The SOV warfare is heating up in January. Below is a summary of the major developments in Null SOV over the last few days.
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Sunday, January 4, 2015
Sunday, November 30, 2014
PL Titan Death in V-3
V-3 was the site of quite a large battle, and morale victory over PL. In which both a PL titan and Aeon hilariously died in B-3.
The fight in V-3 began when a PL Machariel gang was roaming in the system, was alerted that recently out of Reinforced tower was once again being targeted. The ships doing the targeting were 3 dreads. PL and allies quickly got bubbles on the dreads, and prepared to warp in a response fleet to clear them from the field. At this point, the Machariel fleet warped in and began the slow process of taking them out.
As the first Dreadnought went down, PL had an internal conflict over how to proceed. Some wanted to being in caps and supercaps, some wanted to just continue using subcaps. It was at this point that a well-known PL member ordered a cyno lit so they could bring their titan in.
This proved to be a costly mistake for Hurley of North Eastern Swat, one of the more infamous titan pilots in the game. As the Moros being targeted by the PL titan on field was tanked against their vaunted Doomsday weapons. The original pilot who ordered the cyno allegedly panicked, and caused enough chaos to allow Black Legion to respond with a mass of ships that materialized on field through a nearby wormhole and primaried PL and it's caps/supercaps. The situation was made worse for PL as HERO joined the fight with a force of subcaps.
It was during this time that the forces engaging PL were able to deploy cyno inhibitors. This was to block the return of PL forces that had retreated from the fight temporarily to regroup after the mass entrance of BL and BNI.
As PL forces died caught between 500 hostile pilots and the cyno blockade, a combination of rage and congrats filled the chat channels of all involved. The final value of the titan kill alone comes to ~146 Billion ISK.
NC. did also join the fight in the system and began clearing the field of HERO subcaps in short order. In what seems to be more of a search for content than a revenge for PL. The Aeon which died was caught by HERO tacklers on the way out of V-3, and quickly wiped off the field by a combined Black Legion and HERO response.
Over the several hours in the fight took place, HERO, N3, PL, BL, and many others warped into the system to shoot stuff. Several hundred ships have been destroyed as of the time of writing. I must say, the coordination and execution of this fight for most involved was incredible. This is what EVE is about. And judging from the fact that a lot of the pilots involved are in their first month of EVE, this bodes well for the future of finding good fights, and the game in general.
The fight in V-3 began when a PL Machariel gang was roaming in the system, was alerted that recently out of Reinforced tower was once again being targeted. The ships doing the targeting were 3 dreads. PL and allies quickly got bubbles on the dreads, and prepared to warp in a response fleet to clear them from the field. At this point, the Machariel fleet warped in and began the slow process of taking them out.
As the first Dreadnought went down, PL had an internal conflict over how to proceed. Some wanted to being in caps and supercaps, some wanted to just continue using subcaps. It was at this point that a well-known PL member ordered a cyno lit so they could bring their titan in.
This proved to be a costly mistake for Hurley of North Eastern Swat, one of the more infamous titan pilots in the game. As the Moros being targeted by the PL titan on field was tanked against their vaunted Doomsday weapons. The original pilot who ordered the cyno allegedly panicked, and caused enough chaos to allow Black Legion to respond with a mass of ships that materialized on field through a nearby wormhole and primaried PL and it's caps/supercaps. The situation was made worse for PL as HERO joined the fight with a force of subcaps.
It was during this time that the forces engaging PL were able to deploy cyno inhibitors. This was to block the return of PL forces that had retreated from the fight temporarily to regroup after the mass entrance of BL and BNI.
As PL forces died caught between 500 hostile pilots and the cyno blockade, a combination of rage and congrats filled the chat channels of all involved. The final value of the titan kill alone comes to ~146 Billion ISK.
NC. did also join the fight in the system and began clearing the field of HERO subcaps in short order. In what seems to be more of a search for content than a revenge for PL. The Aeon which died was caught by HERO tacklers on the way out of V-3, and quickly wiped off the field by a combined Black Legion and HERO response.
