Wednesday 9 July 2014

Poking the Big Boys

Running into the wrong neighbourhood of W-Space is never great. 

I don't particularly keep up with the wormhole 'meta' as such. The big groups, the key players - they're all lost on me. So for us to run into two groups I had actually heard of in the same night was something!

We were hunting down a lowsec hole so I could have another bash at FCing, only to be rudely interrupted by a tengu from the fearsome Blood Union. At this point I decided to relinquish FCdom to our glorious leader huei. I'm all up for throwing a fleet of T1 cruisers against a brick wall - but I don't feel upto getting peoples expensive stuff blown up... Yet. 

After some thought we decided to attack the tengu in our home hole and see what happened. As predicted Dscan exploded with tech threes and interdicters so we got the hell out of dodge, losing a stratios in the process. We couldn't take that fight. No way. Nope. After a while we watched Blood Union roll with a Moros - something that they haven't been seen doing in a good while apparently? 

Simultaneously a scout found a group of oracals and nagas bashing a POCO in a C3 down the chain. It's all go! We got into face melting T3s and proceeded to attempt a gank. The fleet was co-ordinated well and we managed to land on them with a bubble and DPS. But due to some bad luck with the bubbles we only managed to drop two of them. Still it was a good gank! 

On the way back we caught a stratios and decided to burn it into the floor. We paniced a little when we noticed it was from NOHO (no holes barred). This worried us. They are big. Really big. The Stratios Popped and we high tailed it out to high security space via the C3s handy static.  

There we waited until we could get some idea of what NOHO were doing. At first it was just a few Lokis zipping around. But we knew there would be more. We managed to jump a scout to where they were staging and he hit D-Scan:

Proteus
Proteus 
Proteus
Legion 
Guardian
Guardian
Legion
Proteus
Sabre
Loki
Loki
Legion
Legion
Guardian
Proteus 
ETC...

We were stuck. We didn't know what they were upto. But we'd just relieved  them of a 1billion ISK stratios so we assumed they were trying to find us. 

As I sat ship spinning in highsec I thought about the wormhole forums. And how the major players are complaining about a lack of content. Is that because everybody has moved out of WSpace? Or everybody does a very, very good job of scuttling away to hiding places when we see you around? I have a really good feeling it's the latter. 

Most people like fights. And ganks happen all the time. But throwing yourself at a group like NOHO or Blood Union, for us at least, is comparable in stupidity to AFK mining in an officer fit hulk with on grid orca boosts in W Space. It just isn't wise and will only end up one way. 


1 comment:

  1. Right. A good fight is a good fight, but throwing hundreds of millions of ISK in to a one-sided engagement where you may not get a single kill is rather silly. I would be running and hiding.

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