Posted - 2008.09.30 10:40:00 - [1]

 

The secrets on how to loose 50+ capitals and a support fleet without killing anything while outnumbering the enemy 2:1


Keyword; Strategy.
We play chess in game, we plan for our opponents move, we try to pre-plan on what to do when it happens, and with different scenarios. Theres nothing we haven't seen, we seen it all, in various places, all over New Eden.

Monday night was no different then other nights. We weren't actually expecting a fight.... as the night grew older, we saw that we might get one, the enemy is amassing in 15w, local goes up to 550 in 15w before the showdown while we are preparing to kill and siege a hostile tower. We get reports of 100+ hostile capitals, and people start waking up from their slumbers.... we count a total of about 7-800 hostiles... this is going to be a slugfest. We have 300-350 active pilots.

The hostile tower is killed.

Apart from the regulars in NC, we are seing new faces, TCF, KIA, Daisho and Rebellion has turned up, in huge numbers. Hostiles are streaming into 15w... We watch them set up, and get ready. A few key elements lets us decide what to do. They are splitting fleets, one to travel, one to jumpbridge.

This is where NC et al lost the battle. Before even jumping one ship, they have already lost. The pre-planning and the strategy they have chosen will not work, regardless of numbers.

The gameplan for NC is simple, jump in a boatload of people into M-O using regular gate, as a distraction to bridging people and capitals in. KIA/Daisho/TCF/Rebellion are chosen for this. On the incoming gate, all our supports are parked, and, a large t2 bubble. We also have 5 titans on standby, for various tasks.

It begins.

200+ pilots jumps into M-O using the regular gate, they are slaughtered by the support fleet as they load inside the bubble. As their battleships jumps in, two titans prepares... and a hostile cyno goes off at the gate, 300km below it. Our titans are setup for 200 above it. Our supports warps to cyno, and titan decloaks and fires while second titan warps in to fire the second doomsday. Jackpot. Our support lives, while all hostile fleet, are promptly wasted. Our supports starts killing cynoes below the gate as the NC capitals jumps in at the gate. Second cyno goes up at a NC pos, and carriers are deployed to that cyno along with our battleships. NC are bridging a new boatload of fleet in, this time the NC regulars.

Fights all over the system, carriers are winning their fight at the NC pos, supports are holding down the enemy capitals, and our capitals are ordered to warp to the hostile capitals....
Our battleships are sent to sniper spot above gate, to deal with any incoming remaining fleet.

"Capitals, your primary is....Beastie Boy" 5 minutes pass.

The node collapses and dies. M-O have 1000+ in system, and we have been fighting a good 15-30 minutes when the node crashes.... No capitals were killed before the node crash, but, NC lost the fleet that gated in, they lost the main bulk of the fleet that bridged in, and whatever is left... is 100+ capitals. The waiting game starts.. the node dies a couple of more times before it finally starts loading. It has taken the server about 2 hours to understand what it should do, and we send EVERYONE onto the gate, we will NOT stand down from this. Whoever runs first, dies horribly.

After the first breathtaking 15 minutes before we get people properly loaded... its anyones guess who is going to die badly today.

Its a turkeyshoot.

50+ capitals dies a agonizing death while they are trying to run away.

You lost this before it even started NC. Come prepared next time.