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Roderick Grey
Broski North Black Legion.
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Posted - 2013.05.23 11:55:00 -
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Callduron wrote:
Well you talk big but your alliance still owns two fewer regions than TEST.
I just told you about how stupid taking digs at my alliance is, especially in regards to sov.
If you want to learn about it I suggest you check out other websites, I even did a BR on kugu and TMC (youtube vid description) GÇ£We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.GÇ¥- Special needs division of Fcon. |
Charles Case
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.23 16:12:00 -
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Spin counter up to 1234 (my EVE account password!). I will update this thread as the day progresses. |
Dheeradj Nurgle
Hoover Inc. Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.05.26 16:51:00 -
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What is going on in this thread.... I don't even.....
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Katrina Bekers
Rim Collection RC Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.05.26 20:55:00 -
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Callduron wrote:Bet he wishes he was in an elite pvp spaceguild like TEST where we'd teach him to press a button. With his tongue probably.
You know it's not with the tongue.
<< THE RABBLE BRIGADE >> |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.05.26 21:28:00 -
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Katrina Bekers wrote:Callduron wrote:Bet he wishes he was in an elite pvp spaceguild like TEST where we'd teach him to press a button. With his tongue probably. You know it's not with the tongue.
Shhh you. Children read this.
And judging from some of the posting quality they also post. |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.05.26 22:10:00 -
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We faced a testing day for the Rebellion yesterday. The forces of Darkness are working in collusion against us. Nullsec is something of a closed club where risk averse space rich empires love to dogpile anyone perceived weak. TEST's bold declaration of independence had stirred up a storm of bad posting and deployment South.
We were preparing for one of the greatest battles in Eve history - what could I do as a minor trainee FC with a rag tag group of newbros in Destroyers and Frigates to help?
I had an answer.
Go camp PL's staging system while they were trying to cyno in supplies.
Quote: 8:47:13 PM) pleaseignore.com: Fleet Name: THE HEROES TEST NEEDS FC: Callduron TEST Mumble Op 7 7tk-07 80km+ frig/dessie snipers = SUICIDE Dragoons > maulus > small random cheap stuff one or two dic please NOL @ now Duration: up to 2 hours Reimbursable: no, but wookies will sing about you on Kashykk
I need at least one backup FC (must be fearless) I need one wookie impersonator Fraps/stream would be awesome (please delay 5mins)
#### SENT BY [Redacted] to All online allies @ 2013-05-25 19:41:34 EVE Time ####
We formed up and spent some time figuring out fits then moved to the PR- gate. I told the fleet we were off to hellcamp Pizza. Joyous wookie braying was heard on comms.
We had a couple of inconclusive skirmishes on the way to KFIE where it turned out that we were actually off to camp PL. (I'd kept the fleet in the dark about what we were doing just in case spies found out and stopped us getting into system).
And it was great fun!
I moved the fleet using perches and warping to a cloaky alt. We started off on one of their stations and they undocked an ahac fleet and tried to land dictors on us. Generally I was able to warp the fleet away, I made one mistake, a hic caught one of us but we were almost out of his bubble by the time he got it up and I fleet warped most of us off, the rest burned out and warped. Think that was when they caught the cruiser - he really shouldn't have been in the fleet in that ship.
We spent an hour and a half at 80km off their undocks hoping for cynos and playing docking games with Gnosis and Talwars and Carriers while mocking them in Local. At one point they had a couple of titans out on the undock so I told any of our newbros who wanted to to warp to the titans at zero and shoot it for an exciting experience. To my surprise it looks like they were all having too much fun to suicide - it's something I definitely would have done in my younger days.
The tactic of anchor up, fly at range and shoot things while our maulus bros keep them damped worked like a charm. The neuting dragoons, which I called in case a battleship or something shiny like that agressed didn't have much to do.
We had a few losses (Dragoon, Rifter, Maulus) but those were all people either not following instructions or just going in close to play with PL so no worries. We also lost a Caracal, I have literally no idea what he was doing in a fast warping frig/dessie fleet. I guess I probably ought to have checked fleet comp more but we don't really have a culture of telling people they can't bring the wrong ship. Hopefully he'll learn from this.
We got no kills, the closest being a cov ops which I actually managed to get two shots off on but most of the fleet couldn't hit him.
The doctrine has real potential but needs a certain critical mass of dps ships. The talwars seemed ineffective at this very long range because of the time it takes missiles to land. Usually you only have 2 seconds before someone docks or warps if you're lucky.
