Roaming frigate op Sunday 27th - Op over many died but kills scored, too

[Slayerik]

We will need a few webs, but ECM/Damps are a good call.

[Endie]

I'm in no matter what time it is, but I dont' know what time it is.  Still says EVE time 2200 OP but your initial reply says 2000, plus not posting PST time?  Failure! 

Good point:

The time of the op is, everyone:

EVE/GMT      EDT      EST / CDT      CST / MDT      MST / PDT / Arizona      PST      Sydney      Stockholm      2000 4 PM 3PM 2PM 1PM Noon 6AM 9PM

[dwindlehop]

Granted, this is for tanking, but it is good knowledge and really opened my eyes as to how I was playing the game completely wrong.  After I read that thread, I had a much more macroscopic understanding of ship fitting.

You will finally grasp the Internet Spaceships Pew Pew Nature when you calculate the total HP amount repaired or boosted during your time to destruction.

[Grand Design]

Yes, and when I'm not quite tanking the damage but my cap is not running out, I can smile with glee that I figured out half of the problem.

[ajax34i]

I'm in, will fly either a Kestrel or a Merlin, not sure which yet.  Probably Merlin.

[amiable]

if my wife doesn't object, i will stop by in a rifter.

[Morat20]

I'm in no matter what time it is, but I dont' know what time it is.  Still says EVE time 2200 OP but your initial reply says 2000, plus not posting PST time?  Failure! 

Good point:

The time of the op is, everyone:

EVE/GMT      EDT      EST / CDT      CST / MDT      MST / PDT / Arizona      PST      Sydney      Stockholm      2000 4 PM 3PM 2PM 1PM Noon 6AM 9PM

Where's the "Where" of this op? As in "where do I need to fly my Maulus"?

[tazelbain]

Cantine Boy is ready to take one from troop.

[Endie]

Where's the "Where" of this op? As in "where do I need to fly my Maulus"?

I will post this tomorrow, hopefully before you lazy americans have slept off the effects of that rotgut you dare to call "whiskey".  Pretty likely to be drone regions, though, at the moment.

[dwindlehop]

It's no good. The wife has informed me I serve too much bourbon. I will be purchasing tequila and vodka instead.

[Sir T]

Might be fun but I only have one account, and an alt on that account that I use to haul stuff in empire supetimes. I seriously doubt that you want a newbie alt with the DPS of an anorexic mouse, so thats that.

[Endie]

I seriously doubt that you want a newbie alt with the DPS of an anorexic mouse, so thats that.

Yes we do.  Take an hour to train up propulsion jamming I and sensor linking I and you're in.

[Phry]

I'll probably be there

[Akkori]

I'd like to join, if there is room. I dont have access to the war forums. Pilot name is Neevus Kreeve, I am in BAT already. I'm in a Maulus right now, wouldn't mind a Condor, TBH. I like fast.
I have Propulsion Jamming I, AB I, Ev Maneuvering I, Nav II. Caldari, so several missile skills. Only a tad shy of 900k skill points....

[Krakrok]

I'll try to make it in an Incursus or Ishkur (I haven't decided). Wing Command 3.

[gal than]

i would like to join your expedition on sunday if you will allow.  my name in game is gal than.  i do not know a lot about the game yet so i dont know which ew i will have.  i know im flying a condor with ab on it. also i do not have access or know where your war forums are at the moment havent even looked.

gal than

[Slayerik]

It's no good. The wife has informed me I serve too much bourbon. I will be purchasing tequila and vodka instead.

You better bring an alt Dwindle!!!

No mo sidelines for you! :)

[Mook]

Normally I can't make if for 6AM on a Monday for work related reasons, but this week we have the "Australian PVP long weekend" public holiday on Monday (a.k.a. Australia Day), so I'm in with a Punisher.

[Mook]

Punisher only has 2 med slots. I'm putting AB in one (can't use MWD yet), and I'm thinking remote sensor damper for the 2nd one. Anyone with suggestions for a better choice?

[jlwilli5]

  Id like to join, i can bring what ever is needed. If alot of folks I am more than happy to hang back and support and rep.

Lukure/Karsys

[Flinky]

I'm in, taking advantage of the Aus PVP weekend too. This seems a good time to test out how I fare in a Tristan in pvp.

Tristan
Afterburner/Tracking Disruptor/Warp Disruptor

Eve name is Salience. Look forwards to it.

[Grand Design]

The Comprehensive New Player Guide to Tanking

[Slayerik]

GET MWDs people!!!!!

[Thrawn]

Wow...30+ people signed up.  If everyone does only like 33dps that would be 1,000 dps on a single target. 

[Endie]

Wow...30+ people signed up.  If everyone does only like 33dps that would be 1,000 dps on a single target. 

Even allowing for a few people not being able to make it after all, we should certainly be able to take down just about any lone ratters we stumble across.  The damage per second is one thing.  The mass of ewar directed at anything we find will be quite another.

But yes, I find the number rather imposing*.  I was kinda expecting 7 or 8 of us.  I'm not so worried about us getting wiped three jumps in - goodness knows I mentioned the absolute certainty of death, and there are currently 60 spare frigates** with fittings in our jump-off system - but I do worry about us not being able to find enough targets and me ruining 25 peoples' Sunday evenings  .

