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Monday 6th February 2017

I normally log in and take care of some admin, today wasn’t any different. I wanted to get some logi ships out of a citadel they were not being used in and back to our staging system. I’d jumped into one the other week and didn’t notice until we were rolling it was the wrong fit, I just hoped I didn’t get shot!

I started to move the packaged stuff, wondering what I was going to do with the fitted ships. Did 3 trips, 180k m3 moved. Was just about to jump into a carrier, plan was to tether at the citadel and with another character undock in the fitted stuff and store in the ship hanger. To be honest I didn’t know if it would work tethered but, as a couple of the other guys logged in I must have sounded convincing enough as we’d cyno’d in three caps and swiftly moved 3mil m3 of ships. I wanted to replace the ships I’d drunkenly lost on Friday night but the only one I enjoyed flying was the rail Navy Brutix, found I already had a hull, so job done.

Right; time to shoot some stuff.

Baltrom is on, Muninn fleet is scheduled but he throws up a strawpoll for the comp, we vote to go for Ferox’s, I think in the hope that we’ll get a brawl – and we do, with four fleets!

We roam around for a little while, but since Waffles have moved back into the area, we just head to Kinakka and present ourselves at their Keepstar. We’re about 20 Ferox with Osprey and recon support, a few frigs for tackle. Waffles form quickly and we head to a medium plex. Their first scout warps in and we quickly despatch him, a minute or so later another lands, quickly followed by their fleet of Guards and Aug Navies – they land at the perfect range, we quickly kill three guards and know we’ve already edged it, so do Waffles and they warp out. We ask for a rematch but they’ve got some other stuff on, so we say our goodbyes and head on to Reitsato.

Both Snuff and Galmil are forming for us, we hang around seeing what turns up. Snuff get there first, jumping into Reit from Rakapas, we’ve already warped to optimal and are ready. They’ve brought Guards and Navy Harbs. A Guard is the first to de-cloak and is immediately primary, we’ve got him in deep armour before someone says ‘isn’t that their FC?’ Oh ****! FC calls us to pull damage and the Guard gets out in a quarter structure. It was unintentional, but it may have been enough to tip the balance (although there were other known FC on field) We kill an out of comp ‘Cane then go to work on the Navy Harbs. We down four plus a standard Harb before they warp out. GFs are posted in local and we warp to a Freeport Astrahus to rep heat damage.

Galmil are on the way, Guards and Navy Augs, we warp back to our spot. They de-cloak and we quickly pop a Naug and a Guard, they’re already warping out when we kill a tackled Ashimmu. Didn’t have time to exchange pleasantries as Snuff are back, this time in Absolutions…our T1 BCs don’t stand a chance on paper, but we stick around and engage. We’re on the cusp of breaking them when we start to lose ships, one of our logi has de-anchored and wandered off with MWD on and quickly isolates himself – that’s the fight, we know it and start trying to extract as we’re no longer able to rep the incoming damage, the loss of a couple of our DPS ships means we’re not breaking them. That’s how tight things are sometimes. Lose 3 Ferox and a Lach plus 2 out of comp ships who iirc I asked to die quietly. Our tackle is dead so we head home, but it’s been a fun fleet and we're in good spirits.

I hang around on comms to chew the fat for a while and take care of some scouting– finish the night on 16 kills for 0 losses.

Yo ez, hope you're well.

Wednesday 9th February 2017

Bit of a strange one today; we formed up to defend a local frienemys Fortizar. Project Mayhem had reinforced it the previous night having recently moved back into the area and were flexing their muscles.

We had a plan, i took it upon myself to get our capitals set up and ready to go, everything was looking great. The fight kicked off and we were doing well against their sub cap fleet, they escalated and we had a counter to that ready...but we goofed it up and lost the prize. Won the fight, saved the Fortizar but we need to take a few things away from that to think about.

On the plus side I got 17 bil in kills without a loss on either of the characters I fielded and an alliance mate got a video up with some clips of the fight, you can see that here

Finished the night 13 kills for 0 loss

Thursday 16th March

A little while since I last updated this thread, big news is, we've moved!

Decided to have a change of scenery and the whole alliance has moved to the Amarr/Minmatar WZ , which many of us regard as home. Took a little time to get set up but we've said hello to the locals a couple of times already:

First fight:

BR here

Second fight (doesn't show 6 additional Basi):

BR here

I'm having a blast as I learn the area again, still can't pronounce most of the system names tho!

Tuesday 21st March

I log in with an plan to update my kitey Brutix Navy fit, it’s great fun to fly but cap issues have seen a couple of targets slip out of my grasp. I reduce the tank, up the overall speed and add a cap booster. My tracking isn’t quite as good, previously any frig getting into web range was toast but I figure I can make up the difference with a bit more effort on the piloting front. Plus drop boosters are pretty dank anyway!

