While Bagehi briefly exposed what transpired during the fight, we got a full battle-report for you now – written from a Deklein Coalition grunt’s perspective:
This is a full account of what happened before, during and after the fight in D-3GIQ. I was there (Eve is real) from start to finish as part of the capital fleet.
The day began much like many others over the past few weeks with a call for a join TEST/PL carrier-only fleet to continue hitting iHubs, TCUs and SBUs across the Delve/Querious/Period Basis front. Since the greater DekCo’s withdrawl from the fighting -A- and company have been getting a lot more obnoxious, dropping SBUs in several systems, and they needed cleaning up. A Drake fleet was also formed but only accompanied the carriers on one hit-and-run before disappearing; we continued into PB-0C1, meeting up with a small Tribal Band gang hitting a structure in one of their new systems. It was at this point we noticed we were being shadowed by a SoCo scout, but not much was made of it as SoCo had never hit our cap fleet during our almost daily sov grinding escapades.
Next came D-3 and it started innocuous enough; we jumped onto the SBU at the K-6 gate and opened up with fighters and fighter-bombers. Within minutes however, local suddenly spiked with what looked like over 100 Red Alliance tier 3s. I immediately began dropping bricks at an alarming rate but the calm, cool demeanour of Sort Dragon’s leadership stayed my initial urge to run like a complete and utter coward, and the decision was made that come hell or high water, we’d stand and fight.
Moments later it began as Red Alliance’s fleet coming out of 319 landed ontop of us and immediately we were besieged by half a dozen suicide dictors. A small blue Assault Frig fleet was also on the scene, but they were quickly washed aside. We dropped sentries and started hitting dictors at close range, and the call was made to bring in some capital reinforcements in the form of around 10 tracking Dreads. The dreads, with help from carriers refitting target painters, tore through the RA Nagas and Tornados and quickly decimated them off the field, but the dictors kept coming. Obviously, unlike my initial assumption, it wasn’t over.
Frogsirens began sounding on Jabber. A corpmate bought up all of the warp disrupt probes in 319 and relisted them at extortionist prices. Suddenly a wild Makalu appeared, Tengu fleet of around 150 in tow, and the fight began anew. Our tracking dreads had a lot of problems hitting the Tengus but relief came in the form of the first Drake support fleet which arrived and began a dance of beauty and death with the Tengus and another Red Alliance fleetm this time Alpha/Rokhs, that arrived. Things began exploding everywhere; it was impossible to keep track of who was dying how quickly. Our Drakefleet at one point got an excellent warpin right into the middle of the Red Alliance alphafleet and tore them asunder; they left the field, shredded to ribbons, but returned for a third time several minutes later with yet another fleet. HoneyBadger likewise got a shipment of reinforcements.
It was towards the end of the fight that the capitals finally felt the scourn of Makalu’s rage as the Tengus began pounding our more vulnerable ships, starting first with a sieged Revelation that went down. Next they focused on Chimeras (the odd-man-out in our mostly armour carrier fleet) and brought two down, mostly due to pilot error on their parts. They tried again and again, bringing a couple of Archons very close to the brink but a combination of “firewall” smartbombing and quick spidertanking allowed them to prevail. Also at some point during this, the decision was made to anchor a large bubble around our capitals, to prevent any accidental warpouts should anyone disconnect. Despite this, SoCo suicide dictors continued to rain down dropping bubbles and then dying.
After over two hours of constant death and destruction it finally ended as RA and then -A- withdrew, unable to accomplish their goal. Overall it was a fairly even fight numerically, with both sides fielding approximate numbers, though of course no SoCo capitals appeared. At the end of the day the killboards showed over 500 SoCo ships being downed, the majority of them RA, for about 250 losses on the TEST/PL side.
Video
Here are two raw/unedited videos of the fight:
Before the, "Obviously not CFC because he used DekCo" statements come out; I believe the en24 editors replace all, "CFC' with "DekCo". Although in this case "HBC" would have been a more appropriate replacement.
They should also probably make a note of what they change in a persons personal battle report.
