still the truth. And who knew the truth could be so hilarious in its aftermath. I personally was shocked to see such numbers at that time of night.I felt slightly bad about it, if it helps anything. Slightly.
FWIW, that was three independently FC'd gangs converging at once on you, not some great master plan to roll you guys. Yeah, that's probably not worth much, come to think of it.
Ever since -A- lost their supers they've been sending what we in Provi like to call 'Morale gangs' into Providence looking for gudfites, every night about 30-40 man gangs. First night was a mixed Deimos/Oracle/SFI armor gang that got sandwiched in SV5 between a South-Provi Armor Oracle gang that had been roaming Catch and a North-Provi Shield Cane/Tackle gang that was down south looking for fights. The Provi Oracle gang engaged SoCo on the WD-VTV gate and called in the NP Shield gang that was waiting in F9E. It was a nice little slugfest that ended with heavier losses on the SoCo side and Provi holding the field.
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14349781
http://dog-net.org/brdoc/?brid=11466
Thursday night another SoCo gang roamed all the way to North Provi with a 40-man Drake/Cane gang with 7 Scimi. North-Provi began forming a similar Drake/Cane gang and picked up 5 Scimi along the way as they followed the SoCo gang moving south again. As the SoCo gang headed back into Catch in SV5 a Volition Cult gang of 20ish Thrashers/Griffins had been coming back from a roam and ran headlong into them, buying time for the North-Provi gang (by this time 30ish in size) and a South-Provi recon gang (of about 12) to catch up and enter the fray. A handful of thrashers were lost, but a handful of SoCo BCs plus Recon/Dictor died also as the rest of SoCo disappeared into Catch. A fair exchange.
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14355518 << Note no losses from Provi side posted to EveKill yet, but at least 1 Cane, 1 Ishkur, and maybe 4-5 Thrashers lost.
Tonight SoCo brought in a Muninn gang with Scimi support up into KBP7-G. North-Provi formed a Drake gang, as we scrubs are wont to do, and were set to meet them as they began heading back south into XHQ. A SOUND gang of 13ish Shield Canes/Brutixes were waiting in 4B hoping to enter the fray once we engaged SoCo, but as it happened SoCo didn't turn to engage as us they saw us pouring into XHQ, they continued into YWSO. We expected them to be pulling distance off the XHQ gate and waiting for us to enter and pondered a JB run around to the backside into 9FOB to avoid that trap. As we were pondering SoCo jumped into 4B where SOUND was and began faceraping them. SOUND held as long as they could while our Drake gang jumped into YWSO and burned to 4B. By the time we jumped in the SOUND gang was down to 2-3 ships still on field.
SOCO bounced to a safe near 9UY gate after losing a Muninn and Rapier, and we moved to 9UY gate to prevent an escape. SoCo bounced off a moon to land 100 off 9UY gate to snipe, and our gang bounced to another moon and back to the gate at 100 landing 25km from their Scimi and Recons. They burned hard and some warped off as both gangs popped off eachother's tackle frigs, finally SoCo bounced again but not before losing a Scimi. Another 10minutes of safe and moon-bouncing followed before SoCo jumped into 9FOB and burned off gate. We lost a Harbinger to a Leeroy in 9FOB before heading in to YWSO, first to take the other way into 9FOB but then a report of a lone Abaddon in XHQ caught our attention.
We popped the Abaddon and began making way back into 4B to clear loot and await Stage 2 of the fight with SoCo as they poured in, but they then headed back into Catch via 9UY, ostensibly to linkup with reinforcements in the form of a 15man gang of Battleships with Falcons/Curses that was spotted travelling past TRPFU towards 9UY. As noone else was answering our call for reinforcements, we headed back to KBP to call it a day.
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14368822 << No losses from SOUND posted, but yeah. They lost 5 BCs and 3 tackle frigs.
Good fights, SoCo, good fights. Keep them coming. o7
Last edited by Willaev; August 18 2012 at 08:52:38 PM.
What in the hell happened to my Eve?
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