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Saturday 5th October 2013

Took a couple of days off Eve, came back today with a vengeance. Superb day, 24 kills, including 2 pods and lost one Firetail. Lots of variety in the day.

Started out on comms with 3 or 4 other guys, we were loosely running plexes across the Huola and Kourm area. A few of us were in different tiny fleets with alts and we were calling each other into kills. Got several Cruisers and a couple of AFs. Then it was suggested we get into a proper fleet and a new guy, only a few hours in the alliance offered to FC a roam.

So we set off and after a bit of running around came across a neutral gang of 4 Caracals and a Scythe in a medium plex in Lamaa. We were in T1 Frigates about 10 of us, although there were about 6 Firetails among that number. However, they had already got into the plex and were set up, likely at range. We retreat to a small plex trying to catch a WT, but he runs.

Someone suggests we go for the Caracals, afterall we're only in T1 Frigs, the FC seems keen on the idea. Myself and another object and he changes his mind. Then Headweapon arrives, he can be a bit of a leeroy artist, but is very good at finding fights. He turns up in a Stabber and warps to the medium plex. But even he hesitates about going in and sits on the gate. One of the Caracals leaves short scan and bounces back to the gate. Head tackles and the rest of us warp over just as a second Caracal lands. We kill one, then the other, just as the Scythe lands with the remaining 2 Caracals. We kill the remaining three, losing just one Executioner.

We move on and do a roam of a significant portion of the warzone, but although we skirmish with several WTs and neutrals, it was mostly missed half chances. Eventually though we end up in Ezzara and a WT Vagabond comes into the system. We camp both gates and bring in a scanner. Shortly we warp onto the Vagabond in his safe, but he gets out and breaks for Vard, we follow and find him waiting on the otherside, with an Arty Cynabal at range. We lose a few frigates in the fight including the FC but the Vagabond goes down, we scoop the loot and bale. Head back to Huola and partially disband the fleet.

A few of us are still interested in going on and we go back to the plexes in Huola. We kill a few frigates and then catch a neutral Cerberus trying to snipe, off a novice plex. He is worth 462M and drops 216M loot.

More guys take that as the cue to leave fleet. There is just myself and Jus left. We sight a Merlin and Tristan in a Novice plex and go in. Both of us are in AB Firetails, a bad choice, they are both kity. After failing to tackle them I suggest to Jus we bale. Moments later I do indeed catch the Tristan and then find out that Jus took me at my word and had warped out. I'm tackled now and going down, Jus offers to come back, but I've seen this happen so often and tell him to just leave me. Then to my surprise I kill the Tristan first and the damages significantly lessons. Even more surprising, I get tackle on the Kestrel, but it is too late and I go down.

I fit up another Firetail, but then I hear from Jus that he is in a plex in Kourm and is tackled by a kity Slicer. I jump into a Hookbill, rush over, tackle the Slicer and we kill him. A few minutes later I'm back in a Firetail running a plex in Kourm while Jus runs another. Yet another Kity Slicer comes in, I catch it on the warp in and kill it just as Jus lands.

After repairing I get in a Novice plex, still in Kourm. Presently 5 neutrals land on the gate. Four of them are in AFs and can't enter the plex, the fifth is in a Firetail and activates the gate. Jus rushes over and 'Hansploits' his way into the plex, but again just as he lands I kill the target before he can tag it.

So we are sat in the Novice having a chuckle at the AFs unable to interfer with us, don't you just love the FW plexing mechanics? The AFs warp off, but almost immediately a WT Firetail comes to the plex gate. He must have been blind or unable to use his onboard scanner, because he activates the gate with 2 Firetails inside. We murder him.

Benito joins us in an Executioner, we spread around the plexs. Then a huge Amarr BS blob comes through Kourm. They jump into Kamela and then a huge fight kicks off as I think Suddenly Spaceships hot drop them. Benito and I warp over, Benito kills a Condor and I do another trick, I grab loot and warp away. Lol. Benito has to warp out, he warps to the sun and finds a WT Arazu there. He tackles it, Jus and I warp in and we kill it.

