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1st match in AT IX - The Obsidian Front vs Capital. Punishment
2nd match in AT IX - Raiden. vs The Obsidian Front

ATXI - Day 1 Match 28 - The Obsidian Front vs The Initiative.
ATXI - Day 2 Match 62 - Mildly Sober vs The Obsidian Front
ATXI - Day 3 Match 78 - The Obsidian Front vs Drunk 'n' Disorderly
ATXI - Day 4 Match 95 - Confederation of xXPIZZAXx vs The Obsidian Front
ATXI - Day 4 Match 103 - The Obsidian Front vs Darkness of Despair

Last night, we had a minor operation going to build our capital funds, dont know if it was a huge success, but at least the 22 people in fleet had a laugh on TS.

We ended the night with a mini roam, fighting DT in Hagilur and Dudreda, hint to DT, bringing battleships is not always the best option against cruisers.

Shame we didnt really lose more, as this doesnt show the oponent force.
http://kb.obsidianfront.com/index.php/kill_related/17712/
http://kb.obsidianfront.com/index.php/kill_related/17715/

New times and new goals.

The alliance will change RoE from NRDS to NBSI this weekend.

Upcomming week we will be moving into another area of null.

Seems we finally got the perfect mix of engineers and combat pilots working together in all areas, seems the teaming up when the heat is on have become alot better :D

4 more Corporations joined our fold giving us a better timezone spread.

Failed Diplomacy desided to surrender their WAR against us today.

Now we need to deside if we wana accept or not

So huge events happend this week, which seems to be a butterfly effect from the massive fight in B-R.

Our main contact in null EMP dispanded. This came as a wave all over the place.
Apparently PL is taking over all EMP space including renters, which will leave us isolated as the only none renter in the middle of PL space. As a small alliance our few systems of space, would become like a torn in PL eyes i guess, so they offered to buy our area. A polite way of saying F*** off, we need more renters so we can replace our titan loses. I dont know.

At least we got the time we need to sort out what we wana do now, i respect PL for the way they have handled us compared with alot of others, mabe because we dont mind losing ships to win a fight, save an ihub, rep a station or killing TCUs and SBUs.

Anyway, we will slowly start look for other space, and interesting times seems to be the new plan for our alliance, which will demand full force :D Im pretty sure youll read about what we do here in a week or two, but im pretty sure we have determent what to do now.

Been fighting these guys for a week. They are a tough bunch of guys. Would recommend them to anyone.

Cross post from my corp recruting topic.

I am sitting here at work with the biggest smile on my face. Why i will exsplain later

We run a week of WAR once every month, and this month was no exception. We picked out a few targets, and was serious not exspecting much, as the past 20 WARs we have resived one surrender mail after the other, with only Failed Diplomacy and Noir. putting up a decent fight.

We desided to dec a WH Merc Corp Sky Fighters, as they had alot of POCOs in Empire we wanted. We got a bit stunned the night the WAR started and the first 40 Sky Fighters moved into our home system. Some provoganda regarding spies inside our alliance and treaths from their Diplomate about removing one of our death stars in empire, made us make sure we actually had our doctrines ready.

The first few nights we played ping pong reinforcing each other POCOs, they were bloody strong in the US and AU TZ where we had numbers in the EU TZ. They managed to snipe 3 POCOs from us, when we destroyed 5 other Dead Terrorist POCOs, well played on their side btw.

We had a few engagements with them, in the late EU TZ early US TZ and Sky Fighters serious liked their Ishtar Fleets. How ever one of the first nights the whowed up in a 35 man T3 fleet, same doctrine we tend to fly in orcation, which supprised us alot, and even though we had simular numbers, we avoided the fight, as we just didnt have the counter on hand.

The day after we prepared a counter for their T3 fleet, but Sky Fighters desided to show up in their Ishtars.

Our first real engagement was a POCO defence in HEK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJqoIimE-0E

The day after we lost a BS fleet, in an attempt to prevent them reinforcing a POCO and both side was close to have kill around 1.9B ISK, with Sky Fighters in the lead.

Sky Fighters invited more allies, more WH mercs and more in our EU TZ. My watch list had over 400 people in it, with 40-70 online at more or less all times. This could become a hairy WAR.

Early morning on the 1st of March Sky Fighters desided to try their luck on one of our Towers, and this fight brought us in the lead with around 1B ISK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQc3QXRPe8

We spend the days sniping each other at the stations, and prop to Sky Fighters to actually catch quite a few FRONT members on the main trade hub in HEK, i serious had hoped people would learn.

The 2nd of March, Sky Fighters and Allies turned up in force in Hek, to finish of one of our POCOs. We didnt know what to exspect, with a bit less number than they had, we needed to come up with an idear how to counter them. Then we thought about our mistake in our fights agains Failed Diplomacy and Noir. where our mixed logi went suspect, and saw a posibility that a WH merc corp would make same mistake as we did, not knowing better. We contacted Failed Diplomacy and asked them if they wanted the chance of some free kills and a good fight, and ofcause they were up for it.

We started of, by camping Hek Boundless the trade hub while we had logi repping the POCO. So Sky Fighters started to undock, and we managed to catch some of them on the undock. Not exspecting them to return, they did, and we just couldnt break the tank of their T3s. We tanked them long enough for all to dock up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6klKvm_-dOg

We asked Failed Diplomacy on their ETA so we could see if we could use what we learn in our fight agains Failed Diplomacy and Noir. and it didnt last long until Failed was seen in system.

Sky Fighters + Allies moved to our POCO and started to engage and gave us an opitunity to undock and rally. We warpped in on top of the Sky Fighter blob, and this turned out the become the most epic fight we had had since our move in to Cobalt Egde.

The fight lasted aprox 15 min, and YES, Sky Fighters did make the same mistake we did, so finally Failed Diplomacy could put pressure on Sky Fighter Logi, making it posible for us, to actually break their tank. On a side note, we had asked all our indies and new members to jump into EWAR frigates and have spares in case they died, and they did a bloody awesome job.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIXMku3SloM

12 Billion ISK kills, and about 100 million loses in frigates. I cannot recall us ever losing or having such and exspensiv fight in Empire, where no capitals were involved. This was serious an epic fight, and respect to Sky Fighters and allies to stay and fight as they did.

http://kb.obsidianfront.com/index.php/kill_related/28283/battle/

We might seems to have more numbers, but if you look at our frigate loses, youll see the same pilots in 2-3 different ships.

I were to regret this fight, early yesterday, when i came to my attansion, that Sky Fighters were reinforcing one of our towers, and manage to do so, just before we managed to restront. This left us with a serious problem, as the tower came out in Sky Fighters prime time, the worse time for FRONT.

Saying that, here we come to my big smile on my face today. We posted the defence OP, and less exspected i went up an hour earlier than normal to take part in the defence just before work. Apparently i was not the only one. With a good mix of US AU and EU TZ, we this morning managed to pull at PURE 70 man FRONT fleet, to defend our tower. It took less than 5 min to rep up and restront. Even though Sky Fighters didnt show, i couldnt stop smiling, with the big moral boost this WAR had given us. And that 70 people from around the globe show up to defend whats important for them.

THE OBSIDIAN FRONT i serious love you guys.

At the end of the OP i heard that Noir. are going to involve the epic fight and knowlage we used from our last engagement against Noir. in their next pod cast.