Here is something you don’t see every day, a pilot from Vengeance Inc. sent us the following account of their feat; a carrier being bombed to kingdom come by stealth bombers.:
The day before this occured, our scout spotted a few dreadnaughts in lowsec bashing a POCO. Unfortunately, it was spotted too late for Bombers Bar to catch the dreads before the POCO was . However, our scout continued reporting on the situation as the fanfare continued – eventually leading to a about half an hour later. Before exiting the system, the group then proceeded to reinforce another POCO, which prompted the Bombers Bar to form a response fleet for the exit timer in hopes of catching another dreadnaught in siege.
The next day, as the POCO exited reinforce, Bombers Bar was ready with a standing fleet of just over 60 members. Our scouts called back the Intel patiently as four battleships lazily landed at the POCO and began to final effort to remove the POCO – the dread pilots seen the day before were online and in system, but the dreads themselves were nowhere to be seen. As our cyno Arazu (piloted by Anna Niedostepny) positioned itself within point range of the four battleships, the FC debated on whether or not to engage the battleships as our calculations determined that the POCO was nearing destruction and no capitals were to be seen.
Just as the cyno was preparing to light, a chimera appeared on dscan – however a short investigation showed it to have simply assigned fighters and gone to a POS to hide. Again we prepared to drop on the oblivious battleships, however, we were pleasantly surprised to be interrupted by a TRIBE Archon warping in at range. The Archon was well away from our cyno Arazu – and it began to align. One of our scouts reshipped as quickly as possible to a condor, and warped to the POCO with great haste.To much delight, hero tackle was called, and the FC – true to Bombers Bar style, Tempelman N – called simply:
“Light it”
Although the Arazu was still over 60km away from the Archon, blue balls of fire filled the grid as our trio of Sins bridged wave after wave of bombers onto the field. The bombers burned straight for the Archon as fast as possible, trying to get into torpedo range and apply maximum DPS – all other ships on the field were either damped or jammed, eliminating any threat to the glass cannons as they unleashed fury upon the lone Archon.
As more and more bombers burnt within range of the Archon, his armor began melting faster and faster. Just two short minutes into the engagement, the Archon’s armor was completely gone – but the fight wasn’t over yet.
Local spiked as a friendly TRIBE fleet entered system, intending to save their doomed carrier. Overload was called, as the Archon decided to triage at 3/4 structure. Although initial reps provided a small buffer, the unforgiving onslaught of 20,000 DPS in torpedo form proved to be too much. The Archon finally died, as the rescue fleet landed a few moments later.
The bombers successfully egressed the system, with our only resulting from a ninja salvage attempt, and conveniently timed disconnect – a fair trade off, in our opinion.
Blobbing? Possibly. But there is always something special about killing capital ships with nothing but frigates, and doing so with the co-operation of 36 different alliances. This was also Bombers Bar’s capital kill in as many days, and the largest fleet turn out to date. Can we make it three in a row? Only time will tell.
Interested? Join the “Bombers Bar” channel in game – we take everyone, from complete newbies to bitter vets looking for some NPSI action. Bombing classes, fitting tips, anything and everything related to covert ops. Stay frosty, and fly safe.07 Jayne
EDIT: I’ve been informed we also lost a rapier in the engagement to the response fleet.
After checking I’ll point the reddit thread where this same battle report appeared 7 hours ago.
– R
Looks like someone accidentally the links
since when is a carrier with bombers a story?
A story it is. However one of importance? That's for the readers to decide.
Yeah or accidentally the english language. I'm leaning towards links, but hey you never know.
saw a bunch of torpedoes and no bombs.
I never read anywhere in the heading bombs' only bombin, which can refer to the use of bombers just as well.
lol i was thereeeeeeeeee, it was so realllll
And what makes this news? This happens like what? 3 times per week?
Then send in BR and stop you crying.
your* damn typos
You ask, you get.
eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=146…
But if you speak of hotdrops, I rather have this:
eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=154… eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=154…
So, anything else I can help you with?
A battle report that's more than a 3 month old eve-kill link from some scrub alliance?
Can you do better? Put it up?
> asks for proof
> given proof
> refutes said proof as shit
holy living shit you are pubbie scum, go and ask your mother for that extra chromosome she forgot to give you, you fucking retard.
Grunt said it happened 3 times per week.
If the best he can do is something 3 months old, that's not proof.
Does it look like I play this game alone? Maybe you should take a look at killboards more often.
