Eve News : Battle of E-O
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- Date : 2008.10.28
- Character : Waagaa Ktlehr
- Corp : Evolution
- Alliance : Band of Brothers
E-O Capital Fight 28 Oct, 2008
Last night, NC and TCF jumped capitals and fleet into E-O.
Our fleet took a wee bit to get organized and we had some carriers outside POS shields at 7-1. Carriers were told to hug POS shields and get inside way before any hostiles loaded on grid, but still some got caught out and killed by enemy caps + fleet.
The EVOL POS at 7-1 and our own fleet did a number on their BS fleet, killing a bunch of hostile BS in this first engagement. After about 30 minutes, the EVOL POS was reinforced and all guns incapped. Max Teranous (sponsored by T1 fitted EVOL sabres of doom) and a few other dictors managed to keep the hostile caps bubbled for ages on 7-1.
After we got properly organized, we lit a cyno at 7-3, used 7-2 as a staging point for our fleet and regrouped all fleet and caps on the cyno at 7-3. Hostile dictors tried to bubble our caps, but a quick smart bomb from our carriers killed the bubbles and the dictors got minced by our conventional fleet.
Gamesguy nubbed out and AFK'd at the 7-1 POS, even though supercaps were meant to be on 7-3. He got bumped outside the shields because 7-1 has a shared password and got ganked in his Aeon. Bit of a "meh" moment, but soon as we called "He's ****ed, stick to the plan!", we went back to business and stuck to the goal: get into a fight with these 100 capitals!
At this point, the system was perfect, module lag was nonexistent and loading was pretty much instant. 100 of our capitals, 100 of their capitals, both Dreadnaught heavy. In what was probably one of the biggest capital gang warps in history, we landed at point blank range of the enemy cap fleet and entered siege. 100 capitals on both sides slugging it out, Dreads dying as if they were non-tanked fleet battleships. Conventional fleets of 150 odd on both sides slugging it out too, bubbles going up all over the place. SFS took the conventional fleet in another channel. Carriers worked their BS in close, Dreads on dreads.
Both MM and BoB used carriers cynos to reinforce their capital fleets and this fight raged on for over an hour. Funny fact: it appears some MM pilots came back in new dreads after they got popped, I think we effectively killed the M-O capital fleet that they got reimbursed again. :-) After about an hour, dreads started to run out of stront and the looting of wrecks commenced. At this point, PL cyno'd in about 10-15 dreads at 200-230km off our dreads. MaxT, being the cheeky bugger he is, hotdropped the PL caps with some decent bubbly boobly love and got MSN convo spammed to quit griefing the pew pew sniping nano dreads of "omg no risk, let's just join in when there's nothing to looooose". Anyways, fair play to PL and eventually they did manage to get in there, siege up and do some of their ranged ploink ploink.
After 60-70 minutes, I went into my last siege cycle just as I got locked up by all their dreads, thinking: "ahhh ****, if only I would've known before that stront went 'yoink!'". I readied the lube, hit the capital booster as the first nags and phoenixes started lobbing citadels at my poor phoenix and chugged a blue pill for good measure! That Phoenix served me well, she actually lasted pretty long. (Also lulz @ Viper****z for one-gunning me, griefer!).
I had to be in at work at 0830, so at this point I didn't grab a second phoenix to return to the cap fight. Coranor took over calling and SFS was still taking names with the conventional fleet. :-)
All in all, EPIC ****ING WIN CCP! If that is how the servers will be in the future, you hooked me for another couple of years to this great hobby! :-)
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- Date : 2008.10.28
- Character : JS LiamElms
- Corp : Quantum Industries
- Alliance : RAZOR Alliance
A simple Scout's view
Logged in at ss in e-o at about 8ish uk time. Bob had 140 in system and holding gates. Over the next hour bob controlled e-o with numbers going up and down from 140 to 210 as they where moving from m-o to e-o.
I settle down with eyes on hostile titan and relay info when asked. Reports of other systems going on, and people preping in 15w. My cap buddy telling me they are preping. FC getting info on caps etc, and we start bridging in, local spikes to around 400 and NC start working on Posses.... guess this is a general pos bash night. As i keep eyes on titan i here of occational hostile cap moving out of shields and getting butt plugged. Pos mods are dropping and fleet moving to new pos. Someone bumps mom, and everyone warping to kill. I couldn't handle that ****, so i warp in, ninja on it and warp back :P Moving my covop alt in as i am more use in my rapier on the field.
NC warping about from pos to pos causing trouble, fc calling for large bubbles, generally it seems we were preping to take and own system. Scouts start reporting hostile movements all over the place, pos i am watching has support and bs warping in and out. Hostiles start warping to cyno that got dropped, then warping to a SS. Our probers start running results locating hostiles.
It started as bob engaged at a pos, then names started being listed.... and didn't stop for some time! Pretty much biggest fleet fight i have ever been in when both sides seemed to be equal (in as much as equal gets in eve) My cap buddy telling me the same in cap channel.. just names are been called as they drop one after another. Eventually i get my alt in and have eyes on the titan while i warp in at range on the action to get involved!! BS on overview only, brackets removed (but forgot to remove all the other fancy bits, as a result of been down south griefing bob pets for far too long), then the fun started for me pointing webbing and calling my points!
