Yeah. It was a boring Friday night and all of us were missioning in separate systems, trying to recoup from the last deployment to Branch. Suddenly I spy Jalak and Ruric(2 of my directors) alone in a ventrilo room together, their push-to-talk signals going green alternately. My interest piqued, I dropped down, silent as a stealth bomber.
Jalak: "Yeah, it's been so boring lately. I'm tired of flying one jump, killing some pirates, and making a meagre two million ISK every twenty minutes."
Ruric: "Yeah, I've been mining this fucking Veldspar 'roid for 5 hours straight. When I close my eyes, I can still see all of it's pits and crevasses."
Jalak: "Lets do something. Something fun. Something fabulous. Something...wildly inappropriate. Like a gay orgy."
Ruric: "Wow, we totally sho-"
Securitas: "Stop right there!"
THE REST OF THIS BLOG HAS BEEN DEEMED WILDLY INAPPROPRIATE AND IS CENSORED.
...okay not really.
We were bored in highsec, we weren't making much isk, and we also were itching for combat. So, we hit up our old friends in Ethereal Dawn and suddenly we had landed ourself a job in that most inappropriate of regions; Geminate.
With a click of our collective heels, we headed out to the nearest lowsec and proceeded to wreak havoc on the southern tip of Wildly Inappropriate's space.
If the previous sentence sounded at all impressive, I'm sorry. Most of that space is quite possibly the most empty I've ever seen, not counting those parts of Oasa where you jump 2 hours before downtime and are told that the system has not yet loaded. Thus, "wreaking havoc" has been limited to simply killing some various ratters with our ED friends, except for one notable and very fun instance.
But before we get to that, I want to briefly expand on the insane fun and craziness that has resulted in the recruitment of a certain pilot: Plavis. If you think you have ever met someone who is completely and totally addicted to bombs, Plavis was that person. Not only have I received multiple (and I mean MANY) complaints from our allies and corpmates about his completely crazy bombing behavior when "bombs were not necessary", but I've personally almost died twice as a result of it. And it's not the fact that he's not good at bombing. He is. Very. Very. Very. Very. Very. Good.
Speaking of bombs, on to the main show...
*the lights dim*
It was a dark night in Eurgrana, filled with Stealthers and ED'ers tired after a long day's work, drinking their weariness away. However, one man sits alone, away from all the others, writing crazy and half-brained plans on a piece of paper. Suddenly finishing, he walks over to the others.
Securitas: "Hey guys, lets try something fun."
Everyone: "Not again, Securitas. I have to log."
Securitas: "Seriously guys, this time is different. I want everyone in a stealth bomber in five minutes."
Everyone else moaned and groaned but finally 24 ships sat outside of the station, 16 of which were stealth bombers, loaded to the gills with concussion bombs. One Stealther, who later that night was to become a hero (for about 10 minutes), sat instead in his trusty Blackbird ECM cruiser.
The command came to go and the gang made their way around, ducking into FDZ and losing a bomber in exchange for a Destroyer. People grumbled. It was not an auspicious start to the night. Finally, the fleet commander ordered an advance from FDZ towards the station system of BWF- in hopes that they would get a kill.
Halfway there, the forward scout in an Ares sights a Myrmidon on a gate, and due to bad luck misses him. The chase begins, with the awe inspiring sight of 17(2 more bombers joined) bombers decloaking at every gate before jumping, as well as a Falcon. Finally, the Ares catches up one jump out of BWF, and the glorious FC Securitas orders the fleet to open fire. The ensuing damage only came from 4 bombers, but he still popped inside of 30 seconds.
Having immense foresight, Securitas orders the fleet to get on the BWF- gate in anticipation for the retaliation fleet. A throwaway newbie scout jumps in and reports that yes, indeed, a large, 20-man fleet is waiting on the other side.
FWOOSH!
The gate activates and a single Claw comes in. There is a brief pause before he decloaks and burns back to the gate, only seeing a Blackbird, Huginn, an Ares, and an Atron on the gate. The air is thick in anticipation.
And then...