I return to the battle site in a Thrasher after the combatants had left, in three or four trips I haul off around 100M worth of loot and drones.

Quick bump, been struggling to get online this week due to work commitments. Got in a couple of skirmishes and one large fleet on Tuesday. A few kills and lost another Firetail.

Saturday 12th October 2013

Great day, 22 kills for 3 losses. Very small gang, solo work most of the day. Got 3 solo kills and a pod which were very satisfying. Was responsible for getting 3 BCs aggressed on a gate trying to kill my Tristan, then our main gang arrived (6 of us in total) and we took all three down.

Monday 14th October 2013

[sigh] Sec status -4.2

11 kills including 2 pods. Lost a Firetail foolishly trying to solo a Hookbill and Thrasher until reinforcements arrived, although the Hookbill did go down after me.

General scrappy night, best kill was a 33M Enyo. I did get a warp in on a sniping Oracle, but I didn't feature on the kill. Other more expensive stuff went down, but I was always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The faction EANM I dropped a couple of weeks ago I was unable to sell on a sell order. Last night I gave up and sold it to a buy order in Jita for 884M

Wednesday 16th October 2013

This was a 'I joined Eve for days (nights) like this one'. 37 Kills, 5 losses.

I was running a fleet op scheduled for 1915 hrs. But I logged on early, get in a Firetail and went to a novice plex in Huola. Within 2 minutes had nailed a WT Executioner. Plex closed and I warped to a small plex. Found a neutral Atron on the outside. I engage but he kites me, tried to slingshot him repeatedly but couldn't get away and couldn't get within 15 kms of him. He was hitting me with rails and initially it looked a bit dodgy. But I switched to a range script in my TD and damaged dropped significantly, I was easily able to manage my cap to rep it back. We were stalemated, but he continued. So I asked for help in the alliance and stayed close to zero on the gate. Initially no reply, then one pilot reported in, but announced he needed to modify his ship. I suddenly realised that my cyno alt could do the trick, he had no guns, only salvagers and a cloak in the highs, but he did have a scram. I warped him in, the Atron stayed, I tackled him, he switched fire to my alt, I changed to a tracking script on Trant and burned in. The friendly pilot arrived and also engaged, but it was all over. The Atron died and then the pilot was bitching in local about being blobbed (titter).

About 12 people join fleet. I try this really complicated system of splitting them into 3 squads and spreading them around the plexes in 3 systems, the idea being to bait small gangs and then reinforce. The first attempt went bad, poor reporting as what had come in, we fed 5 of us into a competetent gang and lost them. I ordered the fleet back to Huola and we reshipped and went back to a conventional roam. The kills started to happen, we killed a Dramiel and Breacher from the gang that had just taken us down. A Cyclone and other stuff. We went on a larger roam then got a report of a medium sized Amarr cruiser gang coming into Huola.

We rushed back. I put my alt off the medium plex gate and cloaked him. There were about 14 of them in cruisers inside, including an Augoror triangle and of course they were set up. We had about 12. It didn't look feasible, but people were keen. I called for an Augoror triangle of our own. 2 people X'd up, I got in the 3rd and another took over as target caller.

We warped to the gate, they waited, we entered and to my relief after a series of recent logi disasters, our reps caught the primary and held, they switched targets, reps held, they switched to one of the Augorors, reps again held. Their logi collapsed 2 Augorors went down then a Thorax. A fleet from Suddenly Spaceships landed on the gate, I noticed them on my alt just as they activated the gate. Their main composition was about 15 Muninn's plus support. I called bale, we lost the Augoror that had been the Amarr primary, but the rest of us got out. Disappointing result, but we were quite happy with the outcome, the Amarr were probably on the verge of baling anyway.

I called time on the fleet, but 20 minutes later came back to the keyboard. I realised I'd left my alt out in space cloaked up off the medium. As I watch, a WT Malediction lands and enters. I jumped into a Hawk and undock, a Rifter follows me. We kill the Malediction, a WT Talwar warps in, probably responding to a call for help. We kill him. I switched to my wreak tab to loot and my overview filled with flashy orange. Nearly had a heart attack. But then I realised they were all abandoned T2 drones from the fleet fight. I filled my hold then came back in a Thrasher and needed at least another 2 trips to get it all.

