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Well the last several days have yielded some interesting fights/ganks. I won't go into excruciating detail on every single one but stick to a quick summary of the note worthy actions.

Sunday a scout was following a 7 man battlecruiser gang around and reported them at a safe spot a few jumps away. We formed up an equal man gang and started moving their way. They suddenly all left local and we quickly realized they had exited through a worm hole. We got it probed down and through a nifty set of wing warps and good FCing by our worm hole specialist FC, managed to get each and every single one of them. I can't post a nice killboard summary since it took place in several adjacent systems/wh's.

After a while, if you continually beat the same target over and over, they tend to stop fighting or adapt to your play style. Unfortunately, the fun fights we used to get against groups like Legio have dried up in favor of ~hotdrop within 3 minutes by -A- and be forced to log at safes~.

Jumping around in slower brawler gangs can be frustrating so I decided to revert to nano gangs to find greener pastures. Tonight, I think we found our new sov carebears of choice. 15 empty jumps through Wicked Creek gets us to a nice pocket teaming with local flora and fauna. Hardly 5 minutes after arriving we made our first catch of the day. I didn't know you could fit an Armageddon that cheap. His Megathron friend did not disappoint either fielding a 10mn MWD, heavy missile launchers (t2 for good measure), and an inertia stab.

The great thing about these guys is they will bring a fight if you give them enough time. A random T1 cruiser gang+cane died to us but managed to mask the locals warping in a fleet to fight us. Numbers wise they were surprisingly equal but they brought 3x Basi and much heavier weight of BC's. We were forced to jump out and it looked like once again we would have to log off in shame, trapped in a dead end.

But not this time! I got loki boosts set up in the system where the enemy fleet was camping. We warped to the gate, jumped into a superior fleet, overheated MWD's and burned for the sun. A friendly armor rupture tagging along managed to get pointed and I made the tragic order to leave him behind as a sacrifice for the greater good. A moment later, that rupture happily reported he had escaped in low armor and was on his way to exact revenge for being left behind. All in all, it was a fast paced roam full of excitement. We will be back Wicked Creek!

Well today was fun.

We were forming up for a nano roam when Xenon Prime came in with a small BS gang. It numbered 3 armor Tempests, an Armageddon, several hurricanes and some fast tackle.

We decided to run nano since we didn't have the numbers online yet to face them head on. It was an entertaining game of "web the tackle with loki boosted rapier" and "re-align celestials to avoid their warp-ins." We managed to put a few of their ceptors into armor without taking any losses and gradually lure them back towards our station. By this time we had enough on to engage them on station so we shipped into armor BS and undocked. They took the bait and went red on station losing an Armageddon and Tempest before being able to dock.

After about 20 minutes of them obviously forming up with Pod Based they undocked and went red on us again. We expected the cyno and sure enough Pod Based Nagflar and Phoenix landed on field. We decided to d-agress since we weren't sure if they planned on escalating or not and would have extracted successfully if jam drones didn't perma jam one of our guardians =(

I haven't done station games in a while and it was actually kind of refreshing =P.

And yes, if you don't join us please join A4d to give us more epic fights

Our best frenemies A4D were engaging a small cap fleet a few jumps away so we tried to scrape together a fleet to spice things up. We scrambled hard but it took us about 10 minutes too long. They were forced off the field and we were left with a 10-15man AHAC gang with nothing to shoot at. Nothing to shoot at until... scout reported a 15 man shield Legio gang skirting around D87 (they scared).

After some brief maneuvering our FC managed to pin them in V-I. Unfortunately, one of our scouts was inexplicably decloaked and tackled by the Legio gang 200km's off gate.

His falcon died as our fleet jumped in. Our ceptor pilot, being a huge carebear, had wrecks on overview and the presence of mind to warp right into the enemy fleet. Only 30 seconds earlier he had said "you guys are going to have to buy me a new malediction." They killed the wreck but it was too late. Their Onyx had it's bubble up and our hero malediction got us the warp in we needed for a glorious 5 seconds before he popped.

Our FC called primary on their scimitar and it went down after a brief delay. A friendly hurricane was primaried and our 3 guardians couldn't keep it alive even overheated because of it's T1 resists. They switched to our Zealot and he never dipped below 50% armor. Next they primaried our harbinger but by this time we had killed a lot of their DPS and they got what they could out.

I'm not sure why they stuck on the field so long but as far as I could tell only 2 drakes and a scimitar got away.

http://brushiebrushiebrushie.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14138306 (battle report is a bit off but gives the general idea)

A lot of positive changes are coming to Brushie shortly. We have become a more impressive entity based on small gang PvP principles. Some days we fleet up and run 20 man gangs, and others we split into 2-3 smaller nano roams. We are evolving with our friends, and eve is getting more and more fun.

