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Thursday 31st July 2014

I start the night in a large plex in Huola, system is stable, but I was attracted by some neutrals who then baled and I was hanging on hoping they would return. A neutral does arrive at range, but it's a Garmur. Before I can get out, he has tackle on me at over 50Kms. I call for help and a friendly Slicer arrives. Neither of us can get close to the Garmur but he can't kill either of us. We can't both shake off his tackle and get out at the same time, repeatedly one of us gets out only to hear the other is now tackled so we return, rinse and repeat. Eventually we get out, but I'm a little irritated by the process. I fit up a Firetail, specifically to take on the Garmur and warp back. However, as I land I notice that the pilot isn't in system anymore. So I decide just to orbit the button in the hope that he will come back.

I'm not paying attention as I was looking at the corp interface processing a couple of new applications, when I hear the locking alarm go off. I shut down the corp window expecting to see the Garmur at range, but instead I find I'm hard tackled by a Tristan at 3000m. This is not good, scrammed and webbed and then an Ishkur joins the Tristan. The same pair that I'd initially come into the plex to engage. I manage to burn down the Tristan, but then die to the Ishkur.

So now I'm irritated and decide I can be a f*ggot too. Pod back to station and jump in my own Garmur, first time I've taken it into combat. I land at range and tackle the Ishkur, but a second Ishkur arrives and an Algos. I switch fire to the Algos and kill it, all the time keeping tackle on the first Ishkur. SERFIOS in a Vexor responds to my calls for help, but then an incursus joins our enemies, we burn that down first then switch to the Ishkur. But it tanks like a boss and they kill SERFIOS. I stay orbiting the two of them keeping tackle on and calling in corp for help. Although there are at least 15 people in corp chat, nobody seems to be there. But at least I managed to be a real good f*ggot. Eventually, people do respond and 2 or 3 friendlies warp in and we finally kill both Ishkurs. Really they should have just accepted the loss and abandoned the one that was tackled, but we've all been in that situation. The tanky Ishkur was dual rep and had a blingy small repper in addition to an Ancillary one, but it didn't drop.

Lory was running an advertised op that night. He'd come up with a new comp involving Fleet Scythes, which are dirt cheap at the moment even if you haven't got 8.6M LP like me (I don't know what to do with it). However, he was late on and Dev took over for a bit. We roamed around, repeatedly to Uusanen where Biohazard were trying to bash a friendly POS that had just come out of reinforced mode. We ganked down the CEO of Biohazard in a Navy Vexor, but the rest ran.

Lory came on and took over. I got the role of forward scout. We roamed into Kurniainen where I over baited a fight with a Caracal and two Succubus and nearly lost my Fleet Scythe. Thankfully, the Caracal was rapid LM fit and went into the reload cycle just as I was about to go into armor. I survived long enough for reps to arrive and we killed the Caracal and one Succubus. We moved on and I went ahead into Aset and found a Shadow Cartel Tengu on the Flosewin gate. A friendly Stiletto was with me, he jumped to Flosewin and confirmed it was clear. I tackled and called for one repper to join me, then a second repper, then the whole fleet. Why the guy didn't jump and try to get away before the fleet arrived is beyond me, he must have seen local spike. The fleet landed and 5 of us aggressed. Finally he jumped, the rest of the fleet jumped and caught him on the other side. He burned back and jumped again. Once again we caught him and this time he tried to burn out. We ganked him down and got a 3.5B Kill. More than 2B dropped too. This obviously was scooped and our roam turned into a mission just to get this loot to safety.

Scouts reported an incoming Shadow Cartel gang. They were in grab bag bling. Machariels, Legions, Proteus, Navy BS etc. Obviously coming for our blood. We ran like girls all the way back to Huola and logged.

Ended the night 19 kills for 1 loss. Ended the month 1139 kills for 89 losses. This was almost double my previous best month during the Arzad Campaign in May 2013 where I killed 576 for 68. Interestingly though. The Arzad month remains significantly better in terms of Isk values. Arzad saw me getting on kills worth 41B compared to 2.07B in losses. The Burn Huola month saw me get on kills worth 33B (10% of that was the SC Tengu) for 2.08B in losses . I think this was due to a higher proportion of the Burn Huola fights taking place in Small and Novice plexes and the general flood with cheap T1 reships policy of the Amarr.

Wednesday 6th August 2014.

