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Appetite 4 Destruction - Quality over Quantity

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Quawr
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#601 - 2013-12-16 19:51:26 UTC
A4D has been very active this month, we are on a roll to break our record for the best month ever in number of kills and total ISK destroyed. It's the 16th of December and we have killed almost 1300 ships and approximately 87 Billion Isk worth. Curse has been a wonderful place for us to pvp with the elite of sov warfare and do well, hell great, against them. We are very fortunate tho in the fact that we have some truly magnificent FCs. BoomEzy, Pleniers, Sygma, Kabars and a host if others that will step into the breach when needed. These FCs and really all the pilots of A4D make us what we are, skilled small gang pvp killers. Aside from the active corp members we regularly fly with several great individual pilots such as WarheadRex, Master Andrew and Voodoo. Then there are our only real blues Art of War Alliance and DNS, two outstanding pvp organizations. I would recommend AOWA for any new pvp pilot interested in learning how to do it right.

Last night was fun and eventful. I logged on justin time to hear Pleniers saying that he has jumped thru a wormhole into another region and that there is a Nidhogger pilot talking trash and trying to fight Pleniers lone taranis. Well that was enough for us to start loading up for bear. This mid pilot felt so safe that he warped his carrier to a gate to aggress Pleniers taranis. By this time we had formed up a 13 man fleet with e-war, 1 falcon and 3 or 4 logi with the rest being shield DPS. These guys had no scouts and as soon as Pleniers calls point we jumped into system to the surprise of the Nidhogger pilot. We put extra point a and began applying DPS . It's slow going but we are bringing him down when another carrier and a Domi warp onto the field. Our Fslcon immediately jams the second carrier in order to ensure that he can't rep his friend. Funny thing is, the second carrier, unbeknown to us had no remote reps. We killed both carriers and the Domi when the cap pilot starts crying in local about how it was unfair of us to bring logi and ECM to fight capital ships. His tears were wonderful, especially when we brought in haulers to there system to scoop up the capital loot. As we finished we headed back thru the wormhole to K-Q.

Well that wasn't enough for my good friend Pleniers. He stayed in the wormhole and before we could finish unloading loot he tells us to get back in the wormhole because he has a proteus tackled. That's right gals and guys. Plen was on a roll. We engaged the proteus and his friend in a prophecy killing them. Again we head back to K-Q and Plen calls us back again. That's right this is the third time within the 1st hour of being logged in that Plen has another wormhole target. This time he witnessed a tengu and I believe a Loki engaging a cynabol in the wormhole at the high sec entrance point. Plen agresses the cynabol and we warp in. The 2 T3 pilots jump into hi-sec with their tails between their legs. As the cynabol pops 2 of his friends warp into our bubble and low and behold they brought to shiny fit Guardians to Rep the shield fit Cynabol. They were killed off quickly and the loot secured.

As I said, we have wonderful FCs and good pilots and it takes both to make a good pvp corporation. We have that in spades in A4D. Look us up. We would be happy to see you
Blythar
Perkone
Caldari State
#602 - 2013-12-18 17:08:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Blythar
A Wonderfully Ordinary Fight!

I read the post by some of the other Corps/Alliances in this forum and they really seem to like the idea of hundreds against hundred battles. We had the opportunity a few weeks ago to jump in to one of their huge fleet battles with a hand full of bombers and managed a few nice killmails from the engagement. It was in my opinion the farthest thing from fun. The TiDi alone is enough to ruin the fun.

First I really don’t play the part of pawn very well. From my perspective these huge battles come down to a mass of inconsequential sheep, being used by a few ego-maniacs. I can’t see it as PVP I see it as EVE= Ego vs Ego.
That’s one of the great things about Eve, it doesn’t matter how I see it, it matters how you see it. You pays your money you takes your chances.

Most of you who aspire to be a part in the SOV blob of your choice will find the battle I am about to describe terribly boring. There were no shiny ships, no hot drop, no carriers, in fact there was only one battle cruiser.

For me it was a Wonderfully Ordinary Fight.
It started in the Intel Channel with Disposable Ensign, a neighbor announcing there is a 11 man fleet on the KQ gate in KY. Well this is unacceptable they must be killed. Their fleet consisted of an Augorer Navy Issue, a Thorax, two Vexors, a Maller, Crusader, Griffin, Hurricane, nemesis and two other ships I can’t remember.

