| Author |
Topic |
Baddias Mongo
Caldari
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance |
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:24:00 - [ 31]
thx for the report, very nice :) |
Wigglytuff
Caldari
Perkone
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:24:00 - [ 32]
Very nice report. Also funny how even dictors can survive DDs.  |
Gnulpie
Minmatar
Miner Tech
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:26:00 - [ 33]
Wonderful report!
That shows class. |
dastommy79
Caldari
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas. |
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:27:00 - [ 34]
One of the best battle reports i have read. GJ RAAA |
Murtough Galaktikus
Gallente
Black-Wing
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:36:00 - [ 35]
Nice Report. Also no smacktalk so far  |
grindel
Caldari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:37:00 - [ 36]
Thank you for the report, and the support to IAC. Hats off to Bob and their allies for a good fight. Obviously a lot of good, experienced fighters and commanders on both sides. |
Guma
Minmatar
LOCKDOWN.
C0NVICTED |
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:46:00 - [ 37]
Good stuff to read, lov this... need more |
NATMav
Caldari
F.R.E.E. Explorer
The Initiative. |
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:52:00 - [ 38]
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Patch86
Gallente
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance |
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:52:00 - [ 39]
Great report. Good job guys! |
xBlood
Minmatar
Section XIII
Cursed Alliance |
Posted - 2007.09.30 17:57:00 - [ 40]
Awesome dude. |
Manina Boat
Minmatar
Republic Military School
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:02:00 - [ 41]
ET, on the basis on your previous posts in CAOD I had you down as a bit of an illiterate tw@t with an e-peen issue but this report has somewhat changed my opinion of you.  Congrats - very nicely executed and well written-up. |
Kozak
Caldari
The Collective
Against ALL Authorities |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:09:00 - [ 42]
 Originally by: Wigglytuff
Very nice report.
Also funny how even dictors can survive DDs.
Only AAA dictors can suvive DD. So, the rest of you, don't even try it. |
Levka
Caldari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:14:00 - [ 43]
Great stuff Thug. It always amazed me how much organization goes in to running military operations and just everyday logistics of running a large alliance.
P.S. Goons take a lesson on how to properly make a post on CAOD. Loose the "WE RULE, YOU SUCK" template for your posts :) |
Moonlight Express
Amarr
Moonlight Express Inc.
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:16:00 - [ 44]
Great report. That's why we read these forums. Respect and well done.
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Myz Toyou
Minmatar
the Organ Grinder and Company
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:20:00 - [ 45]
Edited by: Myz Toyou on 30/09/2007 18:23:53 Originally by: Levka
Great stuff Thug. It always amazed me how much organization goes in to running military operations and just everyday logistics of running a large alliance.
P.S. Goons take a lesson on how to properly make a post on CAOD. Loose the "WE RULE, YOU SUCK" template for your posts :)
Comes from a BOB member  , if you had acted in the past like your try to advice the goons now, you would have maybe half the ppl against you atm. Great report btw. |
Keidre
Minmatar
Capital Ships Inc.
Intrepid Crossing |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:22:00 - [ 46]
BoB can nay preach about honour |
Jhyme
Amarr
Igneus Auctorita
GoonSwarm |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:25:00 - [ 47]
Originally by: Levka
Great stuff Thug. It always amazed me how much organization goes in to running military operations and just everyday logistics of running a large alliance.
P.S. Goons take a lesson on how to properly make a post on CAOD. Loose the "WE RULE, YOU SUCK" template for your posts :)
Proper battle report? Like this? I think we all have a thing or two to learn from Evil Thug =). Great work and keep it up! Best, Jhyme |
Seleene
Minmatar
Body Count Inc.
Pandemic Legion |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:32:00 - [ 48]
Nice banner.  To preface things just let me say that, yes, when things went down I was indeed a bit 'speechless'. Those that know me probably consider that more of an accomplishment than killing a titan. To say that the enemy got lucky would be an understatement. Also, to say that it was "all luck" would be very unfair as well. So, here is what I saw / know: I had waited until the lag in local had cleared up before I logged in Thulsa. Sel was logged off and I was running another account with a dread getting ready to do some tower siegeing. Thulsa loaded with minimal lag and warped in to his safe spot and cloaked. I aligned him under cloak for the MC tower in system and then spent a couple mins helping organize the wing my dread was in. After a couple mins I had planned to warp Thulsa to the MC tower in system for the day simply due to the large number of bad guys in local because... ya just never know! About a minute before I was ready to go into warp (I'm not sure how long Thulsa had been online but it felt like less than five mins?), I saw a pair of red squares warp in on my screen. My first thought was that I was looking at my dread character client and, "Bah, some idiots are about to get roasted by the POS gunners." After a second I realized that this was on Thulsa's screen! Both red squares were interdictors (as that was the overview I had on) and were about 12k off of me. Now, at this point I was not really scared just more, "WTF?" I was not in a gang yet (paranoia) and there was only one other person in MC with this particular safe spot. I immediately called for a gang invite on TS as a third ship (did not seem to be a dictor) warped in. This ship almost immediately de-cloaked me and was blasted to hell by the smart bombs a second later. I initiated warp and was very quickly bubbled. Even at this point I was still not 'scared' but I realized that it was only going to be second before... yep, there they are - a whole ton of bad guys. Well, time to fire the DD and move out. Click - BOOM. Bubbles down, lots of things exploding…. almost in warp and I'm.... Bubbled?? It was at that moment I realized that one of the interdictors had somehow survived the DD. Try to imagine what that was like, folks. Was I lagged? Had the guy just somehow warped in just after the DD went off? Well, ain't this some ****! LOL!! By now I was starting to lag out and was being bumped by at least 2-3 ships that I couldn't see. This, more than anything else, was what caused the ship to go down. At least 2 times I managed to initiate warp, but was being bumped out of alignment. Thulsa was shield tanked and just as he hit about 20% shields I heard over TS that the entire allied fleet was warping in. I started to broadcast for armor and shields but I'd seen enough combat and knew my ship well enough to understand what was about to happen. I'd been reporting my status over the command channel and finally just said, "Forget it. I'm gone. Make them pay for it."An errie sense of calm shock hit at that moment. I did hit the screenshot key a couple times but for some reason nothing was captured (really sorry, folks). As the ship went into deep armor I just leaned back in my chair, put my hands behind my head and let out a long breath as the hull caught fire. |
Seleene
Minmatar
Body Count Inc.