Started the night Deplexing Kourm, it was at about 6% contested, so no pressure, we were just decontesting waiting for pew to happen. I opened a fleet and initially only 2 or 3 joined, but an hour later we were around 15 strong. We were mostly in frigates, myself in a Breacher. Pew did indeed happen, a constant stream of small gang and individuals both neutrals and WTs. A couple of larger roaming gangs came through. PL were about in AFs for a change, but as usual they were only interested in baiting for a gank, not actually fighting. The moment you engaged, local spiked by 20, I think we lost a Tristan.

Some significant challenging fights happened, made challenging because in the main we stayed in frigates and engaged larger stuff. We engaged a 10 man WT gang on the Kourm gate in Kamela which they escalated to BCs and saw us take down some blingy stuff before we had to bale. In various engagements we took down 2 Sabres, a Heretic, several Faction Cruisers, a Vagabond and a Cyclone as well as some cheaper stuff.

Towards the end of the night we got two nice skirmishes, first against a WT gang of 3 Caracals and a Jaguar in a medium plex, which saw us destroy them all for the loss of 3 T1 Frigates and a Firetail. Then as we returned to Huola a CVA Prophecy was engaged on the Kourm gate. As soon as we took the fight, 3 more landed and they were spider tanking. We had a couple of cruisers on field, I told them to get off while the T1 frigate held tackle and a proper response was organized. I never actually gave any orders as to what to bring, but the boys just reacted automatically, it was a joy to see. Someone reshipped into a Falcon, another into a neuting Armaggedon. Boosts were moved from Kourm into Huola and once they were up, I ordered people to return in their dps and specialised stuff. In total we lost 4 T1 Frigates, a Firetail and a Talwar, but all four Prophecies went down and of course we scooped all the loot.

The night was over and I dropped fleet, did a bit of admin and was about to log when I noticed a WT in local. I was sat in station in a Comet and just undocked and scanned the plexes. As I was doing this the WT undocked in an Omen.

I typed in what I thought was corp chat for help, but I typed in our Public channel instead and nobody responded. However, I murdered him, he couldn't hit me and never even launched his T1 drones. So I got a satisfying Omen solo kill in a frigate.

Curious thing was he was 3 years 5 month old and had joined the Amarr Militia when he was 1 month old. I think he must have quit Eve and just resubbed that night to find himself docked in a hostile station. Lol.

Ended the night 24 kills for 1 loss (Breacher).

Tuesday 12th August 2014

Logged on to find Kourmonen being plexed by an Amarr gang, about 10-12 strong. However, it was unclear whether they were all together and there was at least one neutral Vigilant working with them too. There were a dozen or more other neutrals in local including 2 or 3 Shadow Cartel people.

I formed a fleet and 3 or 4 people joined. While a couple were keen to engage the Kourm lot, I didn't think it was feasible especially as the only plexes up at the time were a Medium and 2 Larges which the Vigilant could get into. There were too many neutral gangs around to risk excessive bling of our own. Intel reports were just too muddy to be able to make a plan. I must have sounded like a real p*ssy to my fleetmates refusing to take the fight. I offered them the option of taking FC but nobody would.

I moved to Roushzar instead and started running a plex in my Breacher. A Worm came in and I baled. I called for help and came back to the plex gate, but the Worm had left. More people had joined fleet, I decided to return to Kourm but as I landed on the Huola gate I found myself jumping with the Worm. The Worm warped to a Novice in Huola and several of us caught him and ganked him down. 473M kill, but only 18M dropped.

I warped down to the Kourm gate just as a report came in that the Vigilant was all alone in one of the Large plexes. I jumped and warped to the nearest Large and landed 50 off a group of about 8 WTs in Frigs and Dessie. However, at the same time a Smile and Wave Cyclone warped in followed by a friendly Slicer. The Amarr baled. I warped to the other large and landed 20Km from the Vigilant and got tackle on, just as a friendly Vagabond landed and called scram. Other friendlies arrived including the Cyclone and we ganked the Vigilant down. 613M kill, 82M dropped.

Some of the Amarr had left system. We spread around the plexes which included a new small that had spawned. There was some skirmishing and we killed a couple of Corax and an SC Tristan.

Dev was running an advertised Vexor Navy Issue roam that night kicking off at 1900 Eve time. At the appointed time he announced on comms that he was forming a fresh fleet and if people wanted to join, move to another TS Channel.