We mounted a 6 man fleet with one Exec, one Celestis, 3 Vexors and a Brutix. Should be a pretty good battle. The fleets were on opposite sides of the gate and began a comedic cross jumping skit that ended up with us engaging them taking out the Augorer , Thorax, and Nemesis. While we lost a Vexor. Darn nice trade.
The rest of their gang scattered and our fleet disbanded.

A few minutes Later, Quawr gets eyes on them at the CL gate, we get in ships but before we can leave they have jumped and are warping across CL. We go back to our station and Pleniers who is in 8G says they are reproaching the CL gate and he will keep them busy. We mount a rapid response fleet (trust me, not nearly as organized as it sounds) and we go tearing across the systems toward the pending engagement.

I am a full jump away when Pleniers announces he is going to tackle the hurricane. (probably our first mistake trickling into a battle is almost never a good idea, and I being most heavily tanked probably should be one of the first on the field.)

He gets tackle on the hurricane and begins to take serious damage. Quar in the Exec jumps in, is too late to save Plen, and he is now the target of their wrath, pop goes the logi and next the Celestis. As I jump in we have been reduced 4 against their 6. We quickly take out the Cane and in turn they take out a Vexor, 5-3. We take out a Vexor, and they explode a Moa we take out a Vexor 3-1.

Pleniers hears the fight go silent and says Blythar call targets. I explain that’s not really necessary since I am alone in the battle. It’s me in my Maller, their Caracal, Jag, and their Maller . The Jag has me locked down, but I am concentrating on the Caracal and decided to just overheat till my guns melt to try to drop this guy.

One of our Vexors, Shaquana who had warped out because he was in structure comes back to try to help me just as I explode and he quickly dies as a wave of our reinforcements in a Thorax, Vexor and Crusader jump to clear the field.

So who won the fight? Well I am not sure. Our killboard gives us a small isk advantage and we held the field. They killed every bit of our original fleet, if it was not for the 3 reinforcements we would not have held the field nor won the isk war. Who won… I think we both did. We both played eve and did not station spin. We both took on larger fleets and had a numerical advantage depending on which part of the fight you look at. We both had an exciting fight, executed well, if not perfectly, I suspect both earned each other’s e-respect and that is what having fun in eve is to me.

Ok, I know some of you have dozed off. No Titan’s no massive fleets, but if any of you felt a twitch in your jeans, maybe you are A4D material.

I want to give hats off to Anarchy the alliance these guys are from. I looked at our killboard and this was the first time they showed up, perhaps visitors from a wormhole. They fought hard and stayed till the bitter end. Hope to see you again.

Unfortunately we have closed recruitment. Our ranks have swelled to almost 100 and its getting a bit close in our station, so we have decided to allow things to shake out a bit and have our numbers dwindle a bit for now. So keep us in mind and maybe jump in A4D Bar to say hi, so we can let you know when the doors open again.
Blythar
Perkone
Caldari State
#603 - 2013-12-30 13:32:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Blythar
Be Careful What You Wish For.

It was a Saturday night, and being the poor pathetic people we are, no one had anything better to do than play Eve. So we had a fleet that was a bit larger than normal, 17 I think. We had found a wormhole in EW and we were out to see what we could find. The hole had multiple null openings and after nearly an hour of looking for mischief we were unable to get the natives to form up for a fight.

We got a report of a fleet of Caracal's who were roaming around our home system and one of them actually called out to one of our members in KQ that they were looking for us. We decided to grant them their wish so we headed back to Curse. A couple of members had peeled off early and as they got into EW they called out, the scout for the Caracal gang was in there.

Now that is a pretty amazing coincidence. The gang says they are looking for us...they end up with a scout in the dead end pipe the wormhole is in. Our membership has spiked a bit lately with almost 20 new members and I guess it is possible they have an intelligence source....

We are down to 14 in our fleet, and our intel reported them with a 14 member fleet. We get an idea where they are and they are not on the out gate so Pleneirs orders us to warp to the out gate and hold. As we land he orders a bubble up. I think they thought we were running because no sooner did we get to the gate their bubbler warps in and jumps. It looked like we got the bubble up too late. But we did not, the rest of their fleet lands in the bubble and bless their hearts they engaged. They found us. Be careful what you wish for.