FWOOSH FWOOSH FWOOSH FWOOSH FWO-FWO-FW-FWWWWOOOOSH. The gate flashes like crazy and enemy's tacklers decloak. Our Huginn, so outnumbered, flees. I could practically hear the enemy tacklers giggling as they pointed the Blackbird.
Tackler 1: "Oh, lol, a blackbird all by itself. Lets shoot it!"
Tackler 2: "OMG yeah. I wonder where the other 20 reds in local are. They're not on scan and all celestials are on scan. That must mea-"
Enemy FC: "Who cares, there's a kill to be had! Fleet, jump jump jump!!!!"
The gate flashes a lot more times and some heavy-hitters decloak in a nice little cluster. By now our Blackbird is giggling in vent as he jams the tacklers on him, just waiting to die.
Suddenly, the command comes. Bomber squad 1 decloaks and bombs.
Enemy Zealot: "Lol, this blackbird is melting. Oh, what are those things. OH CRAP! BOMBOMBOBMOM!!!!!!"
Boosh.
My Nemesis enters warp, ponderously turning while I curse the fact I didn't have enough time to line up a celestial. 50% shields...30%....70% armor....20% armor....60% structure...
Warp drive active.
As I and a few other bombers whizz off into the distance, we see a pair of bright explosions. The rest of the bombers drop their loads and bug out as we tally our losses.
Enemy:
Curse down.
Arazu down. This guy had a faction point too.
Zealot down.
And the pods.
Us:
Nemesis down. (I was dumb and came back)
Manticore down.
Blackbird down. (YAAAY VALATH)
All in all, a successful night. Unfortunately, we didn't kill more (which I think we could have) because bomber waves 2 and 3 fired at the same spot that wave 1 fired at, which was already a 15km dead zone.
This was what the guys in Stealthfield were really waiting for, a demonstration of the power of stealthed ships against a conventional fleet using hit-and-run, baiting tactics, and other such trickery.
In all honesty, it was a really good fight and props to Wildly Inappropriate. for bringing it. The above was written semi-sarcastically, so don't think my head is that big or that WI are bad enemies...they're not and I respect them.
Till next week,
-Sec
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Rest and Making ISK
Well, it's been a while since my last post. In that time, we've finished our successful deployment in Oasa against Shadow of xXDeathXx and friends, doing 1.6 Billion damage and having 85% efficiency. For our first contract ever, that's not too bad.
Immediately after, we had an interested party contact us about deploying to Branch to take on Circle-Of-Two, which we did 2 days after leaving Oasa. In fact, a lot of our pilots were still in Oasa when our forces were in Branch. I thought this would be the easiest contract ever; CO2 are well known for being an "ISK Farmer" alliance and just more carebears. However, they gave us a very (un)pleasant surprise.
We were used to fighting Shadow of xXDeathXx, who are renters and, with a few exceptions, don't really form up to help a buddy who's being shot at by "stupid AFK cloakers." CO2 were a real alliance and thus, if we didn't kill a target fast enough, they'd come and kill us. They also tried baiting us, which worked a few times.
We had deployed to their home system of AH- on the first day, and it seemed a good start. In short order we had killed a Drake and a Myrmidon, with the help of our friends (now alliance-mates) Ammo Inc. However, shortly they started learning how we worked and would form up large gangs (sometimes 20+ with carrier support) and gatecamp us into systems. This, of course, was exactly what we wanted to a certain degree, as it furfilled the contract's intent of making them chase after us instead of ratting and mining.
The next day, I found a Hulk burning off station, pointed it, and quickly killed it. His buddies didn't come and the faction shield booster he dropped paid for about half of all of our losses in the entire campaign.
Over the next couple days, we got more kills, although we were deployed for disruption and the kills were just a bonus. However, I was impressed with CO2's ability to counter us, which proved very effective in some circumstances. They gave us some very good fights, although they did like to smacktalk a LOT. The contract finally ended nicely with a Navy Raven kill, which was done when I was offline.