*Here "imposing" is a placeholder for "terrifying".
**Due to a slight miscalculation a third of these are currently gallente.  Oops.  I'll bring a few more caldari and rifters tomorrow.

[Slayerik]

Dont worry Endie, I can always find us a place to suicide 30 frigates. Trust me on that :)

[Hoax]

Punisher only has 2 med slots. I'm putting AB in one (can't use MWD yet), and I'm thinking remote sensor damper for the 2nd one. Anyone with suggestions for a better choice?

I'm curious what the recommended fitting for a Punisher is from the people who know.  I'd like to fit one tonight and dink around then fly it to the jump off point if somebody posts are reply in the next 3 hours...

[Myrdyn98]

Couldnt lock down the jump clone fast enough for tomorrow so ill be flying a Kessie with an alt, as long as we have some. icabod crain is the name of the alt.

[bhodi]

Hello, I will be your force multiplier today.

I'm like a mini blackbird, I've got just under 2/3 it's EW capability and I'm fully cap stable. I notice we have several other griffins coming with us, you probably want to use this fitting as well (maybe mix up the EW, use the other two if you like)

Griffin
1 Cap power relay 1
2 ECM Phase Inverter 1  (minmitar)
2 ECM Spacial Destabilizer 1 (caldari)
2 Standard Missile Launcher 1 (bloodclaw)
3 hobgoblin 1

I wanted to confirm we've got cap power relays in the hangar, if not, I'll bring 10 or so on my way in.

No, it doesn't have a MWD. The griffin is an exception to the must fit-ab-mwd rule. The cap's very small as it is, fitting MWD gimps your EW; you're tissue paper, and you're going to die the same at 600m/sec as 300m/sec so AB doesn't matter.

It's also because my optimal is a ridiculous 60km, targeting range 66km. This seems to be crazy far for a frigate and will be at the outer edge of our combat sphere. If all the other classes fit a dampener or disruptor, there's no way anything's going to hit me out there.

As always, named meta level 1s are generally twice as cheap as the "1" versions. For whatever reason. And since they are also less cpu/pg, they may let you squeeze that module combination that you need a few more cpu/pg to fit.

[Kitsune]

I'm super-late on the informing end here, but I managed to iron out my jump clones on Saturday, so I'm in for this week.  Punisher's my usual frigate, but if you want EW, I'll grab a Crucifier and stick a couple turret disruptors on it.  My EW skills suck, but the Crucifier gives +25% to turret disruptors for my frigate skill, so that should give it a pretty respectable oomph in that department.

[Furiously]

I ran my old jump clone out of Teenagers and went to join up. Won't be making it to the event.

[Mook]

Ok, I'll be running:

[Punisher, PvP Frigswarm]
Type-D Power Core Modification: Capacitor Power Relay
Damage Control I
Mark I Modified SS Overdrive Injector
Small Armor Repairer II

Kapteyn Sensor Array Inhibitor I, Scan Resolution Dampening
Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters

Dual Afocal Light Maser I, Multifrequency S
Dual Afocal Light Maser I, Multifrequency S
Dual Afocal Light Maser I, Multifrequency S
Small 'Ghoul' Energy Siphon I

Where are we meeting up? (I'll be making my way to the Eram corp headquarters at about 1700, I'm currently about 26 jumps away in Zemeith).

[Endie]

Where are we meeting up? (I'll be making my way to the Eram corp headquarters at about 1700, I'm currently about 26 jumps away in Zemeith).

From the OP at the top of the thread:

Jump-off Location - We will be starting out from the eastern end of the Forge, so not too far from where a lot of people already are.  I won't publish the location in the public forum, for opsec reasons, but I will post it in the war forum for those with access, and those without access can ask in private convos with someone they see in the F13 channel.  The likelihood of our war targets turning up to fight a 30-odd strong gang in ships they can't hit but which have the accumulated DPS of several decent battleships is low, but you never know.

For now, if you get your stuff to Reisen, Ikami, Airaken or Korsiki you should be well positioned.  We'll not be travelling huge distances away from that area, as we'll want to circle around to pick people up as they get blown up.

[Slayerik]

Well, in summary it could have went better. We scored a couple kills, got some experience, even killed a faction ship. We wanked off for too log with aggresion counters, giving a couple battleships time to equip stabs and smartbombs. To make matters worse, I couldnt understand endie and I basically made a suicide move. From my experience I should have known Paala gate would be where they were at.

Thanks for coming along, next one will be a little better I'm sure. Its tough when you really dont have a battleplan and some faction smartbombs say hi to a bunch of frigs. Catch ya on the flipside (and post that daredevil kill, its in your character sheet/Combat Log).

[IainC]

Ok this was fun although more than a little frustrating.
I know a lot of people are newbs and need to have things explained but there did seem to be more than the usual amount of cat herding going on. Having someone who wasn't the FC but was delegated by him, calling the movement orders on TS would have made a big difference - just shouting 'Align to X', 'Warping fleet' and 'Jump' or 'Hold' would have helped a lot. There were a lot of times when the fleet was strung out across two or three systems and no-one seemed to know where they should be.

Secondly, for a frig blob, give two or three people in the fleet ship scanners and tell them to shout loud and clear if a ship is fitted with large smartbombs. That guy in the 'Phoon raped our fleet because we didn't know he was packing a navy smartbomb.

Other than that, it was fun and always interesting to match voices to names. Thanks for organising it Endie.