This past Sunday was quite nice. Over 35 people logged on to our TS at one time for a new record. Rather than clump up into one blob, we split into 3 separate small gang fleets.

Fleet one went on a deep roam in frigates to Wicked Creek. Their FC is notorious for snagging faction BS, freighters, etc just about every time he goes out.

Fleet two didn't want to go on a 2 hour trek to the edge of the galaxy so they stuck around camping and picked up a few decent kills.

Fleet three was led by me to Catch where things were pretty hot. We busted through several gate camps to get to the carebear systems and on the way one of our Vagabonds got separated from us by an Outbreak gang that was tailing us. Turns out the carebears didn't want to do anything other than sit on station in BC's with 3 carriers undocked. We decided to go link up with our Vagabond and engage the similar sized outbreak gang.

We had 1 Rapier, 3 Vagabonds, Sleipnir, 1 Stiletto. They had a 100mn Tengu, sabre, and I believe a vagabond and a Cynabal. We came from two separate directions as we had been split up. When our lone vagabond hit the gate (we were landing on the other side) the outbreak gang went red so we jumped in and I overheated tackle and got right on the Tengu. Their support was being cautious as we may have surprised them and by the time they switched all dps on to my rapier it was too late for him.

Sometimes we fleet up into 25 man AHAC gangs and sometimes we split up into 2-3 small gangs.

It has been a busy week for me but the killing must go on!

The month is still young but an early Machariel loss put our efficiency further into the red than we are used to being. A lot of alliances are content with 75% efficiency for the month but we aren't like a lot of alliances. It's not all about the numbers, but they certainly do provide a good reason to get out there and kill ****.

Good fight one was against a T2 BC Unthinkable roam. Their PvPers must have gotten tired of us farming Wicked Creek and props to them for bringing the fight to us for a change. Luckily, it was one of those fights where we began outnumbered but were able to hold the field and bring in back up on the fly.

If I remember correctly it was about 12v12 by the end of it but the battle report is all messed up. The fight began on the gate with myself and xyla in scimitars. We were outnumbered DPS wise quite significantly but we had logi and they didn't. They primaried me first but were splitting DPS somewhat. I overheated invuln and he overheated reps and the fight was on. Our targets started dropping and our tank was holding as a few more back up landed on the gate. Ultimately they were forced to bail giving us 4 kills and no losses. Funny enough they came back about 30 minutes later smack talking with 22 in fleet and ready to fight again but when we got together a 13 man armor gang they booked it before we even aligned to the gate.

Fast forward a day or two and I took out a nano gang. A few small skirmishes on the way out to wicked creek yielded 3 drake kills and a few randoms but when we got to the destination something peculiar happened. A Hulk warped 70km's off of his station, aligned, then proceeded to wait a full 30 seconds while our sabre got tackle on him. We jumped the gang in and downed his 600 mil punching bag. 10 seconds later a crane undocked. We opened up and astonishingly he proceeded to die. Maybe this isn't as noteworthy as the other real PvP we got this week that I'm not covering but it was quite funny at the time.

Recruitment is picking up steam and corp chat is getting fun. Get it while it's hot!

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Well last nights roam was rough. We had too many online and the fleet got more and more expensive until next thing I knew there were 3 machariels running around with us. We terrorized Legio/En Garde a bit until they called in -A-. We had bad intel on the size of the -A- blob and having never lived in Sov space myself, jump bridges are a bit of a mystery to me. We ended up losing a Machariel and a few support. No balls, no glory.

Feeling guilty as the FC I spent the next hour having people log, waiting for the blob to leave, then scouting us forward a jump before the blob could get us. When we were about home it looked like the blob FC had finally logged off. All the blobblings could do was dock up and pretend those 600 kills on which they only contributed to by pressing F1 make them "PvPers". There's a reason why I actually do value battle clinic ranking as an indicator of small gang experience.

Unfortunately for the blob pets, they were under the impression that could actually PvP without a cyno and 80 man support fleet behind them. We shipped a few guys into battle cruisers and snagged a Loki before their fleet could get away ending the night on a good note.

Clearly I am biased when it comes to discussing blobs. I don't mean to criticize that play style. I can understand the desire to log in and have a fleet up 24/7 and engage in 0 risk pvp where all you have to do is listen to the FC. I just happen to know that small-mid gang PvP is where the real competent and rewarding PvP lies.

A polish alliance "Cartel." has recently moved into our home system. This hasn't happened in over 6 months so we are ready to roll! They can field a few decent comps and outnumber us in their prime time by a bit so the fights have been entertaining.

Just last night they cyno'd onto their station with a typhoon. We formed up a hasty gank BS fleet with archon support (no we didn't agress on station spys). We overheated guns as much as possible and put him into structure but they undocked 3-4 carriers of their own and a few gank BS and were able to keep him up.