Since one of their ships has jumped we have a one ship advantage. We both have two logi, they have a Battle Cruiser, we have one more damage ship and they have ecm. But the real clincher is they are fighting toe to toe with a brawling fleet in ships much better prepared to to kite. Except for the one who jumped before the battle not one of them survived and half of them lost their pods as well.

We primaried the blackbird and he quickly went down. The Scythe was next. I was 2k from the Talos so I called point web and as soon as the Scythe went down the Talos was primary. Next their last Scythe went down and by effectively spreading points we managed to take out the rest of the fleet with just a few pods escaping. The whole thing lasted 7 frantic minutes.

http://a4d.c3dev.net/killboard/?a=kill_related&kll_id=68227

What were the keys to the fight. Their biggest mistake was being inside the system with us. If they had been 60 KM off the gate on the other side, this fight would have looked very different. When they landed in the bubble, engaging was a mistake. Many of them could have made the gate and at least lived, and lastly our experience level was much higher, I looked up some of their players and just about all of us had more kills this week than they did in their pvp career. That is not meant as an insult, everyone starts somewhere.

So why pick this fight for my post? We had plenty of fights with “name brand” kills, our top 5 kills this month were 17 billion. But I think this fight shows the spirit of A4D. We take small ships to far away places. Why, because we get fights. People will form up for the t-1 cruiser fleet when they would just hide if we brought the bling. So you decide which is more fun. Joining the Blob alliances who will admit just about anyone leaving them with only one viable battle strategy; Overwhelming force. Or find a small group with high standards that will allow you to play a critical part in success or failure.
If you decide that second type of PVP is to your liking then by all means take a hard look at A4D.

This is my last post of 2103.
During the last 12 months we have moved from 100th place on the Battle Clinic Killboard to 61.
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=corp&name=Appetite+4+Destruction

We have gone from the top 6 killers in all of null to the number 1, at the time of this posting.
http://eve-census.com/area/nullsec/quarter/

Above all we keep having fun.


We have gone from about 75 members to a current 98 members and have as a result closed recruiting. But if you think you fit, and if you think A4D is what your looking for, jump in A4D Bar and say hi.

Requirements:
20 Mill Combat Heavy Skill Points.
25 or at least mature enough to fool us.
TS with working mic
No Drama
A few hundred kills or so.
Willing to base in Curse and to Fly with us.

Happy New Year.
Sygma
Appetite 4 Destruction
#604 - 2014-01-02 18:53:37 UTC
Every now and then we get gangs that come through that we simply cannot fight. Although we excel at the small gang warfare, we just aren’t that good fighting 30 dudes, we just don’t have experience in that nonsense. We don’t practice the tactics and we typically don’t have the ships on hand to deal with such gangs.

The other day, we received notice that the occupants living in Doril titan bridged 30 some odd Oracles, Scimitars to take out a friends POS in MDD. So we thought about it, talked about it, and tried to figure out how we could take on 30 with 15. The answer we kept coming back to was Bombers.

Knowing our enemy had Oracles we assumed they were squishy in the EM hole (don’t say that out loud), so we went with Electron bombs. We found we had enough for 2 full squads and a couple in squad 3 for cleanup. So we waited…and waited, and waited, and FINALLY, they finish their POS bashing. (I just threw up a little bit)

Our good friend WarheadRex (The Angry German) was in charge of the Bubbling, I don’t know who was in charge of squad 1 but I was in Blythar’s squad number 2. Squad one launched, then squad two, then squad 3. I warped to our warp out spot and I see crazy numbers flash up on my screen, 3500, 4500, 3200, 3400. I thought huh, we might have gotten a couple.

It wasn’t until someone in squad 3 said WOAH, did I know that we had a REALLY good bombing run. 32 Oracles, 1 Talos, 3 Scythes, Tackle. Lucky for me it took me over the line for ISK killed in the month. Which means I got my share of the 11.5 billion loot payout. WOOT.


http://a4d.c3dev.net/killboard/?a=kill_related&kll_id=68281
Sygma
Appetite 4 Destruction
#605 - 2014-01-02 19:18:27 UTC
It isn’t every day that we fly battleships…in fact it I would say I have had the Megathron in my hangar for at least 5 years. It is SO old that when the fight we are about to discuss came up I couldn’t undock because I had too many drones in the bay and some asshat removed my extra high slot. Go figure.

So we got intel that we had a Battleship gang coming down the pipe, it consisted of about 10 Battleships, 2 Guardians, Prophecy, and tackle…to be honest I simply don’t know. The only thing I know is that we undocked a kitchen sink of battleships and told the rest to bring Augorors…. little did we know that the rest consisted of 6 dudes in Logi. LOL.

