Now this post has been written waiting to get published from basically half an hour after the engagement happened but I was wary of publishing it because it will provide my enemies with some meta game advantage but I thought that as hardly anyone reads it I would publish & the fact that I rarely get the chance to FC I think it is safe to do so.
Right so let me set the scene for you Myself, Wraph & Julian where sitting chilling in the Corp office generally just pissing about waiting for the next war to go live. Stupid Yulai convention stopping us from just murdering these grief tards. Anyway as the war went live the comms panel lit up it was one of our intelligence agents(really just a capsuleer with a booster habit to keep up we paid for info) told us that Double Tap alliance where fleeting up. It looked like these ass holes wanted to fight. A twisted dark smile spread across my face as I told the others the good news.
So we had our IA follow them & let us know what was happening, fleet comp, numbers etc etc. He reported back to me that there where 10 of them in total 2 x hurricanes, 2 x Cynabals, 2 x Ishkurs, 1 x Rapier, 1 x Dramiel & 1 x Scimitar. We were heavily outnumbered with just the three of us about the rest of the guys enjoying a well deserved break spending their hard earned ISK on cheap drink, fast women, potent boosters & anything that could be gambled on though not necessarily in that order. Julian came up with the idea of using RR Battleships & I then decided that we would try to ambush them on a gate. Our IA told us that they were two out of Sobaseki where our HQ is just now so I decided that we would get on to the Viesto gate in Soba & surprise them when they jumped in.
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Right so a little background info about me, my PvP & FC'ing experiences. Basically this would be the first engagement that I would have to FC so saying I was a little nervous is an understatement especially against a bigger & probably more experienced fleet. I had only really started to PvP when I joined The Condemned & Convicted & the only time I had FC'd was the night before on a roam when we caught a loan Interceptor.
Although I knew that Julian & Wraph could both hold their own if I totally fucked up it made it that little bit easier to do.
RESUME
So we landed on the gate & started to orbit at 500m to ensure we had some transversal velocity granted not much in a battle ship but some is better than none. Our IA happily informed us that he was in a Guardian Logistics ship & would be happy to give us some reps for payment. He also managed to wangle up an Oneiros pilot form thin air that we were eternally grateful for. The idea was we were going to spider tank their damage until we could not handle it any more & then get reps so that we could keep the Logistics pilots safe as possible & not use them if that was possible.
We were sat on gate waiting for the enemy to jump in but several minutes passed & nothing happened. So we organised another IA to go in & take a look, just as he got into system all the ships except the Scimitar jumped in. The Rapier was called as primary but soon burned out of range next up was a Hurricane class battle cruiser. We managed to point, web & start to melt it, they had called Jullian primary in his Armageddon class battleship but we were easily spider tanking their damage. Then all of a sudden every single one of them had deployed ECM drones on us & they started to break our locks so the Logistics were called into play.
Thankfully they had not managed to jam all three of us at once & the first Hurricane was kept pointed & it eventually went down.
Hurricane One
By this point all my medium armour maintenance bots had went down so I thought lets play them at their own game & I deployed a wing of ECM-300's. The Dramiel must of been on drone duty as it popped a couple of my ECM drones. After the first Hurricane had went down the only other ship in range was the Hurricane as the rest had pulled range & started to kite us as they should of.
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But this is where I think they made the mistake they started to split their DPS as I was now being attacked by 1 Cynabal, the Hurricane & 1 Ishkur instead of focusing their fire onto one target to kill it they split their DPS which is the worst thing you can do in a fleet engagement especially when the enemy Logistics can rep your whole fleet's DPS no problem.
RESUME
The second Hurricane started to melt a lot faster & you will see why in a minute. This is when the Scimitar jumped in it immediately pulled range from us. Just as the second Hurricane went down.
Hurricane Two
The Rapier, Dramiel, 2 x Cynabal & 2 x Ishkur had tried to get our logistics. I ordered everyone to warp out as the Logistics where not pointed just webbed. So the three battleships start to warp just as one of our Logi pilots calls out he is now pointed. So we warp back in & primary an Ishkur which starts to melt rapidly but just MWD's out of range. The rest of their gang start to scatter to the wind at this point.
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Now I was the only one within point range of the Ishkur but with all the excitement of the battle, the fact that I was FC'ing & winning I might add. I got all excited & forgot to activate my point. To be fair though it was 4am here in the UK so I think all things considered I can be forgiven this time
RESUME
So Wraph had the Dramiel pointed but with all our light drones dead & our big battleship guns we could not hit it even after it had been webbed. We let it go as the rest of his gang had peaced out by now & could of been coming back in anything. I warp the fleet to a little safe spot in space that I like to hide out in when the need arises. There were GF's exchanged in local & some light hearted banter between us & them. After our session timer had cooled down I warped us back to station to get out of our pods & back into the Corp HQ to wait for the next set of fools who think that if they outnumber us they out gun us.
So basically that was my first experience of having to FC a small fleet battle but I must say I loved every fucking crazy ass hectic minute of it. Even as I write this I am still shaking with the adrenaline that is being pumped through my body I am absolutely wired. I was going to go to sleep but I don't think I will be able to now. It was a sheer baptism by fire made all the sweeter that we got a victory against the odds of a rather experienced opponent. Now as I am only learning to FC I say learning really I am just watching & listening to the awesome FC's we already have & trying to emulate them as best as possible but so far I think it's working. So I'll wrap this up with a FUCK YEAH & look forward to FC'ing more fleets in the future
Keep Tanking & Ganking
WatsonMayte
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