Team Tech vs Goons

By Bagehi | Feb 6th 2012 8:48PM
102 Comments

For a while, it had looked like SOLAR would tear xDeath apart.  Then the Honey Badgers showed up.  Despite the numbers of subcaps, supers, and competent FCs, Honey Badgers entered the fray time and time again.  Honey Badgers are fearless, they don’t give a shit, they’re pretty bad ass.  After a while, as predicted, SOLAR is much diminished.  And, with that… it looks like the Honey Badgers are a thing of the past.

Presenting: Team Tech

Pandemic Legion, Evoks, Initiative Mercenaries, RaidenDOT, NCdot
GO VOLTRON FORCE!

Meanwhile, in the north, the Goons were trying to defend their newly acquired tech moons.  Team Tech had been reinforcing Goon tech moons and on 2-2-2012, they were back to finish one off in Venal.  MQFX-Q is a relatively worthless system in a dead-end pocket, except for the presence of technetium (an extremely rare, shiny, radioactive metal – the lowest atomic number element with no stable isotopes).  The Goons were not going to let their tech go without a fight, however, and had formed up roughly 450 pilots in two fleets.  One Maelstrom fleet and one drake fleet.  Team Tech brought five fleets: 100 Init drakes, 100 Raiden tengus, 70 NCdot Rokhs/Maels, 60 PL TiDi Cats, and 30 Evoks TiDi Cats.

By agreement, no sides brought capitals or supers.  When Goons arrived in system, PL’s fleet warped to the tower where the other four Team Tech fleets were waiting.  After PL landed, Goons warped in.  The system went into TiDi and the the brawl began.  The new TiDi Cat fleet setup seemed to do well against the Mael/Drake fleets.  1-2 salvos would finish off any of the opposing ships.  While the Goon Maelstroms focused on the NCdot snipers and Init drakes as targets of opportunity, the Goon drakes played cat and mouse with the TiDi Cats.  A few times, the drakes were able to get warp-ins and catch a few TiDi Cats, while the rest warped off (TiDi Cats have no tank, relying on range and warp out/in points for defense).  Raiden’s Tengus, while absolute beastly tanks in normal circumstances, faltered under TiDi and the extreme alpha strikes of the Maelstroms.

Despite losses, Goons continued bringing reinforcements onto the field, keeping their local count at roughly the same number the entire battle.  Meanwhile, Euro time zone was winding down and Team Tech knew it was now or never.  When the Goon Maelstroms warped off the field to regroup and collect their reinforcements, Team Tech switched dps to the tower.  Under the combined firepower of all five fleets, the tower fell.  Init quickly dropped a small tower in its place, while the Goon tower modules were removed from the field.  Team Tech had a spy on Goon comms (shocking, I know), and knew that the Maelstroms were about to warp back onto the field.  A well placed bubble and a good bombing run hit the Goon Maelstroms hard.  Despite this, Team Tech were running out of reinforcements and Goon numbers were beginning to increase.  Having properly stronted the small tower, Team Tech made a tactical withdrawl from the field before the battle went south for them.  Goons reinforced the Init tower.  Team Tech returned during Euro time as the tower came out of reinforce, finished off the tower, and replaced it with a large tower and the requisite moon mining gear.

Battle Doc

Both sides claim victory from this fight.  Goons won the isk war, as far as this fight is concerned by a long shot.  However, Team Tech killed more ships and took the tech moon in the end.  The PL FC called the operation a “major success.”  On the other hand, the Goons Mittani made the following statement after the fight:

WE LOST! Our tech moon died mid-fight and was replaced by a small Init tower (which is rf’ed). We’re going to have to suffer through looting the field and consoling ourselves with the 35+ dead RDN tengus we murdered. Drakefleet worked smashingly in concert with Alphafleet, as the Drakes annihilated hostile logistics while the Alphafleet nuked the Tengus. I’m going to especially be crying myself to sleep about us sending 20+ new ships into the fight every 5 minutes due to nonstop reinforcement.

*** This was a broadcast from themittani to all-all, replies are not monitored ***

A Raiden member was quoted as saying:

Fight took about 2 hours and lots of fun was had. Was interesting to see PL/NC. joining the fight as well.