The mauluses were amazing and completely neutralised anything but a serious rage-form. Even with 3 carriers and 3 battlecruisers on the undock we were immune to anything they could do.
It really feels like a potentially useful doctrine if we can get more people into the right dps ships. It probably needs to be tightened to just Mauluses and Cormorants as the other stuff not only couldn't do much but was more likely to be killed.
Even as it was we were useful I felt in inhibiting enemy cynos. As soon as we left a Kestrel undocked and lit a cyno. Next time there's a strat op if we do a full 8 hour rota with boot camp FCs using Cormorants we could potentially interdict the undock and disrupt their supply and force them to spend a lot of effort chasing us.
It was certainly fun to FC, 2 hours just flew by.
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Hevlikn Ilunar
Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.05.27 10:51:00 -
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This thread is pure gold.
BL being tryhard posters; Goonies being super bitter; and not a single pubbie. |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.05.27 13:19:00 -
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Roderick Grey wrote:Callduron wrote:
Well you talk big but your alliance still owns two fewer regions than TEST.
I just told you about how stupid taking digs at my alliance is, especially in regards to sov.
"I will do such things- what they are yet, I know not; but they shall be the terrors of the earth!" |
Lemonades
Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2013.05.27 15:30:00 -
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Hevlikn Ilunar wrote:This thread is pure gold.
BL being tryhard posters; Goonies being super bitter; and not a single pubbie. It's allmost like kugu! |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.05.28 01:42:00 -
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Today's BR:
I joined a fleet that was shooting the latest crop of SBUs in stealth bombers and someone suggested we could use talwar support. I volunteered to grab a few dudes and come help in Talwars.
We formed up and got to 1-SMEB. We skirmished with a kitchen sink NC.fleet of interceptors and a smartbombing battleship for a bit
The skirmishing was pretty effective. There were other TEST forces there but we helped kill a Rokh, some dics and other small stuff. It cost us 9 talwars and a couple of frigates.
Then they brought in Muninns which I didn't want to fight with Talwars. So I hid in the pos for a bit.
I got instructions to mess with PL who were out and about in Hawks. I got us out of 1-SMEB and at first set course for KFIE because I didn't know where they were. Then I heard they were in NOL.
We went there through a Goon gatecamp in HM-. I messed up on the far side, telling people to align before I loaded grid. We got bombed, I told people to hold cloak, realised that that was a dumb instruction after tellling them to align and we lost a couple of dudes before I got us out.
In NOL we positioned to skirmish PL but got bombed and I had the fleet positioned poorly. I need to try to keep the fleet aligned more as it wasn't necessary to be unaligned when we got bombed. I was just too slow - the first bomb killed our ships but I warped all the pods out before the second bomb went off.
We reshipped, re-pinged and went back into the fray, killing a sniggwaffe rapier.
I then took us back up to 1-SMEB where we killed a NC. Battleship. It was perched about 180km away so we burned towards it. When we got to 130km I told Alpha to go tackle it and he got an amazing point. There was a nervous few seconds as we burned closer hoping the tackle would survive but we got within range and started shooting it down, overheated. It was faction fit and Alpha tells me it was Vince Drakken, leader of NC. My first celebrity kill as FC!
(They've been coming thick and fast for other new FCs - one killed Lelob's 4b isk booster loki on his second time FCing and got Staff0 a couple of fleets later).
Whether it was actually Vince Drakken or not it certainly sparked a response and I warped us out the moment he popped just as a big angry rescue fleet was landing on us. Joyous wookie braying was heard once more on Mumble. We hid in the POS again.
After a bit we came back home. Another FC was forming a fleet so I stood us down to merge into his fleet.
Good fleet, Was really fun to fc. Slightly kicking myself about some of the bomb hits but we certainly traded up isk-wise. I really benefited from Alpha's backseat support.
I was mildly mocked for running an "up to 1 hour" fleet that lasted 2 and a half hours. Time flies when you're having fun :) |
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SmilingVagrant
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.28 05:27:00 -
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If he's a newbie FC I probably wouldn't FC from a boosting Loki. Get one of the veteran's that's joining into the fleet boost position. FC from something silly and bricktanked like a hic. |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.05.28 09:39:00 -
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I FCed from a Talwar.
No fear :) |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.06.01 21:30:00 -
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Time for some more stories, I've been neglecting this thread.