Over the several hours in the fight took place, HERO, N3, PL, BL, and many others warped into the system to shoot stuff. Several hundred ships have been destroyed as of the time of writing. I must say, the coordination and execution of this fight for most involved was incredible. This is what EVE is about. And judging from the fact that a lot of the pilots involved are in their first month of EVE, this bodes well for the future of finding good fights, and the game in general.
PL COMMS
Avatar Kill
Aeon Kill
Sunday, November 23, 2014
VENGEANCE IN VENAL – Black Legion vs CFC
The clashes between CFC and BL in Venal have now reached a new apex, in a clash over 2 moons recently. Both sides fielded large Tengu fleets, with Black Legion bringing slightly more of the now-ubiquitous ships while the CFC supported theirs with triage Chimeras and a moderate-sized “Boot” fleet of Archons. The battle itself was over two “money” moons in the 8CIX system, one belonging to Black Legion and another to Out-of-Sight, a Russian alliance living in Venal who are allied with BL.
Monday, November 10, 2014
BL VS CFC in W6PV-Y
Late in the evening on the 10th November 2014 a small fight occurred between Black Legion. and members of the Clusterfuck Coalition.
Black Legion. set themselves up at engagement range from the IMK-K1 gate in W6VP-Y, put up HIC bubbles and waited for the CFC forces to jump in. Black Legion. had already set up a cyno inhibitor on the gate to counter any possible CFC escalation and all logistics had the cyno inhibitor pre locked.
A great video from a Tengu point of view, and then also from the carriers when they entered the field.
At the end of the video you can hear Elo Knight, head FC of Black Legion. calling for Titans etc to be logged in. This is due to Glibbs in his Archon being caught 30km off the gate due to a bubble, which had gone down while he was in warp, but STILL catches him off the gate.
Elo Knight, thinking of the rest of the fleet, leaves Glibbs to his doom and instructs them to jump to 3A1P-N. However on the other side of the gate a lone Sabre Interdictor bubbles the large Black Legion. fleet, including the rest of the Carriers. The Interdictor dies but his bubble remains. Intel from Glibbs and the Interceptors in Q-CAB2 say that the CFC have brought in Supers and a couple of Titans.
Thats when Elo Knight gives the call for BL Titans to log on, anticipating the CFC fleet coming through to take down the tackled carriers and Tengu fleet.
They destroy Glibbs, but while that is happening a lone Loki Strategi Cruiser, with a single medium smartbomb manages to destroy the Sabres bubble. An emergency cyno is lit in H-PA29 and the order comes for the Carriers to jump. The rest of the fleet wait for the last carrier to safely jump out then casually warp off and set destination to home.
While not the largest fight in EvE, the fact that the CFC missed a chance to take out a number of the Black Legion. Carriers makes it interesting. It also highlights that you should never laugh at a medium smart bomb in your fleet, it saved a lot of ISK in potential losses last night!
In W6VP-Y the battle report indicates a roughly 2 billion ISK win for Black Legion. over the CFC however if you then take into account the loss of Glibbs Archon in QCAB-2 which was valued at 1.7b in ISK then you come out pretty flat in the ISK lost battle.
Full battle report
Video on reddit/r/eve
Black Legion. set themselves up at engagement range from the IMK-K1 gate in W6VP-Y, put up HIC bubbles and waited for the CFC forces to jump in. Black Legion. had already set up a cyno inhibitor on the gate to counter any possible CFC escalation and all logistics had the cyno inhibitor pre locked.
A great video from a Tengu point of view, and then also from the carriers when they entered the field.
At the end of the video you can hear Elo Knight, head FC of Black Legion. calling for Titans etc to be logged in. This is due to Glibbs in his Archon being caught 30km off the gate due to a bubble, which had gone down while he was in warp, but STILL catches him off the gate.