20 mins later I come back and again realise I've left my alt in space cloaked up off that plex. I looked and there is a neutral Pilgrim just entering the plex. (titter). I grab a Coercer and modify it, fitting a cap booster in place of the prop mod and a Thermal Hardener in place of an EANM. I form a fleet of four and the other 3 guys get in cruisers. I warp into the 'apparantly' empty plex and start running down the timer. Initially nothing, maybe he had warped off? Then he suddenly decloaks 6 Kms from me. Tackle on, yell for help. He neuts me flat, I fire up the cap booster and re-establish scram. Each cycle he neuts me flat, but I keep reapplying the scram. He gets me into armor and then discovers my tank. Help arrives, he dies and as an added bonus I get top damage and the final blow.

It is about time we shut down the plex I think. One of the others volunteers to run it, I switch into a Firetail and start running a small plex. My alt is still cloaked up off that medium. A WT Harbinger lands on the gate. At that point a cyno goes up on the Kourm gate and a load of Shadow Cartel spike into the system. I'm telling the friendly inside, the Harbinger can't get in, stay in your plexes. Then I think, this WT can't be with SC, sod it, lets go for it. I warp to the medium and call the others in. All four of us are in frigates by then, we catch the Harbinger and start taking it down. He bites into armor slowly and then finally structure. A pirate Thorax lands, he just gets a long point on the Harbinger before it goes down and contaminates the killmail. We turn on the Thorax, someone mentions that there will be a blob incoming, but I overrule, we're only in frigates. The blob arrives and I'm the mug the Thorax gets tackled. Shouldn't have been greedy.

The night goes on, I stayed up until almost 6 am local time. Loads of quality kills continued in small to medium skirmish gangs. The best one was hilarious. I had my alt in Kourm warping to another plex gate, he landed at 100 in preparation to cloaking up. A WT Hound is 60 off, he locks me up and starts shooting Torpedoes, which do no damage. I burn in and scram him. But I've got no guns. I warp Trant over and kill him. Welcome back Amarr, I love being on the back foot.

Saturday/Sunday 19th/20th October 2013

Very busy weekend, 37 Kills for 9 losses. Not a great ratio, but quality kills, many achieved solo or in a small gang outnumbered. Most memorable was a 425M Daredevil. I got the initial tackle on with a Firetail and managed 71% of the damage before going down. A friendly Slicer pilot arrived just in time and took the baton to finish it off. Loot fairy was in a bad mood though, only 39M loot dropped.

The warzone is very hot at the moment, both sides are fighting for Kourm and there are a lot of neutral gangs roaming the area too. The Amarr have bounced back and now own more systems than the Minmatar, around 40 systems, when a month ago they were down to just 3. That does mean the Minmatar LP store items are spiking in price, great when I'm still sat on 6M LP. Monthly kills are already well in excess of last month. 212 kills with 11 days to go.

Sec Status -5.1

Thanks for the encouragement MD, appreciated. I'm been neglecting this of late, sorry about that, busy week at work. I did try to get on Eve late last Monday night and was so tired that I derped 2 Frigates and a Dessie. Couldn't get back on until Friday night, achieved 6 kills for 2 losses, which doesn't sound too good, but they were quality fights and I was happy.

Saturday 26th October 2013

Finally got a decent go at Eve, great day, 22 kills for one loss. Real quality day. The Amarr are on the up swing, big time, they currently own 52 of the 70 systems in the warzone and are on Tier 4 while we are on Tier 1 with just 18 systems. A month ago we had 67 systems to their 3 and we were on Tier 5. But it is far more fun now.

Today was mostly about running defensive plexes across Huola and Kourn, people were logging on and off all day and we probably averaged about 8 in fleet for most of the day. We killed several individual ships in various plexes and the first challenging fight occurred outside a medium plex when a wormhole corp landed on us. Their force was far superior to our, but initially fed in piecemeal. 6 of us (3 Cruisers and 3 Frigates) took down 2 Gnosis and an Exequror before the main force arrived and we baled losing a Navy Augoror at that point.

