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Cal 7 had been scouting around like the boss he is, finding targets where there are no targets, and finding trouble where there was trouble to be had. I picked the original destination as JMH because there was a blip on the map. We found a couple targets but they POS’d up like a good bot. We headed over to a different system that had carriers in complexes, but they got out before Cal could exit their bubbles on gate.

We decided to head to see what was up in D87 because there were some blips on the screen over there. While traversing the 11 jumps Cal said to warp to the outbound…we obliged, he said pointing a Hurricane…the Hurricane of course jumped in to our smiling faces. It took a week but we managed to kill the bastard. Although we lost a Crow in the fight, A Drake came in 2 minutes later and we took him down as well.

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We decided since we still had 10 frigates left we would continue to see what 3B was doing in D87. While en route, a Drake landed on the out gate as I did…I called point and told everyone else to not aggress…the Drake jumped and the beat down was on. Since I was agressed on the other side, I saw local go from 1 to 11. I let the guys know of the new information and they continued attacking the drake. Since our DPS was limited it was slow going. As the Enemy ships entered scan range we realized they had 3 Scimitars, 3 Drakes, 2 Jaguars, 2 Cloakies. Due to the Scimitars, the gang peeled off the Drake with no kills or losses.

These shmucks decided to chase us by using the Drake only thinking that we may engage the Drake for some reason when we knew what they had. I have no idea what they were thinking…but we surmised that they were too ******** to fly a spaceship. I could have swore I heard their FC say. “I can count to Potato!”. Either way, they were easy to slip as they were “Special”…once again we were en route to D87.

FINALLY a full 20 minutes later we were at our destination…home of the 3B. For a little background, 3B is a similar group to us…they fight anything that comes by that they think they have a chance of winning against. This time was no different. Cal Jumped in, and tackled a Hurricane, a second shows up. Cal said this one is Armor, so he called the other primary. The shield version went down fairly quick, but by that time, the Armor cane had taken down Cal…

They warped in a sniping Naga that for some reason shot Cal 7’s pod rather than help his friends kill the ships that were around them(that guy needs a **** smack). I called for one of our Dramiels to tackle the Naga, but the Naga warped off. In its place came a Muninn, the Dram managed to tackle the Muninn as we downed the second Hurricane. About that time a Vagabond, landed and TylerJames got a scram on him and we beat him down too.

These guys were determined…they just kept undocking ships…we went up to kill the Muninn but by this time our gang was down to 7 frigates…as soon as the Muninn went down, we tackled a Hurricane…there were two on the field by this time…we were slowly eating his shields away as a second third and fourth showed up. We made the call to get out after the cane but I managed to cap myself out and lost my Wolf. It was a really fun fight…and although we didn’t hold the field it was worth it. Thanks 3B.

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I think we will do another one of those tonight. That was fun.

Since I have been sick since Saturday, I haven’t really had the energy to go out on any roams. I did manage to scrape together one or two where I was FC’ing, but since my brain was fuzzy, I decided that Frigates where the theme of the week. We had so much fun fighting 3B, that we mustered up 11 more frigates. We decided that this time we needed 150+ dps before we would take out a frigate…at least this way if we ran into a battle cruiser we wouldn’t have to wait for a week to knock it down.

Since the epic frigate brawl the other day, our plan was to get in and get out…if you were targeted get out, don’t take one for the team. In theory this is what all frig battle should be like but sometimes people don’t get the memo. Being a CEO I am always reluctant to put other peoples isk at risk. Its not that I fear losing…I don’t. I have enough isk to last me years in EVE. I am just too lazy to ship new ships down to replace the ones we lost. Isk is cheap, my time is not.

We decided to visit 3B again, this time they knew what we had…but I don’t think they had enough to pull off what they pulled off the other day. As Hurricanes are expensive, they probably simply didn’t want to risk the losses…which I understand. We asked if they wanted to square off, but they declined. They probably needed 4, but only had 2-3 active. No biggie, they fight and I respect them for that. So we meandered down to HED-GP, but we weren’t really heading there…as we knew there are usually too many to fight, we wanted to look around SV5 area and see if there were any singles, or gate camps we could harass.