So I got a convo from the boss a few hours before Tuesdays's big late night strat op:
Quote: [R] You available to do a fleet from 1920 to 2020? callduron: yes [R]: Feeling dasterdly? callduron: always [R]: Okay, here is the plan [R]: RDN has two R64 moons coming out when we're helping TRIBE [R]: we're not going to let them just go
which led to
(8:17:51 PM) pleaseignore.com: Fleet Name: THE HEROES TEST NEEDS FC: Callduron TEST Mumble Op 6 MWD HML Caracals > scythes > damps > else one or two dic please NOL @ now Duration: 1 hour+ Reimbursable: yes
We quickly formed a small fleet of 18 and got a titan bridge out and moved to the first moon timer without incident. One NC. in system, cloaked so I had people spread out around the tower at about 100km hoping that some of them would be close to any cyno.
They lit their cyno about 10AU away and we warped to it and blapped it.
I then had a bunch of dreads on field and we were in caracals. I had no clue whether or not we could fight dreads but i figured they'd have a pretty bad time tracking us so I orbited at 20km and had people anchor. We lost a flycatcher and a couple of caracals to carriers. I should have orbited at 80km. We took an archon down about 1/3rd shield.
They bridged in a big ahac fleet, think there were about 80 T3s to scare us off. We blapped the cyno they used then I warped us off to a safe.
We moved to the POS to see what would happen. They warped a thanny in and it cynoed and i decided we'd leave without killing that cyno. A bit too big!
Then I moved us to the second money moon nearby and our 2 scythes started repping it. Raiden had a pos gunner there. Again we spread out to 100km off in all directions and waited for a cyno. A Heron turned up and we killed it and the pod.
Then I heard from [a little bird] that although NC. had a tower down in the first system it was only anchored and they would need to fuel it. most likely with a blockade runner. It was coming out of Anchored state in 6 minutes. I stationed us around the tower at close range and had people drop cans to make it extremely difficult for a BR to fuel it. He seemed to be waiting for us to leave we were pretty happy to stay.
So I asked a boss if he could form up something to come kill the anchored tower. He was getting something together when NC. jumped caps back in to secure the location. Think we blapped that cyno too.
We went to the second location to see how that tower was doing. NC. jumped 10 caps in so we blapped their cyno and left losing a Cormorant.
8 caracals and 2 scythes + 2 flew home without further incident having forced NC. to field 20 caps and 80 T3s to counter us. Hope they feel the effects later on!
Got to say the fleet were magnificent, superb discipline, catlike reflexes and stayed on far longer than the fleet was advertised for. Our only losses were when I was curious to see how cruisers would do against caps and attacked 20 caps with 10 caracals plus one dessie.
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Callduron
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Posted - 2013.06.01 21:34:00 -
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Pride comes before a fall. If I'd felt pretty pleased with myself for the last fleet I dropped the ball with a resounding clang this time. This one's very much a caution that I should spend more time in Boot Camp learning the game better.
Quote:(6:50:53 AM) pleaseignore.com: callduron is leading a reinforcement fleet out of NOL @ NOW NOW NOW NOW. COMS: [Redacted] Ships: MJD Rail Rokhs, GHACs, DICS, ECM
He's feeling shy so here is his broadcast!
#### SENT BY [Redacted] to All online test @ 2013-05-29 05:45:11 EVE Time ####
I set up a fleet and spammed alliance for a bit. Then a couple of people pointed out I should have broadcast. Sorry for that!
A titan pilot kindly bridged us to a nearby system where we moved to the 1-S gate. A large enemy camp was reported the other side. I moved us to another system and tried to come in from there. We jumped through the Q-H gate into a sea of large bubbles. I told people to anchor and aligned planet 10. I told people to shoot the bubble.
After about 45 seconds an enemy fleet landed on us. I fleet warped off whoever was out of the bubbles and told the rokhs to mjd. I called people to keep aligning p10, get out of the bubbles and warp to me. Several people got caught, including at least one scimi.
Very sorry to the people who got caught I should have told people to align, prop mods on, overheat 2 cycles then more people would have got out.
At least some of us made it and were able to reinforce fleets. |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.06.01 21:39:00 -
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And last a small quite humble fleet that was nonetheless a lot of fun to run. What goes round comes round, a couple of days after leading this rescue I got rescued myself by a newbro FC today.
Quote:(1:24:24 AM) pleaseignore.com: [ESCORT] Help a bro
Fleet Name: Help a bro FC: Callduron TEST Mumble Op 2 Ass Frigs one dic please NOL @ now Duration: 30 mins Reimbursable: no
#### SENT BY [Redacted] to All online test/dawww @ 2013-05-31 00:18:39 EVE Time ####
I saw someone say in alliance that their Rokh was stuck in 1-S so I convoed him and asked if if he wanted an escort home. He did.