Elo Knight, thinking of the rest of the fleet, leaves Glibbs to his doom and instructs them to jump to 3A1P-N. However on the other side of the gate a lone Sabre Interdictor bubbles the large Black Legion. fleet, including the rest of the Carriers. The Interdictor dies but his bubble remains. Intel from Glibbs and the Interceptors in Q-CAB2 say that the CFC have brought in Supers and a couple of Titans.
Thats when Elo Knight gives the call for BL Titans to log on, anticipating the CFC fleet coming through to take down the tackled carriers and Tengu fleet.
They destroy Glibbs, but while that is happening a lone Loki Strategi Cruiser, with a single medium smartbomb manages to destroy the Sabres bubble. An emergency cyno is lit in H-PA29 and the order comes for the Carriers to jump. The rest of the fleet wait for the last carrier to safely jump out then casually warp off and set destination to home.
While not the largest fight in EvE, the fact that the CFC missed a chance to take out a number of the Black Legion. Carriers makes it interesting. It also highlights that you should never laugh at a medium smart bomb in your fleet, it saved a lot of ISK in potential losses last night!
In W6VP-Y the battle report indicates a roughly 2 billion ISK win for Black Legion. over the CFC however if you then take into account the loss of Glibbs Archon in QCAB-2 which was valued at 1.7b in ISK then you come out pretty flat in the ISK lost battle.
Full battle report
Video on reddit/r/eve
Monday, November 3, 2014
Black Legion resets N3
blbot@jabber.black-legion.us ***Broadcasted Message from cain_atticus *** : Nulli Secunda, Nulli Tertius, Gentlemen’s.Club, The Predictables, Fraternity (soontm),BPA, The Unthinkables, Jokers, DARKNESS., Bora Alis, The Kadeshi are reset, make you sure you guys relog before going out roaming to update standings.
Black Legion and N3 worked together for many purposes, take Delve, have good fights and just for good fun. Now this relationship has come to an end. Black Legion is deploying back to Venal, where they will ”chill” for a bit to see how EVE changes after the patch.
Black Legion and N3 worked together for many purposes, take Delve, have good fights and just for good fun. Now this relationship has come to an end. Black Legion is deploying back to Venal, where they will ”chill” for a bit to see how EVE changes after the patch.
Friday, October 31, 2014
Nyx's get nixed.
In a rather unfortunate turn of events, two spuercaps died within hours of each other. Mostly due to poor tactical choices by their respective pilots. One BL Nyx was downed by a bomber run in Nakis.
The travel fit Nyx was hit by a mixed groups of stealth bombers in Nakis on Oct 30th. The most embarrassing thing about this kill is the complete lack of any substantive tackle on the attacking fleet's side. Which leads one to wonder how this even happened.
To quote the apparent owner of the ship:
And just to pour some salt in the wound. . .
Nyx 2 was even stranger. A Nyx was sitting on a POS in GE- apparently with no FF on the POS, and even though the Nyx was fit for combat, it lacked any serious protection in the form of bombers, drones, or subcap support. And was just happily camping out assigning fighters. Not that any of that matters when you get dropped on by a dozen titans of various makes. It seems PL wanted to exploit a golden opportunity to cause some chaos in one the most infamous systems in Catch for lulz.
The travel fit Nyx was hit by a mixed groups of stealth bombers in Nakis on Oct 30th. The most embarrassing thing about this kill is the complete lack of any substantive tackle on the attacking fleet's side. Which leads one to wonder how this even happened.
To quote the apparent owner of the ship:
And just to pour some salt in the wound. . .
Nyx 2 was even stranger. A Nyx was sitting on a POS in GE- apparently with no FF on the POS, and even though the Nyx was fit for combat, it lacked any serious protection in the form of bombers, drones, or subcap support. And was just happily camping out assigning fighters. Not that any of that matters when you get dropped on by a dozen titans of various makes. It seems PL wanted to exploit a golden opportunity to cause some chaos in one the most infamous systems in Catch for lulz.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Black Legion./N3/PL vs. CFC in 4-ABS8
CFC and allied BL., NC., along with PL forces skirmished in a string of systems on October 28th.
