It's quite normal to clash on the same neighbours. This post is entirely
dedicated to engagements we had with Darkspawn, that live mostly on
1-7B6D, Wicked Creek.
Some other day, we rally a small fleet to roam a bit. HAML Drake, Dual Rep Fleet Stabber, and for some extra leverage, a Kitsune.
On the ARG-3B I see Darkspawn camping:
Cynabal, Taranis, Drake and 1 Unknow.
Now... When you see a gate camp and someone missing, it usually means "Falcon", so we just assumed it.
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| Can't see it?! Just assume it's a Falcon. |
We were underclassed and outnumbred, but we had a plan.
1st step - Send in the Fleet Stabber, drag the enemy gang closer to the gate, force the Falcon to decloak.
2nd step - Bring in Drake and Kitsune, Jamm the Falcon, Jam the Cynabal, kill what you can point.
We would make their ECM worthless!
It went terribly wrong ofc...
1st
stept went fine, they took the bait just nicely like well trained boys,
but when our Kitsune jumped in, it missed all our jamms on the Falcon.
ALL of them! From that point, both Fleet Stabber and Drake died a
painful, jammed death, though the Kitsune survived. We could have called
it a day, but we don't give up easily, we underestimated them once, but
we would go better prepared the 2nd time.
We were prolly too overconfident on this engagement, specially because jams tendo to miss, sooner or later, but hell, sometimes you just gotta go for it! Anyway, we went on pods home and reshiped imediatly.
This
time we sorted 2 Harbingers, 1 Drake, (all with ECCM) and the Kitsune
that remained to keep eyes. Darkspawn pretty much continued their camp,
with no eyes on VOL-MI, so we went for the same tactic descrived above,
just using a Harbinger instead.
As
soon as Harbinger jumps in, the Cynabal, Drake and Taranis prepare for
another quick easy kill, but this time, the Falcon never shows up, even
though we were ready(ish) for it. We managed to get the Cynabal and
Taranis, paying for our previous losses. Payback hurts!
Also seems a Tengu tried killed the Cynabal while we reshiped but failed. We're glad he did failed!
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Another
day, we rounded up 2 Cyclones, a Drake and a Retribution. We went
1-7B6D to see if anything came at our bait Retribution. Fleet holded on the F-QQ5N gate and Retribution went in to poke them
After
5 minutes or so, they sent a Blackbird and a Caracal. Retribution managed to drag both ships to the F-QQ5N and engaged the Caracal. Unfortunatly the
Retribution had to call backup from our main fleet, because jammed he
could not do anything unless dying. Also F-QQ5N is a regional gate, so both Caracal and Blackbird bailed out easily.
Now they knew what we had, no more wild card up our sleeve. What you see is what you get!
We
kept poking them. Fleet sat on stand by on the 1-7B6D gate, while warping station, our Retribution saw they
had undocked a Legion, a Harpy and a Drake! They were rallying up, but
since they knew our fleet, that usually means that we're gonna get
overwhelmed soon. Carebears don't undock unless on much greater numbers.
We started to leave towars other place, when we noticed that they were chasing us. We holded a bit and the Legion jumps into us. Again, it was a regional gate, so he had no problem reaching the gate at 0km. We also had no idea on what was holding on the other side of the gate, but you don't say "No" to a Legion.
We agressed and they jumped into us a Drake, Loki, Blackbird, Harpy and Dramiel.
Blackbird was primary target, followed by Drake and then by Legion. Loki bailed out (fail point on us) and we finished off the Harpy. They primaried BoomEZ on the cyclone, but switched targets when the Retribution came close. The cyclone was just tanking too much for them, though we lost the Retribution.
When we though all was over, another Drake come in solo, and agresses... Now that just gave us an easy gank. The real prize was the Legion worth about 1 Bil
We started to leave towars other place, when we noticed that they were chasing us. We holded a bit and the Legion jumps into us. Again, it was a regional gate, so he had no problem reaching the gate at 0km. We also had no idea on what was holding on the other side of the gate, but you don't say "No" to a Legion.
We agressed and they jumped into us a Drake, Loki, Blackbird, Harpy and Dramiel.
Blackbird was primary target, followed by Drake and then by Legion. Loki bailed out (fail point on us) and we finished off the Harpy. They primaried BoomEZ on the cyclone, but switched targets when the Retribution came close. The cyclone was just tanking too much for them, though we lost the Retribution.
When we though all was over, another Drake come in solo, and agresses... Now that just gave us an easy gank. The real prize was the Legion worth about 1 Bil
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