REVOLUTION then joined the party driving off the Wormhole people. We charged back to Huola and shipped up to Cruisers, myself in a Blackbird, we rallied the alliance and got about 15 in fleet. REVOLUTION moved to the Lamaa gate in Kourm and the Wormhole people came back better organised and the fight kicked off. REVOLUTION were getting their arses kicked and baled, then we piled in and sideswiped the Wormhole crowd, taking down a Proteus, Falcon and Vagabond. I'm surprised we didn't take more tbh, but there was a lot of ECM on the field, which is why I was there in a Blackbird full of blue jammers.

Most people took a break at that point. I was left alone running a small plex in Huola. With just over a minute left on the clock a WT Ishkur pushed me out of the plex. I went back to the station struggling to think of a decent ship that I could use that would match an Ishkur and get into a small. I asked for help, nobody answered. Meanwhile my alt watching the plex gate sees a pirate Ishkur come along and go in. I decide to go for a Slicer and tip the balance, wh*re on and kite off as necessary. I entered the plex and find them fighting away. I tackle the WT one and the pirate bales. He sets his drones on me and I gradually kill them while orbiting at 20 kms. I generally hate kity faggots, but I was one that fight. However, once the drones were taken care of I found I couldn't kill the guy. After an age jjohnpaul comes back to the keyboard and answers my call for help. He arrives in a Firetail I think, finds us 150 Kms off and he can't catch us. So he goes back to station, reships into a MWD Wolf and comes back. Eventually we kill the Ishkur and are treated to some tears in local.

I then try to catch a neutral kity rail fit Cormorant in my Slicer and almost lose it getting out with just 20% structure left. I repair and go hunting for him a second time. I find him jumping into Roushzar, jump and look for him on the otherside. He holds his cloak for some strange reason, allowing me to get through and ready to tackle him. He was obviously more aware than me, he holds until the limited engagement flag from earlier wears off. I engage and the gate guns shoot me, again I only just get out in 20% structure.

More people return. We went back to plexing and another small frigate/dessie fight kicked off in Huola. Five of us in Frigates killed 2 Algos and a Merlin. Small skirmishes occur the rest of the day and I get on several kills mostly Frigates, AFs and Dessies, but one Caracal that attacks three of us in a medium plex. I get primaried and get put into deep structure a third time before I'm able to burn out of his long point range and warp off.

I lose a Firetail towards the end of the day, trying to help a friendly Daredevil that was engaging an Arty Wolf. We kill the Wolf but his back up arrive and kill both of us.

During the course of the day I visit the static plex in Huola, called 'The Abandoned Research Outpost' It spawnes a Dark Blood faction Cruiser regularly with a good chance of dropping one or two faction items. I've killed it maybe a dozen times and average about 20M loot each time. I landed and my luck was in, the Faction Cruiser was there, I kill it quickly and loot the wreak. I get the mother load. A Dark Blood Medium Energy Neut and a Dark Blood Medium Armor Repairer. I get them to Jita before the end of the day and they both sell for a total of 146M. With that and other loot, I decided to buy my first Low-Grade Snake set and pick a full set up for 546M, although I actually flew to Dodixie to get most of them. I shall be fitting them in the next few days and then will be trying some kiting, something that I've tended to shy away from in the past. But that Ishkur kill has inspired me.

Sec Status -5.3, I give up, I'm going full pirate.

Monday 28th October 2013

I log on and immediately lost a Firetail to a Comet in a plex in Huola, but I held him down long enough for another pilot to arrive and finish him off. 30 minutes later I soloed a Hookbill in another plex.

Several people were online, I formed a fleet and we concentrated on the plexes across Huola and Kourm. A steady stream of kills came in, not all of which I got on. I took a break, passing the fleet on, came back and got the same fleet passed back to me by another FC that had taken over while I was away.

