Victor Vision
Central Intelligence Service
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Posted - 2007.03.30 06:19:00 -
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Edited by: Victor Vision on 30/03/2007 06:20:25
This summary is meant to give a quick overview of the battle without going into too much detail. Mods please leave this up, so people do no have to go through 30+pages to get an idea of what happened.
It is surely a historic moment in EVE to see BoB capital shipyards destroyed, after a battle that cost the attacking forces an approximated 50 capital ships.
Foreplay:
The coalition put the POS containing the RKK shipyards into reinforced. The shipyards were in a 30day manufacturing cycle, motherships and Titans take this amount of time to produce. Coalition Intelligence reported a fetus-Titan as being in production in said shipyards.
For the attack the Coalition assembled a vast fleet numbering over 1000 pilots. Part of this fleet were roughly 200 capital ships.
The defending forces of BoB assembled a fleet, which according to unconfrimed reports from Corelum Syndicate nummbered approximatly the same amount of ships. Joshua Foiritan: "...400 in the blockade system, 600 reported a few jumps out and between 200 and 300 in the actual POS system."
Objectives:
BoB was planning on defending the cap-shipyard and destroying as many Coalition ships as possible in the process.
The coalition was planning on destroying the RKK cap-shipyards at any cost.
The Fight:
As was to be expected, LAG played a major role in this battle. Pilots from both sides reported trouble to log in or jump systems.
To prevent the system node from crashing, a CCP GM limited the number of ships that could be in F-TE1T to roughly 600.
The Coalition claims that this limit hindered about 60% of their attacking fleet from entering the system.
The question remains of which side knew of the system ship cap that the GM enforced first.
The coalition continues the attack despite the system ship number cap problem, in effect sending their capital ships to battle without the typical support cap fleets have.
Seleene from Mercenary Coalition reports at 2007.03.29 21:07:00: "Pure insanity. Coalition dreads keep jumping in. Alliance ships are repping POS and killing them like mad. At least 12 Coalition dreads down so far. Coalition Dreads are focusing on the POS. POS shields holding..."
At approximatly 2007.03.29 21:20, the RKK POS containing the cap-shiyards is reported as being destroyed. This information is confirmed by both sides.
Conclusion on objectives achieved:
BoB accomplished their objective to inflict serious damage on the attacking Coalition forces. The number of reported Coalition cap ship losses currently varies between 30 and 50. BoB did not manage to safe the RKK cap-shipyards however.
The Coalition accomplished their objective to destroy the RKK cap-shipyards. As a pilot from AAA put it: "We have only 1 order - kill the POS regardless any losses - and we did it."
I think both sides of this battle deserve congratulations on the outcome.
BoB made it very clear that destroying major POSes in the heart of their territory comes at a heavy price. The Coalition, on the other hand, showed its ability to take out any POS they choose. Wether the RKK cap-shipyards did indeed hold a fetus Titan might never be known for sure.
Please keep replies to this report civil.
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