Wormholes

The bugzappers you set up got a few T3s on log-in.

@Nathan Jameson - lil something i was giving from the fraps teh spy team: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFiV7yNy3jg

This story is a bit long to get to the fail portions, sorry:
My corpmate and I are hitting a C2 (HS and C1 static) WH that has 2 groups living inside, CCPEE and FAP. We blow up a couple of CCPEE PI haulers while a 3rd party tries to blow us up but fails. CCPEE themselves goes into huddle in the bubble mode and FAP is completely silent.

So we reinforce a POCO owned by CCPEE. About 15 minutes before the POCO comes out of reinforced we blow up a FAP ratter. We then proceed to shoot the POCO with our 2 Ravens while CCPEE's 6 pilots huddle inside the bubble. An unaffliated group drops a proteus, 2 lokis, and an onyx on us. We blow up the proteus and the rest run.

CCPEE starts up a conversation and we chat with them for a bit, explaining that we're going to remove them from the wormhole unless they want to give us their customs. They ask why and we say we were hired to do this but at no point do we name drop anyone. They ask for some time to decide and we give them 3 days. During the 3 days they call on a bunch of friends to help them and by error think that FAP hired us. So they go and neuter FAPs POS and contact us saying we have to pay them 200 million ISK or else they'll finish off our employers. We laugh about it for a bit and blow up a FAP hauler as they evac from the system.

We call on a few more people to reinforce all of the POCOs in system (16 of so combat ships) and do so without issue. CCPEE again contacts us and attempts to stall for time and makes some comments that lead us to believe that they've hired help again. On the day the POCOs come out of reinforced we gain hole control early; keep it rotated and critted; and start to pop the first POCO. Then some bad luck/decisions hit us as a C2 WH forms to an alliance that has almost equal numbers to us + logi (we have none) and the HS is rotated within 2 jumps of where CCPEE's reinforcements are staging. The reinforcements are 3x-4x times our size with as many logi as we have ships. Both groups seem to have our fleet in their sights.

We could feasibly close off either fleet but that would leave the other one to pounce on us while the other group works to get back inside. Or, we could manipulate things a little to our advantage. First thing is we reduced the mass of the HS to limit the larger force to roughly even numbers and remove all our non-cloaky ships from the WH. The C2 group begins to bait shooting at the POCO. The HS group doesn't have the level of intel on the C2 group we have and with the HS reduced can only bring in part of their fleet. They do so and engage the bait. The C2 group brings all of their fleet inside and beats back the HS group. HS group limps home and C2 group closes their connection leaving just us and CCPEE.

We rotate the HS again and finish off another POCO. Within 48 hours CCPEE evacs the WH and we have the system to ourselves. Within the day it is settled.

tl;dr - We hit 2 groups living in the same WH and one of them mistakenly thinks the other group is our ally. They call in reinforcements and destroy their neighbor. We keep hitting them and when they call in the blob again to aid them it is crushed by a random connection. Groups lose WH without a single shot being taken at a POS from our end.

^ LMAO

Ohh god... i mean.. i can't... umm ahh....WOW

Pretenders c6 was incoming to our c5 when I got home from work this morning. Logged in and offered to roll it before I was off to bed. Long story short we put 3 BS through the wh. Their chimera beat our chimera to the wh and came through. Left with the choice of swapping carriers or getting away I chose run away. They pointed the chimera and their fleet trickled though the wh (see attached mail). In short order our scout in their c6 reported 'moros on d-scan'. They brought it right in behind their fleet and shut the door. They ended up popping our chimera and a moros as our pilots were logging in. We eventually trickled in 2 more rev and forced their caps out of siege/triage and they warped to a safe. Once out of siege we got back to pos and eventually rolled an additional incoming c5 closed trapping thier caps in our system (we have a c3 static).

To the pretenders - sorry that was kind of a d*** move, but we had strong desires for corp internal reasons to lock you in and buy your chimmy and moros to replace the ones you just took from us. It put you out, so sorry and thanx for going with the purchase plan.

We bought they stuff and they departed with a pretty good haul overall I would think. I can't say enough good stuff about this. (I'll give you the high level handy stuff). Props for:

Super quick response
Going all in
Upholding some of the unwritten good stuff we do in wh

When buying the caps off them it was just 2 FCs trusting the other to keep their word. Cap purchases on the fly when 'stuck' in a wh take a large measure of trust. I'll say from here forward I know I can take Pretenders at their word and we appreciate both the good fight and how it went afterward.

TL/DR Pretenders are made of ooey gooey wh goodness - would donate cap losses again!
Donation: http://hid.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=16615978

Lost

Ouch looks like they messed up big time.

They've changed that now. Ejecting automatically cancels the self-destruct. Self-destruct parties continue to be a pain.

Interesting. A few months ago, I was unable to SD and eject some ships that were floating at one of our staging POS's.

I double-checked it with an Ibis just now, and you can eject and let the ship blow up on its own.

Unless this is a recent change (and I'm guessing some form of human error in my personal experience), then it sounds like the Trout was doubly-screwed over.

Well there was that one time back in our old hole when Exhale ran their buzzard into our pos shields and died to the defenses. It's months later, and we're still not quite sure what happened there.