By the time I figured out that I had to remove tow of my Ogres from my Megathrons drone bay the rest of our Fleet was in RMOC ready to rumble. I landed as the first of their guardians took a poo. The second went down. They managed to tackle one of our Vexors before our Logi could get a lock and Blue Grass went down.

We started tackling their battleships and the first to fall was a Dominix, then a Megathron, and then another Dominix, followed by an Abaddon. By this time quite a our cap chain was strong, and our Logi could easily keep us afloat. They knew they didn’t have a chance so they warped out all extra Battleships they could.

We managed one more killed on the Prophecy and called it a day. I would say that 30-40% of their fleet got away but it was a healthy number of kills. To be honest I have zero idea how many guys we had, we probably out numbered them I don’t know. The killboard mixed two fights together and they didn’t manage many kills on us, but we probably ended up having 18-20 to their 14 which was a bit unfair..

But to be honest, we had no idea how many we really had, we just threw the kitchen sink at them and overheated blasters. It was fun, but it could have been bad for us but it wasn’t. Battleship brawling is a blast; the ones we usually take a pass on are the sniping fleets and kiting fleets. If you bring those we will just wave to your blue balls.

http://a4d.c3dev.net/killboard/?a=kill_related&kll_id=68802
Pleniers
Appetite 4 Destruction
#606 - 2014-01-04 19:43:04 UTC
New "Curses - I'm in my pod..." Episode up. A typical A4D Roam

Started up with 2 guys in 3 ships! Run away, deceive, bait, kill!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBmRazfx1c



_________________________________________________________
A4D recruiting:
• Small Gang warfare. Fleets go from 1 to 10;
• No Sov Warfare. No Structure Bashing. No CTAs;
• NPC Curse Space
• Busy pipe on home system for occasional gate camp;
• Large alliances nearby for hunting grounds
• You undock and you go kill
• If there is no fleet up, you make one and go kill
• Always outnumbred and prolly outgunned. Need to fight smart!

Join in-game channel "A4D Bar" and ask for a recruiter!
Blythar
Perkone
Caldari State
#607 - 2014-01-11 04:42:41 UTC
Grace under fire.

The was a sitcom in the early 90s called Grace under fire, but before that it meant something different. I am lucky enough to fly with some guys who exhibit grace under fire and as a result win fights that maybe could have gone the other way.

We were in a fight a couple of days ago against a very large frigate gang. Although they had serious numbers against us it was of no avail. The first of them that went down was their FC and the rest crumbled like a house of cards.

Here is a video of our guys going up against Waffles in their home system. Waffles is a corp roughly twice our size who now lives 3 systems away. Fighting in an enemies home system is very tough. They usually will have links and boosts in system, they will have an unlimited number of ships, and they will come with numbers. This video shows what I thought was like a waterfall of enemies, as soon as one would die, he would nearly immediately be back in the fight with a new ship.

Notice that 25 seconds into the fight our FC goes down. Without missing a beat the next FC is calling targets. Even with the screen filling with reds everyone keeps their cool. I have not introduced Caloon before but he is a great FC. He maintains his composure and his cool and he gets the job done. His Battleclinic killboard page shows him with over 6500 kills and ranks him as number 687.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=caloon

Did we kick their ass..nope. We did have however a good fight. Not a gank, not a romp, not overwhelming force. Just a good fight. How did it shake out. The battle report shows us with 14 ships and them with 25. We killed 21 ships and lost 4. We ended up with a 56.96% isk margin, slim but certainly a respectable performance. But we did what we always do. We brought the fight and had a blast doing it.

I hope you enjoy a peek into A4D's brand of PVP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuTwYB_smGo&feature=youtu.be


We are having an amazing run. In fact in the first 10 days of this month we are already closing in on 1100 kills. This month we have had amazing bombing runs, tonight one netted us 4 falcons, talk about changing a fleets composition in just one jump. Tonight we blopsed our torping bombers in on a station killed 3 hacs while another half dozen of the enemy watched in ships just out of our range and we even got the Cyno ship out alive. We had a battleship brawl, although that is pretty far outside of our norm, we managed a win. It won't always be amazing, but we will make sure it is always fun.