I got a small gang of ass frigs and went the back way to 1-SMEB avoiding a 30 man Goon camp in HM-.
We were superbly scouted by a frigate pilot who gave the Rokh a perch which got him out of a very hot 1-SMEB (think I was told 60 in local). On the way back we had a bubble to travel through in A-E. I kept the Rokh aligned and was ready to tell the Rokh to mjd if needed (but I wanted to save it if possible). While we were shooting the bubble a bunch of strays jumped into us one at a time and we collected some kills: Nemesis, Anathema, Rifter.
Got the Rokh back to NOL using our scout's excellent perching skills. Gate was bubbled. Ass frigs burned out and the Rokh mjd-ed out. The station was hot and bubbled. I told the rest of them to leave fleet and join the home defence fleet, hid in the staging pos, and scouted the Rokh back to the station after a minute or two once it had become clear.
Very happy Rokh pilot promised to shower Test Free with isk as a thank you. |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.06.05 22:57:00 -
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(9:50:14 PM) pleaseignore.com: [CAMP] Getting Sakht in the morning
Fleet Name: Getting Sakht in the morning FC: Callduron TEST Mumble Op 2 7TK-07 Cormorants > Maulus one dic please NOL @ now Duration: 90 mins + Reimbursable: no
#### SENT BY[Redacted] to All online test @ 2013-06-05 20:44:22 EVE Time ####
It had been a bright sunny day which seemed reason enough to go mess with NC.
I wanted to test a snipe and run away tactic in low sec. We formed with cormorants and mauluses with an intie, a dic, and a couple of frigates. We had about 8 cormorants.
We moved to Sakht without incident and our scout checked the undock. We moved to 100km off and a Harpy came out to see us off pugnaciously. I had people align to the sun. We killed the Harpy and pod but we lost a few people who didn't warp off in time when shot by gate guns. As FC I didn't explain clearly enough for the newer players that they needed to hit warp as soon as they got red on their shields. Some may have been insta-popped, the gate guns are a bit too much for this comp really even if you warp instantly (got me to half armour first volley).
We docked, repaired, warped out to an insta, smacktalked in Local. We were half-expecting them to have to batphone PL as we had a scary number of Cormorants but they hid in their stations instead. After a bit a couple of carriers undocked and they felt safe enough to sit on the undock.
One of our newbros asked for a ship and Quesa said he'd give him one. <3. I don't think he took him up on the offer (he should have) but still very much appreciated.
We messed about a bit, blowing up some secure containers then headed home.
Our scout took a chance on tackling a slicer but lost to him just before we jumped in, - 1 brave hero of the rebellion.
We explored a bit in 1-SMEB and found an undefended POS at 10-3. So we shot it and made ready to run away. A big angry gang of NC. came to chase us off, I lost 4 more people burning away from them back to NOL because I didn't exit 1-SMEB quick enough.
Good training fleet, good practice for me as FC and good practice for new people with respect to aligning and warping out. |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.06.11 23:44:00 -
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Leaks for the leak throne!
Quote:(7:43:09 AM) pleaseignore.com: [ROAM] SHE'S DEAD JIM Fleet Name:She's Dead Jim FC: Callduron TEST battlecomms Mumble Op 5 ass frigs . tunnelsnakes > frigs > else one dic please [Redacted] @ now Duration: 45 mins Reimbursable: yes https://forums.eveonline.com/themes/ccpEveOnline/pix-trans.png#### SENT BY [Redacted] to All online allies @ 2013-06-09 06:37:14 EVE Time #### Took a small frig roam out to do some pipe cleaning and perch making prior to the strat op. We covered a few systems in the Taurus constellations making some perches then headed home. In D4 our scout found a gatecamp - dram, sabre, coercer. I asked him to burn back to gate and jump in as i fleet warped us to the out-gate. He aggressed and went for the sabre killing it but losing his Enyo. We jumped in to help him but he popped just as we got there and the coercer warped out in armour. I rather chewed him out Makalu-style because I had asked him to encourage them to jump into us or failing that let me get the fleet together. Instead he soloed 3 people but did it pretty impressively and heroically. I had a private chat with him on Mumble after and we saw each other's points of view. He saw it as an opportunity to get a kill and traded up, killing a nice shiny sabre for his Enyo. I saw it as content for the group which he'd taken solo, plus we maybe could have done even better. It's all good in the end, useful pipecleaning even if the first casualty of battle was the plan. I told him his ship is reimbursable as a t2 frig on an authorised op and encouraged him to ask for reimbursement. He's a test hero even if he doesn't listen to his FC. |
Callduron
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Posted - 2013.06.11 23:57:00 -
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6:29:26 PM) pleaseignore.com: [ROAM] pipe clean
Fleet name: pipe clean FC: Callduron TEST battlecomms Mumble Op 7 ass frigs, frigs at least one dic please Karan @ now Duration: 1 hr Reimbursable: yes _____________________________________________________ Blanket 10m on Assfrigs. Dictors from replacement program
#### SENT BY [Redacted] to All online allies @ 2013-06-11 17:23:28 EVE Time ####
I was asked to clean the pipe up to mid-Fountain and got a good response to the ping, over 50 frigs and ass frigs.