I grab the mods and refit, undock and have a look around. An alliance guy is failing to kill a Tristan on a gate so I warp over just in time to see his Thorax pop (good job little dude), at the same time a Phantasm de-cloaks, pauses for a moment as if he’s thinking about engaging but instead warps to a station. I put my eyes on him and concentrate on dodging the 30 man Cynabal gang that’s chasing me, my link had just activated so I’m on a cooldown timer but I take them to a station to see what’s up. They land before me, 30 seconds left before I can dock up but it takes them an age to even start locking me and by then I’ve burnt to the far side of the station with them all completely static. They red box, only damage and long points land. 10 seconds left and I turn into them, locking their tackle burning straight for a ‘cepter, they haven’t even got me into half shield. Their two Huggins, Rapier and Ashimmu all land webs aaand I dock up and make a cup of tea, its 25 Cynabals ffs.

I get back, the Phantasm has moved off station to a medium plex. I yolo in with the BNI to 0, he’s about 20km off me and burning away, can’t get a web on so I don’t show him my speed but can see he’s 10mn AB fit. A couple of alliance mates see us on d-scan and warp over, he returns back to hugging the station. I park myself in a nearby large at 0 and watch him, takes him a few minutes to decide to go for it but as soon as he does I’m burning, MWD on, in the direction he’s warping from. As he appears on grid and starts decelerating it looks like he’s warped to 50km and I’m closing that gap rapidly, I’m 10km off by the time he breaks vun..perfect. He tries a defensive scram on me but my heated web keeps him in check and lets me reactivate my MWD to keep on top of him, his sig size allowing for the majority of my 700dps to hit, hard.

It’s a quick fight, like brawling frig 1v1 quick, but was quite satisfying and the loot fairy was kind enough to gift me 200mil nice mods.

He asked for my fit, checked his KB to see he fitted one up and lost it shortly after. Nice try dude.

Spent the rest of the evening in fleets, had a decent scrap against SC, we killed most of their Vexor fleet but they killed two of our logi making the isk war pretty even.

Ended the evening 27 kills, 0 losses putting me top of the alliance KB for the month so far, let’s see if I can stay there for the next week or so.

Monday 27th March

Baltrom forms a fleet for a bit of a roam we opt to take our Ferox comp, we’ve 11 with 4 Ospreys and a Latch/Huginn for tackle and I’m dragging links along on an alt.

We head out towards Huola and as scouts get into system they start reporting a 30 man gate camp on the high sec gate. Our cloaky tackle jumps in with a goal of grabbing something expensive, he de-cloaks and tackles a Loki, we jump in and hit warp but our tackle is neuted and ECM’d to hell by the time we land on grid. The camp is bailing and we only manage to snare an Osprey. We hang around for a few minutes to see if the locals can form something to fight us, but despite their numbers and local smack talk they don’t seem willing/able to do much….when a Project Mayhem Devoter appears on grid, then two more.

HIC points start to land, one on me – before the script changes it marked death, in this instance I was right on the edge of range and although my MWD had been switched off I continued to coast out of range to only pick up tackle from the disruption script on the second hic point. As I reengage my prop mod and anchor back up, PM Dominix start to land, no logi, must be RR.

We’re away and pulling range, their tackle comprises of the 3 HICs, 2 Orthrus and a few Interceptors. The two Orthrus both burn in to grab points but our tackle outranges theirs and both are downed easily. A D-N-G Oracle comes to whore but lands in range of us and is deleted.

We have a go at the HICs, the first gets reps early but we quickly switch to a second who we get into ~ 5% structure before it catches reps. We test the T1 resists of the Domis but the story is the same, we cannot break them but similarly they cannot hold us down to apply DPS.

A cyno goes up; it’s Shadow Cartel in about 20 Machs with T3Cs and a couple of triage for support. They’re not here for us so we agree to temp blue and go back in to clear the field with them. The PM battleships start dropping and we start clearing all the small stuff that D-N-G and The Lazy Crabs are warping in to whore.

A Proteus lands on us, second cyno; it’s DHSJ in Rattlesnakes and they’re going for us. 10 BS with 5 Ospreys and 2 Broadswords. We again pull range, waiting to see if someone isolates themselves from the Logi but it doesn’t happen and both groups just look at each other for a minute or so, SC are blue to DHSJ so they’re not going to intervene and sit on the gate where everything kicked off. We’re moving around the grid, DHSJ get a lucky warp close to us and we lose a couple of Ferox, the 1st losses so far, but as they do PM are back, this time with Snuff…and there’s a lot.

The PM/Snuff ~60 man T3C fleet is on the SC Machs, DHSJ bounce to aid their allies leaving a Broadsword for us to recoup our KB efficiency against. By the time we’re done, DHSJ have lost 3 Rattlesnakes and are bailing. We reposition to the fringe of the fight at our maximum range and start to test the T3C fleet while SC brings in a few more Triage. We’re not breaking them so we clear the small tackle that’s close to us and extract with the aim of reshipping into something a bit more substantial, but as we make it back to our home system scouts report Lost Obsession dreads are on grid and killing the SC Triage who do well to get most of their subcaps out from what now totals 100 hostiles.

We were on grid and fighting for 40 minutes in total and despite a couple of losses I think we did really well, for the most part being outnumbered/out shipped and all but one of the other four groups trying to shoot us.
In total we get 18 kills worth 3 bil for 4 losses worth 300mil

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