I hope you are having as much fun and success as we are, and if you are not then maybe you should be considering a move to Curse. Recruitment is closed at the moment, but these things are cyclic and spots will open again, maybe just when your ready to join us.
Pleniers
Appetite 4 Destruction
#608 - 2014-01-11 16:17:56 UTC
Updated 11th January

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iggjrzbw1KU&feature=youtu.be

or

http://curses-im-in-my-pod.blogspot.pt/2014/01/curses-episode-18.html


Full Episode dedicated to Dual Toon PVP, focused with 1 DPS and 1 Logi.

Several engagements using the DPS/Logi combination "solo".

Do you think using a Logi toon is really "risk free" PVP? Try to find out :)


Like Blythar just said, our ranks are kinda full right now. We had like 20+ new guys in couple month, though I'm still confused on how this came to happen... Getting too big is a problem for us and we want to avoid it. Having 15 man in our fleets is also something new for A4D too, because the max we used to have was 10. Only 5 guys,but it's 50% more :)

Right now our focus is to try to get all our new pilots to work as an effective team, and get them used to the sort of engagements we do. Because everyone comes from a different place, everyone has different expertises and different points of view... We all will have to adapt to each other, and see how goes.


Nevertheless, please join "A4D Bar" ingame and have a chat with us if ya like. Always good to share pvp experiences with other fellas on other EVE Regions!
Blythar
Perkone
Caldari State
#609 - 2014-02-17 21:49:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Blythar
I may have mentioned we like to fight. We also have a pretty big range of what we call a fair fight. So when this 14 man gang comes into our system, and we have only 8 available, its close enough to even so we engage. But it was a pretty big surprise when another 8 man fleet warps in on them.

If you have been following my posts, you might have an inkling of how this comes out, but don't spoil it for the new guys.
Watch how the Portuguese Assassin, the guy who posted above me. handled this tricky situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6eG_ctkkF0&feature=youtu.be

A4D the killers of Curse. Come join us when you when you are ready for real small gang pvp.
Sygma
Appetite 4 Destruction
#610 - 2014-03-16 22:14:30 UTC
I haven’t been posting in our recruitment blog recently as we reached 100 members and I felt that we needed to get to know our newest members before bringing on new people. For the most part I don’t like to go over 100 because I don’t want to be that CEO who doesn’t know everyone in corporation by name and voice. I have been in that type of corporation before and hated it.


A4D is a very special place, we may not be the biggest, we may not be the best, but we bow down to no one. In fact we thumb our noses at most alliances and corporations. Some CEO’s like to build empires, some like to blob, some like to build relationships, and some like to mine. I like to kill ****. I like my guys to kill ****. I require my guys to kill ****.


Although I was in corporation when we averaged less than a thousand kills a month, those days have been over for a number of years. This month, we passed up Reikoku on battle clinic…Reikoku an old BOB corporation whom I highly respect and am honored to be ranked along side, and excited to have surpassed.


But as time goes on, the facts are facts. We go up in rankings because we don’t have as many blues and we simply get more kills than they do. Oh yes, we rarely see 500 man fleets, but that is not what we are. A4D is a small gang PVP Corporation, we go from 5-25 person fleets, and we do whatever we have to kill to kill whomever we have to kill to get the job done.


The pure volume of kills is quite amazing, I have barely played this month and have 100 kills through 15 days…and I barely logged in. Can you imagine how many kills YOU would get if you played hard? 300, 600, 800? Your options are nearly limitless.
Bren Genzan
Open University of Celestial Hardship
Art of War Alliance
#611 - 2014-04-10 01:44:18 UTC
The Most Interesting Man in the World once told me:

"I normally don't like to roam in Eve, but when I do, I roam with A4D."Big smile

Art of War Alliance    Life on the Bubble
Sygma
Appetite 4 Destruction
#612 - 2014-04-10 15:30:52 UTC
It looks like the blobs have moved out to greener pastures. That sucks, as it limits our easy kills. We are going to be looking to head toward where they are living now via roams and wormholes. 600 kills by day ten of the month is a bit lower than we are used to...I think we are about 400 short of last months totals. Grrrr.