Support fleet slugging it out while cap fleet right next to it slugging it out... couldn't get much better!
It went on for some time the names been called, support been told to take out certain types of ships then back to BS. NC seem to be on the upper hand, but it was marginal all the way up till PL joined. You had a feeling that bob could overwhelm us in the cap fleet as they have so many. So when intel came in PL was about to jump in, you just knew this was not going to be GBCs night. Local never really went over 700, stayed around 600 at peek.
Cap intel tells me he's running out of stront!! then he's out... before long he cynos & logs cause it late uk time now. The fight still raging on, as i go from point to point, then ships start lighting up and flashing yellow then red for me :P but due to nerf coming up i have gone for implanted clone and max speed \o/ point my ship out and burn off grid. Wait till shields regen, warp back in to point some more.
BOB BS did good job, regrouping warping in and out when primaried, so NC needed the tackles to hold them on the field. gbc had to keep moving as it was clearly NC on the upper hand in the sub cap fleet fight, GBC BS numbers where dropping and now less than a 30 or so.
I managed to get on a new GBC snipe point, called it and held my postion till all of a sudden my speed drops! bubble around me, i pulled up my pants and tried to burn out... started taking damage, clicked warp, corp mate had me on watch list as i warp out he says i am down i figure i am down as last thing i get before warping is everything on me and my shileds drop then armor then structure in one moment.... 8%!!!! lol
Sheilds regen'ed, then back in.... pretty much like that till about 2am GBC fleet seem to be bailing, they are still there in numbers but no longer bringing in more. NC support started on the Dreads webbing them so they couldn't get back in shields.
Titan never moved all night from the pos. Tri dogs camp e-o gate in 15w.
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- Date : 2008.10.28
- Character : Ma Mendes
- Corp : hirr
- Alliance : Morsus Mih
A Soldier's View
Call for cloaky cyno's goes at and we move all our different cyno's into position, it wasn't clear if we had a distinct target to be fair I think Melaki wanted a fight. I am asked to get my ass on the 15W gate in E-O aaah great fun when the hostile camp was there, I spend the next 10 minutes manouvering to dodge support.
Then call is made Mendes cyno up and broadcast. I was happy as the BOB support had just warped direction M-O gate so had only few hostiles on grid. I light it and see the flashes, of course all BOB support tackles me and I spam the 'oh crap please rep me button'. The Intys thought it was clever to dive towards me, forgeting I was Rapier or something :) Laughing 2 died divebombing me.
Eventually my cyno goes down and chatter begins as to what do we pewpew next? The order to find nice tower was made and I followed, then someone spotted caps outside the field outside 7-1. I went there to take a look and stuff and as I land and get in a position near caps TCF land with the enemy caps which were spread out all around the enemy pos just outside forcefield. Someone in TCF did the most awesome bump on a Thanatos in thier Maelstrom and sent it 5-10km away from the field, I decloak and web and all our guys come in.
We pewpew the Thanatos who goes down and then choose other targets that look close to the field, I roam around killing enemy support that warped in and ended up causing lots of nasty overheating damage to my MWD bumping caps. We wait at the POS as BOB regroup and scout reports their caps are forming up all be it rather slowly in OBE. About 15 minutes later and we hear that someone leaked the forcefield password, a nanophoon warps into POS and caught Gamesguy off guard. The second gamesguy is out of the forcefield I play my usual yey bumpage time still managing to manually manoevour as the lag wasn't that bad; the Aeon hits structure then bam his armor goes up to 25% looks like he just got a Titans gang bonus's. I tried to loot the wreck but failed epically as I didn't have wrecks on overview and only had enemy ships on brackets which were soon to be removed.
Then comes the here we go moment and BOB caps appear on the field, we knew the fight was coming we had grid loaded already the majority felt like we had the advantage. Siege is ordered and I remain in the cap channel and shoot things they don't like such as Max Teranous who I have to say is an excellent dictor pilot. The kills started off slightly in BOB's favor in the slugfest; then 10 TCF carriers arrive and hey maybe the 100 extra fighters swung it for us. BOB support keeps doing sniper runs and I have fun divebombing them unfortunately overloading to 6km/s only works when you aren't webbed and a Rapier caught me in range. My Rapier dies a glorious death and I pod my self back into Tribute core dock up and prep my carrier.
Undock and ask for cyno to be rebroadcast and jump straight into the frey only 1 minute later I am loaded and start setting fighters onto enemy caps and remote repping the allies. The fight then goes on for what seems to be forever, and as the Revelations and Moros's go down we begin to struggle to find more that were in siege. We believed the enemy dreads to be running out of stront we sure as hell were and the battle for our caps to slowboat to wrecks started. The pewpew went on and then I realise ermmm why am I 60km away from the main cap group... wtf I reapproach Melaki and rep Drakona as he hits 1/3 armor. We see BOB caps are now slowboating towards the forcefield and it seemed like we were doing great, infact we were, support warps back in and focus's fire with us to take down the remaining caps outside the forcefield.
It was at this point I believe someone bumped more caps out of the enemy forcefield which they couldn't change at the risk of ejecting their allies, we got a few more cheap kills.
Great fight, little lag, could even manually fly nano!