My rage in Great Wildlands

So, catching up form the last entry:

We hang around the Great Wildlands area for a few months still.

One of the highlights was meeting dawuu, I say highlights, but it actually involved a lot of rage.

Battle Summary for Q2FL-T, 2011-04-01 23:28 - 23:28

We were camping gates in Q2FL and Dawuu was running the pipe in a tempest looking for some action whilst having a Scimitar as backup.

He passed us once already, and we took note that he came back. The next time he passed up we planned a trap. We went 1 jump further into Great Wildlands and planted a bubble on the gate to drag him to us 80km of the gate, for when he eventually comes back.

So, we were waiting for him now, all cloaked up in stealth bombers and DPS ships, 5 minutes pass and our scout reports that Dawuu is approaching.

We out number him, we out damage him, and we have out thought him, victory will be ours.

He enters system, we hold cloak. We frantically spam D-SCAN to spot him coming in warp. He appear on D-SCAN and we hold our cloak, praying he has warped to 0 on the gate for our bubble to work.

He lands within the bubble, and the order is given to engage. 4 bombers and a sabre decloak and start laying waste to the tempest. Things are looking good, his shield are dropping quite nicely, and we are sure he is shield tanked because of the scimitar support.

He doesn’t take long for the scimitar to land and start repping the tempest. Primary is switched to that scimitar. We burn after the scimitar, and when in range we get a scam and web on it, whilst lobbing it with torpedoes. I am shocked to see how fast the scimitar is still moving towards the gate, we arnt going to be able to kill it fast enough I thought, his shield are going down, but not in quick enough/.

The scimitar deaggresses and jumps through, we quickly turn out attention back to the tempest which , a few seconds later, warps out because we were too concerned with that logistics ship.

Rage is building up at this point, but I keep it bottled up at this stage to try and get that tempest. He is still in system.

I run D-SCAN to see where he is going. I got him towards the outbound gate. I warp there and tell my fleet to wait in case he doubles back.

As soon as I enter warp, I notice that the next gate is 40+AUs away. Well outside D-SCAN range. The error I just made made me face palm. I tell my guys to run D-SCAN and find him at a moon, or customs office, maybe a belt or on the planet. I turn and warp back to my fleet and get stuck in the bubble... more face palms were involved.

Burning to 0 on the gate I am running D-SCAN and find him at the customs office. I enter warp and tell my fleet to hold until I get point.

I arrive at the customs office, he is here! This disaster of an ambush can still be saved! I full burn towards him with my micro warp drive to get point while my fleet aligns.

I am just reaching full speed, and he warps, towards the gate. I am getting a little frantic on coms at the stage and advise my fleet that he is inbound, jump in when he does and get point. I pursue course.

I land at 0 on the gate, he is here, and so is my fleet, we are holding fire. For readers that are unaware of aggression and gates, if we engaged him at this gate, we would not be allowed to jump through for about a minute because of recent aggression. And if he did not engage us, he was free to warp through at his leisure which will make him home free.

I jump through to catch him on the other side. His scimitar is at 0 ready to jump through to him. I start annoying the logistics ship, pointing it and shooting it. Eventually the tempest jumps through, “Jump, and get point” is repeated over and over by me on coms, he appears and we start the procedure over again, lock it up, and kill it.

This instance of the fight went a little differently. A few of my guys get a little too close, and within a minute we are -1 stealth bomber and -1 sabre.

At that stage I call it quits. Everyone is advised to break off and warp out.

I congratulate Dawuu on local for a good fight and wish him well.

This all happened months ago, and it still annoys me that he got away. We had a trap, more man power, and more damage, yet with bad calls on my part and with luck or skill, Dawuu managed to get away with 2 kills.

Battle Report

And so ends this story.

Linost

ECM is awesome.

I took Fibs, Sakura and Kimire out on a roam today through lowsec. I jumped into my Falcon and put on the mantel of Fleet Commander for this roam.

