Today I bring you news of our continued adventures in WH space. During one of our Corporate Days we stumbled into a populated WH with a ton of sites available to run, including juicy gravimetric sites for our mining division!
Once we entered the WH we found an active POS inside. We place one of our pilots there cloaked ASAP to watch for any activity, and sure enough pilots start to log in.
While the whole point of these exercises is to teach our members how to survive the harsh environment of New Eden, I decided it was time for a lesson in how drag bubbles work! Which is setting up a anchorable warp disruption bubble a fair distance away from the WH (destination) keeping it in-line with the POS (source). Whenever someone would warp to the WH from the source, they would get sucked towards the bubble and would have to fly the distance towards the WH. Within moments of deploy two small bubbles, Orion and I got ourselves a present. The local WH resident decided to warp his Covert op to the WH and ended up in our trap. Without hesitation Orion and I locked up the ship and it was gone in a flash, leaving behind a pod, which was soon dispatched. Upon look at the killmail we saw the devastation we had caused this WH pilot as show in the following link,
... One word comes to mind "OUCH"!
Now this is where the fun happens, quickly more pilots log into system (luck for us our scout had eyes on the enemy the entire time) the victim decides he doesn’t want our bubbles setup at the WH and warps two Heavy Dictors (HICs) an Oynx and Broadsword to the WH and starts shooting our bubbles. As we sit and decided if we should attack our scout reports that a carrier has shown up at the POS and is aligning to WH. Moment later our scout reports "Carrier has warped". Knowing we do not have enough DPS to even make the carrier pilot sweat the carrier lands on grid destroys our bubbles and proceeds to aggress our fleet. We quickly realize that isn’t much we can do to the carrier or his fellow HIC pilots so we leave the WH, but not before adding these pilots to our watch list.
Within a few minutes after we left the WH our carrier pilot (and POD victim) logs off. Since there are plenty of riches to be had in the WH we decided to go back in, this time with more support and a small Caldari control tower.
After about 20 minutes of hauling and anchoring our scout spots the carrier again at the hostile POS and reports its starting to align, at this point we are half in WH and half outside of WH and I am still trying to get our POS setup. Within moments our scout reports the carrier has warped, but no one reports it being seen at the WH! A few moment later we get a report the carrier pilot has warped to our tower and attempts to engage, but to his surprise the tower was online and we had a number of ECM modules already active, he was quickly tackled!
Our carrier pilot starts to get worried and our scout reports activity at the POS, soon there after a Nighthawk and Broadsword appear on the field; I quickly call the Nighthawk primary and our pilots tackle and switch all DPS to the nighthawk within moments we had successfully removed our victim of another expensive ship! http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13423708
Now back to the carrier, without any energy neutralizers and with limited numbers the chances of our fleet destroying the carrier is low, being a crafty bastard I decide to send Jay back to empire and grab an energy neut battery for our POS. Upon returning to the WH and anchoring the module our carrier pilot starts to react!
He immediately starts to smart bomb and boost his shields we call the carrier primary and we start laying into the carriers shields, but even with the energy neutralization we still could not break his tank
After a few moments we soon realize our lack of DPS was because our tower was aggressing our friendly pilots in gang, preventing them from shooting the carrier. This was due in part to the fact I didn’t complete the setup of the tower prior to the carrier warping in (Opps, my bad) a few moments later our carrier pilot attempted again to free his carrier using a Scorpion! This time he was able to jam our tacklers and warp the carrier to safety, but left us the Scorpion as a gift! http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13423644
Once the carrier pilot made it to his POS he quickly logged off, and Odyssey after only losing a few frigates during the engagement spent the rest of the day mining and discussing the events of the day, let just say it was good laughs had by all... well maybe not our victim!
Until next time!
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