After we finally returned home from Branch, tired but 400 million ISK richer, we eased into making some ISK to get ready for the next contract, which is still coming up. In the meanwhile, I lead "Secs Fleets" of cheap but effective T1 Cruisers around 0.0. For example, 2 days ago I led a roam into C-J6MT, the Red Alliance "holy land." We killed a Brutix on the way in, engaged on station against a Rokh, 2 Drakes, a Rifter, a Hound, and a Crow (we had maybe 6 T1 cruisers), and killed the Hound. Combined, these 2 kills brought us way above the amount of ISK lost and it was a lot of fun. I thought it couldn't get any better. It did.
Yesterday, we took the same route, although I took a Thrasher instead of an Arbitrator and it was a scheduled roam, so we had maybe 15 in fleet. However, for various reasons only 8 of them ended up in the actual roam. Upon finding C-J boring, we headed down to Curse. In Scalding Pass we almost killed a red hurricane on a gate, but he managed to burn back. Excited, we headed on until we got to HLW-. We all jumped...
...straight into a gatecamp. I saw the ticker "-10.0" and almost freaked out. We were in a Pandemic Legion gatecamp! The masters of PVP in EVE! With that excitement over, I ordered the fleet to primary the Flycatcher who's bubble we were all stuck in. The Flycatcher managed to get out, and we lost 3 ships, leaving about 5 of us in T1 cruisers against 6 Pandemic Legion in Tech II ships. However, I ordered the fleet to get out to a safespot, which they did.
Finally, we warped back to the gate out of HLW- to KLMT-, and...landed in a sling bubble. Then the Flycatcher warped in along with the rest of the Pandemic Legion fleet. We quickly killed the Flycatcher and his pod, followed by the Cerberus and his pod, before mostly dying horribly to the rest of the ships. Still, we were all hooting and backslapping in vent. Not only had we killed 10x more than we had lost, but we had done it against Pandemic Legion, in equal numbers, in Tech I cruisers. I was very proud of my guys. The Battle.
The End. :)
Immediately after, we had an interested party contact us about deploying to Branch to take on Circle-Of-Two, which we did 2 days after leaving Oasa. In fact, a lot of our pilots were still in Oasa when our forces were in Branch. I thought this would be the easiest contract ever; CO2 are well known for being an "ISK Farmer" alliance and just more carebears. However, they gave us a very (un)pleasant surprise.
We were used to fighting Shadow of xXDeathXx, who are renters and, with a few exceptions, don't really form up to help a buddy who's being shot at by "stupid AFK cloakers." CO2 were a real alliance and thus, if we didn't kill a target fast enough, they'd come and kill us. They also tried baiting us, which worked a few times.
We had deployed to their home system of AH- on the first day, and it seemed a good start. In short order we had killed a Drake and a Myrmidon, with the help of our friends (now alliance-mates) Ammo Inc. However, shortly they started learning how we worked and would form up large gangs (sometimes 20+ with carrier support) and gatecamp us into systems. This, of course, was exactly what we wanted to a certain degree, as it furfilled the contract's intent of making them chase after us instead of ratting and mining.
The next day, I found a Hulk burning off station, pointed it, and quickly killed it. His buddies didn't come and the faction shield booster he dropped paid for about half of all of our losses in the entire campaign.
Over the next couple days, we got more kills, although we were deployed for disruption and the kills were just a bonus. However, I was impressed with CO2's ability to counter us, which proved very effective in some circumstances. They gave us some very good fights, although they did like to smacktalk a LOT. The contract finally ended nicely with a Navy Raven kill, which was done when I was offline.
After we finally returned home from Branch, tired but 400 million ISK richer, we eased into making some ISK to get ready for the next contract, which is still coming up. In the meanwhile, I lead "Secs Fleets" of cheap but effective T1 Cruisers around 0.0. For example, 2 days ago I led a roam into C-J6MT, the Red Alliance "holy land." We killed a Brutix on the way in, engaged on station against a Rokh, 2 Drakes, a Rifter, a Hound, and a Crow (we had maybe 6 T1 cruisers), and killed the Hound. Combined, these 2 kills brought us way above the amount of ISK lost and it was a lot of fun. I thought it couldn't get any better. It did.
