Warfare & Tactics

ISKies being worth it is a bit relative. I can remember (vaguely thru the mists of time) when a flying 5M ISK Caracal made me nervous!

I wasn't there either, but to me the thing that sticks out about this story is the great time that it sounds like the OP had. This is what Eve is all about. The rush and the adrenaline of getting away with your skin still attached to your butt, regardless of the cost or ship or risk. Solid tactics, good prep, good execution, and it worked(this time). More people need to get over the fear that they might not win or might not get the kill and just play Eve and enjoy the thrill. There's nothing like having another heart pounding story to tell your wife/hubby/kid/friend/non-Eve playing mortal while she sits there politely and thinks, "Whatever rocks your boat, internet spaceship lol".

PS: confirming it is hard to bore ADHC Fly it like you've already lost it folks!

We are not 'leet PvPors' we just want a good game where thing could go boom. Win or lose, just play the game. If that game is "Get as many of the cap ships out as well can before they go down" or "Counter gank the T3 gank squad" or even "Escape with my hauler" they are all fun w-space games. (Though I will admit "Watching a guy and his six alts in gas harvesting moas sit in a POS" is not one of my favorites)

Glad we could make your evening more enjoyable.

I likes your attitude :-)

It's a game, and it's gotta be fun ... at least often enough.

Given that I'm big-bear by inclination, escaping with my hauler (and POS) is fun, and a nice counterpoint to the all-too-often caught-and killed scenarios that i don't usually write-up :-)

Pos-watching gas miners (mine are hurricanes) does not sound much like fun tho.

Enjoy, and stay safe ... or dangerous as preference takes you.

It's good to see that most of the ADHC folks posting in here have a decent outlook, and took this thread in the spirit it was typed in.

This turned out to be an entertaining little thread.

Maybe you should get to writing that story Mr Nator, you guys have a little experience in that department...

Speaking from a position of someone who does a lot of random killing in W-Space. I will tell you a short story....


I once got pulled over in my car going 55 in a 45. I fully understood I was speeding and totally understood why I got a ticket. What angered me most was I was serounded by 3 other cars going as fast if not faster than me.

I explained this to the officer... and he said this thing I have never forgotten.

"Why you go fishing, do you catch EVERY fish in the lake?"

We who hunt and kill may have short attention spans... but its for good reason. There are always other fish.

On attention spans, I have camped a WH for 2 weeks solid for kills. It wasn't the dualboxing golem toons I was hoping for, but it was a good fight nevertheless.

W-space isn't for those who want instant gratification.

And now, without further ado, it's "The little alliance that could".

Names and J-sigs withheld because I'm feeling lazy.

It was a slightly boring evening, not much going on. Me and some alliance mates were BS'in over comms when we hear a cry go up for people to get into PVP and pos bash ships. One of our divers had found this real purdy lookin' c2 with static c5 and static null, with two poses filled to the gills with plunder and shiny bits. Naturally, we had to have it. So we hopped into our respective ships and escorted our orca (filled to the brim with pos modules and a pos) through the low sec into our weekend hideaway.

The corp we found fancied themselves "pvp able" which is something we love to look for, otherwise we get bored after sitting there watching a pos get taken down by our massive fleet of battleship. We were so enthralled by the idea of pvp that once we rolled on in, we took control of all the holes and got to work hitting them where it hurt. In the sensor damp modules.

This pos was so badly fit, we had to remove it. We couldn't let them get away with trying to have 6 small AC guns, 3 warp scrams, and a metric assload of sensor damps. So we hit their other tower first, as a good way to lulling them into a false sense of security. The other tower was way better defended, but it still got reinforced all the same.

But then tragedy struck.

After a brief altercation wherein we gave one of their pilots a one way high sec ticket, they realized that their cause was lost. They began to unanchor modules, put them into ships, and promptly self destructed them. The horror! The shock! The awe! The tears! What's worse, they then pulled all of what they could from the corporate hangar array into...

Jetcans.

We felt so terrible for them that we began a round the clock vigil to make sure that should any of the brave souls log on to try and get an exit, we would get them that exit. With direct kinetic force. With any luck, they'll see reason and eject their shiny bits where we can get them, and give them to other nice people. Why, there was even rumor that they were kind enough to save their capital ship for us when we finish removing the shields from their tower. Provided they don't self destruct that as well.

We will see. They have until this evening to see what they can do. And I do hope they put up a fight.

I really do.

Nice read!

The ADHC-guys clearly shouldn't have popped the shuttle so eagerly when they found it. How did you get past the final exit-camp? Just waited them out or snuck through?