The Captains Log

The Captains Log 19/8

For the whole week I have been itching for a fight as earlier on in the week I lost an Abbadon to some pirates in a low sec gate camp. Due to this I had wanted to shoot something but had being unable to so, however come the weekend sys-k had some CTA’s planned to make Brick Squad hurt. Just what I needed.

Op 1 – POS work

This op was composed of three fleets, support, battleship and capitals. I was in the support fleet with my Onyx and was given the task of bubbling a gate and preventing anyone from coming in along with my squad. The Op started off with the usual Titan bridge into the target system, however the titan pilot made a mistake and instead of bridging in the fleet jumped the titan into the target system on top of a deathstar POS. The mistake was quickly rectified and another titan was used to bridge the rest of the fleet in.

As soon as we entered the system I hit a gate, put up my bubble and primed my launchers.

My Onyx stationed at the gate

The first victim was DariusIII in his Manticore who quickly died to the combined might of my squad. The next victim was an Ibis who died even faster than the Manticore. Soon enough we had a Hurricane jump into the system. Fortunately for him, he was too fast to catch and was able to get of my bubble while none of my squad managed bump him. Ahh well next time. Upon checking my kill mails I also noticed I had killed a Bruitx and that he was a sys-k member…. hmm according to the mail though I had done 0 damage and the station guns had killed him. Then came along my favourite kill of the day; a Retribution. He warped into the bubble and decided to make a run for that gate and he was doing a good job at it. No one could bump him to deviate him from his course, he was repping all the incoming damage; he was going to get away. I could not let this happen again. I turned on my microwarpdrive and hit approach on the retribution, I wasn’t going very fast but I was a hell of a lot bigger. When our ships hit each other it was like the Retribution had run into a brick wall. It died in a spectacular explosion shortly to be followed by the pilots pod.

After that Brick Squad began harassing the station camp with sniper battleships and managed to kill a couple of us though it did little good in the end. The POS we were attacking was put into reinforced and Manasi informed me that the battleship fleet was now ready to engage the Brick Squad fleet that had been harassing us. Brick Squad though didn’t like the idea of this, so it didn’t happen. We therefore packed up and left to return home.

The Fleet eclipses a moon

The Fleet Eclipses a gate

Op 2 – Bombing Runs

After the POS op Brick began to attack our staging area with roaming fleets. While most people docked up I saw an opportunity – bombing runs. So I fitted up my Stealth Bomber with a bomb launcher and got a couple of other people to join me. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to kill anything and we lost one of our bombers, which led to me writing a little guide on how to use bombs.

Op 3 – A little Roam

I came into this op a little late so I brought along my Taranis. Apparently though there was KIA gang and Brick gang flying about, which it was decided would be good to take on. However, in my opinion the FC was to slow to act so we didn’t manage to join the party and have a three way battle (I was looking forward to that). The KIA gang though got mauled by Brick leaving us the leftovers as the survivors tried to get back home netting us a pod and a Blackbird and the pilots pod as we sat on a gate (I only got one kill, the gang killed them to fast : ( . The gang then continued on into Brick space where they undocked four carriers. Knowing that we couldn’t take them on we began to leave. Brick also had a few choice words to say about Manasi and his blog, which Manasi covers here. However, a Brick pilot couldn’t let us go without taking some pot shots at us in his Vagabond.

The Vagabond jumped through a gate we were sitting on as we got ready to leave. The call went out “bump him, tackle him” and with a voice of reason in the bloodlust the FC informed all the ceptors to not engage and jump into the next system and get ready to catch the Vaga when he jumped through. The other interceptors and I jumped after the Vaga and proceeded to sit on the gate; my microwarpdrive was cycling, my points were hot. I was going take this Vaga down. We waited and waited and the Vaga didn’t uncloak. Damn we had missed him, he must have entered warp before we managed to jump. So I jumped back into the system to join the rest of the fleet … just as the Vaga uncloaked. I was pissed; I had just missed out on a good kill. Fortuantly the majority of the ceptors had not yet jumped so they caught and killed the Vaga. After this I burned the rest of the way home.

All in all a good weekends work.