Finally, supercap kills

Today I logged on and found people calling for supercapitals > capitals > standard subcap stuff when there was supposed to be a subcap op scheduled. I quickly scouted my new dread home from Pure Blind, where I had had to log after a few hours shooting IAC (yes, that IAC... they're still around apparently) pos in Pure Blind last night. The FC sounded in a hurry, so I was expecting a fight.

We were halfway to Pure Blind when we found out that PL had 5 Red Alliance and Solar Fleet motherships tackled in Geminate and we did the fastest about-face I've ever seen in a capital fleet. We got orders to only shoot the russians and not PL, in a sort of battlefield truce (we have been on the wrong end of similar arrangements before).

Three cynos later we jumped into the fight and started pounding on a hostile nyx, which went down in short order. We had two other motherships warp out and the fifth I never saw, but we also got an aeon and a handful (about 6) of capitals that weren't dead yet.

We lost about three ships, to my knowledge two to russian fighter-bombers and one dreadnaught to a trigger-happy PL titan pilot. There were a few other minor friendly-fire incidents, but all in all we got in and out without any major problems.

http://www.eve-razor.com/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=26986
http://www.eve-razor.com/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=269872

In case you're wondering, no, those deadspace and officer mod prices are NOT accurate.

~pretty~
(most of the red is PL)

New capitals

I'm just about specced for minmatar caps now. I started when the nag got buffed a while back, cried bitter nears when they got nerfed again and said meh, okay when they were re-de-nerfed.

Fittings

Two things are wrong with these. One: the hilarious split range weapons on the naglfar. This is because I can't fit capital cruise missiles yet (or possibly ever -- who wants to waste 21 days of training on that shit). Second, the carrier is not an official fit, either triage or combat, since I'll be using a dreadnaught in any serious capital op. It's designed for non-triage armor rep, such as in a carrier RR group or supporting a battleship gang.

Screenies

CH again

Today we went to D2, the Cry Havoc station system, where we had SBU onligning. We killed a small tower which was unstronted, then warped to the station at various ranges when Cry Havoc warped in on us at 0, dropped a cyno and Red Overlord bridged a fleet in. Local was a little over 250, with about 120 blues. We MWDd out of the bubbles and left the system. The logistics sitatuion this time was different -- we were able to take down enemy targets, but the enemy fleet had brought ewar in the form of about half a dozen scorpions which were jamming our own logi.

This is the ultimate showdown

We've now received an actual "get ready to fight" notice from alliance command. They say that hostiles including IT, Atlas, Solar, RA, IRC, R.OL, Initiative, Tri, White Noice, xdeath and possibly others (as well as pets like COW and GC of course), will be attacking us on as many as 6 separate fronts within the next month.

Coalition map

Fall 2010 map here

Time to get around to posting this, since it's weeks old already. I've been out-of-game doing some real life stuff recently.

I was curious about how the alliances in the galactic south were aligned. Obviously they're all blue to each other (except for providence) but they are still grouped into blocs which have worked together closely in the past. After a small amount of research I edited the sovereignty map to add some color layers to represent existing coalitions and, in the case of the vast east-southeast-south-southwest-west blob, groups of alliances which are traditionally closer to each other.

As of the time of posting this map is already out of date. Ev0ke 's space has nearly all fallen to SOLODRAKBAN and I believe C0ven have reset systematic chaos, which probably means C0ven is no longer part of Stainwagon.

Green: Northern coalition
Blue: IT
Hot pink: Drone lands coalition
Orange: Stainwagon
Red: Southern Coalition
Whitish-tan: Ev0ke and Cry Havoc
Yellow: Providence Holders

How to lose a fleet to superior enemy RR

It is with greatest sadness that I must report the loss of my beloved Apocalypse 'M/R/I 15'. Also my pod.

We were shooting a Cry Havoc ihub with about 40 or 50 when they hotdropped us a bit. I think they had slightly superior numbers (also, 3.5x as many logistics - ouch).

We tried to rustle up some numbers and got a small reinforcement fleet - myself included, having been podded and reshipped to a tempest - and headed back to the target system.

One jump out we warped to the out-gate, the one that went to the destination system, and hit a bubble. The enemy fleet jumped through to us, shortly followed by the friendly fleet which was trapped in the system, and we warped back to the in-gate, then aligned back to the out-gate. We dropped remote rep carriers as the hostile fleet landed on us and were ordered to stay near them, though I somehow managed to end up moving toward the in-gate. The enemy cynoed in their own carriers plus two Nyx, and ours started going down fast. I got in jump range of the gate and possibly had time to deagress and jump, but elected instead to shoot dictors in hopes of saving our capitals (it didn't work).

After getting popped, crashing and relogging

Killboard link - 12 billion lost for 0.25 billion killed.

Gf cry havoc. You guys are awesome.

I win! Also, carebearing

Last month after the first week of epic POS bashing and that fight against evoke/CH/ROL, I somehow ended up with about 160 kills. That's when I found out that my corp had a contest on: Whoever got the most kills, as long as it was over 250, won a fitted gila. So I camped some gates, went on some ops and came out first with 274. Yay me.

That over, and feeling a little skint because I didn't have any way to make money, I moved some carebear shit to Tenal and spent a few days plexing with results as below.

Lewts

I'll save you the math, that's 1.75 billion in maybe four days.

And now it's back down south to shoot more targets. Goons killed a CH titan a few days ago, so apparently evoke and/or CH are still fighting back for some reason.