[2020-08-25] NBM, Caracals - #5: quiet roam with interesting kills

[budda_sereda]

This time we did not have many people, just 9:

• Comp
  • 4 Caracals
  • Bifrost, Sabre, 2 Ceptors and a Slasher
• What did you do?
  As usual, on NBMs last months, we yeeted. Luck smiled to me again: the system we yeeted to had two ratters and I was lucky to catch one. Differently from last roams, I decided to go for a scram, and apparently it was the right choice, as that Ishtar had 2 (!!!) WCSs:
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86639950/ +273M Ishtar
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86639990/ +21M MTU
  
  After we made quite a few jumps through many empty systems and decided to move to Perrigen Falls. On the edge of the region we've encountered a bubbled gate and from boredom decided to shoot bubbles. When it was half in hull we noticed a gang of dozen Merlins, but they got scared of my ceptor and run away. Not sure if they saw 4 Caracals, but I'm really surprised they did not even make a half-minute stop to try to engage my ceptor.
  
  We came back and killed the bubble:
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86641194/ +29M Mobile Large Warp Disruptor II
  
  We met our corp mates who tried to fly solo but we met further down to near Frat's staging. Rex in Stabber engaged a Domi on a gate. Curse was nearby and I was hesitant to engage. I dunno who dropped the bubble, but while I was thinking if 4 Caracals can are safe to appear on the grid with Curse... random Proteus landed on someone's buble.
  I was able to boosh him from the gate. Dunno how no-one from the fleet was able to get on top of me to pick-up the boosh, but I was sitting and shitting my pants for good 20 seconds thinking that Proteus will break lock from my Bifrost. I guess he was confused and did not agress me as he was going to crash the gate...
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86641324/ +493M Proteus
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86641329/ +73M pod
  
  Further same story happened with Tengu, though this time he did not pick-up the boosh. I assume someone landed scram as I was 2km from Tengu at the boosh moment
  
  After we had some more content coming and after taking unnecessary losses we retreated. I guess I should admit I did not do a good job coordinating fight as I left the grid a few seconds before it got hot.
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86641424/ +9M Slasher
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86641439/ -7M Slasher
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86641448/ -37M Caracal
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86641454/ -48M Caracal
  William helped River in Caracal to survive but was neutted by Huginn:
  https://zkillboard.com/kill/86641466/ -57M Raptor
  
  It was a bit too late and we had much more on grid than we could handle so we went home.
  
  Was relatively quiet but quite productive evening
• Positives
  • Decent kills and some loot, so I could SRP ceptors loss (I probably start following the practice of SRPing support ships)
• Negatives
  • Dunno what happened that people started arguing... and how serious was that, but I don't appreciate those things and would encourage everyone to STOP that.
  • Bad luck catching ratters in the Kalevala... they really pay attention to intell
  • Snuff do know their stuff. At least those guys we did fight.
• What to improve on
  • Need to learn how to safe-drop loot to hostile structures faster,
• Battlereport
  
  Total Killed: +898M
  Total Lost: -149M