The battle started in 4-ABS8 and as it progressed spilled over into J-CIJV
BL, Nulli.and PL have been seen hunting together in search of good fights, quite a lot recently. This was no exception. A long term CFC presence in 4-ABS8 system in Pure Blind was the target of a coordinated strike from the opposition late Tuesday night.
With 4-ABS8 being within a few jumps of both highsec and lowsec, it has always been a system that people pass through on their way through certain areas of null. Pure Blind being right in the heart of GSF SOV, it's no coincidence that anti-CFC forces struck there.
The fight began when NC. and PL forces moved into the system presumably from a lowsec staging point, And as more CFC forces came on grid, BL was called in to help.
The fight kicked off when CFC and S2N forces arrived on grid with the J-C stargate at roughly the same time: the CFC Tengu fleet landed at zero, while the S2N Cerberus fleet landed at a perch. Reagalan ordered interdictor bubbles deployed between the two fleets to keep S2N from retreating to J-C, and his fleet maneuvered to the side so that he could warp on top of the hostile force. S2N beat him to the punch, and the fight started when the S2N Cerberus gang warped in on him at zero. Antimatter was loaded in the CFC Tengus, and the order to tackle everything was given just as the CFC Cawk fleet, numbering approximately 100 pilots, arrived on grid about 50km away from the Cerberuses. Heavy losses among the Cawk fleet ensued, as dozens of assault frigates charged headlong into the fire of Rapid Light Missile Launchers to swarm the Cerberus gang and pin them down. Another broadcast went out to CFC jabber services for a Celestis fleet under Lemba.
As the fight escalated and the anti-CFC decided to evac it's forces, the battle was rejoin in the nearby system of J-CIJV when they were caught in gate camps. With both sides suffering some major losses. With several hundred pilots involved at the low end, the number and value of ships lost overall is a staggering more than 600 ships and ~70 Billion ISK.
With all the changes in Null recently, from Kadeshi and NC. seizing former CFC SOV, and the BRAVE/PROVI war being called off, it was only a matter of time before someone tried to pull a mass op against the CFC to try and capitalize on their withdrawal from PB, Querious, and Delve.
The battle started in 4-ABS8 and as it progressed spilled over into J-CIJV
BL, Nulli.and PL have been seen hunting together in search of good fights, quite a lot recently. This was no exception. A long term CFC presence in 4-ABS8 system in Pure Blind was the target of a coordinated strike from the opposition late Tuesday night.
With 4-ABS8 being within a few jumps of both highsec and lowsec, it has always been a system that people pass through on their way through certain areas of null. Pure Blind being right in the heart of GSF SOV, it's no coincidence that anti-CFC forces struck there.
The fight began when NC. and PL forces moved into the system presumably from a lowsec staging point, And as more CFC forces came on grid, BL was called in to help.
The fight kicked off when CFC and S2N forces arrived on grid with the J-C stargate at roughly the same time: the CFC Tengu fleet landed at zero, while the S2N Cerberus fleet landed at a perch. Reagalan ordered interdictor bubbles deployed between the two fleets to keep S2N from retreating to J-C, and his fleet maneuvered to the side so that he could warp on top of the hostile force. S2N beat him to the punch, and the fight started when the S2N Cerberus gang warped in on him at zero. Antimatter was loaded in the CFC Tengus, and the order to tackle everything was given just as the CFC Cawk fleet, numbering approximately 100 pilots, arrived on grid about 50km away from the Cerberuses. Heavy losses among the Cawk fleet ensued, as dozens of assault frigates charged headlong into the fire of Rapid Light Missile Launchers to swarm the Cerberus gang and pin them down. Another broadcast went out to CFC jabber services for a Celestis fleet under Lemba.
As the fight escalated and the anti-CFC decided to evac it's forces, the battle was rejoin in the nearby system of J-CIJV when they were caught in gate camps. With both sides suffering some major losses. With several hundred pilots involved at the low end, the number and value of ships lost overall is a staggering more than 600 ships and ~70 Billion ISK.