All but 4 of the original fleet left. I was keen to get Kourm under control now that we had free run at the plexes and was in a Novice by then with just 4 minutes left on the clock. The novice closed and we balled up in the medium as neutrals pushed up out of both larges and a WT gang of 4 Cormorants returned. The Cormorants landed outside. I told the guys we would take the fight, even though we were in frigates, on the assumption that they would be glass cannon long range fits.

A neutral gang of 6-8 Algos' landed on the plex gate, pushed in the Cormorants and then followed. I didn't see the Algos' until they got inside and had committed to the fight. We lost 3 Frigates, while at least 2 Cormorants went down.

I podded back to Huola and found Dev's Vexor NI gang in the process of murdering another neutral gang on the Huola gate in Kourm. This time I reshipped into a Vexor NI and joined his fleet. By then the fight was over and the fleet had moved to Auga gate in Kourm and started camping it.

We caught several ships which included a Slicer, Dramiel, Primae, Enyo and command link fitted Claymore (and pod). Then a report came in that a PL Marauder was being ganked by a neutral cruiser gang in Amamake. We chased over intended to help finish the Marauder and then turn on the neutrals. But the Marauder was down before we arrived and the neutrals docked up.

We returned to our gate camp, but then reports came in from a scout we had left behind regarding the neutrals. They were undocking and going to Gulmorogod. We chased after them again and ended up following all the way to Akkio, 6 jumps from Amamake. Eventually we landed on the Akkio gate in Todifrauan, knowing they were set up on the otherside.

However, the chase had taken it's toll, we had struggled to keep up always several jumps behind them. They had already refused to take the fight with us once and at one point our scout had lost them. A couple of people in fleet decided to take that moment to drop fleet and return home.

We were left with 21 in fleet. 3 Augoror logi, an Ashimmu, a Pilgrim and a mixed bag of DPS which included 6 Vexor NIs and two Intercepters. We had started with 4 logi, but one had recently baled from fleet. We had also recently lost the guy who was going to target call. Dev prefers someone else to target call as he concentrates on other aspects. So at the last second he asked me to target call.

The enemy were at least 23 Strong with 4 Augorors, an Exequror, a Celestis, 2 Rapiers, an Arazu and another mixed bag of Cruiser DPS, some of which was blingy. But only one fast tackle in the form of a Harpy.

We jumped and held cloak, their logi was at range. I called primary on one of the Rapiers and the other as secondary. Just as the first one went down we lost our first Augoror. They dropped two Carriers, a Thanatos and an Archon. We killed the second Rapier as our second Augoror went down, then called bale, just as tackle landed on me. I recalled my drones and then helpfully was ECM'd out which saved me a few seconds as I hadn't switched down my guns (2 small Autocannons). I burned in for the gate, about 10 Kms I had to go. Someone bumped me, but I still made it with 20 seconds of aggression left. The DPS switched to me but it wasn't as melting as I expected. My shields took 4 or 5 seconds to be removed, then my armor damage climbed only very slowly. At half armor I jumped and docked up in Todifrauan.

We checked the killmails. We had lost 2 Vexor NIs, an SFI and 2 Augorors, total value according to the Killboard, 390M. We had killed 2 Rapiers totalling 430M, but wait there was more. One of our intercepters had podded the first Rapier pilot. 1.15B Pod. Total kills 1.57B.

Continued...

Been a hectic few days.

Went over to the Caldari/Gallente warzone on Sunday to assist our Gallente allies in a push of Asakai. Quite an intense set of fights and got on 124 kills over 2 nights for 9 losses.

Returned to Huola on Tuesday, got in a loose skirmish fleet to deplex Huola and Kourm and got in a load of small fights managing around 21 kills for 2 losses. Towards the end of the evening I did a tour of the War Target POSs still in Huola from the Burn Huola event. There are only 2 left from the 10 that went up, + a CVA one that went up at the same time, but CVA didn't actually join the Amarr Militia until Burn Huola was over. One of the POSs, a Medium Amarr POS had run out of fuel. I immediately set in motion a POS bash. About a dozen people were in fleet and it took around two hours, but was bashed from full shields to destruction in that time. No reinforcement timer. 6 POS Mods were left (4 ECM, Web and Warp Disruptor), we started shooting the Webifier, but several of our small fleet left as soon as the POS went down and it was clear it would take ages. I halted it, went and fetched a Hauler and just scooped them in a fraction of the time.