Correct terminology to use is “Goon pets”.
when a 'pet' is killing THE single largest (self proclaimed) best PVP force in eve….. you are shit…
I know -a- and shit are synonyms, but reinforcing this is wonderful
Maka must be having hearth palpitations now… wonder how he'll keep the killboard green after this
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Probably by smart bombing friendly T3's to get on their kill mails.
"hearth palpitations"….heart…and your an idiot. oh em gee, my Internet spaceships KB isn't green, what shall i ever do.
"You're" certainly not the one to call anyone out on grammar sir.
[my Internet spaceships KB isn't green, what shall i ever do] … THAT RIGHT THERE… that's exactly what maku and AAA would say.
"your an idiot" – No mate you are an idiot or you're an idiot. Dont correct someone else if you can't get it right yourself. Idiot!
So which of the Goon pets has single-handedly defeated -A-?
I'm sure rest of Goon pets and Goons themselves will appreciate “ gratitude” of that exceptional alliance that thinks their help was irrelevant.
TEST, he was talking about TEST…. people still think that HBC are CFC pets or something.
And people are right.
silly little faggot, if dissing TEST is making your net muscles bigger then i guess go for it, but in all reality, including your little version, nobody can fuck with us….. pets, bitch we own fountain, and now we are steam rolling -a- like a baus, if you were smart, you would quit talking that shit, form ranks and do something about it, or stfu, by the way, TEST is looking for renters, apply to DAWWW
how was that jabber ping for the tackled erebus ? has he changed his pants yet or has overlord mittani commanded that he sit a while longer in his shit stained underpants?
k, we are bro's with TEST, but get the facts straight here little man. Fountain was given to TEST. TEST only won the war in Delve because of PL and the CFC. I still see -A- on DOTLAN and "steam rolling" ain't exactly what I would call it little bro.
Don't loose focus on what you guys really are, just meatshields for Goons. Your leadership knows this, and so does everyone else in this horrible game. Just accept the fact that without us and the CFC, Fountain would be held by someone else and there would be no TEST.
Don't hate me, just being honest with ya.
well said actually, i just find it funny that TEST keeps acting like they are bawlers and are crushing people when they needed to call in entire coalltions to even beat small gangs lol.
I remember helping you guys out with the Fountain campaign, man do I regret it now…
test are nothing against -a- without pl
TEST steamrolling AAA lmao if didnt take one AAA system yet. you have no chance.
Keep believing your winning tho but now that goons are gone you have absolutely no chance… you better hope they come back before we take all that space back. hehe Its gonna be mad funny when people realize "oh shit AAA are elite and will destroy anyone with semi even numbers" just like they will do to TEST/PL
TEST is nothing. TEST has always been nothing. TEST could take IRC by itself. It's the sheer numbers of the DekCo with PL expertise that keep TEST afloat.
TL;DR: TEST is a turd, and being angry on the internet about it isn't going to make TEST any better, bro.
Don´t be mad Mr. Solar Pet
Solar pets best pets. MACTEP is my master
It's funny people still don't understand why a website wouldn't want cluster"fuck"coalition in thier keywords.
CFC would be better than editing it to something completely different.
If you look at the bottom of the report, notice the tags? notice they are not abbreviation? search engines assume when you have fuck in your tags/keywords that it's a porn site, can you think of a reason why EN24 would want to look like a porn site?
Notice that CFC is a perfectly valid tag?
Can you think of a reason why EN24 would want to become IGN?
Ad money I would think would be the biggest reason.
Hi guys!
Because that would increase page views- and that is literally all they care about.
lol…. I'm sure tons of guys get turned on by this sites description"
"News, Rumors, Law, Gossip and everything around Eve Online. So get your ship insurance updated!"
Thermodynamics gets me hot.
He could do like they used to. Call it Dek. Co. in the tag and still refer to them in the article as CFC. Check past articles as recently as July 11th in the "What makes a war in eve a "Great War".
Yes, it's a matter of having content friendly to search engines and our ranking in them. CFC is a very short tag and search engines have trouble with acronyms since they are not descriptive enough. 'Deklein Coalition' as a tag and 'DekCo' in the content are much better, search engines grab onto them when analyzing content relevance and therefore our ranking is higher and more accurate.