Keep ‘em coming, goonies!

Team Tech command channel had some amusing back and forth, posted here on kugu.

It looks like it was a good fight for everyone involved.  Many ships died.  Much fun was had.  TiDi was given a solid workout and seems to have worked without a hitch.  Good fight to all involved.  Once again, many thanks to the devs at CCP for TiDi.

Bagehi

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  • plexforceone

    Deklein by February.

    But seriously though, this war needs to heat up and both sides need to start breaking each others' noses and stomping on toes and all that jazz. Glad to see time dilation is working great, and that at least in some regions of this game it isn't World of Titans.

    • lolol

      At this point its a goodfight festival, and cfc keeps losing tech.

      • Gumpin

        You mean the tech they didn't have when they invaded and took branch?

        • Rascal

          From a good-as-dead alliance.

          Great victory!

  • CANIHASYOURSUPERS

    Clearly goons sold this moon to PL and arranged a GUDFIGHT out of the deal

    • anonymous

      MIttani doesn't want good fights he has already said that the only good strategy is absolutely crushing your enemy

      • Raiden. bitch

        Mittani talks a lot :)

        • SG Goonslap

          And he likes to hear himself talk alot.

  • pluta0

    Can you please explain how TiDi affected the Tengu's tank? Doesn't TiDi actually allow you to see if you are getting primaried giving you plenty of time to request shield? (And don't say it was alpha too, while there was high damage on a Tengu, the ones that were receiving reps were holding their tank.)

    • bagehi

      TiDi changes the effectiveness of missile spam. TiDi does give everyone more time to react, not only on the reps side, but also improves the effectiveness of well coordinated Goon alpha strikes. If you listen to Goon comms for their Alpha fleets, they count down and all of them are able to fire at almost the same time, loading up the queue, so logis are rarely able to get reps in. That has been my impression anyway.

      • ViperRum

        I was wondering if anyone was going to try coordinated firing solutions in fleets…guess the answer is, yes, and it works.

        • Imigo

          This has been a core principle of the Alpha fleet doctrine since it began.

      • Umad?

        Thank you for further reinforcing the fact that you are an idiot.

      • Noob

        Sorry to ask a noob question, but what fitting and which ship is meant with "TiDi Cats"?

        • bagehi

          http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=123…

          Basically, a glass cannon, long range Oracle.

          • another noob

            and what is the association with tidi and cat?^^

          • bagehi

            Alpha strike ships are nice in time dilation, so these ships are geared for use in TiDi fights. Pandemic Legion only flies cats because someone liked some anime show once upon a time.

  • DRF is fun

    After a while, as predicted, SOLAR is much diminished. HAHAHHAa made me laugh

    SOLAR has not lost a single member, and will rape XiX the second PL moves away. Prepare to baybe sit RA + XIX for the rest of time boys :)

    • Shogun

      Although i'm sure solar will kill LOD in the long run, RA is on the brink of failscading under of Solar&Co. pressure, and Solar only started thier offensive on RA this past week. Also the "SOLAR is much diminished" link is actually a testament to how strong Solarfleet is, and is actually suprising alot of people
      b/c Solarfleet has always had a isolationism policy or doctrine, that you would think would attact weaker, less PvP oriented corps. But in actuality Solar maybe the strongest PvP alliance in the game, if noting else they punch well above their weight.

      I think everyone is amused at how out of touch Bagehi is when it comes to the russian slap fight. I guess when your only true source for info are russian, and very few russians even know this site exist, and having a policy of not actually trying to talk to dir/ceo's that are involved in conflicts, and instead having a reliance on kugu as your main source of info(which is itself just a forum to spin propaganda), then your bound to look foolish on a regular basis posting said bull.

      • bagehi

        I send invites to diplos for almost every article I write. SOLAR diplos never respond.

        Spin the graphs, killboards, and raw numbers all you want. Losing almost 2/3 of their space hurts SOLAR a lot.

        • wow

          Holy crap, your saying that losing 2/3 of their space hurts SOLAR allot? When god knows how many other alliances have gone through the same thing and came out stronger. Please spew your opinion in the garbage.

          Eve 24 is a propaganda site at best…

          • Lube

            We didnt want those space anyway. We lost but we are still strong. We're the best, but we lost…

          • Rascal

            -A-, anyone?

