Hey, meet my Mom.

The below blog is a very slightly edited (I edited out anything I think might be sensitive information & for clarity) post from our internal forums where I posted an AAR, I hope you find it of interest.

At a few hours notice a hot-drop is called by KIA Leadership and I’m over in our constellation with only my carrier as I had gone shopping earlier in the day. My Dreadnaught (a Phoenix named Mr Cuddles) is away in a staging post we have for our Vale campaign, so I had began making plans to jump over there and slip into the dread.

As I’m doing one of my corpmates Zapp suggests that we take our new toys out to play. Both Zapp and I had acquired a Wyvern Mothership at around the same time and they were yet to see action, a situation I was itching to change. Personally I was a little nervous deploying such an expensive asset without knowing who/what we were fighting, so I mention it to the evenings FC who gives me the nod to bring it along which is all the encouragement I needed.

We form up our caps in our space, in no time KIA and TCF caps are cynoing in large numbers while our support fleets are bridged instantly a dozen or so jumps by a TCF titan. I can hear them being ordered to get within range of a KIA titan in our home constellation so that they too can be dropped on the unlucky souls on the other end of the next cyno which opens.

The forces gathered were most impressive with at least 2 Moms, 15+ carriers and 30+ dreads as well as our substantial light support fleet. We tensely wait for a cyno broadcast and the order to jump, at this stage it’s a waiting game, the FC explains to the fleet that we are waiting for a reinforced timer to run out and to relax for a few mins. Time ticks on by then the cyno is broadcast, I smile as I see the destination, I’ve hotdropped to there before, in a BS though a titan bridge, some GBC (Greater BOB Community) BS were shooting a neutral pos last time, I wondered whos day we would be ruining this time as I order my Wvyern to fold space and cyno a few light-years to the destination.

As I arrive at the destination I realise there are more hostile dreadnaughts than I expected to see, I have a slight doubt in my mind that bringing my new ship along was such as good idea as the name of the first primary is called. My hanger crew had already prepped armed and fuelled 20 fighter craft and they were buzzing around me, their pilots awaiting my orders, in a moment my thoughts are sent to them, they all activate their MWD’s at once and begin heading towards the primary, a fearsome dreadnaught class vessel, their combined damage output ripping into its shield and armour before moving quickly and obediently without faltering to their next target. I notice that a few of them have taken mild shield damage, and think to myself how much I admire their pilots resolve, doing whatever they are ordered without faltering. Fighter craft are piloted by normal pilots, not pod pilots, if they die thats it for them, no clones no second chances, they must have balls the size of a moon, or it could just be that I pay well.

As I’m admiring the handwork of my fighter crews an alert goes off, EnIgMa a member of my corp has taken damage and requests assistance, I lock him quicker than I had expected for a ship of my size and put two capital shield reps on his little Hictor. Don’t want him to die, he’s keeping the prey from running and boy they don’t seem to like it with him taking chunks of shield damage every now and then before my shield transferrers can cycle more shield to him.

At this point I have a small error in my ships systems, with primary and secondary targets not showing up on my overview, no matter what I did I couldn’t seem to fix the issue, loading other settings or refreshing the view entirely having no effect.

I start targeting blind and hitting what I can, at this stage the battle is already won, the first thing I lock is a Falcon, I usually hate fighting against these cruiser sized craft which manage to lock down large parts of fleets, but I’m in a mothership, I’m Electonic warfare immune, so just for irony’s stake and a sense of revenge I hit it with my capital ECM burst (A mothership only module) as my fighters rush to catch up to it, ripping him apart in no time. My apologies to any friendly support near him who suddenly found their locks dropped but I on this maiden voyage I wanted to play with so many toys I haven’t before.

We win the battle hands down with only a couple of small support losses and hold the field killing 7 neutral dreadnaughts and 4 carriers, it appears that a couple of other carriers were lucky enough to get away from us after taking heavy damage. The locals whos pos we have made a habit of saving show their appreciation by renaming their pos “KIA and TCF Roxxor and you Suxxor” which makes us all smile.

At that point the order is given for us to jump home, I happly cyno out thinking that I have to get the KIA engineers to look at my overview issue to ensure it doesn’t re-occur at a more vital time.

All in all a great battle I enjoyed immensely with some good FC’ing, and a great inorgrial flight for Lilith, my Wyvern may her life be littered by such victories the frozen corpses of our enemies.

Imp

Battle Report Killboard Links :

http://killboard.kia-clan.info/?a=kill_related&kll_id=26922
http://killboard.tauceti-federation.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=97308

~ by lifeonthefrontlines on October 21, 2008.