With all the changes in Null recently, from Kadeshi and NC. seizing former CFC SOV, and the BRAVE/PROVI war being called off, it was only a matter of time before someone tried to pull a mass op against the CFC to try and capitalize on their withdrawal from PB, Querious, and Delve.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Black Legion Phoebe Orders Leaked
On Saturday, 25th October 2014, an alliance meeting was called for Black Legion. to issue orders in preparation for Phoebe release on the 4th November 2014.
The first point made was that Infomorph Psychology and Synchronizing are to be trained to level 4 at least to make rapid movement across the universe easier and so that BL. can re-deploy quickly if required. It will help BL. retain a certain amount of mobility post patch and seems to be something a lot of the alliances are thinking of.
Orders also still stand for everyone to move everything to Tartoken by the 29th October, so that when the next move op happens, everyone will be moving from Tartoken with the cyno chain that will be supplied by BL.. As to where they are going, a document was released to BL. members that showed the pro’s and cons for regions including:
Curse - which would put BL. in the locality of INIT, HERO, PROVI and PL but may cause TZ issues and put them a long way from the CFC, if they are still going to try and take them down.
Lonetrek - which is nice and close to Jita and within hit range of a number of CFC regions and certain low-sec entities for content but any gains in CFC space would likely be temporary as CFC will probably turn up in force.
Venal - which is right in the middle of CFC space and would make for good content creation with lot’s of people to fight and there will be enough PVE content and moons to set up a good source of income. However this will make movements for caps difficult as all mid points would be in hostile space and PVP content would depend totally on CFC as no one else is around to fight or, if not blueballed by CFC, they will likely get blobbed when the CFC DO decide to fight. Also high potential for hellcamped stations by bored CFC members.
Fountain Core – close to ‘money moons’ which will either generate ISK for the alliance if flipped or generate fights if others come to defend. A number of outer CFC alliances would be close by. PVE content for individuals would be good through Angel and Serpentis missions as well as exploration. However this will need a mid point in hostile space for JF’s to get to high-sec and there is a low chance of either getting hellcamped by CFC or their local allies.
The document also asks four main questions:
As to where they are going, it seems like BL. are looking either towards Fountain Core or Venal, once that is decided, with the help of an alliance vote, the BL. leadership have declared that this will be the alliance home for the foreseeable future.
BL. seems to have also come to terms with the fact that the old EvE ways will be dying after this patch and that the will need to adapt and improve in certain areas to help them be successful in what will soon be a totally new game of EvE. BL. have said they will stop looking at the entire universe and just focus themselves on certain regions and their local area. Hopefully this will increase their effectiveness as an alliance.
BL. leadership have promised that they do have a plan for the alliance for the long term. This will be unfolding over the weeks after the Phoebe patch and when they know what the new ‘occupancy affected SOV’ will entail.
Orders in regards to supers are to not sell them, infact the BL. orders are to buy as many as they can possibly get their hands on. Titans are prefered over supercapitals and Leviathans are the preferred titan of BL. at the moment.
The first point made was that Infomorph Psychology and Synchronizing are to be trained to level 4 at least to make rapid movement across the universe easier and so that BL. can re-deploy quickly if required. It will help BL. retain a certain amount of mobility post patch and seems to be something a lot of the alliances are thinking of.
Orders also still stand for everyone to move everything to Tartoken by the 29th October, so that when the next move op happens, everyone will be moving from Tartoken with the cyno chain that will be supplied by BL.. As to where they are going, a document was released to BL. members that showed the pro’s and cons for regions including:
Curse - which would put BL. in the locality of INIT, HERO, PROVI and PL but may cause TZ issues and put them a long way from the CFC, if they are still going to try and take them down.
Lonetrek - which is nice and close to Jita and within hit range of a number of CFC regions and certain low-sec entities for content but any gains in CFC space would likely be temporary as CFC will probably turn up in force.
Venal - which is right in the middle of CFC space and would make for good content creation with lot’s of people to fight and there will be enough PVE content and moons to set up a good source of income. However this will make movements for caps difficult as all mid points would be in hostile space and PVP content would depend totally on CFC as no one else is around to fight or, if not blueballed by CFC, they will likely get blobbed when the CFC DO decide to fight. Also high potential for hellcamped stations by bored CFC members.