          • I R COOLIO

            LOL NOPE. I THOUGHT -A- WAS DEADED!!!!!

          • Rascal

            If they aren't 135 of their Tengus are.

          • bagehi

            Alliances can be diminished, then come back stronger than ever. It does not change the fact that they are/were diminished.

          • Rascal

            My post was more of an ironic remark to point to everyone's favorite "we didn't want that sov anyways"alliance.

          • SG Goonslap

            Quote: "There is nothing to worry about, the NC has seen worse."

        • Drone_Russian

          Their policy of isolationism is widely known. It is unlikely that they will respond. The loss of space certainly caused serious damage to them, but they seem more concerned about their reputation as an independent political and military force.

        • NC.

          Pandemic Legion don't hold sov. You cannot determine the strength of an alliance by the number of SOV they hold. SOLAR looks far stronger than RA, XiX and White Noise put all together.

          • bagehi

            Pandemic Legion holds tech moons in low sec and gets paid tens of billions to fight in wars. They are hardly an example of how a null sec alliance works.

            Granted, like RA did in the past, SOLAR may simply wait patiently to take space again in a few months.

    • Umad?

      Bagehi,

      Umadbro?

    • Laughing at xdeath

      I would have to agree i think xdeath is going to have to dig deeper in their pockets to protect themselves from an attack. it is obvious to everyone in eve That they need pets like ncdot and pl to protect them. But hey as long as you can pay for them i guess you can have whatever pets you want to pay for. I understand good job Xdeath why loose your ships when you can just pay someone to loose theirs. BTW does xdeath even put up a fighting force anymore or do they even have to with their pets fighting for them.

      • anonymous

        A pet will always fight for their masters. Mercs like Pl and NC. will only support non allies as long as they are getting paid.

  • Cynic

    <3 Bagehi Articles

  • travis

    are you high? the war just starting…

  • ufrandgoon

    Jesus, just stop trying to write anything Bagehi.

  • sadface

    I'm not sure who are the bad guys here anymore…

    • bagehi

      This is Eve. Bad and good simply depend on what side you find yourself on.

      • M_D_

        Now try to wrap your mind around world politics and wars. :)

    • Random Miner

      There really is no good or bad in EVE. But the goonies are always bad… lol

    • The Observer

      I hear ya. I miss the days of "EVERYONE HATE ON BoB/IT!" Now there's like 4 or 5 different factions out there. and everyone is fucking over everyone else.

      • Rascal

        One can only hope that it'll turn into a hundred coalitions duking it out properly.

        Utopia.

        • The Observer

          here, here!

  • Rascal

    Tut tut. I never said I was a Raiden member.

  • tech

    He who controls the tech controls the universe

  • boobies

    Was a fun fight. Goons suck balls.

    • hmmm boobies

      you sir with the boobies must be the ball sucker

  • Tech War

    I think I found a great theme for this war. Needs some photoshopping though. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1458478336/tt0111385

    • Random Miner

      hahahaha…. omg, tekwar. A true Shatner masterpiece. lmfao

  • CareBearStares

    Very interesting to see a no supercaps agreement set before the battle.

    • 8008ies

      Teamtech would have been happy if goons broke the deal. There was an init avatar that jumped into system during the fight, but it did nothing except safe up.

    • The Watcher

      Lol! It was GSF that requested no sc to be involved. I don't blame them. They would get overrunned by PL alone.

      • The Observer

        considering that PL/NCDot/RAIDEN own about 60% of the supers in the entire game..

        On another note, it would've been impressive to see all those tracking titans on the same grid. RAIDEN, you guys need to see how many titans it takes to alpha another titan now that you already determined that it takes 27 titans to DD another titan. lol

        • uhm

          You Sir. are bad at math.

          Its more like 200 titans and 400 supercarriers. (PL NC RAIDEN)

          • The Observer

            If you didn't know, i was referencing this: http://www.evenews24.com/2012/01/24/titan-money-s…

            27 dd's make a titan go pop.

          • Rascal

            It only takes about 11-14 DDs to instapop a Titan.

            Check the damage done before you start spewing nonsense.

          • zef

            He was refering to the guns itself, not the DD i belive.