Anyway, looking for people to kill.
Quawr
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#613 - 2014-04-18 21:44:59 UTC
The big sov alliances have been moving out of Curse lately making our search for targets a bit tougher. For a while there the Happy Hunting Grounds were in our front yard. We have started going back to the old bread and butter of A4D by going out on nano AF roams and hunting through wormholes. We have a new Besty living in Wicked Creek in the 1-7 pocket. So far this month we have relieved them if 4 carriers and numerous other ships. If you like to pvp look us up
Sygma
Appetite 4 Destruction
#614 - 2014-04-28 17:05:14 UTC
After two unprecedented months of carnage, this month has slowed up a bit. We are having to work a little harder for our kills than we had the past two months when we scored 2800 kills. This month we are only going to end up with 2200 which is pretty good for a tiny corp such as ours with ZERO alliance affiliation.

Think about it this way, we may win a fight, we may lose a fight, but we are always fighting multiple corps, not many single corps can do what we do without help. We are active, we are deadly, we are very good at what we do.

This month we will be handing out about 5 billion + to A4D members who PVP'd this month. Plus a bonus to the top two logi pilots and top three killers. Three Cynabals and two Vagabonds. We may be tiny but we take care of our members. A4D is philosophically different 0.0 corporation, we fly as a team, we kill as a team, and we kill everyone that isn't us.

Stop by our public channel for a chat: A4D Bar
Blythar
Perkone
Caldari State
#615 - 2014-05-06 15:30:27 UTC
Blythar
Perkone
Caldari State
#616 - 2014-05-12 16:44:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Blythar
OH S*H*I*T!


I have mentioned a few corps who I thought actually gave their members a quality PVP experience. What I mean is PVP that presents a challenge, PVP that is not just take too many ships out and try to stumble on something we can overwhelm. Actual fights, real fights, the ever elusive good fights. Oh they are out there but to be honest there are precious few players actually looking for them.

Brave Newbies can come in two flavors; Huge blobs and what we are seeing increasingly more often, sophisticated organized fleets that are looking for that, good fight. This is a story of the latter.

Not long ago we ran into a Brave Newbie fleet, and I have to hand it to them, they were looking for that good fight, and as often happens when A4D is in the area, they found it.

It was an interesting matchup. They had a meatier fleet, anchored by 4 Hacs and a Hic. They had a battle cruiser and a solid cruiser complement of 3 Mallers, a Rupture and a Thorax. They had logi with two Augorers and the balance of the fleet were frigs and a dessy totaling 16.

Our fleet included one battle cruiser a well tanked Gnosis, 3 Scythes, a Sabre (two show up but Lintra was not in our fleet, he must have tagged a pod on the way out) and 7 assorted frigates (mostly AFs) totaling 12. Since we were one system out of our home our 3 of our losses had time to reship and showed up again on the Battle Overview, but their contributions were fairly small with two of them only getting on a single pod kill.

http://appetite4destruction.net/killboa ... ted/82021/

As you can see the battle went our way. By the simplest measure we had a 95.46 Isk efficiency, and by any other measure it was a clear victory.

A few posts back I was lucky enough to post two battle reports, one from each side of the same battle. This time I was lucky enough to find two videos, one from each side of this battle.
How we saw it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffzlUpy03g
How they saw it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYcGnTlUPSc

Currently Recruitment is tight, with only the most qualified candidates being considered, (glad I got in before that) but keep us in mind things like that have a way of working themselves out.


Visit my post at Eve University Work Fair for a working link to the killboard.
Sygma
Appetite 4 Destruction
#617 - 2014-05-16 14:42:00 UTC

I was off to scalding pass the other day when I saw a Dominix traveling from gate to gate, I figured regardless of my 78 DPS, I am going to tackle this guy. So I tackled him with a long point and he micro jumped away from me. He was moving sort of slow so I called my buddy Quawr in to help me. He was in a Jaguar so he got to me fairly quickly.

We tackled the guy on the next gate and Quawr managed to get a short point on him but Quawr was webbed, scrambled, neuted and ultimately killed. The next day I caught this same guy but this time he didn't have a Micro Jumpdrive and I held him and bumped him as much as I could. I called for backup but it was 6 jumps out. When my help was two jumps out, I went for another tackle but this time the Dominix had a Vagabond and a Fed Navy Comet as backup.

