A new chain a new set of opportunities. We had just rolled into our new C5 static and was poking around, finding a null sec connection, a K162 C5 and the C5 static. While our scout was coming back from the null sec he spotted a Tengu pop up on DScan. Two to three guys come over and sit on the hole and wait to see what happens. They guessed right and the Tengu jumps back into our static from null, and easily get tackle, but with the yelling on comms you would have thought they got a Marauder, so about 10 more people came running over in whatever they could find.
In the meantime, an Ishtar and Vagabond also appeared on the hole, at this point we realized it was ADHOC who we were fighting, a significantly bigger group than ourselves (as far as member count goes). They only brought the three ships though to combat our, well, blob. The Ishtar and Vagabond go down, as well as the Vagabond's pod, however; the Tengu was able to escape and slip back into null sec.
Knowing ADHOC usually gives good fights, we set out to find where they came from, and quickly realize they live in the K162 C5. We form up a standard armor doctrine: three Guardians with three Rail Proteus, Munnin, Navy Omen, a HAM and Neut Legion, one Jamgu, one Loki, an Ashimmu, and finally a Devoter So 14 people in total. Scout reports three Basilisks with three Artillery Sleipnirs and mixed shield DPS, so kite oriented. We are fairly confident though that between Sensor Damps from the Proteus and ECM from the Tengu we can neutralize their Logistics fairly well, the problem is getting sufficient DPS on top of them as they were now able to burn 70km+ from the hole. A Rail Proteus can only do 300-400 DPS at that range, not much over all.
We jump in and elect to sit on the hole and bet on stupid to see if we can get a kill. We can shoot very far after all, all it takes is some lucky jams and their Logistics getting their range damped too short to repair. Soon enough their Logistics are all at 100km or so while DPS are hovering around 50-70km, but thats still within repair range. They try to do some shenanigans with a Falcon but with Rail Proteus there, a combined minimum of 900 DPS easily overpowers the weakly tanked Falcon, forcing it to warp off.
Our bet on stupid works in the end though, a Barghest, piloted by Asayanami Dei, creator of the U-Boat series. is dragged into our Devoter's bubble so he is a mere 20km off our fleet, while his Logistics are 100km or so and damped. After a little convincing, his Barghest explodes. Obviously I am not on their comms so I have no true idea what was happening, but my guess was he A) didn't ask if our bubble was up or B) miss communication about if the bubble was up or not. Most likely the second one as our bubble was forced to drop shortly before he landed, which allowed for what happened next to happen.
So, a Chimera lands, at zero, on the hole, clearly entered warp as the bubble dropped briefly (so the Devoter could receive remote repairs) so he would not be dragged off. We have a split second of indecision as we try to come to terms what this could mean: He could jump back and forth closing the hole and trapping us, he could be the vanguard to warping more capitals in (Dreadnoughts this time as they couldn't take us directly with their shield ships), or be a combination of the two. With our relative limited experience in fighting capitals in a real fight, we elect to jump back out and collect our thoughts before deciding on a course of action. All we lost in the extraction was our Navy Omen which was off the hole when we jumped.
We think of several things: go back in with same fleet more or less but swap up from Rail Proteus to Blaster and bring a Bhaalgorn to counter the Chimera, bring our own Carrier, bring a Dreadnought plus Bhaalgorn combo, several options spring to mind. Before we could choose and act on said choice, the Chimera jumps back and forth, closing the connection to ADHOC. Guess we just head home now.
Good fight, shame they rolled us out, but good fight.
Blöd
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