          • Rascal

            If you read above, he wrote "27 dd's make a titan go pop"

            Which is incorrect.

      • The Idiot

        PL always joins the side that has the most supers, because they know they can't go toe to toe with another alliance that has more or close to their amount of supers.

    • plexforceone

      Yeah, it's a good thing.

      Either Raidendot/PL/NCdot drop all their titans, goons fumble their own superdrop, and the supercap imbalance goes through the fucking roof. They plow through the north and drop the hammer on the CFC (as good as you are at FCing, as many pilots as you have, as motivated and driven as goons are, it's kind of hard to showdown 2/3rds of the scaps in the game without any of your own), OR

      Goons ring all the batphones, press all the red buzzers and bang all the pots and pans. Raidendot and company get shitstomped, lose a bunch of scaps, and now goons are the only people besides -A- with both a good subcap fleet and a competent scap fleet. The north becomes goons, and anime becomes cartoons.

      With the mutual animosity and capabilities of these two coalitions, it WILL escalate, and it's too dangerous for either to try to pull a clutch victory out of their ass without risking literally everything.

      • CareBearStares

        I kind of dig the hell out of that.
        It feels like Titans and Super Caps are becoming what they were intended to be, instead of God Mode bulldozers they are evolving into equivalent of nuclear arms.

        Not that I hate on Titans and Super Caps, I just like to see mature strategy employed by the opposeing forces. As I was reading it I did expect to see one of the sides break the terms of conflict.. lol think there would ever be a Non-Super Caps Proliferation Treaty at some point in the future?

      • Rascal

        Who would come for help?

        -A-? Hell no, they hate Goons more than they hate Team Tech.

        xDx? Unlikely, but plausible. What are they gonna do? They utilize their extended family for everything and carry no weight on their own.

        Solar? Another very unlikely option, since goons have been fucking them over with xDx for a long time.

        CFC by itself wouldn't be able to break Team Tech's full superfleet.

  • Raiden. bitch

    Winter is coming….. Oh wait it is here =? :D

    • Da Dude

      The cold winds are rising…

  • Gunny

    Sounds like both sides had fun without SC's, Kudos to both sides for keeping real.

  • Sold

    Nice to see a super-free fight. Glad it worked out for some nice pew. On a side note, Voltron Force for Team Tech? NNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!11!!!1 My childhood is forever ruined!

  • ggss

    Nice to see bagfagi only mention goons as if there the only alliance fighting against team tech. I'll remember that next I go all the way to fountain to save BDEAL from the mighty nulli .

    • Tyson

      Pets don't count as real alliances.

      • ggss

        Well why are init and nc. mentioned?

        • Rascal

          One of them is a mercenary corp and the other is a wannabe mercenary corp.

          And they both wielded significant numbers.

          • EN24 is propaganda

            so 100 into a 450 man fleet is not significant…..

            what a bunch of trolling shits

          • Rascal

            FA was mentioned. But still, goons had 50% of the fleet.

            GoonFleet it was.

        • anonymous

          Northern Coalition. (75)
          Raiden. (121)
          The Initiative. (45)
          Initiative Mercenaries (73)
          Ewoks (12)
          Pandemic Legion (70)
          Ev0ke (27)
          Corp: TH3 UnT0uChaBl3S (7) (also nc.)

          Goonswarm Federation (225)
          RAZOR Alliance (42)
          Get Off My Lawn (12)
          Tactical Narcotics Team (58)
          BLACK-MARK (24)
          Fatal Ascension (122)
          Fidelas Constans (50)
          Gentlemen's Agreement (33)
          Executive Outcomes (22)
          Test Alliance Please Ignore (7)
          SpaceMonkey's Alliance (10)

          see the difference?

          • UnT0uChaBl3S lol

            You can not even count the T0uChaBl3S that is just puppetmaster trying to weez in on another alliance so he can ninja dis-ban them

          • TROLOLOL

            i heard maelstroms cost just as much as tengus now.

    • bagehi

      I'm not in BDEAL.

      • The Observer

        That doesn't count. Goons always bring more people.

        • bagehi

          If you aren't an equal or nearly an equal in a fight, then you are flying with the big guy. In this case, Goons are usually the big guy.

