Originally by: Molle

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This event started with our fleet (roughly 70 strong) got sandwiched in between two various fleets of 100+. Fleet was in 407, hostiles in 49 and 407.

We decided to set the hostiles up for some capital action, quickly gathered a few capitals, inclduing titan. 13 carriers/mommas and 1 titan prepared as the fleet warped to 49 gate, into a dictor bubble, and mwd'ed through the bubble to 49 gate.

On the other side, hostiel fleet is waiting for us, as well as the 49 hostiles. We fire the cyno in 49, drop titan in, and fire dd, carriers arrive on the scene anout 10 seconds after the titan. Most all hostiles are stuck in their own bubble, and as soon as the dd has been fired, our fleet jumps to 49 (loosing a few in the process of jumping, as the timing weas critical). This is the starting event.

We loot the field, and, camp the gate, dd hit well.
After about 15 minutes, the hostiles have gathered up more pilots, and they jump into us. Local goes from 80+ to about 250 in 10 minutes. We stand and fight on the gate. Me, personally, loaded perhaps 20 ships during this whole event, and targetcalling etc was not really possible, the standing order was "shoot whatever you load".

At 1 time, we had a carrier going to 30% armor before the spidertanks kicked in, at two different times, the titan was made primary, and stripped of shields, titan never came below 98% armor. Command modlue lag was 10 minutes more or less exactly, so dd-timing was more then tricky. I actually clicked the dd button 10 minutes before my timer was up, and the command went through 10 mins later.

3 doomsdays later, and 1 servercrash later, this is what you get.

The aftermath

After the servercrahs, the order was given to our capitals to hold, until we got a proper overview of the situation, ie, wtf is in there and how many? After about 25 minutes (yes, it took 25 mins to actually get a scan done), local is up to 700+ hostiles, and the call is given for capitals to go to rest, and for fleet to move to 8qt.

Serverlag aside, this would have been a much better fight, if both sides would have been able to load/jump/cyno into the system and actually load stuff.

I for one is happy with 3 very good dd's, and the scotch was good.
Capitals have now moved back to delve, for some much needed refueling.

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