Yesterday, we took the same route, although I took a Thrasher instead of an Arbitrator and it was a scheduled roam, so we had maybe 15 in fleet. However, for various reasons only 8 of them ended up in the actual roam. Upon finding C-J boring, we headed down to Curse. In Scalding Pass we almost killed a red hurricane on a gate, but he managed to burn back. Excited, we headed on until we got to HLW-. We all jumped...
...straight into a gatecamp. I saw the ticker "-10.0" and almost freaked out. We were in a Pandemic Legion gatecamp! The masters of PVP in EVE! With that excitement over, I ordered the fleet to primary the Flycatcher who's bubble we were all stuck in. The Flycatcher managed to get out, and we lost 3 ships, leaving about 5 of us in T1 cruisers against 6 Pandemic Legion in Tech II ships. However, I ordered the fleet to get out to a safespot, which they did.
Finally, we warped back to the gate out of HLW- to KLMT-, and...landed in a sling bubble. Then the Flycatcher warped in along with the rest of the Pandemic Legion fleet. We quickly killed the Flycatcher and his pod, followed by the Cerberus and his pod, before mostly dying horribly to the rest of the ships. Still, we were all hooting and backslapping in vent. Not only had we killed 10x more than we had lost, but we had done it against Pandemic Legion, in equal numbers, in Tech I cruisers. I was very proud of my guys. The Battle.
The End. :)
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Deploying to Oasa
Alright everyone! It's been a while so here's the catch-up.
On our free contract, Stealthfield and our partner Academy of Shadows deployed to Oasa to hit Shadow of xXDeathXx. We took some losses, but they were mostly from newer players in Celestis' and Maulus' who had never done this kind of work before. We also lost a few bombers when they were headed out, which nearly all died just a jump or two out of empire, as well as a Falcon due to a fluke. We were killing a Dominix off a gate when suddenly an Abaddon jumps through, less than 20k from our Falcon. Good bye Falcon!
However, I noticed that even the people who had never done this before learned very quickly. One couple-week-old player, HarrisonTM, who cannot even fly a covert ops, has learned how to navigate 0.0, to avoid gatecamps, fleet protocol, and how to report intel. It's nothing short of amazing.
Archenom, another fairly new player, has also learned an immense amount. The difference that I have noticed between Day 1 and now is phenomenal. Before, we were losing 2-3 ships a day and one at every confrontation. Now the last ship we lost was a Maulus and that was 3 days ago. Moving on...
We recently discovered that some idiots in xDeath like to run around letting their posses run out of fuel (or forget to reinforce them) so we did them a favor and just removed them ourselves. POS 1 and POS 2 popped fairly quick.
We then met some Atlas guys in the area and decided to work together, crashing a gatecamp (and a Cyclone) The nice tech II salvage paid for one of our bombers.
Finally, we tried an experimental setup and sling bubbled (with a dictor) an Apoc warping to the station. Imagine his surprise when he came out of warp and saw almost a dozens ships decloak. However, one of our fellow atlas pilots didn't keep up transversal and died, and then one of the Arazus (also not Stealthfield) lingered too long to get the pod, and the Apoc's buddies came in and popped him. It was great fun though, and taught us a lot about the value of hitting and getting out right away. Unfortunately, the enemy pod, who was loaded with a full set of +4's, escaped in 50% structure.
Last but not least, in our most heart-pounding (and hilarious) kill yet, we found a Rokh ratting in a belt, had a stealthbomber stay within point range, and snuck our entire fleet up on top of him. The whole time we thought it was a bait Rokh as it was mining with a few mining lasers (they've tried this before), but we found out VERY quickly that it was just an absolute horror of a fail-fit. This was the same guy who orbited the station at 3k in an Ibis using a small smartbomb to try to decloak us. I hit him with a bomb which was fun as he was moving.
Well, that just about wraps up this week! Thanks for reading and fly safe!
