AAR: Shut Up and Take My Ships!

When most people fight, one side looses, one side wins. Usually the winner wants another go, and the looser wants to slink away and lick their wounds. Occasionally though, the looser just keeps on coming at you, and tries to constantly redeem themselves. That is what Absolute Zero tried to do for nearly 7 hours on Wednesday.

Note: For this first fight I was not present and the first paragraph is based on what I heard afterwords and battle reports. The rest of the night I was present.

It all started off with two Myrmidons baiting in a site in our home system, with two Guardians and misc DPS sitting inside their C4. We decide to engage the Myrms at the site and force their fleet to jump in and as they jump in we bubble them and split the fleet in half. A Myrm and Guardian die in the site. As we chase them back into their hole we kill a Myrm and Cane on the C4 side.

Two to three hours latter we see movement from them again, they are using our high sec static. So I grab an anchorable bubble and put it on their C4 in line with the high sec. Now, if anything warps from the high straight to the C4, it will be caught nearly 30km off the hole. After some time, a Vigilant and Harpy jump in from high sec, but they don't warp to the C4, instead opting to orbit the high sec, with the clear intention to fight on there. We don't want to play games with them jumping out to safety though, so we force them to make a decision: we warp a rapid light Cerberus at range from the high sec and try to blap the Harpy. Naturally, he tries to burn out and tackle our Cerberus, but he underestimates the rapid light DPS in a Wolf-Rayet effected system, so he panic warps off, straight to his home hole of the C4. As expected, he lands in the bubble, right next to my Pilgrim and he dies easily. Almost immediately after he dies a Helios decloaks next to the Harpy wreck. I am not sure why he did while I was sitting there, but it dies with a little prompting. A brief while later we do the same thing, but to an Arbitrator.

Such a pretty wreckage field

A half hour latter we are still staring at a Vigilant, which is still orbiting our high sec. We are in the middle of debating of trying to bump him off the hole but before we can make a move he bounces to a planet and warps to the C4, completely circumventing my bubble, and then jumps home. We have scouted their side before and we knew they had a cloaked Falcon and a Curse plus misc DPS in the POS, so we had no qualms at jumping after them with our gang. When we got to the other side though we found two Curses and two Falcons, which completely suppressed our entire fleet. Thankfully we only lost a Stratios.

After that small welp we resettle into kiting and sniping positions on the C4 and bottleneck them into their hole. We had most of the fleet cloaked all over the hole but we had a single Orthrus uncloaked nearly 50km off the hole. Another half hour after the last engagement a Daredevil jumps in and tackles our Orthrus, as well as a Cloak Proteus uncloaks and tries to kill it. the Daredevil underestimates, again, the rapid light DPS and melts, leaving a Proteus stranded off the hole alone, surrounded. He dies shortly afterwords.

After a three hour break, and hunting invisible Orcas we return to find them trying to roll the now verge C4 connection with a Hictor. Reacting quickly we get a Vigilant on the hole and use 90% webs and stop the Devoter they were using from getting back to the hole. Our Vigilant refits to a Phobos and bubbles up on the C4 waiting for the pod to come back. But now comes the icing on the cake: the pod jumps out to high sec, and returns 15 minutes latter in a Dominix. Without a second thought or a scout, he blind warps to the C4, straight into the bubble, and dies, and is podded.

After 7 hours of killing, we had destroyed 2.5 billion from one group, all thanks to their own over eagerness and bad scouting. All for the cost of a single 397 mill Stratios. It was a fun night, but kind of sad as well, as it was almost no contest.



Blöd