We pushed up to the first main chokepoint system catching a couple of CFC strays
We then got word of a big caracal fleet possibly being formed to counter us. I retreated hoping a jump bridge might be online that would take us around them but it was gone completely. The cruiser gang didn't chase us, holding at the chokepoint.
I took us around the cruisers using a side route then rushed north collecting some low-hanging fruit on the way.
We got to the system I'd been told to clean to and, after a couple of misses, caught a Dramiel. It was following us and scouting for the cruiser gang.
There is a thing with FCs - whenever we do something cool that makes us pleased with ourselves we immediately **** up right after. I'd placed us and prepped us really well for that dram and it was a superb kill. So naturally I then did something dumb as rocks.
I then jumped us into a gate camp - oops! Oh hey, there's the cruiser gang the Dram was scouting for. And they're on the other side of the gate from their scout. Well, duh, of course they are.
But fleet discipline was good, we held cloak while I told people the align, broadcast it, then we all decloaked and burned out of the bubbles as fast as we could. About 3 people got killed there but the vast majority escaped and we burned south, outrunning them.
We picked up another few kills on the way home including a juicy tengu worth over 1b. Some lucky looter scooped the 430m worth of modules it dropped. (In TEST it's free for all on loot, and we love pvpers to scoop up the riches).
Good pipe clean, killed a lot of things, lost half a dozen frigates, killed some bubbles and gate trash, avoided a nasty gang that was determined to kill us while killing their Dramiel scout. Mission accomplished, isk war won and the old FC even managed to get on some of his fleet's killmails - 4 personal killing blows with my Crow wooo hooo!
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Callduron
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Posted - 2013.06.22 18:37:00 -
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(1:24:27 PM) pleaseignore.com: [ROAM] jb check
Fleet name: jb check FC: Callduron TEST battlecomms Mumble Op 6 ass frigs, frigs at least one dic please Karan @ now Duration: 2 hrs Reimbursable: yes
#### SENT BY [Redacted] to All online test/dawww @ 2013-06-22 12:18:18 EVE Time ####
When news broke of Perdition's Ghost's perfidy I thought it would be useful to check he hadn't emptied the jump bridges. I gathered a gang of about 20 frigs and ass frigs and we went on a long loop around Fountain detailing jb status.
Broadly speaking the jb network is healthy and fully fuelled.
The gang were very patient with me and luckily NPC Fountain sent them some much deserved entertainment in form of a Hound and this Daredevil http://eve-kill.net/...kll_id=18353566
I was pleased with the Daredevil kill because I caught it with a frig gang tactic I've figured out for myself. I sit the gang on the gate at zero when I know someone's going to jump in to us. They almost always burn back to the gate from which direction 20 frigs are burning straight at them. We bumped him dropped a dozen webs and scrams on him and got a nice kill. I like this tactic, last time I took frigs out we got a Dramiel the same way.
Pride comes before a fall.
If I'd done well on the Daredevil I completely flubbed the next encounter. We landed on a gate shortly after just as a manticore jumped in. I said "get him" then I thought he warped off and jumped through and told everyone to jump. However some heroes managed to tackle and kill him despite their incompetent FC.
Sadly at one point our brave scout was lost to a very neat piece of sabre play - the sabre bubbled the gate behind us then went through and bubbled the other side catching Capri Sun Kraftfoods in his Executioner whose scouting had been every bit as delectable as the name would suggest. |
Erotica 1
Krypteia Operations
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Posted - 2013.06.22 19:09:00 -
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Hevlikn Ilunar wrote:This thread is pure gold.
BL being tryhard posters; Goonies being super bitter; and not a single pubbie.
It's the pubbies that will save Test. That attitude of yours may just be the end of Test if you're not careful. See Bio for isk doubling rules. -áIf you didn't read bio, chances are you helped fund those who did. |
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