I ultimately lost tackle, and lost my Claw, but I was going for a Hero tackle so it didn't matter. Within about five minutes, I get a convo from the Dominix pilot (Delta Zh***) where he proceeded to do the noob thing and post my loss and tell me how much he hated my corporation. I went on to link the last 30 losses I had and thanked him kindly for his tears.

http://appetite4destruction.net/killboard/index.php/kill_detail/83982/

So I thought about it for a moment and I figured...you know what. Screw that guy, I am going to show him what a talentless piece of poo he really is. So I took a few friends in Enyos and had them cover every gate in a system...with the idea that we will all converge when we see something. It was about a half hour when we caught wind of a Wolf, Ishtar, Thorax stalking by buddy Jurtis Kames.

We decided to have let them chase Jurtis around S-E6ES for a bit and let them think they finally caught him. Then we would let him get tackled. Within seconds of the fight kicking off between their Wolf and our Ishkur, their Ishtar and Thorax arrived. We called in the troops and got tackles. Although we lost Jurtis, we ended up with a few more kills then them. It wasn't a flawless plan, but it worked out as expected.

http://appetite4destruction.net/killboard/index.php/kill_related/84001/

And yes, I eventually killed the guy who convo'd me and told me he hated me, but it wasn't a Dominix. I will get it though...eventually.

http://appetite4destruction.net/killboard/index.php/kill_detail/84010/
Sygma
Appetite 4 Destruction
#618 - 2014-06-12 22:51:16 UTC
Although I have been dormant since the weather has started to get warmer than an ice cube, I have logged in a little bit this spring. Yesterday I was blessed to be able to tag along with some of my favorite people in the whole universe. Hans Eisenberg, Pleniers, RTB of A4D and Rene Yang of OUCH. We decided to travel along with 4 Assault Frigates and a Cloaky Osprey.

The goal was to go see if we could pick a fight with anyone and get a few kills. We decided to visit our new friends in M-MBRT and see if we could start some trouble. The initial fight was quite amusing, we hid our fleet in an adjacent system and send it Hans to see what he could do. Within a minute or so, one of the guys in M-M send a "Drake" to the gate and jumped through. Only seeing Hans and his Jaguar, he burned his Drake back to gate.

Hans Followed the Drake through and made the tackle. Thinking Hans was alone in the Jaguar, the Drake agressed the Jag. Although the Jag was taking a lot of damage, we managed to make the two jumps fairly quickly and managed to save our Jag in time. The Drake pilot spewed something in local about a Log off trap which we all laughed at but we continued shooting.

It was my job to tackle anything new, so when a Sacrilege warped it.....I got the tackle as our side was finishing with the Drake. As soon as our side got on the Sacrilege, we scanned to see quite a few bad guys on scan but elected to stay on target. As we expected another showed up to assist. This time it was a Moa, I veered off the Sacrilege and tackled the Moa as the rest of the fleet chewed through the Sacrileges armor.

We cleaned up and burned off as a Rapier, Exequror, Hurricane, Typhoon landed where we were. Since they didn't have anything to tackle with we managed to get to a safe and warp back to the gate without any real threat of being tackled. Although we were fairly content with our kills, we elected to see if we could get MORE.

We played gate games to see if we could split their fleet but the Rapier was the only one that followed. We warped to another gate, and he elected to not and try and follow us thinking we were going to leave. We figured, that we may be able to sneak one more kill in and we warped back to the M-M gate.

We discussed that although the Rapier would be an issue, the Exeq would be a bigger problem. So we decided to jump in, mow down the Exec, and tackle the Rapier. Everyone jumped and did their jobs. It took a minute or two but the Exeq went down as planned. A second later the Rapier was going down and a Hurricane landed on grid. Again it was my job to tackle any second ship and I peeled of the Rapier and tackled the Hurricane.


And that is when things started getting scary, A claw landed on gate and we knew if he got to our Logi we would be in trouble, The Rapier died and as our fleet peeled over to the Hurricane, I went for the Claw whom was heading toward our logi. I missed the tackle and it was time to load ammo. DAMN. The good news is that the Claw ran past Hans and he managed to tackle the Claw as Augorors landed on grid.

The order was given to GTFO but we stayed long enough to mow the Claw down before departing.

http://appetite4destruction.net/killboard/index.php/kill_related/86183/
Elvamerc
Appetite 4 Destruction
#619 - 2014-07-12 21:10:51 UTC
Things in Eve always slow down during the summer but we still have active small gang pvp fleets throughout the area. Feel free to join us in A4D Bar
Sadario
Know-Nothings
#620 - 2014-09-22 13:38:32 UTC
No bullshit, cool bunch and most importantly, limited blues (save for alts and a handful of awesomesauce).

10/10!