Isoma Constellation

 

4 jumps into lowsec and we end up at Sujaremto. D-Scan shows a hurricane nearby, I dispatch my minions to test the belts. I check out the guys in local while I wait for replies.

Sakura calls out on comms that he has visuals on the hurricane and it is engaging. The order is given to warp to Sakura at 0 and assist. The name the pilot is called out and I flag that corp as hostile, local immediately shows 2 hostile from that corp in the system. I arrive on the field at distance and see Kimire and Sakura chasing the Hurricane, fibs is dropping out of warp and engaging.

I de-cloak and shut the hurricane's Targeting abilities down, we now have an toothless Hurricane to poke. The hurricane is fast, my guys aren’t able to stop the ship properly. Spamming D-Scan now is showing new contacts warping in, I give the order to withdraw. We pass through Tama without a problem, ignoring the belts as I figure that system to be just too busy to take out time with.

In Kedama, we find another Hurricane. Same situation as above, except this guy was a lot faster than us, and he was able to easily kite the battle cruisers in my gang. He wasn’t able to do much with the perm-a-jam I got going on, so he continued to moan on local about how gay falcons are. I tell my fleet to move on, since they cant catch him.

The next several jumps where quiet, kimire noticed that we were being followed though, pointing to one of the guys in local and it did seem like we where being followed, it would explain the rapier we occasionally see on D-Scan too. I tell the fleet to burn towards the gate and fly blind for the next few jumps.

We land in Pavanakka, with no sign of being followed. There is 1 other person I local, maybe we will get lucky. I send the fleet to scout the belts, 5 minutes in our stalker appears on local, and a Rapier briefly flashes on D-Scan. We wait to see what they are going to do, and I see the rapier leaving through the other gate. “Maybe he wasn't following us” I thought.

A few minutes later the rapier pilot rejoins local in a Dominix. We are all up for this fight. Sakura finds him first and calls out, I tell everyone to get to Sakura at optimal and fire, I leave warp and immediately start cycling the ECM mods on the dominix, eyeing local like a hawk expecting 80 new locals to join. I can jam him, but not 100% of the time – he has been fitted with ECCM mods.

We are getting through the tank of the dominic gradually, but not quick enough, they have deployed heavy drones which is causing havoc to Kimire. Kimire's Thorax is lost in the fight, unable to warp out during one of the cycles I couldn’t jam him. We try without her for a few minutes longer, but we cant break his tank - I'm sure we lost near 50% of our damage with her death, Thorax cruisers are monsters.

We disengage, I need to stay on the field a bit longer to jam the Dominix until what’s left of my fleet gets out and bail myself to a safe spot. We congratulate each other over local and move on our separate ways. GJ Xenomorphea.

We called it a night with that last battle, satisfied that with a few more weeks of practice we can get decent kills.

So bringing this post in full circle, ECM is awesome, as it nullifies the enemy, and when things go pear shaped it can let fleet members get out safely.

Lin

Introduction

About me

In EVE my name is Linost, and I am CEO and founder of the MRA corporation in EVE. My time on eve is coming up to 2 years now. Most of my experiences has been staring at asteroids mining them.

Recently however I been snapping out of the trance and starting to do a lot more of PVP. Im sure this is what this blog will consist of mostly - my learning curve of PVP.

Infamous EVE Online Learning Curve.

About my corp
MRA Corp was founded as an extension of a multi-gaming clan with the same name which has started playing eve.

The corp grew into quite a relatively large contender for high sec ore in the Kantanen Constellation. After our first war-dec we start training combat skills so we can fight back. We had to buy out of our first war however. The second war we fought back, but we didn’t get any kills, the war was dropped however without a ransom.

The next few wars we are victor!

With the release of Tyrannis I notice a sharp decline in mineral prices, and so we abandon mining and make money from mission whoring instead. In recent month we have started flying in lowsec for a few fights. We are becoming more active in eve again after half the corp being busy with World Of Tanks. Will hopefully have a good few candidates for roams more often now.