I DON'T EVEN FC, fleet #1
After Roush fell, I decided to take out a quick fleet around the current hotspots in Minmatar controlled space.
We took the route south through Lamaa, Tzvi, Oyeman, Sifilar, Arzad up to Vard. From Vard we headed into the southern border systems of Minmatar space - Dal and Lantorn, while trying to avoid Siseide, Auga and Amamake.
On the way, we did find a few Minmatar pilots in FW complexes, but they warped as soon as they saw us. We flew around until Khaos (I think it was him...) informed us of a resident multiboxer in Lantorn, who specializes in baiting people into FW complexes and then drops his alt on top of his scrambled targets.
I decided, that two can play this game and got the fleet into position on the Lantorn gate in Dal. I decided, I was going to be the "victim" and jumped in the system. I quickly identified that the multiboxer and his alt were in system and ordered the fleet to hold.
I warped to a small complex, which was about 30 AU off, and slid in. Not long after that, I had a Cormorant on D-scan at 5 AU. Then 1 AU. Finally at 0,1 AU. As soon as he landed on grid, I tackled him and ordered the fleet to jump in and warp to the complex.
While the fleet was in warp, the multiboxer brought in his alt in a Coercer. I was hitting deep armour in my Coercer when the fleet got into the complex. Somehow, I managed to kill the Cormorant and get a few shots off on the Coercer, before I died in a glorious ball of fire, pieces of armor plates, and shards of laser crystals. The fleet easily took care of the multiboxer's single Coercer after I warped off.
Battle report:
http://www.whelp.gg/kill/51466270/battle_report
Enemy losses:
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51466270/
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51466290/
Our losses:
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51466282/
Thank you to James Msyu, Cataleya Valentine, Khaos Hakomairos and Cinara Miriam for flying with me that night.
I DON'T EVEN FC, fleet #2
Last night, I pinged for a fleet (and messed up the ping, because my pings are as good as my fleets) early. At first, nobody joined (event Tyraez was feeling meh), so I sat, waited, and finally decided to head out alone. While getting my last Imperial Navy Slicer from Amarr, Toph Ghasha from Pilgrims and Curses joined the fleet. We decided to head out and at the last second, Khaos Hakomairos hopped on board as well.
While consulting the map and the Militia channel (eeew), noticed that there was a lot of action in Lamaa. Obviously, we wanted to be part of that and headed out. As soon as we jumped into Lamaa, a Minmatar militia Stabber landed on grid. Eventually, we decided to take him, but unfortunately, it took me a while to make up my god damn mind - this cost me my ship. While I was contemplating if we should take the fight or not, my cloak timer ran out and as I was in a squishy Slicer, I died pretty fast.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51480576/
Luckily, Khaos Hakomairos was in a Coercer and Toph Ghasha was in a Retribution - they did take down the Stabber soon after I left.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51480583/
After I had reshipped, I got back to Lamaa to derp around in the usual manner. Soon I noticed a single Imperial Navy Slicer in a Large complex. I decided to check it out - unfortunately, it turned out to be an Amarr militia pilot, who was desperately shooting at the battlecruiser rat. I decided to help him and our fleet followed. Not long after that, a blue fleet also landed in a complex. What happened next, though, was quite amusing.
Three Maguses and a Deacon warped in to the Large complex as we were running it down. If I recall correctly, we were 15 man strong with the blue fleet on the field. As it turns out, even with those numbers, we could not break the Maguses and the Deacon - they were RR fit with a logistics frigate on the field. Soon after the blue fleet realised, that they can't break them, they warped off. Khaos Hakomairos died to the Maguses.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51480821/
This left me, in an Imperial Navy Slicer, and Toph Ghasha, in a Retribution, on field. As the Maguses concentrated on the brick-tanked retribution, I pulled into optimal range for Scorch and started picking off their drones. The Maguses noticed that and sent their drones after me. Toph Ghasha told me on comms, that they deagressed, which gave me enough heads up to turn on my MWD and burn the fuck away. I was in half armour, when the drones re-engaged Toph Ghasha. To help out, I started piloting manually, doing fly-by's and picking off one or two drones each time. Apparently, the Maguses did not manage to break the brick-tank of the Retribution and gave up soon after losing a bunch of drones to us.
While this was happening, Khaos Hakomairos was reshipping, but died to a Trasher and insta-locking Slasher gatecamp on the way back. He called it a day, after that.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51481138/
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51481143/
We returned to one of the complexes and soon after that Cataleya Valentine joined us as well. We killed some stuff in the complexes, which wasn't that hard with a brawler and a kiter on field.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51481171/
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51481193/
Soon after, Toph Ghasha warped to a gate and was caught by a Bifrost. Me and Cataleya Valentine Warped in, but the numbers overwhelmed us. We lost our ships, but killed a hostile Imperial Navy Slicer while doing that.
Kill:
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51481437/
Losses:
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51481415/
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51481433/
https://zkillboard.com/kill/51481439/
By now, Toph Ghasha had to go, which left me and Cataleya Valentine in the fleet. We decided to reship in to Coercers and see, what would happen. When we arrived in Asghed, we noticed a Minimatar pilot in the system with an active FW mission site. We warped our Coercers to the site and found a Vexor Navy Issue on close range D-scan. We decided to upship and try to take it out. After we reshipped in Huola, we went back to Asghed to find, that the guy was still running the mission. We took the gate, but unfortunately, the guy was 200 km off and due to game mechanics, we couldn't warp to any of the wrecks in his vicinity. We started burning in and the guy failed to notice us at first. Only when I was around 80 km away from him, he pulled drones and warped off.
We tried jumping out of the system and waiting for a bit, so the guy could go back in to the mission site - this would have made it easy for us to catch him on the acceleration gate or near the landing beacon. Alas, that did not happen and we called it a day.
Thanks to Khaos Hakomairos, Cataleya Valentine and Toph Ghasha for coming out with me!