Wednesday 27th August 2014

Lets do a shout out for CVA. \o/

CVA Put up a POS at the start of Burn Huola. That would have made 11 hostile POSs in Houla, but it took CVA three weeks to sort out their standings before they could actually join the Amarr Militia, by then Burn Huola was over.

Once they arrived, they did make a half hearted attempt to continue Burn Huola by themselves bless them. They ran the occassional plex and gave us some nice skirmishes.

Anyway, I regular do a check of the surviving hostile POSs in Huola. Of the 11 POSs, 5 have been destroyed and 4 have been removed by their owners. Last night I found the CVA POS (a large Amarr Deathstar) unfuelled. A Bestower and a shuttle sitting next to the tower.

I stole the Bestower and killed the shuttle. Then tried to pull together a fleet to bash the tower. Initially only about 6 people joined fleet and an advertised fleet was scheduled half an hour later, so we concentrated on the killable modules, which were the hardeners, 13 of them I think, 2 Ship Maintenance Arrays and a Corporate Hanger Array. We started to bash one of the guns, but it just went into incapacitated mode once we got through the armor. I don't understand enough about POSs or why we were able to kill the other modules. But it appears that the ones that sit inside the bubble, do not go into incapacitated mode and can be destroyed while the POS is still up. I don't know if they can be unanchored or scooped. Have to try that next time.

A couple of filled wreaks had appeared from the structures we had destroyed. One had a load of mods and cap booster charges, we quickly scooped them. The second... full of fitted ships. I launched them into space and then we were podding back and forth for ages. Personnally, I liberated 2 Mallers, 2 Augorors, 3 Inquisitors and another Bestower.

85 ships in total, including the two I initially found in space:

Liberated:
3 Augoror
2 Bestower
1 Caracal
8 Coercer
5 Cormorant
3 Dragoon
7 Inquisitor
6 Maller
5 Tristan

Destroyed:
7 Augoror
6 Coercer
5 Cormorant
6 Dragoon
3 Inquisitor
5 Maller
5 Punisher
1 Shuttle
7 Tristan

Most of the ones I got were pretty well fit, thanks dudes.

Went on the advertised roam afterwards. It devolved into a kitchen sink skirmishing fleet and we got loads of small fights. I managed another 12 kills for no loss.

Monday 1st September 2014

I have high hopes for this month and it started well. Last night I inadvertently ran a brief campaign to flip Dal. I never meant to. People are getting so fired up about the coming Burn Auga campaign advertised to start on Wednesday, that there was just so much energy to do something early. Taking Dal first, complimented the Burn Auga campaign.

Initially I formed a fleet with no specific purpose other than general skirmishing, which basically means running solo in frigates and dessies, while in fleet and calling people in once a target(s) has been found. We spread out around Devoid looking for Amarr plexers and lightly push various Amarr systems, many of which are highly contested already. In the hunt for targets, I found myself pushing ever further out, towards Arzad and then passed on through Vard, Dal, Auga and Sisiede.

Sisiede had a load of WTs in and Blackbeard from LNA running his own small fleet trying to bait a fight in a Sisiede plex. He gets his fight, but they are too much for his guys to handle and they have to bale. Seeing me in local, he asks for support. We combine fleets and form up in Dal, I move my boosting alt in a Loki over to Dal.

Dal was at 89% contested when we started. So we run the plex stack and then move back to Sisiede and run a couple of plexes there. The Amarr respond and we get a small fight on the Large plex where we kill a Rapier and 2 Slicers.

By now we've formed the idea that we are going to take Dal and go back there to run the next plex stack when it spawns. This time we get a fight with a neutral gang on the large plex and kill several frigates and AFs. Back in Sisiede we nail an Ashimmu and Tormentor. Then come back to Dal for the 3rd plex stack. It is pretty obvious by now what we are up to, but the most significant Amarr fleet move into Vard. So we go there for the next lull and meet them on the Vard/Dal gate where we kill a few more Frigates and AFs.

We start running the forth plex stack in Dal. There are some solo neutrals trying to interfer and pick people off on the gates. One is in a Daredevil. After chasing him off, he warps to a station. It just so happens that I've got my boosting alt on this station. The Daredevil lands and just sits there 23kms away from my booster. After about 5 minutes I realise the guy has done the warp, dock and go AFK thing, where the ship doesn't actually dock (Titter). I warp Trant over in my Breacher and kill the Daredevil. The guy must have come back just in time or he'd logged, because the pod warped off instantly. 112M kill, unfortunately shared with an NPC and Gordin Brott who had engaged him earlier. The KM shows me doing 54.73% but I swear he had no damage when I first targetted him and that was consistent with his repper based tank. His shields had simply regenned by the time I engaged him.