Pandemic Legion |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:32:00 - [ 49]
Edited by: Seleene on 30/09/2007 18:32:45The lag at this point was incredible. The Raggy was still on screen with half of the modules missing even though I knew it was dead. You know that awesome state of play when your ship just sits there burning for a while taunting you? Well, after a minute or so I sat back up, found a belt and spammed the warp a few times. After nothing happened for about five minutes I simply logged Thulsa off and continied to listen to TS. Over MSN, Tholariam reported “We are making them pay dearly for that… if it’s any comfort.”It wasn’t. My mind was still trying to understand what had just happened. The next few hours finally presented a clear picture that allowed me to wrap my mind around the loss. You see, I’m not a covert ops pilot. I never realized that you can actually scan out a super capital in less than 20 seconds with maxed out skills / rigs, etc… I’m betting there are a lot of people who, before this happened, didn’t realize it either. Then there was the matter of the tanked Interdictor. Wow. Who would have seen that one coming? Over the last couple days, it’s been very easy now (in hindsight) to understand what happened. It involved no small degree of skill and luck. There will be no petition of any sort. It was a brilliant level of planning and taking a chance and ET’s people deserve every accolade given to them for its execution. While obviously I’m not happy about this, it’s still a pleasure to have such ruthless enemies in such a complex game. Obviously this sort of thing won’t happen again so you’ll have to find another way next time. A few interesting notes to wrap up: Thulsa’s pod actually did warp out to that asteroid belt before I logged him out so he’s safe and happily flying a Vagabond for a bit. Through some miracle, the titan wreck lived through the battle. Even more unbelievable was that an MC pilot managed to get to the wreck before anyone else and loot it. Nearly every piece of the shield tank survived (some 8 billion in fittings) along with two of the officer smart bombs. Nearly all of the loot and salvage from the 14 enemy capital wrecks were donated directly to MC from our allies on the field. Yes, losing a titan sucks. For some alliances it might be the end. For the MC, it’s simply a reason to work harder, learn from mistakes and do better. I think our history this year is a testament to that commitment. The fight goes on, brothers and sisters of EVE. See you in space. |
Mestor Riklar
Amarr
M. Corp
-Mostly Harmless- |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:43:00 - [ 50]
First of all, very nice report Evil Thug.
But the report that captured me the most was yours Seleene, so props to you for that. I have never lost anything worth more than 300 million, but I can still relate to that hands-behind-head watching hull burning feeling that you conveyed really well.
Thank you both for the good reads. |
dastommy79
Caldari
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas. |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:49:00 - [ 51]
nice posts by both sides. Is this CAOD?  |
Evil Thug
Minmatar
Rage and Terror
Against ALL Authorities |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:51:00 - [ 52]
I guess Seleene is just pwnd me by class in "Battle reports thread"  See you on the battlefield, gentlemens. |
Seleene
Minmatar
Body Count Inc.
Pandemic Legion |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:56:00 - [ 53]
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Sith8
Gallente
Rage and Terror
Against ALL Authorities |
Posted - 2007.09.30 18:59:00 - [ 54]
Nice reports Thug and Sel. I´m still upset I had to be at work that day  |
INZi
Minmatar
coracao ardente
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 19:02:00 - [ 55]
great report ET. thanks and gj to you all |
Frygok
Minmatar
The Littlest Hobos
Ushra'Khan |
Posted - 2007.09.30 19:02:00 - [ 56]
Evil Thug and Seleene - The Han Solo and Princess Leia of EVE! You two should team up and rule the galaxy. |
Altair Mogwa
Minmatar
D00M.
Northern Coalition. |
Posted - 2007.09.30 19:04:00 - [ 57]
o/ Enemys, Allies, and those whom play with respect and fun.
Great report and mental picture of all that occurred. The setting up and planning from -A- and friends, to the normally unmentioned and forgotten steps of running multiple accounts as an alliance leader which play into the end result. I'll bet money DD tanked dictors will be on the checklist to both have, and strategies against.
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Nez Perces
Amarr
Metatron Inc.
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 19:06:00 - [ 58]
Yeah thanks Seleene for your side of it.. great read also.
Most of us will never get to fly one of these behemoths, its great to hear in detail from those who have used it in anger. Kudos to you both.
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Death Church
Caldari
RONA Corporation
RONA Directorate |
Posted - 2007.09.30 19:07:00 - [ 59]
Thank you! great read! |
ISD Tsuki Kiyuu
Caldari
ISD Interstellar Correspondents
|
Posted - 2007.09.30 19:08:00 - [ 60]
Thanks for your side of things Seleene. This thread is a great read. |
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