On our free contract, Stealthfield and our partner Academy of Shadows deployed to Oasa to hit Shadow of xXDeathXx. We took some losses, but they were mostly from newer players in Celestis' and Maulus' who had never done this kind of work before. We also lost a few bombers when they were headed out, which nearly all died just a jump or two out of empire, as well as a Falcon due to a fluke. We were killing a Dominix off a gate when suddenly an Abaddon jumps through, less than 20k from our Falcon. Good bye Falcon!
However, I noticed that even the people who had never done this before learned very quickly. One couple-week-old player, HarrisonTM, who cannot even fly a covert ops, has learned how to navigate 0.0, to avoid gatecamps, fleet protocol, and how to report intel. It's nothing short of amazing.
Archenom, another fairly new player, has also learned an immense amount. The difference that I have noticed between Day 1 and now is phenomenal. Before, we were losing 2-3 ships a day and one at every confrontation. Now the last ship we lost was a Maulus and that was 3 days ago. Moving on...
We recently discovered that some idiots in xDeath like to run around letting their posses run out of fuel (or forget to reinforce them) so we did them a favor and just removed them ourselves. POS 1 and POS 2 popped fairly quick.
We then met some Atlas guys in the area and decided to work together, crashing a gatecamp (and a Cyclone) The nice tech II salvage paid for one of our bombers.
Finally, we tried an experimental setup and sling bubbled (with a dictor) an Apoc warping to the station. Imagine his surprise when he came out of warp and saw almost a dozens ships decloak. However, one of our fellow atlas pilots didn't keep up transversal and died, and then one of the Arazus (also not Stealthfield) lingered too long to get the pod, and the Apoc's buddies came in and popped him. It was great fun though, and taught us a lot about the value of hitting and getting out right away. Unfortunately, the enemy pod, who was loaded with a full set of +4's, escaped in 50% structure.
Last but not least, in our most heart-pounding (and hilarious) kill yet, we found a Rokh ratting in a belt, had a stealthbomber stay within point range, and snuck our entire fleet up on top of him. The whole time we thought it was a bait Rokh as it was mining with a few mining lasers (they've tried this before), but we found out VERY quickly that it was just an absolute horror of a fail-fit. This was the same guy who orbited the station at 3k in an Ibis using a small smartbomb to try to decloak us. I hit him with a bomb which was fun as he was moving.
Well, that just about wraps up this week! Thanks for reading and fly safe!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
A Fresh Start
Needing some more independence, I split from Ethereal Dawn with two or three others and formed my own corporation, Stealthfield. We're a mercenary black-ops corporation. Our recruitment thread is here, along with all requisite information.
Cheers to a new start.
Securitas
Cheers to a new start.
Securitas
Thursday, July 23, 2009
What a Day!
Alright, so finally I got some more people on in Delve. They're kind of busy, so it was only one at a time, but more had actually made the move. The beginning of the day was quite boring, and I finally meandered into NOL- in search of some fun. Luckily, I found it on the station...an entire FLEET of goons, just sitting there and shooting at eachother.
Very pumped up by this sight, I ran back to my home station and grabbed some bombs. Hands shaking, I warped to my 1st bombing spot at the NOL- Ishukone Corporation Factory. I quickly lined up a shot, dropped a bomb, and warped off. My bomb hit nearly every ship there and took out a dozen or so drones, but I didn't get a single kill. Then, local exploded.
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[00:31:04] Matteyo > OMG THE DRONES
[00:31:05] Jack Gates > not aimed at our battleships and moroses
[00:31:06] Morrigan Shaikorth > MIEN SHIELDEN!
[00:31:08] Jack Gates > these guys are horrible
[00:31:08] DrNeato > haha, that was a great bomb
[00:31:08] Berious > you are all fucked now!
[00:31:10] RobTheRad > help my shields
[00:31:11] Lume V > lmao he killed all your drones
[00:31:16] Ford Cruller > did he actually bomb us
[00:31:19] Ford Cruller > i didn't even see anythin
[00:31:19] Jack Gates > c
[00:31:21] RobTheRad > ya
[00:31:21] Lume V > c
[00:31:24] Jack Gates > a hostile nemesis decloaked and bombed
[00:31:29] Cymoro > booya booya
[00:31:29] RobTheRad > thanks drneato
[00:31:34] Jack Gates > roughly 5km from station?