This morning they anchored a large POS. Stay tuned for some interesting fights that are bound to happen this weekend.

Well last night yielded one of the more pleasurable fights of my Eve career. It may sound like just another 0,0 engagement but having watched my corporation mature from a high-sec can flipping corp to a 0,0 alliance it was satisfying on a deeper level.

We have consistently been able to run 15-20 man fleet on weeknights now. Two nights ago (Monday night) a roam was out in Detroid 18 jumps from home when I logged in. A few minutes go by and in our intel channel I see "Carriers tackled need help" and the destination linked. I led a convoy as quickly as possible to get more ships on the field but by the time we made it out there Cascade Imminent had dropped a total of 6 carriers and clearly had a titan bridging. We killed some of their support fleet and chased them around for a while but this set me thinking..

Tuesday night after work I formed a Tier3 fleet up and decided to take a risk and jump the 18 jumps to Detroid again looking for a fight. We were initially a bit disappointed, only managing to gank a few targets. Apparently we made a splash in some intel channels because a few minutes later we were hotdropped by Cascade again. This time they bridged a small battlecruiser gang behind us. The fight was over before it started but we only managed to net 4ish BC kills with no losses before they ran.

We messed around for another few mintues and started heading home a bit disappointed our 20ish man fleet couldn't find a fight. A few jumps later we notice a Cascade following us. It ends up being a Broadsword which we correctly assumed was a Cyno. After a bit of manuvering we jump into the system the Broadsword is on and start burning out. He popped the cyno and the fight is on!

About 15-20 battlecruisers with 3x scimitar and support comes through the Cyno. I start calling primaries and they are dropping fast to our alpha. We focus on the battlecruisers that are closest to us and for a period of time they had outrun their scimitar support. Our support was zipping around trying to chase their interceptors off of us but we lost a naga who got scrammed early on before he could pull much range. One of their Scimitars had the bright idea to MWD straight at us to get back in rep range of his fleet. We targeted him and cleared guns for a volley. He died so fast to alpha I thought he warped.

After 150Km's or chasing, the enemy fleet warped to a tactical over the gate we were at. Unfortunately for their Broadsword, his Cyno was still up leaving him stranded on the gate. We warped to the cyno at range and took him down. Right as he died the Cascade fleet warped back down to a wreck near us with some reinforcements. The chase began again and once more we lost a slow naga that got scrammed early. We downed a few more drakes and pointed an Onyx before they made the call to warp off.

19 kills for 5 losses (2 nagas, 3 support)

We scooped 300 mil in loot paying for most of our losses and headed home happy.

3 nights in a row of insanely fun small gang fights against the same enemy? Could it be? Only in Curse...

Brushie fly's 4 man gang concepts at the moment.

In small gangs of about 12 or under we do brawler shield BC's and Nano HACS. For gangs of 15-25 we do Tier3 damage projection battlecruisers and for the first time ever last night, dual prop-AHACS.

We had eyes on a small battleship fleet bubbling a station in Wicked Creek. Having never tried to form our newest fleet concept, I figured why the hell not? 25 minutes of wrestling with fittings and getting people in the correct ships I knew why not =(. We ended up forming a much stronger gang than I originally anticipated with 11 DPS and two guardians + support. The burn to Wicked Creek was quiet... too quiet.

Just as we landed on the destination gate, a Cascade scout jumped into us. Our fleet was a bit spread but I made the call to jump in and warp to the enemy fleet before they could get an accurate count on us. We landed on 5 Tempests, Megathron, Hurricane, Drake, Onyx, and a lot of tackle. As we landed they put a cyno up for the third day in a row and brought in a single triage Niddy.

A heated brawl started and we quickly downed their support and put a hurricane into deep structure before he caught triage reps. Through some quick target changing we managed to kill their Shield Megathron and finally finish off the hurricane. Unfortunately, we had two logi pilots, one of whom had never flown logi before and was now in a difficult to follow brawl. Our second logi pilot had the misfortune of DCing mid fight. By the time he got back in and the cap chain was re-established we had been without reps for over 50% of the fight. We lost 3 Deimos's and weren't able to put enough DPS pressure to work on the Niddy's cap. Their Onyx decided to bubble up so we cut him down to tie the isk war and extract.

The battle report on eve kill is too polluted to be useful. Overall it was a great brawl that lasted over 15 minutes. We learned a lot and next time will probably have to bring 3 guardians even if it does scare off some fights. I am expecting to see some capital kills on our board quite soon.

Anyone living in Curse and reading this, be sure to check out the contract Market in D87. We have stocked it with over 6 billion isk in ships in the last two days and they are selling faster than we can bring them in.