Truis, which hadn’t been back in game for a while, was our scout….like old times, he hawked down a hurricane in SV5, it took us a minute or so but we managed to get the kill with zero losses. It was an armor cane so we were lucky to take no losses. As expected, no one today took one for the team. We then decided to head to Stain, I hadn’t been there in a while so I wanted to see who lived there…we set waypoint for 5E, which is on the other side of freaking Eve..but alas, 30 jumps and we found NOTHING. Mental note, Stain sucks asteroids.

We set waypoint back to Litom to drop off Eve Animal Control guys who were nice enough to tag along with us. About the time we got to triple A space, we started picking up a lot of Goon frigates. By this time we were down to about 7 in our gang..a few had logged thus our fleet composition was a little week. We had picked up sight of a few Jaguars, and 11 unknowns, and we knew they were hanging out in the direction we were heading…although we wanted to fight, we figured that they may have the upper hand, we decided to throw them off track by warping to a random Celestial and then busting a$$ toward 0SHT…we went the back way.

We missed a tackle on a ratting BC, and then went to 3B space again…nothing. They weren’t active, we popped on over to 8G, to see if we could get a final hurrah against our neutral buddies Art of War, but they weren’t active. alas it was midnight and my illness was catching up with me, I was still sick as a dog and we went the 3 jumps home. 80 jumps, 1 Hurricane kill. 0 Losses. It’s not all bad I guess.

Killing is my business and business is GOOOOOOD.

We were talking to our buddy Cal who was running a few level 4’s for isk; he let us know of a small fleet camping the HLW gate 4 jumps out. We really didn’t know what they had for backup, but we decided it would be easier to leave the logi at home and go with nano just in case we had to get out fast. We brought 2 Tornados, Drake, Cynabal, Omen, Hurricane and Thorax (I know, someone didn’t get the memo on nano)

We knew they had at least 4 battle cruisers and were doing crap all damage to Cal who was orbiting the HLW gate at 500 in a Tengu. We sent in the Hurricane and the Thorax, we thought two wouldn’t alert them, but would allow us to have multiple warp scramblers on the field. Tackles were made and we warped the short warp from HLW, although the rest of their gang warped. 2 Kills 0 Losses

On the way back, we ran into an Art of War gang that had 4 Falcons, 4 Blackbirds, 7 Griffins. We took a pass on that one. Screw that shite. They were shooting us from afar but had nothing up close to tackle. We went the two jumps home.

Within 4 minutes our Intel channel was blinking, and there was 5 camping the Sendaya gate in Doril. We decided to take the same fleet. We knew they had 3 BC,s a cruiser and a frigate. We had more than enough this time, Cal brought a Curse we brought a Cyclone, two tornados, and a rupture (didn’t get the memo again). Korr E’Hahnah from Eve Animal Control was in Doril giving Intel with a Falcon.

We warped to Jorund, thinking that we would be warping to the Doril gate..but when we jumped our scout in, we noticed that the bad guys had a scout in Jorund, so we warped to Utopia to try that out. They had no scout. SCORE. We warped our rag tag gang to the gate. We decided that if we flooded local that they would run so we jumped in 4.

When we jumped in we found them sitting on the gate we had just jumped into, they weren’t on the Sendaya gate at after all. We started warp scrambling, and managed to get a Harbinger and a Drake. They warped in a sniping cane so we thought he would be aggressed if he warped to a station. We followed him but he was at a perch.

They had a Claymore on station giving bonuses, so we engaged. They then undocked a Abaddon, and then a Damnation. We lit into the Abaddon and toon him down right before 4 more undocked…we fought back and forth eventually taking down a Omen Navy Issue. Cal lost his Curse, and Shinob his Rupture. After they decided to use a carrier to rep, and undock a Guardian…we decided to exit. Kills 4 Losses 2

That was fun, maybe since I am not sick I will write more battle reports.

I can understand your point, but I write in the first person to give a human perspective from my point of view. The piece that is missing is what my opponent was thinking, doing or countering. In this instance I was the monkey in the Basilisk, keeping my yap shut and my guys alive. I never pretend to be better than anyone, including darkside alliance whom i have great respect for. This was just one instance where we had the numbers to engage one of your smaller fleets resulting in a fun fight and a win

I appreciate you bumping our thread, see you on my overview.

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It was unexpected for a Monday night to have that many people online but when I asked if anyone wanted to go out on a Frigate roam, there was a resounding roar of “YES”. After a couple smoke breaks, bio breaks, and beer run we were formed up. Like always we asked our friends in EAC if they wanted to tag along, and like usual they obliged.