[00:31:34] Tschkih Npahppayi > broadcast in local for rep
[00:31:40] Berious >Securitas Protector nice bomb brah
[00:31:44] Cymoro > yo dude in nemesis we can get you a frigate
[00:31:51] Cymoro > join in
[00:31:52] Griff Skyshock > haha ED came down here to bomb us
[00:31:53] Griff Skyshock > ARGH
[00:31:58] Berious > ya
[00:32:00] Jack Gates > he should come on the op
[00:32:00] jm24 > 00:30:51 Combat Scorch Bomb belonging to Securitas Protector hits you, doing 3225.6 damage.
[00:32:02] Ford Cruller > IM TRACKIN YOU SAM
[00:32:02] Jack Gates > the nemesis dude
[00:32:03] Lume V > Well it's not like they have their own space to protect.
[00:32:03] jm24 > o noes
[00:32:06] jm24 > O NOES
[00:32:06] Ford Cruller > IM FUCKIN TRACKIN YOU BITCH
[00:32:07] Berious > he killed an iteron
[00:32:09] Lume V > they are freed from the shackles of owning space.
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Encouraged and out of bombs (I did it again, and again, and again), though without kills (they didn't die but it was fun to watch local) I went back and grabbed some more. I ended up bombing them two or three more times before another bomber pilot in Delve logged on. Yelling at him to get from two jumps away to NOL, I loaded up even more bombs.
Together, we took our bombing positions, aimed, and fired. Instantly, the chaos fell behind me as I slipped into warp. I got the damage report and smiled. Any second now, the other bomb would explode....
But it never did. They had set up a trap for me with a cloaked interdictor, however, I had moved spots. Unluckily for Max, my fellow pilot, his own bombing point just happened to next to my old one, and he was caught and killed. No kills for us, but I think I must have destroyed 5-10 mil of tech II drones, and the local chatter was priceless.
Then, regretfully, I had to log off, and came back about 2 hours later.
This time Jalak, a corpmate of mine and an avid Cormorant pilot, was online. I grabbed another Cormorant and off we went. Long story short, we camped the PR to NOL- gate and ALMOST got some kills. I say almost because by some twist of fate Jalak missed his scram range by 500m and a Goonswarm Eris got away in 90% hull.
Then we got jumped by a Crow, and I put that into 10% structure before managed to get away too, and then an enemy fleet jumped in and killed Jalak. Undeterred, I warped back to the gate, engaged yet another Crow, put that into 25% armor, before I was jumped in and killed as well.
Why did I do this foolhardy thing? Well, because my destroyer cost a total of 1.5 million ISK and a Crow costs at least 20 million, or over 10 times as much. If the fleet had jumped in a fraction of a second later, or I had pointed him a fraction of a second longer, we would have come out ahead. But enough whining, today was a great day, even with only 3 or 4 people out in Delve, it was great fun and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
Securitas.
Very pumped up by this sight, I ran back to my home station and grabbed some bombs. Hands shaking, I warped to my 1st bombing spot at the NOL- Ishukone Corporation Factory. I quickly lined up a shot, dropped a bomb, and warped off. My bomb hit nearly every ship there and took out a dozen or so drones, but I didn't get a single kill. Then, local exploded.
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[00:31:04] Matteyo > OMG THE DRONES
[00:31:05] Jack Gates > not aimed at our battleships and moroses
[00:31:06] Morrigan Shaikorth > MIEN SHIELDEN!
[00:31:08] Jack Gates > these guys are horrible
[00:31:08] DrNeato > haha, that was a great bomb
[00:31:08] Berious > you are all fucked now!
