Empire-War Strikes Back

Following up from my previous post, the members of Cygnus Project corp has jumped ship to Nasty Russians Team, who then declared war on us. We are left wondering who we pissed off, regardless we are currently are blaming Obsidian Iniquity. Again we are keeping track of the war with a campaign section on our killboard.
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Day 1 of war with Nasty Russians team - I miss the first hour of the war due to work obligations, I arrive home and expect to hear cries of how whatever fleet we managed to put together imploded and we are currently camped in a station. I log on teamspeak and and greeted by Dawood. Hes needing help with 3 of the hostiles online. They are coming at him in a Tempest, Blackbird and Myrmidon. For the moment he is safe so a plan is drafted to deal with them, we fleet up.

Dawood calls out on the comms to come now. I jump into my interceptor, undock and jump through the gate. On the other side I warp to 40km from wood and micro warp to the blackbird. Binger also comes along to harass the blackbird. He jams me quite a lot, but his attention is split between 3 instead of a single target. His shields drop, and his armour and structure soon follow, leaving us with a nice explosion where the blackbird once was.

We turn round to help Dawood by pointing Reeeeeker and Amber. I wont have a lot of punch against any of them so while I keep them pointed, I take out their drones. Wood is engaging the Myrmidon at this stage with ECM drones on the tempest. Oddly the Tempest runs away after he gets scrammed by woods ECM drones. The Myrmidon is dealt with after much effort on woods part, and we take a look at the tank that thing had, what a monster. We half expected the tempest to warp back, but we never saw it again.

We move back to base and see if they are going to follow us. One of them follows us and plays silly buggers with us at the station in a vexor. After a while of us shooting him, and him docking up, we notice Reeeeeker pop back into system, we move to 200km bookmarks of the station or dock, and watch, the fleeting Tempest has returned. They stay at the station and Amber arrives as well in a harbinger. We dock up for a while for dinner and a break.

When we return wood undocks to spring their trap. Takes a few times for them to redbox dawood, eventually they do, queuing amber and the rest of russian squad to undock and fight. Seeing that all their cards are on play, we put ours down as well.

First to drop was te tempest. Binger was taken out by the Jaguar and Obsidean was taken of the field as well. Dawood, Tenna Lady and me made short work of the harbinger and pointed the Jaguar. The Jaguarquickly went pop too.

This ended day 1 for us.

The next day I join eve and fleet up with a few of my corpies to PvP. We hear that there is a gathering of hostiles on the Sankkasen gate in Halaima. The fight at the gate was the longest I've been in to date, also being one of the most expensive battles to date as well. We killed 4 ships, (Hurricane, Hurricane, Typhoon and Drake), however we lost 4 battleships, 3 battle cruisers and a frigate.

Losing so many of our ships was not part of the plan. With our main supply area in Sankkasen we where assuming we would be able to replenish any losses easily in the fight, the one thing we did not anticipate was the hostiles doing the same thing. They where able to reinforce their fleet just as quickly as us, and giving the fact we where constantly outnumbered in the engagement, the order was given to stop throwing ships into their meat grinder. The fight ended with us refusing to put more ships on the line against their fleet of 2 Typhoons, and several battle cruisers and a Heavy Interdictor.unfortunately this fight dropped our efficiency of the war by 20-30% :(

Later that night I take a small gang of cruisers out to see if we can pick a few of them off solo. By the time we found our target, we found all the them; they where fleeted up taking on an alliance they war decced. We watched from distance, keeping safe, but showing ourselves.

After a while they jump on Kimire, she goes crazy and engages. I warp in to warp in and immediately think “wait a minute... what am I realisticlly able to achieve fighting 5 battle cruisers in a cruiser...”. Leave warp, I land just in time to see Kimire's Vexor go poof. I start fighting, since I don’t got enough time to get out.

Unsurprisingly I die in a cloud of smoke. We slowly head back to sank, JayB keeps an eye to make sure binger gets out safely, being the slowest member in the fleet. A few times he is pointed, but Jayb Jams him to let binger get away.

The next few days are quiet, most of us are unable to log on due to work obligations, any time we are able to fight we are up againt fleet sizes which quite frequently exceed twice the size we can muster. We keep an eye no the kill board though, and are glad to see that the alliance that Nasty Russians War decced is giving them quite a few bloody noses.

Thursday night we notice its just DJ online, so I run a locator. The agent puts him in Laah; the system where Wood and Binger where chasing him in a few days before. 3 of us make a small gang and head after him in cruisers. I jump in to laah and its clear. So I tell the other guys to pop in. I run another locator and find out that he is next door in Mostu. Was raging a spent that money for a 1 jump location.

I jump in and check out the stations. I find him in the caldari navy station. He is running his gob off in local at some other guy. Its all in Russian, and even with google translator its hard to make sense off. Something like the other guy is saying his killboard is shit, and talking about bowls...