          • The Observer

            It was a joke, you, about how goonies basically invented the over-blob.

            "OMG! MITTENS SEES 3 DRAKES! LETS BRING 200 MAULERS TO KILL THEM!"

  • Muadib

    The Tech must flow…

    • LOL

      Yep, especially now that the T3 are getting expensive … :) )

  • M_D_

    Confirming it was a good fight. Reading the comments, for all sides as well. Fight lasted 1,5 hours for me and it never got boring any second. Thanks everyone, hope to see you again in such a nice fight :)

    o7

  • Random Miner

    Mitrani always seems to have no grace after every a battle. "it was half assed", "they lost more isk", "i had to go to yoga". You lost a moon. Be like the true eve player and say it was good fight. It's not like a titan hot drop happened, and you clearly had the numbers to poor in, just admit good fight and move ahead with grace.

    Never ceases to amaze how much goonies enjoy beinh hated… and how much they truly believe it is because of "how awesome they are"

    • Gumpin

      You are what fuels the goons to be in eve.

      You and all your kind.

      The day you realize that is the day you remove one more goon.

      • Random Miner

        really? it's not technetium? lolz

        • Gumpin

          This is the MMO subsubforum, on the games subforum, of somethingawful forum.

          AKA the source of goons.
          http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php…

          Find the eve thread. Then tell me goons are here for eve tech.

          • Random Miner

            nah, sounds like work lol

    • mindless drone

      I for that matter, wish Goons that they win more ISK Wars.

      • ex-NC

        it is the only thing that they can win :)

    • The Observer

      The insane never truly know how insane they really are.

    • LOL

      Never ceases to amaze how much goonies enjoy beinh hated… and how much they truly believe it is because of "how awesome they are"

      From where I see it, you, and a lot of other people, are a bit confused… Goons never claimed they are awesome, every one claims they are shit … there is a big difference between these 2 statements! They are far from shit, better than a lot of other alliances in game I might add.

      The fact that 'Mitrani' knows how (and what) motivates his hordes is just another proof he is a good diplomat and knows how to manage his legions.

      • Random Miner

        I didn't comment on his diplomacy or leadership. clearly he has skill if he can keep those retards together and can delude them enough to have them all pointed in roughly the same direction. Props really. Just said he has no class….no class at all. Just read the other article about the soundwave interview, and i guess he was constantly interrupting CCP about what CCP is doing. Does he work there? No. But he sees himself as so important that he should speak, even though he doesn't actually know what's happening….like a child.

        • TROLOLOL

          people usually go to the no class arguments when they get rather jealous of someone else's success. because i'm not sure what class has to do with fucking anything.

  • LOL

    Timeline PL:

    [...]60 PL TiDi Cats[...]
    [...]The new TiDi Cat fleet setup seemed to do well against the Mael/Drake fleets.[...]
    [...]While the Goon Maelstroms focused on the NCdot snipers and Init drakes[...]
    [...]A few times, the drakes were able to get warp-ins and catch a few TiDi Cats, while the rest warped off[...]
    [...]The PL FC called the operation a “major success.”[...]

    Funny as fuck

  • TESTbr0

    LOOK OUT DUDES, HERE COMES TEST

  • Welcome to FOXnews

    tell you whet, how about you try writing unbiased articles rather than constantly trying to suck PL/NCdot/Elite PVP alliance dick?

    This sire is no better than K.com, just an endless circle jerk for PL and friends. This is site is the FOX news of Eve. News? Don't make me laugh.

    • Rascal

      LOL? Evenews is about as neutral as you can be in EVE.

      Go check their posts a month or so back and see them glorify goons.

      Go on, I dare you.

      • TROLOLOL

        well, when the l33tpvp coalition failed to take deklein the first time, there wasn't really much else evenews could've put out there without alienating the readers.

        • Rascal

          A month or so back? Yeah, right. Deklein was assaulted a month or so back.

  • sour

    excuse me voltrus 5…lol, but killboard says u received the penis in the mouth :P
    if it was 3-4 tech involved, then that would be a different story.

  • I R COOLIO

    I saw that pic…and immediately thought of We Form Voltron. Different banner perhaps? The power rangers would've been more appropriate.