The forth plex stack was just enough to turn Dal vulnerable. Blackbeard wanted to run another stack to give us a buffer before starting the bunker bash, but it was late for the Euro guys and I convince him to go straight for the bash. We drop our plexing ships off in Lantorn and noobshiped back to Huola for ABCs / SBs

Four people were supposed to be covering the next Novice plex that spawned to give us the buffer we needed. But only two young pilots who don't like using their mikes actually got into the plex. The Amarr turn up and kill them and then run back the plex. We have to reship and take the small, then got a fight with 3 Goons in the medium, they are in Stabbers and a Thorax. We kill all 3 podding one. Then reship and finally bash down the bunker. Slight hiccup, but Op success.

Ended a very enjoyable night on 14 kills for no loss.

Wednesday 17th / Thursday 18th Sept 2014

We have had some really good fleets running this week. On Wednesday, Lory took out a Sac/Guard roam, I took a Guard. We went straight to Kurniainen looking for SCUM. who have been flexing their muscles of late and have a reputation for bringing it.

Scouts jump in and find them on the other side of the gate waiting in a blingy gang consisting of at least 1 Tempest, 4 T3s and 5 or 6 Guards. We outnumber them generally with 12 Sacs, 2 Ishtars, Munnin, Falcon, Blackbird, a Navy Exequror and a couple of tackle, but only 3 Guards. So the battle would pivot on who could break the other reps.

We jump into them, I break cloak and am immediately primaried, webbed and scrammed, but the other 2 Guards catch me with ease. Lory targets the Tempest first and it goes down rapidly. It seems they decide to deaggress at that point and jump away, but their Guards are off gate and we kill 5 of them before they can burn in. 1.57B Isk of kills for no loss.

On Thursday Zen was running a training fleet as we have had a lot of new recruits over the last couple of months and the general thought was that the general experience levels in the alliance had been watered down and needed some formal training. Starting with an Armor Dessie gang with logi, around 15-20 people joined fleet. I took an Algos opting to let some new blood do the logi as per the training intentions of the fleet.

A SCUM. dessie gang were reported in a small plex in Kourmonen, they were in Algos and Inquisitors like us. We outnumbered them again, but they held the warp in and took the fight. We killed 7 Algos and an Inquisitor for the cost of a Thrasher.

We shipped into Tristans and Inquisitors, with myself and another in Stiletto's. Almost immediately we engaged 3 battle Procurers in Kourm and foolishly I lose my Stiletto making the first tackle and getting too close before finding they each had double webs. But all three Procurers go down taking a couple of Rifters and a Tristan with them, in addition to my Stiletto, with the help of an interfering neutral Belicose.

I reship in Kourm into a Breacher in order to get back to the fight and wh*re on the last 2 Procurers, we then immediately bounce into a novice plex to engage a NEOS FLEET of Frigates with Logi. Some of our fleet were missing or reshiping as is the way right after a fight. Numbers are similar as Zen orders us to activate the gate. They held the warp in with their logi set up, so it looked like it was going to be a tough brawl. However we slaughtered them without loss. Looking at the battle report, they had 3 or 4 Armor logi, but their DPS was all grab bag with some of them in Shield and others with local armor tanks, completely unsuited to taking remote armor reps.

We do a tour of the warzone and I stay in my Breacher to forward scout. Which I guess is kinda 'Pot calling the kettle black' as I'm in a local shield rep tank with Armor Logi. But as it turns out it works perfectly for forward scouting. I manage to catch first a Comet, then a Tristan in various plexes and hold them until support landed and finished them. Meanwhile the main body gank down several more ships as we travel about.

As we come back towards home, we meet the same 3 Procurer pilots, having reshipped, on the Kourm gate in Kamela and kill them again, this time without loss. Shortly after this we rush over to Raa to help a friendly pilot who had found a Mordu Legion rat in one of the belts. It drops a Barghest BPC.

