As Kirith said, PVP is
sometimes feast, sometimes famine. Two nights ago we had a famine:
an enemy roam much too strong for our team roamed our space, and there
wasn’t much we could do except for our bombers to give it a shot every
now and then. But yesterday was quite a different day.. Unfortunately I 'wasn't there' for the whole thing as family matters kept interrupting me, but I witnessed enough for a bare bones battle report.
Early in the EU TZ evening, a small gang of 10 or so LEGIO
pilots joined up and went looking for trouble in CVA territory in
Providence. It’s not too far from our home in Catch, and usually makes for some nice pvp. I didn’t have the time to commit to a roam, but
listened in on TeamSpeak anyway: the guys seemed to have fun, trying to
catch ratters and miners in
D-GMTI and surroundings but no kills were made, although it was a close call a couple of times. After a while the guys had enough and turned around to head back home.
But they were not alone.. around
15 CVA pilots formed up in response to our roam, and they pursued our
fleet all the way back to our home area. CVA was lagging our fleet by a
jump or five, so it wasn’t exactly a hot pursuit,
and we knew well in advance what was coming. This is where I
had to go away from keyboard, but when I got back about 20 minutes
later, CVA was already in system.
What had happened while I was
away, was that several more LEGIO pilots joined the original roam: both
teams were now at similar strength, numbers wise. We had logis and ECM on field too, as did the enemy. To CVA, it would have looked like a fight between comparable forces. But what
CVA didn’t know, was that a sizeable Cascade Imminent fleet (blue to
us, hostile to CVA) was only three jumps out. And they knew what was
about to happen.. and were ready to join us at a moment’s notice. And that’s
precisely what happened! CVA jumped into our home
system, LEGIO engaged them.. and after half a minute or so dozens of
blues pile in. Local spikes to around 100 pilots, several CVA ships go down quickly, the rest burns out of
of the bubble and warps to safes. CVA loses a Scimitar, a handful of
Drakes and a pod. Nothing dramatic, but it's a lot of logi and dps to lose while stranded in enemy territory.. GF’s are said in local and a few CVA remain,
scattered here and there.
Yet there’s more non blues in
local. Just before the CVA fleet arrived, an Agony Empire
roam also paid a visit to our home system. coming in from a different direction. Apparently shocked and/or
confused by the large numbers of pilots of different alliances coming and going in local,
they didn’t hang around too long: after the CVA brawl began, they went for the gate, back to where they came from. Cascade
Imminent pilots joins ours in the hunt for these neutrals, warping from one gate to another,
catching an Eris interdictor at the gate. It is quickly
destroyed. The remaining Agony pilots are now scattered
as well; one Cheetah slips past a gate camp, another one escapes to another system.. they end up with less than ten pilots, spread over two or three different systems. Over the course of the next hour and a
half, our team manage to catch two other Agony ships, first a one billion Loki and then a
Deimos.
Around this time I join the party again, but unfortunately nothing
happens anymore, even though we’re eagerly awaiting a hostile roam that
was supposed to be inbound. After fourty minutes I log off again and go to bed.
Even though I didn't get to participate much, yesterday was clearly a feast to many LEGIO pilots!
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