[00:31:10] RobTheRad > help my shields
[00:31:11] Lume V > lmao he killed all your drones
[00:31:16] Ford Cruller > did he actually bomb us
[00:31:19] Ford Cruller > i didn't even see anythin
[00:31:19] Jack Gates > c
[00:31:21] RobTheRad > ya
[00:31:21] Lume V > c
[00:31:24] Jack Gates > a hostile nemesis decloaked and bombed
[00:31:29] Cymoro > booya booya
[00:31:29] RobTheRad > thanks drneato
[00:31:34] Jack Gates > roughly 5km from station?
[00:31:34] Tschkih Npahppayi > broadcast in local for rep
[00:31:40] Berious >
[00:31:44] Cymoro > yo dude in nemesis we can get you a frigate
[00:31:51] Cymoro > join in
[00:31:52] Griff Skyshock > haha ED came down here to bomb us
[00:31:53] Griff Skyshock > ARGH
[00:31:58] Berious > ya
[00:32:00] Jack Gates > he should come on the op
[00:32:00] jm24 > 00:30:51 Combat Scorch Bomb belonging to Securitas Protector hits you, doing 3225.6 damage.
[00:32:02] Ford Cruller > IM TRACKIN YOU SAM
[00:32:02] Jack Gates > the nemesis dude
[00:32:03] Lume V > Well it's not like they have their own space to protect.
[00:32:03] jm24 > o noes
[00:32:06] jm24 > O NOES
[00:32:06] Ford Cruller > IM FUCKIN TRACKIN YOU BITCH
[00:32:07] Berious > he killed an iteron
[00:32:09] Lume V > they are freed from the shackles of owning space.
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Encouraged and out of bombs (I did it again, and again, and again), though without kills (they didn't die but it was fun to watch local) I went back and grabbed some more. I ended up bombing them two or three more times before another bomber pilot in Delve logged on. Yelling at him to get from two jumps away to NOL, I loaded up even more bombs.
Together, we took our bombing positions, aimed, and fired. Instantly, the chaos fell behind me as I slipped into warp. I got the damage report and smiled. Any second now, the other bomb would explode....
But it never did. They had set up a trap for me with a cloaked interdictor, however, I had moved spots. Unluckily for Max, my fellow pilot, his own bombing point just happened to next to my old one, and he was caught and killed. No kills for us, but I think I must have destroyed 5-10 mil of tech II drones, and the local chatter was priceless.
Then, regretfully, I had to log off, and came back about 2 hours later.
This time Jalak, a corpmate of mine and an avid Cormorant pilot, was online. I grabbed another Cormorant and off we went. Long story short, we camped the PR to NOL- gate and ALMOST got some kills. I say almost because by some twist of fate Jalak missed his scram range by 500m and a Goonswarm Eris got away in 90% hull.
Then we got jumped by a Crow, and I put that into 10% structure before managed to get away too, and then an enemy fleet jumped in and killed Jalak. Undeterred, I warped back to the gate, engaged yet another Crow, put that into 25% armor, before I was jumped in and killed as well.
Why did I do this foolhardy thing? Well, because my destroyer cost a total of 1.5 million ISK and a Crow costs at least 20 million, or over 10 times as much. If the fleet had jumped in a fraction of a second later, or I had pointed him a fraction of a second longer, we would have come out ahead. But enough whining, today was a great day, even with only 3 or 4 people out in Delve, it was great fun and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
Securitas.
Delve Day One
I and one other wingmate finally arrived in Delve, and after logging in for a quick 30 minute session, I checked the map for "average pilots active" and found that NOL- happily had 30. Smiling, I headed over there and waited on the station with a Scorch bomb. Sure enough, some time goes by and a Coercer undocks. I shrugged and sent a bomb his way, then warped off. I sighed as no damage message informing me I had hit someone came up.
Then I suddenly see a message in local.
Durendale Zukuri > oh no
Durendale Zukuri > my empty itty
What? Then I checked my kills, and sure enough, there was a killmail for an Iteron there. Apparently the Coercer had warped off while an Iteron undocked a second later.
After the Iteron kill, everyone in local began smacking for some odd reason. I thought that you normally smacked after you had killed someone else, not the other way around, but obviously in Delve the rules are different.
