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The Battle for ISS Tycho
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 10:58
by friznit
Last night rocked! Despite the lag, the blobs, the POS warfare and the fact that ultimately we lost, it was still bloody good fun. 2 ISS POS got popped, another put into reinforced and SoD anchored 6 in system so they'll be getting sov in the next 5 days or so. But we nailed loads of their bs's and a carrier in a very fair fight (it was outside our POS, surrounded by dreads and 3 hostile fleets). Tycho may fall, but we didn't let it go without acquitting ourselves honourably. ISS stood shoulder to shoulder with U'K and held our heads high against the combined horses of IAC, Goons and SoD. We were outnumbered 3 to 1 but still took at least as many ships down as we lost.
The best bit for me was watching the aftermath of the 8-1 fight when we took down the carrier. The the battlefield strewn with wrecks, abandoned drones, frigs still out there desparately trying to make it back to the POS and the realisation that 80 of us had gone up against 300 and taken down a cap ship.

Posted: January 15th, 2007, 11:04
by Fear
SOD getting the outpost? WTF?
Why do they even want one? Aren't they NPC station pirates?
Cheers for the summary anyway, I'm always keen to know what happened.
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 11:15
by friznit
Rumour has it they plan to sell it to the highest bidder though Lord only knows who'd be dumb enough to buy that particular outpost.
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 11:30
by bomberesque
^what Friz says
the other option, I suppose, is that they will move up from Litom/Doril and become "proper" 0.0 alliance rather than hiding out in an NPC station ganking pipe traffic.
If that happens, then my vote is we assign a detachment of ISSN / ISS PvP pilots to Doril/Litom and make their lives hell. With that and G-aoth covered we can make their lives as unpleasent as they've been making ours.
Last night's OP was teh Woo except fro the laaaag. I petitioned one BS loss fro that (lost 2, but one was Algeys .... :o ), see what happens.
Online time might be a bit thin on the ground this week as Bubble wasn't so impressed with me spending all sunday in front of the PC. She still rolls her eyes everytime she hears "Connecting" or "Warp drive active"
Of course in my new role as trainee PvP / ship demolision expert I've tyurned the sound off so she laughs at Vent instead

Posted: January 15th, 2007, 11:35
by Hehulk
Damn right you lot aquited yourselfs properly. Honestly, I expected all the marginis outposts to be gone by last tuesday so well played.
Aso, don't know if you saw
this kill last night. Made me smile
Also, depending upon where this whole imp becoming curse alliance things goes, we might down your way in a week or so, and there's no love loss between us and priory

Posted: January 15th, 2007, 11:55
by bomberesque
Ta for the encouragement Hehulk and we look forward to seeing you up our way (just stay away from ISS gate camps hmmkay?)
On another note, I can't speak fro the whole of ISS but I certainly feel that this somewhat valliant fight in the face of pretty overwhelming odds has helped galvanise morale rather than crumble it. I think we're a stronger team, at our core, now than we were 2 months ago.
Pewrhaps losing the outposts will turn out to be the best thing that's happened to us. For sure IAC et all will be expecting ISS to cease to exist after they've "smashed" us. I think they're going to be in for an (unpleasant) surprise

Posted: January 15th, 2007, 12:22
by eRabbit
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 13:38
by amblin
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Posted: January 15th, 2007, 15:40
by Dolly Parton
other than the lag and the time not doing anything when the action did start it was fun. learned a lot. can't wait till blob lag tactics are out
dp
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 17:46
by Hehulk
Eugh, alliances. No offence ment, but we've decided alliances suck, lots of blueness sucks, and we're just going to go solo. I can say with all honesty, that baring the -V- corps (who are only blue for the moment) we have no blue, little red and a nice sweet NBSI policy that starts in 0.4

Posted: January 15th, 2007, 18:07
by amblin
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Posted: January 15th, 2007, 18:25
by Hehulk
We're something in the middle. We're all happy to engage in low sec when bored, and hunt down enemy corps in low sec and 0.0, but we don't want to pirate to the point that we lock ourselves from empire. That'd cause problems for all these war decs we keep trying to cause with people like Pure., The Unassotiated, RA etc.
So long story short, stick clear of frulegur and I'll give you advance notice when/if we're on the doril pipe since I seem to be senior FC (

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Posted: January 15th, 2007, 18:33
by eRabbit
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 18:57
by Hehulk
eRabbit wrote: 
you?

It's flicking betwen 5 of us, but I've lead the most number of ops
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 22:51
by friznit
Goons are going to make a bid for Consido/Fabrica next week. All of them.
May the lag be with you

Posted: January 15th, 2007, 22:58
by northwesten
friznit wrote:Goons are going to make a bid for Consido/Fabrica next week. All of them.
May the lag be with you

oh man!!
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 23:31
by Hehulk
Prep the smartbomb-geddons!
Stick 6-8 of them at strategic points around a gate, and watch the killmails
flow 
Posted: January 16th, 2007, 1:52
by Miro Mishu
bid, as in: purchase? or as in: we want to be the one to take it over when our alliance oh mighty it is, stomps ISS and takes it...?
Posted: January 16th, 2007, 5:46
by bomberesque
Miro Mishu wrote:bid, as in: purchase? or as in: we want to be the one to take it over when our alliance oh mighty it is, stomps ISS and takes it...?
the stomping bit Miro
/edit; me chuckles at the idea of Goonies paying for something
Posted: January 16th, 2007, 8:36
by friznit
To be fair they did offer 10mill isk for it last night. You could summarise our reply quite simply as 'Er, no?'