Zen calls it a night and logs, but several of the fleet want to go on. I take over as boss, instructing people it will just be a general skirmish fleet to deplex Kourm a bit. Shortly a fight kicks off in a small plex. Around 4 friendly pilots were already in the plex when 3 neutrals come into them, one of which was in a Wolf. Several others rush over, but as I land I find a neutral Jaguar on the gate. I decide to tackle it and keep it out of the fight. Thinking I can kite it until the guys finish off those inside. However, he is dual prop fit and catches me with a scram. To make matters worse an Incursus joins him. I'm sure I'm going down, but the Incursus is cautious about approaching and I'm tanking the Jag while my ASB aren't empty. The guys finish the neutrals inside the plex and bounce out and we kill both the Jag and Incursus with me in structure and everything red.

I derp several of us including my Breacher, trying to engage that interfering Belacose again. Boosted WTs in a Phantasm and Flycatcher 3rd Party the fight and pick us off piecemeal. I call it a night.

However, before logging do some admin and then notice a WT in Huola local and that the system contestation had risen to 1.2% (2 plexes). I find him in a small plex in a Dragoon, crash through the warp in with my Breacher and after a tough but satisfying fight kill him. A friendly Breacher rolls up near the end and gets 8.7% of the damage, I didn't ask for or need the help, but the NPC rats were also on the KM with another 17.21%, so it wouldn't have counted as solo.

Over two days, made 35 kills for 4 losses.

Thursday 9th October 2014

After a spell of very limited play I picked up the baton again on Thursday and joined a training fleet that Zen was running. The comp was Armor frigates with logi. I was in a Tristan, but was also double boxing the fleet boosts in a Loki.

We undocked and went direct to the Kamela gate in Kourm. Almost immediately a PL Ferox landed on us and jumped to Kamela. We realised straight away that it was cyno bait, but we were only in frigates, so we jumped and engaged. The Cyno went up and PL jumped in, while they had a few Machariels and such, they also brought some more appropriate smaller stuff, Cynabals for example. We killed the Ferox and baled, losing 5 frigates in the process (including my Tristan). We won the Isk war at about 75M to 50M but they were left holding the field. However, they immediately departed without looting the field. I came back in a Tristan and shipped two loads of loot to my Kourm base station, then reshipped in an Algos and cleared the rest of the loot.

Our fleet had moved on and had found a dessie gang in Arzad. Zen got the fleet into a medium plex as several strung out members raced to catch up. The enemy stacked up on the outside, if they had taken the fight right away they would have had a good chance, but they dithered and then decided to go to the small and take control of the warp in. All of this gave me time to reship back to my Tristan and catch up and far more importantly, get the boosts over to Arzad.

We activated the gate, went in and murdered them, killing 8 Dessies and 2 Frigates for the loss of 3 frigates. With our holds full of loot, we decided to head back to Huola via the Devoid route -> Tararan, Ashged, Labapi, Roushzar. But as we landed on the Tararan gate a WT Worm landed with us. We all jumped and killed it on the other side and then continued for home.

Zen gave us a 10 minute break, but I was back after 5 and decided to go over to Kourm and wait in a small plex. I landed on a WT Thrasher on the outside and immediately engaged while shouting for help. I went down, but others arrived and finished off the Thrasher.

The fleet got going again as I reshipped into my 3rd Tristan of the night. We started off doing the same circuit through Lamaa to Arzad, but then continued on to Sosan. There our front runners baited a fight with a smaller but blingy frigate gang and we killed 2 Dramiels, a Hawk, Crow and Coercer.

Then we moved on to Sahtogas and met a large Cruiser gang on the 'in' gate, bounced to the medium plex and got inside. They had around 10 Caracals, 3 Scythes, an Arazu and a couple of Ares, possibly a couple more. We were 29 strong with 4 Inquisitors.

They stacked up on the outside of the plex. I got the boosts into Sahtogas and set up. We assumed they would be RLML fit and it would be a tough fight. They activated the gate and we murdered them, killing the Arazu, all 3 Scythes, 4 of the Caracals, an Ares + 2 pods. The Caracals turned out to be HML fit and all they took down was a Firetail.

Again with our cargo holds brimming with loot, we returned to Huola and Zen stood the fleet down. However, quite a few people stayed on and after a couple of minutes I rejoined fleet. We went into loose general skirmish mode spread around several systems centred on Kourm.

At one point I noticed a Cyclone in a large plex in Lamaa. Bait I was advised, the pilot was known to some of us. However, we discussed it and decided we had enough people to go for it, if they reshipped into kiting cruisers. I was in a Caracal already and waited for people to reship. There were still around 17 people in fleet, but it seemed that only about 9 were active. To be honest we didn't really check what we had available, instead were in a rush to start the fight before we missed the opportunity.

