We went through the Black Rise, the path to Tama was clear. The only concern was that gate to Hikokken in Nennamaila was guarded by BIG ships, so I spend quite a bit of time sitting in Nen waiting for intel on Enaluri gate. We had some ships on dscan on the way to Tama, but did not catch anything.
In Tama we got intel on some gang sitting in Medium. And at the same time, we got intel about a flashy comet coming into us. So while I was focused on that, I lost the information from scout about those kiters. While we were trying to catch the comet ... Gazzz went to Tama solo and was killed:
https://zkillboard.com/kill/74908782/ -115M
At that time I forgot we have a CD, but what Gazzz could do is to try booshing the comet...
We were discussing options of engageability of those folks. At some point they had literally 1 ship sitting in plex, so I decided to go for it. Kanpa called 'tackled', and I called fleet to warp to the plex.
The problem is we did not have clarity how far scout tackled stuff from the gate and when we landed he was 80-90 km from us. Another problem, the rest of the opponents fleet was also landing ... we first moved closer to Kanpa and asked him to come to us, but I assume he was scrammed.
We started burning towards him, and it was clear we are not going to make it. At this moment, Stabber landed at 0, so I called - get Stabber first. Immediately, I was tackled myself by Atron and while i was trying to get rid of him I went silent...
We lost Kanpa's Stiletto, but I killed the Atron and was able to come back to FCing.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/74908819/ -44M
https://zkillboard.com/kill/74908825/ +8M
I heard Niv called we lost first logy, I asked if we have tackle on Stabber - got silence in answer, heard we lost 2nd logy. At this moment I realized we have no chances catching anything, called fleet to align to the sun, and few seconds later warped the fleet to the sun at 70km.
This worked like a charm: everybody escaped. But, later I immediately cold warped us to the safe, but fleet did not pick that up. And when Niv asked "WTF", it was too late 2 harpies were tackled and killed:
https://zkillboard.com/kill/74908833/ -57M
https://zkillboard.com/kill/74908843/ -57M
Shadow was picked up on a gate
https://zkillboard.com/kill/74908885/ -13M
This was a newbish and the biggest mistake from my side.
I got fleet back home through low-sec. Same folks followed us to Kedama gate, but we escaped it. Later we did not find anything worth describing.
Few of those folks were killed later, so fleet is ISK positive
LOLhttps://zkillboard.com/kill/74908920/ +28M
https://zkillboard.com/kill/74908925/ +344M
What went well:
- Even though the form-up took long time, we did get a decent fleet.
- Important: while running from the fight, instead of asking people to align to the sun (I assume that's easy), I better open 'warpout' tab on overview and broadcast any moon to warp to.
- After I landed the fleet on the sun, I warped away fast. What else I should have done is call people "Warp to Budda".
- Indecisiveness: I don't believe we lost kills due to me being slow, but I feel I could make some decisions faster
- Communication and coordination: hard to say what exactly to improve here, but somehow I did not have enough information. Need to keep flying with Kanpa more often
- Recommendation to scout: provide more details intel a) during the roam, b) about the content on grid: how far they are from the center of the plex, if they are at range: are they aligned to something, c) try getting fleet the warping on top of the opponent fleet.
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