A scout had noticed that our neighbor in WG put up a bubble with a Jag and Prophecy, so we sent cal over to get a tackle. Since Cal was AB fit, the Jag caught him before he could get remotely close to the Prophecy. But unlucky for the jag, Cal had 230 DPS on his Taranis and ate him alive before we could arrive. Cal then managed to get a tackle on the Prophecy, so we got lucky with 2 Kills 0 Losses.

We then decided that we would head over to visit Water bugs, as we landed on the CL gate we did a final check of fleet composition, ammo check, Nanite check, all was good so we jumped and warped to 8G. Normally Art of War are in there on their bubble but tonight Goodfellas was in there with 3 Hurricanes, Drake, 3 Frigates. We had an assortment of 14 frigates. Since Cal was trying to pull them closer to the gate, we assigned Tracking Disruptors to each of the Hurricanes.

They knew what we had and they weren’t running. Then again since the Hurricane is the Bane of any Frigates existence, I don’t blame them. We systematically went after the Canes first. Killing the first, while losing a frig, killing the second while losing another frigate, and by the time we got to the third…there were so many tracking disruptors that he couldn’t hit a dread in siege. We dispatched the last Cane and then the Drake. 4 Kills 2 Losses. Since we were two jumps from home, we dropped off loot and picked up replacement ships.

FINALLY, we made it to Waterbug space, we sat two jumps back so they more than likely didn’t know what we had. Cal went in with his Taranis and promptly hawked down a Cyno ship…Waterbugs undocked a fleet larger than the one we had just killed, with Scimitar backup, so we decided against it, as they had more Cruisers than we had frigates. As anti-climatic as that was, we at least got the Cyno kill right? Kills 1 Losses 0

Since we had so much fun with 3 B last week we took the three jumps to visit them. Alas they were all either Cloaky or Docky…insert sad face icon here. I don’t blame them, I think they may have had 5 active which would have been suicide. Too bad, they like to bring it. Without much of a plan on where to go, the next logical step was to head to HED-GP. Cal managed to get a Loki and Sabre isolated in SV5 on the HED gate and we were only 20k away, but he got webbed down to nothing and died on the wrong side of the bubble before we arrived. The Loki and Sabre were too far away and got out. Kills 0 Losses 1

We needed to get Cal a new ship and since Agil was 4 jumps out, we decided to take over the Bubble camp in HED. Due to some AAA lemming pets, we managed to avoid 32 bombs launched at us and kill a Tornado and Drake. They did warp a Discophoon to a perch but we weren’t biting. About that time, Cal was back with a new Taranis, so we decided to pack it in and head to KDF. Kills 2 Losses 0

KDF was empty, but we caught wind of a Sniggerdly gang in Doril so we decided to pay them a visit. Before we could even warp to the out gate they jumped out into lowsec effectively halting our pursuit. We got wind of WG in Hemin so we decided to try them…although they had WAY too many to take on in the gang we had. We managed to kill a few before effectively wiping our entire fleet. 8 BC/C against 14 Frig = lots of dead frigates. That is ok, we had fun fighting. And to be honest, if our gangs were reversed, I am not sure they would have engaged us. 3 Kills 6 Losses (plus however many EAC had)

Was a productive day.

I had some questions recently about Blop dropping. I have done it but I wouldn’t say I am uber at it. A lot of the guys have black ops ships but had never really tried it before so we set up a few practice runs. We didn’t hot drop anyone in particular but we did find out a few things that we didn’t know prior. About the time we were going to try it on an actual target, the server shat all over itself and dropped half the server….TWICE.

I sort of made the executive decision to call off any further practices, risking billions on a third server crash is just not smart. We elected to hang out with our buddies and roam in a Cynabal fleet. All and all it went pretty well. The FC was spot on, but some of the scouting was spotty. I guess sometimes people just don’t get the big picture. Some of the questions I heard yesterday made me shake my head. Some of those said questions were from my guys.

Nothing horrible, but you could tell that some of the guys just weren’t paying enough attention. FC: Warp to the XX gate…. Question: Where are we again? We are in XX system. I know that but which gate? next system…rinse repeat. I don’t know how our FC didn’t go ape **** bonkers ballistic. It was not a complete wipe, we did kill a Occator, and Drake.

I am in dire need of a nap today.

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