Posted - 2007.09.30 16:44:00 - [1]

 

Edited by: Evil Thug on 30/09/2007 16:52:56
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Ok. It seems that alot people awaiting for battlereport regarding killing of Thulsa Doom.

I will describe anything i saw on the battlefield, some of my thoughts, etc. I hope that MC \ BoB guys will be able to add something, so we will get full picture.

According to our beloved bee spyes - bob was making big stake at attacking FAT, so RA received 48 hr notification, regarding : "errr, guys, we need help". Mutant, MACTEP and Daira Lir responded fast, and RA got impressive cap fleet relatively fast in 5 capital jumps from home.

Before downtime - Thulsa was in local, and i received report : "I scanned him, i scanned him !". Most funny thing, that guy, that reported it, already scanned Thulsa's safespot for 2 times. One - in 49-u, second - in ED-. But all times - we had simply not enough forces to take him down quick.

So, VSlash of VVS arrived on this safespot, but it was empty. 1 minute before downtime - he saw, that Thulsa is logging out, and he is in 1 grid with our covert ops pilot.

First step we had to do - is ensure, that VSlash will log in back to eve faster then Seleene. Why ? Because Thulsa is damn fast. 14 seconds to allign and warp. Cloaked speed ~ 35. Not easy to decloak.

So, during DT - all our commanders received announce regarding "we PROBABLY got titan to kill".

DT passed, we had looong downloading time. Personally when i got in game - there have been local of 190 ppl. Good. VSlash is @ position, Thulsa offline. We started to assemble gang. While we were assembling gang - bob started to shoot one of IAC towers with battleships. I had no titan in system, so doomsdaying will require beacon, jump to it, and dd itself. I don`t know what did i think, while doing it. I just decided to go for it. So, ZumZat got in position to drop bubble on enemy forces, MostDamage bubbled them, and Ivan Wise opened cyno. Jumped, doomsdayed. In current game mechanics - this is rude mistake. Dictor 300km from you - can warp on cyno, and drop bubble, when doomsday passed. That ALMOST happened. I was little too slow with alligning, and when i was already in warp, leaving grid - bob\mc dictor warped on wreck. If he'd be little faster - who knows, who would be celebrating victory.

My thoughts about provoking me for doomsday - reinforcing fact, that Thulsa logged in, just as i doomsdayed. I don`t know, was it intentional, or not. Report on chan comms from VSlash "he is 1m km from me.... Here he is. I`m above him @ 37km".

So, we got to execution of second step of our plan. Most funny thing, that we had only ONE doomsday proof dictor. It was alt of guy with non pronounceable name : XaHyPuK ;) Fitting was developed like month ago by Kenichi and Johnatan, but only 1 guy fitted his flycatcher, and patiently wait for month to use it ;)

Second step : 2 dictors warping to him, decloaking. XaHy waits for doomsday, and probing titan ONLY THEN. While MostDamage have to get him probed instantly, as he decloaks. Titan decloaked, and was bubbled. Everybody, xept supercaps - warped on VSlash, but then things went wrong. MostDamage got killed, and podded, and titan was going VERY fast outside of first bubble. What to do ? Order XaHy to bubble him ? But then - he will be unbubbled after DD, and he will be able to warp out ? "Igor, what i shall do ? Bubble, or not, cmon cmon cmon faster, he is leaving bubble !1111" (c) XaHy. We had no other choice to do, and order to bubble him - was given. To my surprise - Thulsa decided to wait some time for DD. So, basicly, he DD, killed alot of our support, but main guy XaHy - survived, and had only 40 seconds to get ready to launch next probe (previous was DDed). All battleships was ordered to bump titan. Bah bah ! Success, titan was bumped and XaHy spammed second probe.