The call is made to jump in. There is always a love/hate relationship with this order. Part of me knows I'm going to get in a good scrap. The other part of me knows we are jumping into twice our numbers, they are at their optimals, and they have exactly the kind of gang that could ruin our day...Minmatar recons (long web range). Too late to back down now, Angel informs us to hold our cloaks as Primary, secondary, and Tertiary are called. One lesson I learned long ago is to not be the first guy to decloak, and if you are you better be aligning and hauling ass.
The fight begins, the primary Huginn (Minmatar recon) is quickly melted ..along with his rapier (Minmatar recon) friend. Our FC goes down, but target calling is quickly picked up (we have like 5 fleet commanders in this gang). A few of our Vagabonds (Extremely fast Heavy Assault Cruisers) burn out 100km and smoke the first of two Rooks (ECM recon ship). I am able to get a couple nice salvos on an Arazu (Gallente Ewar recon)and he pops..but now the other Rook jams me up. Here is where things start going bad for me. The other Rook has me basically permajammed, I am noticing my Overview light up from yellow to Red. A cerb is heaving missiles at me... My shields start falling. I have a quick thought about losing my drones if I warp, but I know I need to get out (if for no other reason then to have the rook switch targets). I burn towards the nearby planet and warp out.... and warp back. I picked a Vaga pilot to warp back to, hoping that would give me some range to dictate where I want to be.
The plan works. I warp in next to a Vaga raping a Wolf (Assault Frigate) and I get a volley on him, stealing his killmail :) Here is where I make my mistake. I am setup well for this fight, I can keep range and do solid DPS with my railguns. My nano Deimos allows for 3600m/s. I see a Geddon on the gate that has stopped aggressing. I decide I'm gonna fly in at 3600m/s and bump him off the gate. I take a bad bounce, one of them manages to get a web on me and some points...I almost manage to make it out, and if I overloaded I just might have (or tried to raise my transversal some instead of a straight burn out). But my bars become rad and I am left staring at my pod. I warp off to that nearby planet...listen to the battle on vent, and allow my heart to calm for a minute. FUCK, I have a ship in the next system!!! I just wasted like a minute in pod self pity mode (PSPM). I haul ass to Taisy, have the choice between an Enyo (Gallente Assault Frig) and a crazy plate fitted tanking Deimos...I take the Enyo for speed. Its the longest 25 seconds of my life waiting for that fucking undock.
I make it back to m-o as a griffin warps off to the scene of the battle. I know from vent it is winding down, but fuck it I might be able to sneak on a couple killmails. I land and a Rifter is there, he and the griffin start locking me, everyone else had followed a Geddon and Domi through the gate to finish them off ....So I guess its ON then! I open up on the Rifter, and he is dumb and stood still and melts pretty fast...I am jammed a cycle by the Griffin, but a Vaga friend rapes his face for me.....The the Geddon is forced back through to us...and we finish the job. Look at all these wrecks......WOOOT!
I eventually head back towards Taisy to drop off loot when an Outbreak curse is fuckin around, I end up getting a point on him a couple times while my boys handle him.
Here is the battle report.
http://tri.exanimo.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=116399This is endgame PVP, not bloblagCTDnodecrash fleet warfare :)
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