Time passes and I get sick of waiting so I undock and head into Laah. Just as we are about to warp away from the Motsu gate DJ jumps into system. I got my Disrputor primed and ready to point. He drops gate cloak and I get lock, but I couldnt stop him warping, we guess he is all stabbed up. We pursue course to try find him. D Scan shows him moving away from us, I head back t the gate while the rest try to follow that direction.

Im at the gate at 0, and DJ arrives and jumps through. I follow and tell ym fleet to come to Motsu. Againt I target him, but I was unable to stop him warping. I head to the Caldari navy station and wait at the undock point for him to leave station. He comes out in a probe and waits for the undock timers to expire. I lock and start firing, but he docks up again

We decide not to waste any more time and head back, he can play these games with someone else.

Friday morning we have a similar scenario with DJ again, but this time he came to us. He si reluctant to fight us still however. And he warps around systems and the like. This goes on for a while and I tell the other guys to break off, he doesn’t want to play our game at the moment. I sit 250km from Sankkasen 7-10 while my guys take a break and stuff. I just watch DJ warp in, fly around, warp off, leave system, warp back, etc. I just stay stationary, hes not going to fight me, and I have no intentions to chase him.

About an hour passes and I am still 250km from the station. DJ is still docking, undocking and warping around the system like a headless chicken. He eventaully changes ship into a Vexor and warps to the Tintoh gate. I sit up expecting him to warp to one of his book marks; I am not disappointed, and he lands 90km from my, and warps away again towards the sun.

I am now expecting him to warp to tintoh, and warp to 90km of a new bookmark he made at 90km from me, putting him right on top of me. Again I was not disappointed and he arrive at 12km on my right. I play AFK just a little bit longer until he is in scram range, then its too alte for him to run.

I get point, and call for binger to undock, and anyone who is back on ts to log abck on and warp to me to get a killmail before I pop this guy. Jay logs on and fleets up.

The fight is going well, I'm in his armour and hes just finishing off my shields, he's now got a 1600mm plate to eat through. As expected hes danage slows down on my armour. Blade arrives on scene, and I tell him point him cause my capacitor is near empty from using my neuts on him, and him neuting me. Luckily Binger gets point before I lose all cap.

My cap is empty, but my guns are still pounding him, gotta love projectiles. DJ is trying to run away, he's not neuting blade. I get a little cap back and scram DJ, just in case Binger caps out. The Vexor goes pop, giving us a small token kill. Hopefully we will build on that momentum over the next few days.

Saturday has arrived and Manokin is in Sannkasen with a few of us. He undocks from the station, and so do I. When I undock, Manokin is 250km off the station in a Wolf, I warp to a saved bookmark and arrive 70km from him. With my microwarp drive active I persue. He is burning away from me, I reach 40km and he warps off.

I warp back to the station, and discover I forgot drones, lucky he didn’t fight me. I warp off to a station to get them. Manokin pursued me to this station, well within docking range so I ignore him and dock up and collect my drones. I undock and warp back to 7-10.

JayB is now active, and Manokin has warped to the station at 0. I wait to see if he's going to fight. He's doing a DJ; docking, undocking, and warping. I just wait again, he will fight when he's ready, or has backup; with 7 other Nasty Russian Team online I assume a fleet is being assembled..

20minutes pass, and he is still doing that DJ madness thing. Eventually he undocks and warps to a 200km bookmark, putting him 50km from me, he is stationary, seemingly trying to bait me to fighting him again. My spidey sense is tingling and ask a friend in Halaima to tell me if any from the Nasty Russians Team is in local. Gut instinct has served me well, he reports back that there is 4 in local. “Great... ” I thought, a fleet of 5 for 1 cruiser. Eyes on the fleet say a Typhoon and 2 frigates, and faction ship, and I face palm. I consider if I can kill the wolf before that other fleet arrives to kill me

Manokin must have got impatient and starts burning towards me. I warp off, and warp back at 100km. JayB heads to Halaima to check them out. Again Manokin burns towards me. I warp off, and warp to 0 on the station. He peruses me, I let him burn through my shields and dock when he reaches armour. JayB said they spotted him, but 5 ships vs a curse just inst enough apparently, and the whole fleet jumped into Sankkasen, not sure what to think when they bring that many people, and those types of ships for 1 cruiser.

When its clear to them that they ain’t caught me, a few jump back into Halaima to try and get JayB, now that they got like 7 vs 1 curse. They are desperate for a kill, they bring out interceptors and all to try and find him. By now they have reinforced the the other members online, and he is up against 7-8 hostiles. Its bit pointless for him to try and fight that so he safes up and logs.

Quite a few hours left of the day so its not over yet. figured it was time for an update here while it was quiet.

Lin