Fountain Core – close to ‘money moons’ which will either generate ISK for the alliance if flipped or generate fights if others come to defend. A number of outer CFC alliances would be close by. PVE content for individuals would be good through Angel and Serpentis missions as well as exploration. However this will need a mid point in hostile space for JF’s to get to high-sec and there is a low chance of either getting hellcamped by CFC or their local allies.
The document also asks four main questions:
Do BL. want to take SOV post Phoebe?
Do BL. want to continue taking on the CFC blob, maybe without friends like the rest of N3 to help?
Where will BL. find the most fun content?
Do BL. decide to take a easy option, like Lonetrek? Or a riskier strategy like moving out to Venal?
Do BL. want to continue taking on the CFC blob, maybe without friends like the rest of N3 to help?
Where will BL. find the most fun content?
Do BL. decide to take a easy option, like Lonetrek? Or a riskier strategy like moving out to Venal?
As to where they are going, it seems like BL. are looking either towards Fountain Core or Venal, once that is decided, with the help of an alliance vote, the BL. leadership have declared that this will be the alliance home for the foreseeable future.
BL. seems to have also come to terms with the fact that the old EvE ways will be dying after this patch and that the will need to adapt and improve in certain areas to help them be successful in what will soon be a totally new game of EvE. BL. have said they will stop looking at the entire universe and just focus themselves on certain regions and their local area. Hopefully this will increase their effectiveness as an alliance.
BL. leadership have promised that they do have a plan for the alliance for the long term. This will be unfolding over the weeks after the Phoebe patch and when they know what the new ‘occupancy affected SOV’ will entail.
Orders in regards to supers are to not sell them, infact the BL. orders are to buy as many as they can possibly get their hands on. Titans are prefered over supercapitals and Leviathans are the preferred titan of BL. at the moment.
Black Legion and CFC clash in HBD-CC
Over the past week, NPC Venal residents Out of Sight. (OOS) have been attacking various CFC-held towers in the region. Yesterday CFC alliance Circle-of-Two (CO2) caught them sieging a tower in 6W-HRH and dropped by to introduce themselves. Today a similar incident erupted into a brawl in HBD-CC between Black Legion. (BL) and CFC forces which incurred an estimated 26 billion ISK in losses among the involved parties.
Prior to the battle OOS dreads were spotted jumping out of their staging system by CO2 scouts and soon after attacking a RAZOR Alliance tower in HBD-CC. CO2 and CFC military leadership were made aware of the situation, and separate broadcasts went out to CO2 and to the greater CFC to form fleets at 17:53 EVE Time. While the CFC formed up a large Harpy fleet in its military capital YA0-XJ under Reagalan, CO2 assembled a dedicated tackling fleet of approximately 20-30 pilots, of whom only one got through the first bridge before the insertion cyno ship was destroyed.
While another CO2 cyno ship was en route to HBD-CC, the CFC Harpy fleet got set up on a titan in YA0-XJ and began moving its own cyno to D-SKWC - one jump out of HBD-CC, which itself was outside of titan range from YA0-XJ. Known to the CFC, but deemed irrelevant to the situation at hand, BL was in the middle of a planned State of the Alliance meeting with approximately 250 pilots logged into their staging system of Tartoken.
Cyno ships for both CO2 and the CFC eventually reached their target systems and at 18:02 EVE Time tackle was confirmed; CO2 interdictor pilot Zuquar Bonaparte had single handedly held down the OOS dreadnoughts for the better part of five minutes while evading hostile fire. The rest of the CO2 tackle fleet bridged in and promptly littered the field with interdiction spheres, guaranteeing the dreadnoughts would not escape. The CFC Harpy fleet, by now numbering approximately 180 pilots, arrived at 18:10 and began focus fire on the dreadnoughts one at a time. Reagalan directed fire first onto the two Moroses, which each took several minutes of sustained fire to kill. During that time CO2 members Sebastian Saintfruqsuin and gigX prepared their titan characters to execute drive-by doomsdays.