I had the guys spread around the two systems and went back to Huola myself to run a plex. My cyno alt was cloaked up off a plex in Kourn, but the plex finished and I relocated him to another plex. He landed 100 off the new plex, on top of a pirate Ishtar and got tackled. I burn away, hotly pursued by a load of drones. Meanwhile Trant lands on the plex in Huola and gets tackled by a WT Kitey Kestrel. I called for help. It looked like I could afford to leave Trant for a moment, tanking the damage. I saved my alt, but in that time a pirate Vagabond lands. It initially engaged the Kestrel, the Kestrel bales, for a few seconds Trant was free of the point. However, still getting my alt to safety I missed the window to bale. The Vagabond got point on me and I lose my second Firetail.

A little later, there was perhaps ten of us in fleet when a 4 man Amarr Cruiser gang pushed us out of a medium plex in Kourn. I asked a couple of guys to get into cruisers and shipped into an SFI myself. I was going to bait them with another cruiser before calling in the rest of the gang, but as we landed on the plex gate another friendly gang or 4 or 5 frigates and dessies also landed. The WTs baled.

The friendly gang warped off, I set up in the plex with my SFI, a Stabber and two cloaked Rapiers. The rest of the guys got off grid, some went and camped Kam/Kourm. The WT gang left system.

A Pandemic Legion Cynabal was reported on the Kam/Kourm gate. It jumped through, held cloak but then got tackled on the other side. The friendly gang from earlier were there and between them they started batting the Cynabal back and forth. I gave permission to abandon the plexes and we went down to wh*re on. Other friendlies were also feeding in, there must have been a good 20 of us there but we were split on either side of the gate.

Looks like the Cynabal called for help and was delibrately waiting out his cloak timer inbetween each jump, but he took damage each time. His reinforcements arrived just as he went down. Another two Cyanbals, a Drake and a Vagabond fed in and we took all except the Vagabond down without loss.

We put the cruisers away and I got back into a Firetail. We had almost run out of plexes when a small gang was reported in a plex in Kamela. We warped over, they baled. I ordered people back to Kourm but as we warped off a neutral cruiser gang landed on the plex gate. We warped back and engaged. About 12 of us, mostly in frigates took down a Vexor, 2 Omens and 2 Ruptures. Mainly because they fed in a bit piecemeal and scattered rather then staying balled up.

It was getting late, I handed over the fleet and took a break. Came back to do some market orders on my JF Main in Jita. I decided to run a novice plex in Huola on Trant. The fleet from earlier had largely disbanded, although there were a couple on comms still. I didn't bother forming a fleet and I couldn't even form fleet with my usual cyno alt to give myself squad boosts.

A WT entered system and a Hookbill arrived on short scan. Not a good match against a Firetail, but I'd killed one earlier and this guy was a 2013 player. I'm a PvP God and he was just a noob! The guy was straight in the plex. I fumbled the tackle a little and didn't get as close as I should, he got his web and scram on me first. The fight started at about 3.5 Kms and then he burned away. Even with my new LG snakes he was faster than me. Basically, he tore me a new one and I was crying like a girl for help. I reversed course and burned away, but it looked like I had waited too long, I was in deep structure and one more hit would have done it. Suddenly I was out of his rocket range, scram and web, I baled on fire. Others arrived but the hookbill baled and his response to my GF was "Nooo".

I was about done for the day, but decided to run one more plex, by this time I was the only one online. I brought out my cyno alt, got in fleet with him. Then cloaked him up outside a medium plex in Huola while I ran a novice. There was only 2 mintues on the plex when 5 WTs came into system at least one of which I recognised as a competent pilot. An Atron and Breacher appeared on short scan. I aligned out, then baled as they came in.

I saw on my cyno alt, the Breacher land and enter the medium plex. Worse they also popped a small plex. So they were going to run the whole stack. Dammit.

I decide to at least chase them out of the medium and jumped into my brand new Cerberus. Undock and warp to the plex at 10, as I'm in warp, a WT Rupture lands on the plex gate and I crap myself.