Vio Geraci > Behold as the combined forces of the Triumvirate Alliance lay waste to the impotent goonies!
Durendale Zukuri > its me im the one being laid waste to
SamHandwich > sup
Securitas Protector > We're not Tri.
SamHandwich > ima dd you right now
Durendale Zukuri > or a sapce hold ing alliance
Durendale Zukuri > boosh
Wim'sei > We are helpless in the very space we hold while they stand free of POS warfare.
At first I had dismissed SamHandwich's threat of a doomsday as a joke or smack, but sure enough, within a few minutes a Leviathan appeared on scan. I guess us two in Stealth Bombers must be pretty scary, eh? Scary enough to pull a titan, anyway. I wonder what they'll throw at us when the full Black Ops fleet arrives.
I also spotted a neutral (probably Triumvirate) Strategic Cruiser flying around, but I didn't have the firepower to take it down with only two bombers. I soon had to log off, but not before I wasted another bomb on that Coercer.
Then I suddenly see a message in local.
Durendale Zukuri > oh no
Durendale Zukuri > my empty itty
What? Then I checked my kills, and sure enough, there was a killmail for an Iteron there. Apparently the Coercer had warped off while an Iteron undocked a second later.
After the Iteron kill, everyone in local began smacking for some odd reason. I thought that you normally smacked after you had killed someone else, not the other way around, but obviously in Delve the rules are different.
Vio Geraci > Behold as the combined forces of the Triumvirate Alliance lay waste to the impotent goonies!
Durendale Zukuri > its me im the one being laid waste to
SamHandwich > sup
Securitas Protector > We're not Tri.
SamHandwich > ima dd you right now
Durendale Zukuri > or a sapce hold ing alliance
Durendale Zukuri > boosh
Wim'sei > We are helpless in the very space we hold while they stand free of POS warfare.
At first I had dismissed SamHandwich's threat of a doomsday as a joke or smack, but sure enough, within a few minutes a Leviathan appeared on scan. I guess us two in Stealth Bombers must be pretty scary, eh? Scary enough to pull a titan, anyway. I wonder what they'll throw at us when the full Black Ops fleet arrives.
I also spotted a neutral (probably Triumvirate) Strategic Cruiser flying around, but I didn't have the firepower to take it down with only two bombers. I soon had to log off, but not before I wasted another bomb on that Coercer.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Delving Away
Last night, I ordered the move to Delve. Unfortunately, there's not much to say as the route was very boring. I cut straight through AAA space and Goonswarm space, encountered one 10-man roaming gang while leaving Curse, which I easily evaded with my Nemesis, and one gatecamp as I entered Delve. I managed to escape the bubble and get away, but they left before I could drop a bomb.
I'm wondering though, why is Delve so empty? Indeed, I looked at "average number of players" on the map and no system had over 30 players. The only action I got before I had to go to bed was foolishly just-for-fun bombing an undocking Rupture. I didn't kill him.
I also made an idiot out of myself by wasting a precious bomb by clicking the bomb launcher instead of my cloak. Fortunately no one was around to take advantage of it, but I felt stupid nonetheless.
Anyway, I'm now in Delve and looking forward to some action.
Also: whoever invented the stereotype about Goons flying Rifters is an idiot or Goons somehow got their hands on some money. I would have loved to bomb a Rifter or something easy, but all I saw Goons flying was Tech II ships, mostly HACs and HICs.
I'm wondering though, why is Delve so empty? Indeed, I looked at "average number of players" on the map and no system had over 30 players. The only action I got before I had to go to bed was foolishly just-for-fun bombing an undocking Rupture. I didn't kill him.
I also made an idiot out of myself by wasting a precious bomb by clicking the bomb launcher instead of my cloak. Fortunately no one was around to take advantage of it, but I felt stupid nonetheless.
Anyway, I'm now in Delve and looking forward to some action.
Also: whoever invented the stereotype about Goons flying Rifters is an idiot or Goons somehow got their hands on some money. I would have loved to bomb a Rifter or something easy, but all I saw Goons flying was Tech II ships, mostly HACs and HICs.
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