Sebastian jumped his Ragnarok in first at 18:22 and instantly destroyed a Naglfar before warping off to a safe spot. gigX followed two minutes later, also obliterating a Naglfar, but there were now combat probes on directional scan and BL cyno characters had entered local. In the time it had taken the CFC forces to kill the OOS dreadnoughts, BL had formed up a Tengu fleet led by Elo Knight and arrived to pounce on gigX's exposed Avatar.
The CFC Harpy fleet immediately engaged the BL Tengu fleet, focusing fire on their Scimitars, while the Tengu fleet promptly headshot Reagalan's FC character. Lyris Nairn took over the CFC Harpy fleet, contiuning to focus on BL support ships while sirens started blaring on CFC jabber and mumble services reporting the tackled titan. BL was reported to be forming a capital fleet and supercapital forces from Northern Coalition(dot) and Pandemic Legion were reported logging in. BL lit a cyno on grid and a single triage carrier made it on grid before the cyno ship was destroyed; meanwhile, heavy TiDi was reported in YA0 due to the number of pilots logging in. The CFC was marshaling its own capital and supercapital forces as well as forming up additional subcapital fleets: a Baltec fleet under Dabigredboat and a Celestis fleet under Reagalan, who had been podded during the fight.
BL and CFC subcapital forces continued to brawl near the tackled titan over the next several minutes while pilots all across EVE were being urged to pile into fleets in preparation for what might have easily escalated into a huge supercapital slugfest. Whether due to temperance or lack of confidence, that fight never came. Instead, the CFC capital fleet led by kcolor arrived on grid to engage the BL tengus and the tackled titan's doomsday timer came off cooldown whereupon the BL triage Chimera was promptly destroyed. Having lost most of its logistics and its second FC during the brawl, as well as suffering from an AFK fleet member having errantly received fleet boss, the CFC Harpy fleet disengaged and fled the field to regroup while the CFC capital fleet cleaned up. In the time it took for the CFC Harpy fleet to warp off, reassemble in a safe spot, and arrive back on grid - with Lyris Nairn now in a fleet member's borrowed Harpy - the BL tengus had also fled the field and were reported to be going home. The CFC Harpy fleet remained on grid to cover the extraction of the titan, then of the capital fleet, before also heading home via the CFC jump bridge network.
Prior to the battle OOS dreads were spotted jumping out of their staging system by CO2 scouts and soon after attacking a RAZOR Alliance tower in HBD-CC. CO2 and CFC military leadership were made aware of the situation, and separate broadcasts went out to CO2 and to the greater CFC to form fleets at 17:53 EVE Time. While the CFC formed up a large Harpy fleet in its military capital YA0-XJ under Reagalan, CO2 assembled a dedicated tackling fleet of approximately 20-30 pilots, of whom only one got through the first bridge before the insertion cyno ship was destroyed.
While another CO2 cyno ship was en route to HBD-CC, the CFC Harpy fleet got set up on a titan in YA0-XJ and began moving its own cyno to D-SKWC - one jump out of HBD-CC, which itself was outside of titan range from YA0-XJ. Known to the CFC, but deemed irrelevant to the situation at hand, BL was in the middle of a planned State of the Alliance meeting with approximately 250 pilots logged into their staging system of Tartoken.
Cyno ships for both CO2 and the CFC eventually reached their target systems and at 18:02 EVE Time tackle was confirmed; CO2 interdictor pilot Zuquar Bonaparte had single handedly held down the OOS dreadnoughts for the better part of five minutes while evading hostile fire. The rest of the CO2 tackle fleet bridged in and promptly littered the field with interdiction spheres, guaranteeing the dreadnoughts would not escape. The CFC Harpy fleet, by now numbering approximately 180 pilots, arrived at 18:10 and began focus fire on the dreadnoughts one at a time. Reagalan directed fire first onto the two Moroses, which each took several minutes of sustained fire to kill. During that time CO2 members Sebastian Saintfruqsuin and gigX prepared their titan characters to execute drive-by doomsdays.