I warped in first to get the initial tackle. I warped at 30 from the plex but landed at 10 from the Cyclone and he got scram and web on me before I could burn out. I emptied my RLMLs on him as the rest of our fleet arrived and engaged. But it looked like I was going to go down first. He had closed to 4 Kms and there was no way I was getting out. As my damaged hit structure he was only in one third Shield.

Other members of both fleets arrived. I aligned out and started spamming warp to save my pod. Then suddenly I was out, still in my Caracal, trailing flames. Looking at the battle report later I noticed we had a friendly Griffin on field, I can only assume he saved me.

I returned to Kourm to rep as the fight went on without me. The Cyclone went down along with a Scythe and it sounded like we were getting the best of the fight. Once repaired I jumped my Caracal back into Lamaa and warped to the plex. An Eagle had been called primary and I landed about 5 km from it. Targeted it and started my RLMLs while burning away, but expecting to be scrammed down before I could get away. Someone got a long point on me, but that was it. I reconnected to my lost drones and got them started on the Eagle too. The Eagle finally went down and I called a Navy Vexor as primary which had the long point on me.

Things were not going well, eventually I called bale. I was almost out of point range, but at the last minute I started taking some heavy hits (presumably from drones) as I became primary. Once again I went to warp in deep structure trailing flames. The fight ended with us losing 8 ships including 6 Cruisers against the Cyclone, Eagle and Scythe. But the Eagle was blingy fit and we won the Isk war at least.

Ended the night 25 kills for 2 Tristan losses.

Saturday 11th October 2014

Logged on and undocked a couple of hours after DT. I was intending to take a run at the static plex in Huola, so I was in a Comet. However, as usual I checked the plexes first and immediately scanned a Maller in a medium. Went in and it was a WT (War Target). Shortly it was a dead WT. Great start to the day. Unfortunately the solo kill was ruined by a previous engagement he was carrying from earlier, plus the NPC wh*red on as usual.

Moved to Kourm, now in a Breacher and killed a Slasher outside a plex. This time it should have been a perfect solo kill, but a Smile and Wave Catalyst landed at range, way out of blaster range, but took a shoot scoring 0 damage. B*stard!

A new pirate gang (Never Surrender) have moved into Lamaa and they like bringing the big blingy stuff. We have had some good fights out of them, but out of habit, we have been engaging in small stuff and often getting pwned by them. Today I was in the mood to take a risk with some bigger stuff of our own. So I encouraged people to ship up, although no specific comp. I personally got into a Claymore.

Sides were fairly even at roughly 8-10 each, but halfway through the fight an Amarr Cruiser gang tired to third party. Their timing couldn't have been worse, they arrived just as the last of Never Surrender baled. We killed several of the WTs, they they baled just as the pirates came back for round 2 and we kicked arse again. When the smoke had cleared we had killed, a Sleipnir, 2 BCs, a Gila, 2 Scythe Fleet Issues, 2 Omen Navy Issues, Vexor, Maller, Omen, Worm, Hawk, Ishkur and Coercer.

We had lost a few cruisers of our own, but loads of blingy loot was left on a widely dispersed field and we reshipped into smaller stuff to collect it. I shipped into an Algos for this and as I was looting one wreak two GalMil AWOXers landed on me in a Comet and Taranis. Friendlies responded and we killed both quite easily although I was left in three quarter armor.

We continued and got several more ganks and skirmishes and then I decided to take a break. Came back after an hour or so and decided a change in pace was in order, so scanned down an anomoly and took a Tengu out to run it. I had actually completed it (crap drop), but was just mopping up the last of the NPCs, when 2 Garmurs, a Worm and a Hyena landed on the plex gate. Now I had cloaky eyes outside and spotted them as soon as they landed. So immediately I hit the warp out button. I watched them activate the gate and felt quite smug about my leetness, then watched them warp into the plex, tackle and kill me. I was like "WTF? Why am I still here?" I have no idea what went wrong, I got the notification that I was going to warp, saw the Tengu align, but it just never went to warp. It wasn't a huge loss, 404M Isk, but a 3 day skill, Tengu Offensive V went with it.

Despite that, I actually had a really good day. Ended the day 34 kills for 2 losses (Tengu and Breacher)