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I'm going to be busy for the next few days, so here's something to tide you over until I get back - a Battle Report from a few days ago.

The following fight takes place in Black Rise.

After being cockblocked by some T3s in a wormhole, we took a Shield BC fleet out - 6 Battlecruisers, along with a sole Scimitar. Setting destination to Black Rise, we decided to hit a few low sec entry systems to see if anyone was going on. Caught a few Battleships in Akidagi and then ran into a PODLA Tengu who decided to engage us in Martoh. We almost had him a few times (ex-corpmate who joined us in Vigilant was 1km off webbing him) but he got away. Then, in local:

[ 2011.08.17 02:00:58 ] Brutis Kahn > gf

[ 2011.08.17 02:01:02 ] Robert Mason > gf

[ 2011.08.17 02:01:08 ] Khronoin > gf

[ 2011.08.17 02:01:15 ] Suleiman Shouaa > gf

[ 2011.08.17 02:01:21 ] Suleiman Shouaa > 100mn ab tengu with dual webs?

[ 2011.08.17 02:01:30 ] Brutis Kahn > only 1 web

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:04 ] Brutis Kahn > I take it you guys are blue to damned nation?

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:12 ] Grog Drinker > blue?

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:16 ] Grog Drinker > whats that?

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:22 ] Brutis Kahn > well, I'm just wondering

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:30 ] Brutis Kahn > since they're pos bashing one system over in a gang you could easily rape

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:31 ] Robert Mason > we have no blues

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:35 ] Brutis Kahn > and you're not killing them :P

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:41 ] CannibalCorpseZor > bl.. ue? never heard of

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:44 ] Suleiman Shouaa > Wait what

[ 2011.08.17 02:08:51 ] Suleiman Shouaa > We've been busy with you :(

[ 2011.08.17 02:09:12 ] Brutis Kahn > 2 maels, 3 ravens, mega, harb, phoenix

[ 2011.08.17 02:09:20 ] Brutis Kahn > tempest manticore

[ 2011.08.17 02:09:26 ] Brutis Kahn > notm oving

[ 2011.08.17 02:09:32 ] Suleiman Shouaa > System?

[ 2011.08.17 02:09:40 ] Brutis Kahn > iralaja

[ 2011.08.17 02:09:42 ] Brutis Kahn > p7 m11

[ 2011.08.17 02:09:46 ] Suleiman Shouaa > Want to join us?

[ 2011.08.17 02:09:52 ] Suleiman Shouaa > We're repping then going in

[ 2011.08.17 02:10:06 ] Brutis Kahn > you mind if I shoot from a distance? :P

[ 2011.08.17 02:10:13 ] Brutis Kahn > Not that i don't trust you, but you don't ahve blues

Awesome, lots of targets! Initial intel is slightly off - they also had a Chimera, Scorpion Navy and Tempest with him.

We quickly reship (Vigilant -> Drake), get a decent warpin on the POS bashing fleet and start working through them. Initially, everything is going fine, we're carving through them fairly quickly, with the Chimera unable to keep the Battleships up under our DPS whilst our Scimitar is able to keep us all topped up nicely. At some point the Phoenix manages to warp off - with him being in Sieged Mode we're unable to point him when we land and with all the chaos going on we don't notice him moving until it's too late. The Chimera is kept tackled by our Drakes whilst we work through their support, eventually driving or killing them off.

Focusing on the Chimera now, we have him in half shields when their reshipped fleet comes back in - another Chimera along with a few Drakes, a Sleipnir and more Battleships. Swapping to their support again, we start going through them, albeit slower as some of our DPS is forced to warp off as our Scimitar has ran out of cap boosters after 18 minutes of fighting! As he grabs some more, we're still on the field, keeping them distracted with most of our fleet whilst two of our Drakes start looting - reporting that even the Scorpion Navy dropped just junk.

Soon, it's just the heavily tanked ships remaining - the Chimeras as well as a Drake or two and the Sleipnir. We swap to anti-drone duty, working on their Fighters etc. as we try to reduce their incoming DPS. Our Scimitar rejoins us and we go back on the offensive as more of their Battleships arrive - a few Megathrons as well as a Sniper Apocalypse at 100km as well as a Thanatos. Unfortunately, our Shield Harbinger gets scrambled by their Sleipnir and then by a Megathron and goes down.

We take out their Apocalypse in return and start working through their softer support - their Cyclone for example. We're running low on ammunition, even for the Artillery Hurricanes and we're forced to loot from the enemy wrecks whilst keeping their fleet pointed. Our Drake gets scrambled by their Sleipnir, leaving us with only a few Battlecruisers and the Tengu for DPS. Our drones have all been popped at this point but we're still hanging on, dropping their faction fit Scorpion.

We keep poking them, trying to see if we can break any of their tanks but after one of our Hurricanes lands ontop of them accidently, we withdraw, giving the traditional gfs in local as leave after nearly an hour on the field:

[ 2011 08.17 02:19:22 ] Alfaba > Go tuskers!