Sebastian jumped his Ragnarok in first at 18:22 and instantly destroyed a Naglfar before warping off to a safe spot. gigX followed two minutes later, also obliterating a Naglfar, but there were now combat probes on directional scan and BL cyno characters had entered local. In the time it had taken the CFC forces to kill the OOS dreadnoughts, BL had formed up a Tengu fleet led by Elo Knight and arrived to pounce on gigX's exposed Avatar.
The CFC Harpy fleet immediately engaged the BL Tengu fleet, focusing fire on their Scimitars, while the Tengu fleet promptly headshot Reagalan's FC character. Lyris Nairn took over the CFC Harpy fleet, contiuning to focus on BL support ships while sirens started blaring on CFC jabber and mumble services reporting the tackled titan. BL was reported to be forming a capital fleet and supercapital forces from Northern Coalition(dot) and Pandemic Legion were reported logging in. BL lit a cyno on grid and a single triage carrier made it on grid before the cyno ship was destroyed; meanwhile, heavy TiDi was reported in YA0 due to the number of pilots logging in. The CFC was marshaling its own capital and supercapital forces as well as forming up additional subcapital fleets: a Baltec fleet under Dabigredboat and a Celestis fleet under Reagalan, who had been podded during the fight.
BL and CFC subcapital forces continued to brawl near the tackled titan over the next several minutes while pilots all across EVE were being urged to pile into fleets in preparation for what might have easily escalated into a huge supercapital slugfest. Whether due to temperance or lack of confidence, that fight never came. Instead, the CFC capital fleet led by kcolor arrived on grid to engage the BL tengus and the tackled titan's doomsday timer came off cooldown whereupon the BL triage Chimera was promptly destroyed. Having lost most of its logistics and its second FC during the brawl, as well as suffering from an AFK fleet member having errantly received fleet boss, the CFC Harpy fleet disengaged and fled the field to regroup while the CFC capital fleet cleaned up. In the time it took for the CFC Harpy fleet to warp off, reassemble in a safe spot, and arrive back on grid - with Lyris Nairn now in a fleet member's borrowed Harpy - the BL tengus had also fled the field and were reported to be going home. The CFC Harpy fleet remained on grid to cover the extraction of the titan, then of the capital fleet, before also heading home via the CFC jump bridge network.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Black Legion stands against CFC in YA0-XJ
A skirmish has broken out in YA0-XJ wherein Black Legion stands against CFC on it's own. And as one would expect, chaos has ensued. Current totals stand at ~19 Billion ISK in losses for both sides. With 72 ships lost for BL, while the CFC has lost 278. Nearly half the standing forces involved appear to have been destroyed.
(UPDATE: Since time of writing, it appears as though BL has been taking steady losses, with over 13 Billion ISK out of the 21 Billion total lost between both sides.)
It appears as though GSF members were ratting in the system when BL decided that it was time to jump on them and try to score a quick win. The CFC reacted by trying to bring in overwhelming force.
(UPDATE: Since time of writing, it appears as though BL has been taking steady losses, with over 13 Billion ISK out of the 21 Billion total lost between both sides.)
It appears as though GSF members were ratting in the system when BL decided that it was time to jump on them and try to score a quick win. The CFC reacted by trying to bring in overwhelming force.
Circle-Of-Two
The Bastion
All these Alliances where arrayed against BL, and it appears that BL though losing in terms of ISK lost has scored a moral victory of sorts.By exploiting apparent mistakes by GSF members to bloody their nose in a staging system. Although most of the CFC losses appear to be due to pilots reshipping and rejoining the fight repeatedly after being killed.
All these Alliances where arrayed against BL, and it appears that BL though losing in terms of ISK lost has scored a moral victory of sorts.By exploiting apparent mistakes by GSF members to bloody their nose in a staging system. Although most of the CFC losses appear to be due to pilots reshipping and rejoining the fight repeatedly after being killed.
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