Having 'Cluster Fuck Coalition' in the content or as a tag would not only mess with the search results and put us in with all the porn, it damages the ranking both due to relevancy (creating false positives) and because many people filter their search results to avoid porn and anything related. In the case of Google that would be "Safe Search"; I have it off but general theory is most people have it on.
So we replace with DekCo, which is sad from a writer's perspective but a necessary evil.
oh my, the elite force of PVP in eve being out-classed by the ones they call inferior. I remember hearing maka on coms making fun of a TEST FC and of test in general. Props to TEST for numbers, balls and coordination, I mean holy shit, they instantly got a drake fleet on-field all-the-while a new fleet was formed up and en-route to D-3
Sort Dragon was FCing Pet Legion and the rest of the pets.
He FC'ed the 20 or so caps, not the 500 subcaps, which were FC'd by dingo, dysphonia and richter.
dingo fc best fc, he got us warpins right on top of the fleet numerous times, we alpha-striked thier alpha fleet so fast we didnt know until dingo told us, listening to the coms from -a- makalu first was talking that shit, but that little tune quickly changed to the tone of GTFO, run run run
He's talking about the probe alt Sort has and coms spy.
We formed a 170 drake fleet within 15 minutes ( since the pings gone out and we cyno jumped ).
*Looks at numerical strength of TEST alliance*
*Looks at fleet numbers during engagement*
*Is unimpressed*
Look at -a- numbers and you can't even fill your own fleets for defending or attacking. Doesn't say much about you.
so why was the guy shooting blue drones in the first vid???
spai
yeah i was confused lol..didnt noticed the color…but only shot at one then unlocked all
Let's see how many minuses i get for saying: "test is shit"
Test shit, Best shit
Confirming !
Even Test admit Test are shit. It's not like they give much of a fuck, they're having way too much fun to worry about silly things like that
The best part about your statement is. Test will say they are shit. You just lost to someone who is shit lmao makes everyone fun at that.
DekCo DekCo DekCo
Seriously Riv, you're either letting one side very obviously submit fake battle reports and essays pretending to be from the other side of the conflict (aka you lack journalistic integrity).
OR
You're blatently editing submissions and not publicly mentioning it (aka you lack journalistic integrity).
its been stated before, the site doesn't wanna say "cluster**** coaltion", so they call you DekCo, quit your crying.
you got it right this time with using "your"
Then they can say CFC if they don't wanna say ClusterFuck Coalition. It isn't that hard.
What is so obcene about Honeybadger Coalition? None of the parties in this fight have a thing to do with Deklein.
This article was too well written and enjoyable to come from Riverini's filthy ny-illiterate hand, but the obvious editing is ridiculous. THE CFC OFFICIALLY WITHDREW. BEFORE THE CFC, TEST+PL WERE KNOWN AS THE HBC. Or does "honey badger" also have some kind of offensive keyword relation or connotation. Just retarded.
Well, the "Goon Pet" tag is still filthy.
I wonder what would have happened if SoCo had brought capitals of their own to the fight.
CFC super capitals.
PL/DecKo SC dogpile..
Yup, there really is no point to them brining caps. Any -A- cyno will be met with a titan and/or SC hotdrop 5 min later.
they simply wouldnt, they are scared as fuck and more importantly, very bad at supercaps
It's more that they don't have many supers. It'd be suicide to deploy them.
The entire south has less supercaps than Test and PL?
Heh.
yeah because only test and pl would show up to fight the -a- supers. all of the Cfc would come. so it would be dumb to bring supers
cry cry cry, you dont know till you try bitch, we engaged -a- with a smaller fleet than they had to see if they would fight, they did, and we still pushed thier shit in and sent them packing, test nutz best nutz
If a- and co deployed supers then literally everyone from the north would be coming down to try and kill them. I'm sure that the CFC was hoping that a- would commit and lose a whole heap of caps in a single fight.
As it stands the cfc obviously won in delve and showed that they can't really be beaten at the moment. But they never invaded catch, didn't kill that many supers and nulli didn't disband, so it wasn't as much of a victory as they would've liked. A- going in and losing a whole bunch of supers now would be completely stupid.
I agree with this assessment. The polarisation effect generated by CFC is gaining momentum. -A- are smart to hold their capital fleet in reserve, as eventually, CFC may be countered with effective opposition and the prospect of turning the tide against them becomes reality. Keep smack talking goons.
not to mention the majority of CFC high tailing there asses back to Deklain and the North to protect their shat
Clearly a 7 midpoint trip from the north to the south wouldn't be a problem.
