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The Harpy

Often times I will pick a guy in A4D at random and ask “What class do you want to take?” If they say “I don’t know”, I say shield Assault Frigates it is. That basically means you are stuck with a Harpy, Hawk, or Jaguar. There isn’t much else you can shield fit the way we like to fit things. Of course you can bring a Dramiel, or Faction Frigate, but on average, the Harpy does its job as good as anything.

Normally we ask everyone if they want to go; we get a mixture of Long Points, Short Points, Webs and tracking disruptors. It allows us to tackle, close or long, it allows us to halt gate crashers in their tracks, and gives us the ability to limit the DPS of larger ships. The Harpy fleets are incredibly versatile. Last night was different however, I asked Pleniers to go out, and he said sure..but I only have 30 minutes.

The plan was simple, go out for 20 minutes, and hurry up and get back home in the final ten. He was in a Moa, I was flying a Scythe. I could keep him alive fairly easily with a Scythe on any 1 ship….although two would be problematic as I may have to scramble around for a while. Fortunately however, all that wouldn’t matter because the second we left channel, 10 more joined us. It was a full on Frigate roam.

We set waypoint to 1-l something or other as we heard that one of the Blob alliances was vacating the area. As with most of our guys, they are dyslexic, if we say Frigate, we end up with at least two Cruisers and at least two Destroyers. We tend not to be good listeners, but all and all it worked out. As Pleniers jumped into the destination system, he said two Cynos up. His scanner said that it was a Recon doing the lighting.

So he warped to station to verify that the Cyno had in fact been lit by a Recon….because I don’t care if there was 150 in system…we were going to kill it. As he warped in, the Cyno went down, and they had undocked a Vagabond, then another Vagabond, a Cynabal and a Hurricane. He said “guys, I think they have too much”. I said ‘Nope, we can take it”. What did I know? , I was in a freaking Logistics ship.

They jumped in a Vagabond 1 and he held cloak and called for help, Vagabond #1 crashed gate (and never came back). Not knowing Vaga #1 was a wussy, Vagabond #2 jumped in and got caught; BOOM. Vagabond #3 jumps in get scrambled as does a Hurricane. We held down Vagabond #2 while we put all damage on the Hurricane, POP and POP. 2 Hacs and a Battle Cruiser for a 30 minute roam? WINNING.

*snip*Posting of kill reports outside of the Crime & Punishment forum channel is prohibited. ISD Ezwal

Vagabond #1 never came back and the Cynabal never jumped in to help his friends, had they done so, it would have been a very rough fight for us; we were just in frigates and only had one Logi ship. Once we looted up and were on the outbound gate, local started filling up with Cynabals, We decided to drop a few bubbles to cover our tracks, and get out of dodge. These alliances aren’t beyond sending 20 Cynabals to kill a small Harpy fleet.

I don't understand why they were so mad, it’s not like we destroyed a bunch of Hac’s or made them look stupid(er). So we decided to take their stuff and head back home. Op Success! On the way back home, we avoided a fairly massive Legio gang (6 Osprey’s, WOW), and caught a two boxing Helios and Rapier. Guess whose alt Dignitas is? I will give you three guesses.

*snip*Posting of kill reports outside of the Crime & Punishment forum channel is prohibited. ISD Ezwal

Best 30 minute roam Evah!

Awesome video Plen! Can I link you on my blog? You're teaching stuff, and you know I love teachers.

Op Success

We typically say op success after our first kill when roaming. Last night we got lucky when we managed to kill a Jaguar on a regional gate 1 jump from our home system. Usually they simply run back to the gate, but this time he uncloaked 3k from one of our Dramiels and was promptly warp scrambled…. Op Success.


So we traveled to Nulli space to see what was about and it was nothing but ratting and warping to pos’s. CCP really has to make it easier for the hunter; the hunted has it too easy. WAY too easy. Never the less, while our scout was trying to pull something off their station, a Prorator jumped into us and was dispatched…Op Success.


It was a short duration roam so we decided to set waypoint home, that is where we ran into an 8 man, Talwar fleet in XVV-21, they aggressed our scout and so, we killed them; or at least a very good portion of them. They said in local, “Wait here, we will be right back”, which means typically. “We need more people, we need better ships”. If they want to kill us they can find us, Ciao. Op Success.


On the way back, our scout rope a doped a Curse. Basically ran back to the gate three times, gave the illusion that he was alone, then held cloak while the rest of us were in warp to the gate. We use that tactic a lot and it obviously works, we managed to hold point on the Curse and kill him. As we were looting, a vagabond landed in our Interdictor bubble and we killed him as well. Op Success.


5 jumps from home we make it to Litom, and notice two schmucks in a Talos, and 1 in a Tempest. After a futile attempt to get any of them aggressed, we finally have to try and get the Tempest aggressed on the station. Unfortunately the tackle Harpy couldn’t last the 22 AU warp and we lost one. Op Failure. : )


The ironic thing is that the majority of us went to bed, and the remaining A4D members that were online had infinitely better luck hanging around home, where they killed even more than we did on our roam. A LOT MORE Sigh.

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Example of everyday fights roaming around, NOT epic matches, but honestly, it's the kinda the stuff EVE is daily built upon for the solo/small gang PVP'er.

2 Engagements using Stealth Bomber as main tackler.

1 - Stealth Bomber and Fleet vs Gatecamp
2 - Stealth Bomber and Harpy vs 3 Sniping Assault BCs

http://curses-im-in-my-pod.blogspot.pt/2013/03/curses-episode-3.html


PS: Bren only saw your post now... Sure not a problem, if you think it might be useful.

