A N3 fleet was called to go kill some Territorial Claim Units that were onlining in F4R2-Q. From the intel I have received the –A- TCU had apparently be turned off and –A- was trying to re-online it. N3 noticed this and a fleet was quickly called in an attempt to take the system without any timers. Northern Coalition. formed a Rattlesnake fleet with triage carrier support, and Pandemic Legion came in a Rohk fleet. It appears the rest of N3 were in an Ishtar fleet.
According to NCdot side the reps from the carriers were holding and all appeared to be going well. However, the NCdot fleet commander ordered the fleet to use their mico-jumpdrive (MJD). This put the fleet next to the enemy fleet; however they soon realized they were out of range of their carriers’ rep, stuck in bubbles, with a cool-down timer on the MJD’s. This resulted in a copious amount of Rattlesnake losses (over thirty at least). The end result was that the system was re-secured by –A-, and N3 had to withdraw due to heavy loses.
During such large fleets there are often many Fleet Commanders involved in the fleet, and while Vince Draken was one of them for NC., he was apparently dealing with something else on command chat when another FC gave the order to MJD. Vince came back to people broadcasting for reps that were never coming and reportedly told the fleet to stop broadcasting and die quietly. The summary of the fleet as told by Vince is simply “mistakes were made”.
I spoke to some members who were on the fleet, and they stated they were already close to the edge of rep range when the MJD was called for, and while it put them closer to the enemy fleet they were grossly outside their rep range and died in a fire.
I was not able to get into contact with the FC who gave the order (he was AFK at the time of writing), and it is unknown what prompted him to call for MJD, so I will not speculate. In summary, even seasoned FC’s will make mistakes from time to time, and while no one likes to whelp a fleet….”mistakes were made”.
Here is the EVE kill link, and the BR doc link:
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