Awesome.
Niche game. Eve a its best, fight shit paper rock sciccor style, nice one
Drunk comments best comments
We had the same mindset as the folks in the Bombers Bar. Us in Tribe were also trying to get those dreads if they came back to finish those pocos. We were using the carrier as bait with our ahac fleet 2 jumps away so as not to spook anyone. Our mistake was not having the carrier pilot triage as soon as bombers bar landed. Had we done that, we would've saved that carrier.
You mean had you been intelligent enough to save the carrier you would have?
Yeah, that's how we felt about it.
It's nice to hear the other side of the story – we had assumed that was the case, however we weren't sure why the call to put your Archon into triage was done so late. Can you spread some light on that decision? Or just general reaction on comms to the hot drop?
Pilot triaged at 1/4 armor instead of as soon as he saw your big ass bomber fleet. If he had triaged immediately we probably would'e saved him.
PL already did it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q35GtMazPzo
Yes, it was done using a bug.
No one cares, but thanks for trying.
PL is Yesterday's news. u cant compare an open fleet accomplishing something vs an organized alliance. thats like saying "Apples and Oranges are the same fruit".
You bitches crying about this not being a story…. go back to your comic books. I would rather read this than MSNBC trash. If u crybabies have better stories to tell, write them. I would sure enjoy reading any stories u submit.
I take you are one of the 30 pilots who actually think you accomplished something newsworthy by gamkimg a carrier? Cool story bro.
PL tard angry that no one wrote something about PL
i mean -A-,
no i mean -PL-
…
Whatever
Lets just take some random publords comments (that could be from ANY high sec corp) and relate it to PL because you hate them so much. Pro tip: keep it in as your bitterness is leaking ya scrub
Wow, what a horrible story. This carrier didn't get bombed, it got torped. And no, you didn't have 20k DPS with those bombers. Killing carriers with bombers is pretty damn common. Congrats for trolling us all with this article.
60 bombers in fleet? Are you telling me that bombers do no more than 330 damage? Congrats on trolling us with your comment – also, it's about a noob friendly group doing this in an open fleet.
60 Bombers…. a conservative estimate of 400dps each… yeah that's a bit more than 20K. Regardless, it's not just about killing a carrier, it's about doing so with an open fleet, with new people involved, and so quickly that their response fleet couldn't save it. If nothing else, we enjoyed the experience.
400 dps is a liberal estimate, 250-300 dps would have been conservative.
Maybe with your skills. You can get about 600-700 using rage/BCUs.
Dont fucking tell people that! sushhhh
"And no, you didn't have 20k DPS with those bombers." <– lolz he cant count. "Killing carriers with bombers is pretty damn common" <– yah because of us.
This has happend for years
December 2009 eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=517…
November 2011 eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=115…
Just couple I was in, but am sure there is plenty of others
THE POWER OF THE CONDOR
Epic is overused. But this truly is Epic.
doesn't tribe lose a carrier every day?
it happens often.
Bombers are the bread and butter of a blops drop.
TRIBE being dumblord scrub-faggots again.
Nothing new here.
Any time Bombers Bar hits EVE news it is big news. Bombers Bar is big news.
Lol … Sons of Tangra did this 4 years ago…
Fail archon, couldn't tank 60 bombers… meh
Looks like someone accidentally a shit article.
a torpedo is no bomb…
Nice kill guys, the important thing to remember is that its EVE. This was an engagement that these folks enjoyed and that's the goal of EVE to have fun in everything that you do.
Finally someone who understands what games are for
HOLY GRAMMAR CHECK RIV! WTF!
I agree. Having posted the article originally on reddit, something happened in the transcription to make me sound slightly retarded. Le sigh.
Nope, just saying nothing new when it comes to this article, basically, this happens often
the effort to gather 60 bombers and spend a couple of hours to kill a carrier valued in isk is much more
than the isk lost by the carrier pilot. i think he won the isk war over all.
BLOPS drop on a carrier… This is news?
it is news if its not reported everyday as there are new ppl to the game evry day and some of them would not have sen this go down so to those ppl it is news and hay if it happens every day where is the utbe proof
Good story and video. I enjoyed it. I dont often comment on Eve websites, however there are some real wingers in Eve just looking at the negative comments. Why dont you haters just move onto something more interest for your small brains rather than just talk shit on websites?
I noticed no-one commented on the way the title was written and where it comes from.
Thats why TRIBE can´t have nice toys. They are too stupid to use them.