I'm preying it enters before I land, but it doesn't. Fortunately I land about 12 Kms off him, turn around and burn away. I lock him up, long point and then kite him to death. Beautiful kill, I was so chuffed with myself for my first outing in a Cerb. I loot the wreak, but can't get it all in and am about to enter the plex when I see it is empty. I warp back to station to dump the loot, intending to go straight back. But as I'm turning around, I see the Breacher pilot land on the plex gate in a pod. Local empties of WTs. I get into a Firetail, return to the Novice, finish it off, then go back to the medium, get the rest of the loot and then run that plex.

End the day 19 kills for 2 losses. Sec Status now -5.7

Wednesday 30th October 2013

Dull night. Surprisingly I ended up with 12 kills for no loss, which included a Fleet Scythe, 2 BCs, 3 Cruisers and a couple of faction frigates.

We had a large fleet up, around 30 in it. But while targets came and went, a significant number slipped through our fingers due to either taking too long to form up or them simply refusing to take the fight. Only one half decent fight throughout the night, it was mostly ganks.

Friday 1st November 2013

As I log on I note that the Amarr are hanging onto Tier 4 by a fingernail. Kourn is down to about 35% contested, the lowest it has been for a couple of weeks. Huola is on 7% and the only plex up is already being run by an alliance pilot. I decide to run an offensive plex to try and knock the Amarr down to Tier 3, others are running plexes in Kourn and Lamaa for the same reason. I head in the opposite direction. Roushzar, into Labapi. Labapi is an Amarr system and is at Tier 5, perfect. I'm in a Firetail.

Just one person in system, but he is a WT. I pop a Novice and get in it. I put my cyno alt off the gate cloaked up. The WT leaves system, but a few minutes later another comes in. Several more minutes pass and the plex closes. I pop a small plex and warp over to it. I also warp my alt to zero at the same time. I've noticed that I'm carrying loot from yesterday, so I jettison it on the gate and pick it up with my alt. Trant goes into the plex, the alt warps back to Huola via Roushzar to drop the loot off. Just as he docks up, a Slicer lands on short scan from Trant. There is only Trant and the WT in system. I unload my alt and start him back. The WT is a 2006 player and I'm wondering whether to bale at least until I get my alt back in system and benefit from my own squad boosts.

The WT comes into the plex, I go for it, tackle on, caught him close and get closer. A second WT comes into system. Dammit, looks like I've been baited. But the Slicer goes down fast, he turns out to be a cookie cutter kity fit with no tank other than a DC. Nothing else comes within short scan range. The Slicer pops and the pod warps off. I scoop the loot and continue running the plex.

My alt jumps into Labapi. There on the Labapi side is the WT pod and a WT Omen. I warp Trant down to the gate, but before he arrives both jump to Roushzar. I follow with my alt, then Trant. We warp to the Huola gate and to my surprise find the Omen about 12 Kms off the gate. Tackle, web on, engage. He goes down fast, without engaging, looks like he was trying to burn for the gate. He pops and then I pod the pilot. On examining the KM I find that the Omen is completely unfit and I suspect that he was autopiloting.

I take a break, a couple of hours later I return and find 3 WTs in Huola, with an Executioner and Tristan in the Novice plex. I check the ages of the pilots and two of them are very young. So I enter the plex in my Firetail. They are both at about 15km when I land and I see they are the two youngest pilots. I burn towards the Executioner and he burns toward me, two salvos and he pops. I turn on the Tristan, he is a bit tougher, but I ignore the drones and just burn him down. He pops with me in about half armor.

I dock, rep and drop off loot, then come back to the plex. A neutral Incursus lands on the gate and comes in. I've really got the measure of dual rep Incursus in my Firetail and this one was no different. After a protracted engagement he finally pops and then I get his pod.

I lose a Firetail and then an SFI engaging a couple of Thorax in Kourn. There were more of us, but they took down our frigates in the first engagement, we killed one Thorax in the second, then in the third they pulled out two Falcons and took down a load of us in Cruisers. Well baited.

In the early hours of Saturday I run with an LNA fleet, we get a decent cruiser fight in Kourn. Then back in my Firetail I get some nice kills in small and novice plexes in Huola. End the night, 19 Kills (3 pods) for 2 losses. 8 of the kills are solo, with another (the Executioner in the 2v1) carrying 35% damage over from the NPC before I entered the plex.