[ 2011.08.17 02:41:42 ] Alfaba > I like how your looting with drakes while the rest of the fleet fights

[ 2011.08.17 02:59:06 ] Suleiman Shouaa > gf

[ 2011.08.17 02:59:10 ] Steven Case > gf

[ 2011.08.17 02:59:14 ] Khronoin > gf

[ 2011.08.17 02:59:18 ] 2skulls > gf dont go ; [

[ 2011.08.17 03:01:21 ] razorwire420 > gf

Not wanting to disappoint them, I considered our options whilst repairing two jumps out. Luckily, more Tuskers have logged on and are enroute. We get a neutral alt to Carrier down two Curses, one for myself and one for his main and then get another of our Drake pilots to reship to his Curse as well as a guy who lost his ship flying 16 jumps back to our HQ and then 16 back in his new Cane. At the same time, we're joined by a few podla guys in a Cynabal, Drake and Hurricane, giving us a gang composition of 1 Cynabal, 4 Battlecruisers, 3 Curses, 1 Scimitar and a Tengu to take on 3 Carriers + ~10 Support or so. I get in contact with the POS owner who was clearing us on and managed to get a status update on the shields - holding at 37% so they'll be there for a while since it's a Large POS.

Warping back in, we start smashing through their Battleships whilst focusing all the Curses on a single Chimera, keeping him to peak capacitor recharge. After a few minutes of making some headway, they bring in 2 Geddons and an Abaddon. With our Curses lacking multiple TDs and being neutted to hell by their EV-900 drones, they manage to alpha me from low shields and pop another Curse. Our Scimitar runs out of cap boosters and we disengage, after dropping what we can actually break.

We get some more reinforcements from other pirates we know who live close to our HQ whilst we stay on grid with the enemy fleet, 200km off or so. Once all of us are assembled, we warp to one of the wrecks at 0 and go for their Battleships with overheated close range ammo, but they warp off, leaving us with just two Geddons to kill. We hold the last one down and hope they'll back for him, but no luck and he starts Self-Destructing so we pop him. Local chat:

[ 2011.08.17 04:06:23 ] Nexumis > hey guys

[ 2011.08.17 04:06:30 ] Nexumis > u um killed me twice

[ 2011.08.17 04:06:35 ] Nexumis > im sitting at station

[ 2011.08.17 04:06:38 ] Robert Mason > gf

[ 2011.08.17 04:06:47 ] Nexumis > ha ha ha

[ 2011.08.17 04:06:52 ] Nexumis > yeah gf

[ 2011.08.17 04:06:55 ] Calbrin > Sorry, no like FA cynos

[ 2011.08.17 04:06:56 ] Konig Dreizehn > gf

[ 2011.08.17 04:07:07 ] Suleiman Shouaa > FA?

[ 2011.08.17 04:07:08 ] Robert Mason > no genuinly it was a good fight

[ 2011.08.17 04:07:19 ] Nexumis > lol

[ 2011.08.17 04:07:27 ] Calbrin > Yea it was

[ 2011.08.17 04:07:31 ] Calbrin > That was actually a damn good fight

[ 2011.08.17 04:07:36 ] Calbrin > I have mad respect for tuskers

[ 2011.08.17 04:07:38 ] Nexumis > any of u want to bs 1v1?

[ 2011.08.17 04:08:35 ] Calbrin > Yea, I popped an FA cyno or two on station already

[ 2011.08.17 04:08:49 ] Calbrin > they might come hot drop to ruin all our fun

[ 2011.08.17 04:08:55 ] Joe Space > i'll 1v1 something

[ 2011.08.17 04:08:58 ] Calbrin > just a heads up between gentleman

[ 2011.08.17 04:09:17 ] Calbrin > quite frankly I'd like to have a good fight between us but supercarriers suck

[ 2011.08.17 04:09:52 ] Joe Space > i'm in cyna. what are you in?

[ 2011.08.17 04:09:53 ] Suleiman Shouaa > We've had many good fights :)

[ 2011.08.17 04:11:52 ] Robert Mason > Calbrin we didnt bring a super just good old fasioned bc,s

[ 2011.08.17 04:12:10 ] Suleiman Shouaa > Wish we could afford a super :(

[ 2011.08.17 04:12:16 ] C Fernandez > Naw rober, not you

[ 2011.08.17 04:12:17 ] Djakku > if you dont fancy fighting a cynabal ill do a 1v1 in a cane anyone

[ 2011.08.17 04:12:23 ] C Fernandez > I saw an FC cyno sitting on station like he was dual boxing rober.

[ 2011.08.17 04:12:26 ] C Fernandez > err

[ 2011.08.17 04:12:27 ] C Fernandez > FA

[ 2011.08.17 04:12:34 ] C Fernandez > I was thinking FA was gonna hot drop you AND us

[ 2011.08.17 04:12:44 ] Joe Space > lol, i wish

Field at the end, after nearly two hours after we started:

Only half the wrecks shown here :(

Final Battle Report - 28 kills for 4 losses (+1 Curse not on the killboard)

Thanks to PODLA for coming, as well as Sinners. gf gf!

Also, the POS owner sent us 200M for defending his POS, enough to reimburse all losses after we scooped the loot!