Legion of Black Mesa

FRAPS, the ever popular recording program used by many Eve pilots to record their adventures and exploits. I’ve been collecting footage of our PvP engagements for a while and I’ve been thinking about putting something together. Just not sure what kind of theme to go with.

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I’ll keep thinking on the subject and get back to you when I’ve made some kind of decision.

Monday was a sad day. Brock Samson, my dear Megathron fired his last volley. We were in a fleet to try to bust a camp on the BWF gate in Geminate. I had joined late, rushing in to catch up with the main fleet element, so I’d missed a lot of what the plan was. That didn’t really matter in the end, as everything went to shit.

I jump into BWF and warp to a fleet member i knew was on the gate. Warp Drive Active! 40 AU’s to go! I spend what seems like an eternity in warp and finally land on the gate! The enemy fleet his huge! More than 30 ships! The FC calls a primary and I unleash my trusty Tech 2 Neutron Blaster Cannons as soon as my target locks! We melt an enemy Typhoon really fast, Carnes calls for armor, I lock him and begin repping. A new primary is called, another typhoon. CydonianKnight also calls for armor, I lock him and send my med repper drones after him. No one else seems to be repping Carnes’ ‘geddon so he goes down pretty quick. Cydo seems to be doing better as weels calls for reps as well, but as i target him he’s already in deep hull and can’t do anything more about that, weels goes down in his Domi. The second Typhoon finally goes down, then there’s silence. People start asking for a new primary. Someone calls out another Typhoon, but he’s 40+km off the main element, I can’t hit that; neither can half the gang. Things start to unravel from there. Ships off by themselves start getting picked off, and soon I’m seeing my shield disappear. Then i hit armor, I’d called for armor, but it was no use, I wasn’t getting reps! I start to align to warp off since i was still outside one of the bubbles surrounding the gate, but I wasn’t quick enough, soon Brock was in shambles and I was sitting there in my pod.

I warp back to station in an attempt to activate Voltron, Brock’s older brother, but by the time I got there the fight was over. We’d lost over 15 ships and only managed to kill 4.

Like I said, a sad sad day

As I log in this evening, I’m met with the opportunity to get some fine ratting done. But what do I do instead? I get myself camped in the top station in FDZ4-A by 3 carriers.

Lets back up a bit first though. We had a nice op going with a FC I’d never flown with, we defended K25 very well. Actually killed 12 ships and only lost 4! For us, that’s pretty damned good! I was in a Blackbird (first real use in PvP), and I think i did pretty well. I had trouble jamming Battleships and other ECM ships (like falcons and rooks), but smaller craft were pretty much perma-jammed. Carnes had his Armageddon out there melting through hulls left and right. Quite a show tbh. The only sad part was that we weren’t able to kill the Navy Issue Apocalypse. We missed a point on him or something, not really sure what happened.

After that fight, Harkonen logged on and was very distraught that he missed the big fight and then promptly started a new fleet to find things to pew. There were WT (War Targets) reported in the BWF/Oijanen area so we got our fleet of multiple RR Battleships and a smattering of Inty’s, AF’s, and HIC’s to the Oijanen Gate in BWF. After letting a few small ships get through, we threw up a T2 Large bubble thanks to Carnes. Well, word got out and no one came We then decided it would be a good idea to go roaming. So we did, straight to FDZ. We found some targets of opportunity and took some shots at them. Not soon after that carriers started appearing. Sheesh, you kill one Ishtar and they drop carriers I kinda feel honored.

They weren’t going anywhere, so I logged in station. I’ll get it out tomorrow or this weekend.

Man, I need to make some money, this PvP stuff is cutting my profits.

I was hoping to blog about some of the awesome PvP we’d been taking part in over the last week. But I couldn’t since I was only involved on tuesday, which btw, we did have some awesome fights. RR Blasterthron ftw! This was the big fight we had, sadly we lost more than we should have. Mainly due to pilots not really paying attention. When the FC says only BS’s jump through, that’s probably what he means. Half our losses were because small ships jumped in before we could do anything in our big tank ships… Oh well.

Anyway, back to the reason I haven’t been on so much. Krandor and Carnes’ house has no power. The recent ice storms that came through pretty much killed our ability to  (in the words of Malkavian) “bring the bang bang”. I think it’s effected other people too, as for the last few days the amount of people online in corp has been low. Hopefully this will change back to what it was before.

Carnes and I trying to stay warm!