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Tusker Heavy Assault Gang

RL is getting busy again, so my playtime has gone down and soon will be non existent, at least for the next few months. However, recently we've been trying out more gang compositions in order to mix it up from just kiting around all day and I've been mostly FCing those roams.

Fleet composition is fast armor HACs. On paper it seems similar to Agony's TWEED gang due to quite a few ships featuring in both (Deimoses, Oneiroses, Zealots etc.) but in reality it's different when you've flying them - it's a skirmish fleet setup, designed to skirt around the enemy and pick off tackle etc. rather than dive balls in for every engagement. Of course, this causes problems, for example it means it's more vulnerable to Battleship gangs due to having difficulties getting under the guns, but it's alot more flexible and has the ability to engage gangs that outnumber you without requiring a ton of Logi.

We've frapsed a few of the fights, such as the one below which a member uploaded to YouTube. His piloting was poor as you'll see...

The Horror of Null Sec

So, what have I been up to recently? Beyond chain running plexes in Caldari & Gallente space to earn some ISK, I've been roaming Syndicate, that region of 0.0 situated closest to Hevrice with a few corpmates. No Logi, no ECM, so no handholding, just DPS & tackle, the way things should be done. So what have I killed? Well......read on

WARNING: This piece clocks up at 4500+ words and is over 11 pages long so I suggest grabbing a drink. I also suggest opening a map of Syndicate from the ever useful Dotlan maps in order to track our movements if you're not familiar with Syndicate.

Titan Down

On Superbowl Sunday (not that I follow the sport) a Titan died. Not just any Titan - a ratting Titan, confident in his security. He was ratting in a dead end system, with the only entrance bubbled to hell - almost 300km of bubbles to traverse to even enter the system. Combined with his alliance mates sharing intel channels, reporting any movement around him, neutral or red. He thought he was untouchable. He was wrong.


Why am I discussing it? Well, I was the one who made it happen.

I've already written a Battle Report about this kill, posting it on our internal forums as well as Failheap Challenge. Fellow corpmember Marc Scaurus blogged about it here.

After some poking, I submitted the BR as an article for EveNews 24. It went up a few hours ago.

Enjoy!