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A4D recruiting:
• Small Gang warfare. Fleets go from 1 to 10;
• No Sov Warfare. No Structure Bashing. No CTAs;
• NPC Curse Space
• Busy pipe on home system for occasional gate camp;
• Large alliances nearby for hunting grounds
• You undock and you go kill
• If there is no fleet up, you make one and go kill
• Always outnumbred and prolly outgunned. Need to fight smart!

Join in-game channel "A4D Bar" and ask for a recruiter!

We just couldn’t leave

After speaking with Pleniers we weren’t overly optimistic about finding targets, he had just gotten back from a 70 jump roam (Immensea and Scalding Pass) and barely saw anything. Since we knew we may have to cover ground we decided to stay small and fast. We considered the old standby (Stabber Fleet Issues) but two of the four pilots didn’t have one ready. (grrrrrr)

We were forming up outside the station when we got intel on that a gang that had passed by earlier was returning back through the system. They had passed by earlier but we had only two active pilots around, the rest were out on the roam mentioned above. The enemy fleet consisted of 2 Hurricanes, 2 Naga, 2 Tornados, 2 Dare devils, 2 Scythes, Dramiel, Hawk, Malediction, Vengeance, Wolf, Ishkur, Wolf, and some other random crap.

We formed up couple Oracles, 4-5 Vexors and a couple Augorors. They had us on numbers and DPS but we had them on Logi, With the Armor Mindlnk bonuses we absolutely had the advantage. The fight lasted a good 15-20 minutes; they were much faster than us and were attempting to kite us, but we weren’t having any of it. When the dust settled we killed 2 Daredevils, Dram, Malediction, Hawk, Atron, Ishkur, Rifter and Vengeance. Not bad I guess would have been nice to catch their big ships.

We cleared the field of loot and reshipped back into our frigate fleet. As we undocked, we got more intel that a Red Alliance fleet was coming from 8G, they had a Vagabond x3, Curse, Rapier, Zealot, Cynabal, and some small tackle. We didn’t want to show our hand, so we sent only the Vexors to the gate, and left the Augorors off grid. More than once they tried to get us to jump into them but since we had armor and skirmish links running…that wasn’t happening. We gave them two options, leave or die; their choice.

Three times their scout jumped in; three times he crashed the gate. Confident that we had no back up, they decided to jump in and kill our 5 Vexors. They held cloak, and chose Boom EZ as their Primary target. Unfortunately we lost Boom EZ as our logi arrived a few seconds late, but the fight was on. We first took down their Curse then their Cynabal, Rapier, Vagabond and Zealot. We lost a Bomber (why it was there I will never know), and then took down their Sabre.

To be honest we steam rolled them, neither fight was fair. Do I care? No, they came here looking for a fight. It wasn’t what they expected, but they knew they were walking into the hornets nest.

Keeping it on the cheap

One of our go to fleets is the Scythe / Assault Frigate fleet. Typically it is strong enough to handle a few battle cruisers but cheap enough you can experiment with pilot responsibilities; Logi, FC’s, and scouts. These fleets are nimble enough to cover a lot of ground in a short period of time but typically have enough DPS to take out most single ships.

Another advantage of this fleet is ship fitting flexibility. A Harpy for instance can fit a Tracking Disruptor or Long Point or Short Point or Stasis Webifier. The Scythe can fit a Tracking Disruptor and be cap stable in the process; if you bring a Flycatcher you can run cap stable with 2 tracking disruptors. All and all it gives you a very capable fleet for little isk.

Friday’s are typically so dead in the South; we could go 50 jumps and see two ships. This Friday we traveled to Feyth/Omist to see what we could find. We narrowly missed out on two Nidhoggurs that were ratting in Anomalies. We moved up a few jumps and our scout jumped into a Tengu sitting on the gate at 0 meters (in a large bubble). We aggressed thinking he would jump. He didn’t.

Our two Harpies were barely scratching the Tengu. But we kept at it thinking he would eventually have to jump. The Tengu started moving off the gate; we jumped in and laid on as much DPS as we could muster. AAAAAAAAAnd, they warp in two carriers, 1 Thanatos, 1 Chimera. We put as much pain as we could but we just couldn’t out DPS the carrier reps.

We should have brought Cruisers. : (

So people ask me Sygma why?

Why don’t you blog every day? The truth of the matter is that I only like to blog on days that I actively PVP. Some days I am busy with Martial Arts and don’t have time to play, some days I spend time with the wife, some days I am doing the boring crap that makes the corp. operate smoothly. In other words; I have a life (and a damn good one).

The good thing is that just because Sygma is not active doesn’t mean A4D won’t take out gangs. In fact just because I can and do sometimes fleet command, there are no less than 6 guys who are better at it than I am. This means that some of the best A4D roams are those that Sygma is not a part of. Last night A4D had such a roam. I call them “Refreshing Roams”. Basically everyone was 40 jumps away and I was refreshing the killboard every 30 seconds to see what our roaming fleet had killed next.

One of the things we are good at as a corp. is taking out small skirmish fleets, we take out gangs of 6-10 Frigs/Cruisers and cover a lot of ground, we check anomalies, we check belts, we bait, we fight, we try to escalate, we awox, we do whatever we can to get a kill. But Sygma, the ne’er-do-wells on the forums say all you do is gate camp? Then why do we get kills in other regions? In the past two nights we got kills from Fountain, Detroid, Wicked Creek and Scalding Pass. Just because K-QWHE is a cornucopia of carnage we truly do like roaming.

But Sygma I hear you guys never fight? Really? I remember taking on two Why so Big gangs that were twice our size not too long back(and winning), I remember taking on a much larger Red Alliance Stabber Fleet Issue fleet(and Losing), I remember taking on lots of different fleets, some we won, some we lost, but we do fight. Our Kill board proves we get tons of kills; probably more than everyone else in Curse region.

Heck it is March 21st and we have 1500 kills already. Results are more important than talk.

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