I heard that the South has more Supers then the North, but that was before Black Aces from AAA left and made their own alliance and joined the 'Russian' (Solar) Coalition.
If you believed that, then I want to sell you an private island with a huge statue of a woman near Manhattan; it's very cheap.
You are talking PL specialising in supers and the holders of nearly all tech moons vs a coalition with half the numbers living in some of the crapiest regions in eve.
Ok one thing about this fight which is being neglected Test and Friends came with about 50-100 frigate gang to AAA space then got bombed to hell and left. So saying it took only 17 minutes to form a 100 man drake fleet isn't really that impressive since most re-shipped. I should thank Test for that as well because of that AAA had the numbers ready to go join that fight.
Can someone edit those videos, or speed them up, or get a bit more quality. I dont want to watch a fight in real time, especially if your so damn special that you need to blur out half the screen. In addition there was lag.
It appears nulli is doing quite well without Makalu, thats so weird!
no because it is a delayed stream which was recorded. and on a stream you cover things…but yes, i'm special i know.
Think the AF gang should get more credit in that they successfully helped scattering the initial interdictors and the remnants joined the reinforcing drakefleet. I think actually about 10 of the AF gang survived scattering the interdictors and successfully joining the reinforcements as tackle.
Stop fighting Goons. They might actually become good at it one day.
"A corpmate bought up all of the warp disrupt probes in 319 and relisted them at extortionist prices." I had to chuckle
Hope that guy has been podded a few dozen times already!
That's funny, I was camping the 319 station in a Sabre and was able to pick up some replacement WDPs at firesale prices. This was a week ago mind you, so I would guess that guy got some really good prices to mark up.
Go TEST l33t PvP, fighting outnumbered and winning!
outnumbered in 'one' battle… and thats because CFC ran back home.
Of every other battle I've seen/heard of, Test and Co. were the biggest blobers…
Don't need to deny it… it's too obvious…
LOL ya, tracking dreads sorta don't mean even numbers lol
Any CFC f*ck talking aBout another alliance not bringin Caps to a fight should be banned. All you Fing NOOBS did all last year is b*tch about supers and then titans . You suck and always will YOUR OWN FC'S DONT EVEN KNOW DAMGAGE TYPE TO UYSE. But rest assurd your time is ENDING. And if another NOOB CFC says we are the best and biggest I SH*T on you. I am not mad bro just been playing this game longer then you have seen the sun so STFO. Here is what CFC stanbds for higher prices making CCP keep changin the game. You are the reason the market is influx you are the reason your own member have to pay more for all . You are the reason for the moons being changed. There is nothing you have brought to the table worth a sh*t. You hired Noobs GJ and bring what you think are gud fights and what rest of EVE knows is sh*t. Hey go play Diablo 3 it is where you belong F *ck faces and Your day is coming soooooooooooooooooon Eve knows you are weak and have too much space to protect and KEEP. You are not gods YOU ARE BOB"S SH*T
Did you just type that by mashing your face violently against the keyboard?
BRO, Y U MAD THAT RAIDEN/SOCO ARE SHIET. THEY ARE CRAP PILOTS AND WE PWN THEM EVERY DAY. THEY BE BEGGING FOR SPACE AND ONLY EXIST AT OUR PLEASURE BRO.
BE HAPPY, MAKE SOCO PILOTS MAD AND CRY, PUBSTOMP THEM AND MILK ETEARS.
Seriously, WTF was that all about?
Yeah bro, I'm all good and ready for a scattergun spray rant anytime, but DAFUQ was that??
You need more focus. Try harder
Master Cunty
wait for last nights fight! where we kicked razor,test and PLs ass. Was fun!
HBC and CFC, every DOG has its day
Lol this fucking idiot shootind drones lol hahahahaha
crap video.. crap content.
also no eve-kill battlereport link? EVENEWS24 IS CRAP
Nice report.
NICE.
The CAP has always been a difficult area of EU policy to reform; this is a problem that began in the 1960s and one that continues to the present day, albeit less severely.